US politics

By Donald Kaul | (Otherwords.org) | – – Who prevails in the Iowa caucuses won’t matter much, except in the fevered imaginations of the political reporters covering the spectacle. The Iowa caucuses are upon us. Hooray, whoopee, and two cheers. The contests mark the official beginning of the 2016 presidential campaign, which already feels like […]

Arab Americans

Anne Frank’s Stepsister: Donald Trump Is Another Hitler

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TeleSur | – – Eva Schloss, an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor, said the U.S. presidential candidate was acting like Hitler, while the world acts as “bystanders” to the refugee crisis. Donald Trump is acting like another Adolf Hitler, Eva Schloss, an Auschwitz concentration survivor and Anne Frank’s stepsister said in a column published by Newsweek […]

Featured

Rhetorical Terror: GOP Candidates Pledge War Crimes, Carpet-Bombing, Asian Land Wars

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – At the Trumpless GOP debate Thursday evening, the candidates once again promised to bankrupt us with military and intelligence spending and to commit vast war crimes with reckless disregard for the lives of women, children and non-combatant men, of the sort not openly plotted since the […]

Pollution

While Flint Was Being Poisoned, Gov.’s office sent State Workers Water Coolers

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By Common Dreams staff | ( Commondreams.org) | – – Following release of new document and emails, Gov. Snyder told he must ‘explain to the people of Flint why his administration trucked water into a state building while allowing residents to drink unsafe water’ A newly obtained document and related emails released on Thursday show […]

Far Right

Will Trump destroy the Republican Party, or Push it to Far Right?

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By Liam Kennedy | (The Conversation) | – – When Richard Hofstadter described “a paranoid style in American politics” in 1964, he was referring to “the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy” that was roiling the Republican Party. Sound familiar? Throughout the 2016 Republican primary campaign, the electorate’s fears and resentments have been […]

Far Right

Bundy White Terrorists detained, one Killed in suicidal Shoot-out

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Contessa Brewer | (CBSN Video News Report) | – – “Ammon Bundy, the leader of an armed militia that occupied a national wildlife refuge in Oregon for more than three weeks, has been arrested, along with several of his followers. Contessa Brewer has the details.” CBSN: “Oregon militia standoff ends, Ammon Bundy arrested

Democratic Party

6 National Security Questions the Establishment Candidates don’t want to Answer

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By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com To judge by the early returns, the presidential race of 2016 is shaping up as the most disheartening in recent memory. Other than as a form of low entertainment, the speeches, debates, campaign events, and slick TV ads already inundating the public sphere offer little of value. Rather […]

Militarization

No, Donald Trump, we can’t just “take their oil”

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By Emily Schwartz Greco | (Otherwords.org) | – – Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign ad pledged to “take their oil.” That’s what President (gasp) Trump would do after having “quickly cut the head off the Islamic State,” says the deep-voiced narrator. Along with political decapitation, there are many disturbing things in the Republican front-runner’s commercials […]

Foreign Policy

Why has Turkish Foreign Policy Gone Rogue & What does it mean for the US?

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By Nader Habibi | (The Conversation) | – – Turkey has become one of America’s most vital partners in the Middle East in promoting stability and growth in the region and a key ally in the West’s fight against the Islamic State, or ISIS. This is partly because of its status as the only majority-Muslim […]