By Mattea Kramer | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The crowd that gathered in an airplane hangar in the desert roared with excitement when the man on stage vowed to murder women and children. It was just another Donald Trump campaign event, and the candidate had affirmed his previously made pledge not only to kill […]
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US politics
Can we trust Middle East Policy to any of these Presidential Candidates?
By Simon Reich | (The Conversation) | – – Elections, the perennial wisdom tells us, are generally not decided by foreign policy issues. But who’s to say that 2016 will not buck the trend, as it has in so many other ways? We are potentially only one Paris-style terrorist attack or a brazenly aggressive act […]
GOP Candidates up ante, Promise 4 Major Ground Wars, murder of Innocents, Large Genitalia
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – At yet another GOP debate, there was a foreign policy section, which Fox News predictably put under the heading of “terrorism.” Brett Baier asked Marco Rubio about Daesh (ISIL, ISIS), noting that Rubio has proposed “sending a larger number of American ground troops to help defeat […]
As Coasts Flood, why isn’t the Corporate Press asking Candidates about Climate Change?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The US corporate press is letting the presidential candidates set the agenda. Occasionally someone will step out of line, as Fox’s Megyn Kelly did when she pressed Donald Trump on his misogyny and general disrespect of women. But virtually no one in the mass media has […]
Debunked: The GOP “Civilization Jihad” Conspiracy Theories
Bridge | (Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding, Georgetown U.) |- – • Presidential candidate Ben Carson has recently peddled a conspiracy theory about a Muslim “civilization jihad” plan to take over America. • Carson gets his ideas from Frank Gaffney, who was also Donald Trump’s dubious source in calling for a Muslim ban. […]
5 Surprising Truths about Terrorism
By Joseph S. Nye | (Project Syndicate) | – – SAO PAULO – American politics has been captured by terrorists. In December 2015, polls showed that one in six Americans, some 16% of the population, now identify terrorism as the most important national problem, up from just 3% in the previous month. This is the […]
Don’t be fooled: Lindsey Graham & GOP Establishment just as Crazy as Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Lindsey Graham has been posing as the voice of reason in the Republican Party for the past few weeks, warning Tuesday that if Donald Trump gets the Republican nomination and Hillary Clinton is the Democratic standard-bearer, then “crazy loses to dishonest” in the public’s eye. There […]
John Oliver on Trump: “I’m Rich, therefore I Tell the Truth”
John Oliver | (Last Week Tonight) | (HBO Video) | – – “Our main story was about Donald Trump. We can’t believe we’re saying that either.” Last Week Tonight: “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Donald Trump (HBO)”
MSNBC Sidelines Melissa Harris-Perry, hires Cruz Campaign Figure fired for Lying
Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola & and Jimmy Dore | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Melissa Harris Perry walked off of MSNBC, and said they had been pre-empting her every week. MSNBC proceeded to hire a disgraced liar freshly fired from the Ted Cruz campaign. Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (ThinkTank), and Jimmy Dore […]
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