US politics

Nik Zecevic and Margaret J. Howell | (TheLipTV video report) | – – “Presidential hopeful Donald Trump has won the 2015 PolitiFact “Lie of the Year” award. While investigating Trump’s statements during his political campaign, PolitiFact found that 76% of Trump’s statements were either mostly false, false or “pants on fire” out of the 77 […]

Democratic Party

When did Justifying Large Scale Civilian Deaths in Bombardments become a Bipartisan Consensus?

contributors

By Stephen Zunes | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – There’s a bipartisan effort to justify the killing of civilians in the “war on terrorism.” There has been a lot of consternation expressed in the media at a series of statements by Republican presidential candidates during their most recent debate and elsewhere in which […]

Christianity

Would Syrian Refugee Baby Jesus be allowed to immigrate to the US?

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In this political season in which Syrian refugees have become a political football, it is worthwhile remembering that baby Jesus is depicted by the Bible as being a Syrian political refugee not once but twice. In ancient times, “Syria” referred not to the area of the […]

Bernie Sanders

Poll: Bernie Sanders would beat ‘Embarrassment’ Trump by a Landslide

contributors

Wochit News | (Video report) | – – A Quinnipiac Poll has found that 61% of Americans say Donald Trump does not share their values, 50% would be positively embarrassed to have him as president, and that Sen. Bernie Sanders would defeat him 51% to 38% . Sec. Hillary Clinton would defeat Trump by 47% […]

Featured

Ghoul’s Glossary: A Donald Trump Translation Dictionary

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Constitution, US: 1. An time-consuming optional document that can be abrogated for lack of time. 2. syn. politically correct (s.v.) criminal: 1. syn. Mexican. 2. syn. Hillary Clinton. family: accomplices. (As in, the families of ISIL members must be killed.) fascism: (word not found in this […]

Barack Obama

Did Obama Really “Surrender the Middle East to Putin?”

contributors

By Brian Glyn Williams | (Informed Comment) | – – A perusal of the “writing on the hall” commentary of the Right Wing in the last two months–since a small Russian force of 2,000 was inserted into the remaining Syrian government-controlled portions of Syria on September 30th–leads to one inevitable conclusion. Namely, that Obama’s “inactivity, […]

Far Right

Surprise! Male Chauvinist Pig Trump gets vulgar with Hillary Clinton

contributors

Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “During the Democratic debate Hillary Clinton returned from the bathroom break a bit late. What’s the big deal? Donald Trump took the opportunity to attack Clinton. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) discuss on The Young Turks. . . . […]

Barack Obama

Obama: Is the Media Hyping the threat from Daesh/ ISIL?

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Obama gave an interview on National Public Radio on Monday in which he attempted to reassure the US public about the threat of Daesh (ISIL, ISIS). Poor Obama was constrained to defend the point that “ISIL isn’t the Soviet Union” and we are not engaged […]

Afghanistan

6 US Troops killed by Taliban Suicide Bomber in Afghanistan

Juan Cole

Curated by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – BBC Monitoring translates from Pushtu a report from the ‘Afghan Islamic Press’ from Kabul on 21 Dec., which says that “A suicide attack has been carried out on the Afghan and foreign forces in Bagram District of Parwan Province, in which . . . foreign […]