By Shaun TANDON | – Washington, DC (AFP) – President Donald Trump is once again tearing up the diplomatic norm of treading lightly in allies’ domestic politics, with his team attacking Britain’s beleaguered leader over Brexit and irritating Germany. Trump, who has slaughtered so many sacred cows in US politics, has shown no compunction over […]
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Donald Trump
How Progressives can build on Trump Catastrophe to Remake America
(Foreign Policy in Focus) – Centrist liberalism is dead, and Trump is a disaster. But progressives can use what he’s done to remake America and its place in the world. Donald Trump has shaken up U.S. foreign policy. Most of what he has done has been disastrous, like pulling America out of the Paris climate […]
When it Comes to Actively Defending Religious Minorities, Trump is no George Washington; but he Should Be
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – If Trump were actually acting as a president, he could and would tamp down the terrifying spread of hatred against Muslims that has resulted in several mass murders at mosques in the English-speaking world in recent years. All he would have to do is come out and say that ordinary […]
Trump Dismisses White Nationalism Threat after N. Zealand Killings
By Sebastian Smith | – Washington, DC (AFP) – US President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed concerns that the massacre by an apparent white supremacist in New Zealand indicates a dangerous trend. Trump was asked if the killing of at least 49 people in two mosques in Christchurch by a man claiming that white people […]
New Zealand: Is Trumpism now replacing ISIL as a major Cause of Stochastic Terrorism?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – One of the tactics of the so-called “Islamic State group” or ISIL had been to put out calls on the internet and social media for people to engage in random acts of violence. In some instances, these fevered and vague expression of violent grievance infested the nightmares of unstable young […]
Millionaire “Justice”: 5 Petty Shoplifting Charges sentenced more harshly than Manafort’s Hiding Millions
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was given 47 months in prison for his crimes on Thursday, in a jaw-dropping ruling that treated him as a good family man without priors. He only didn’t have priors because white collar criminals are so coddled in an American firmly under the thumb of […]
A Modest Proposal for Trump: End Trade War & Maybe China will Build you a Wall (They have Experience)
(Tomdispatch.com) – We have two intractable issues, one intractable president, and an intractable world, but what if it weren’t so? What if those two intractable problems could be swept off the table by a single gesture from that same intractable man? As a start, consider the problem of President Trump’s embattled “great, great wall,” the […]
Five Ways Cohen implicated Trump in possible Crimes
Washington, DC (AFP) – A day after Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen delivered bombshell testimony to Congress about his former boss, here is a look at five ways he implicated the president in possible crimes. – Conspiracy to collude with Russia – Cohen said he did not know of any “direct evidence” that Trump […]
Top Six Pieces of Dirt Cohen Dished on Trump in his Opening Statement
Michael Dean Cohen’s prepared remarks for his public congressional testimony on Wednesday were obtained by Politico. Here are what struck me as the top 6 most egregious revelations about Trump’s venality: 1. Trump running for president was just a public relations stunt. He expected to benefit financially “Mr. Trump would often say, this campaign was […]








