A giant billboard of a smiling Donald Trump shaking hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loomed over parts of Tel Aviv on Sunday, part of the Israeli leader’s re-election campaign. Trump is popular in Israel because of his tough policies towards the Palestinians and Iran and his transfer last May of the American Embassy from […]
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Donald Trump
Could Trump Really Launch a War With Iran?
(Foreign Policy in Focus) – It’s unpopular at home and abroad, and regional politics don’t favor it. But we should take neocons like Bolton at their word. Keeping track of the Trump administration’s foreign policy is like trying to track a cat on a hot tin roof: We’re pulling out of Syria (not right away). […]
Bolton & Trump’s Gerontocrats may drag us into Venezuela over Oil when they could just buy an EV
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – There are many things wrong with National Security Adviser John Bolton, but the worst is his fixation on petroleum politics. His response to the complex crisis of Venezuela is to hope that US energy corporations can produce some of that country’s oil (“It will make a big difference to the […]
Workers & a Seasoned Speaker Defeated Trump on Shutdown; it Wasn’t about Gender
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some of the language being used for the victory of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over President Donald Trump with regard to ending the month-long shut-down of the US government has played on gender reversals. Jimmy Kimmel, not known for being politically correct, said that Trump ‘bent over’ for her. Nancy […]
Trump as Hostage-Taker in Chief: From Congress to Cohen to Migrant Children
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I argued when Trump was sworn in that his regime represented a new form of government, psychopathocracy— a government without a conscience run by people with no scruples or empathy. Trump continues to govern in this psychopathic way. Just as criminal gang bosses and dictators take hostages and threaten or […]
The Stupidity of Evil: Teens Shouting ‘Build that Wall’ at Native American Vet
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some high school young men from a private Catholic school in Kentucky had been encouraged to attend an anti-abortion “March for Life” near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on Friday. Nearby, Native Americans were rallying for their rights. Vietnam Vet Nathan Phillips saw a mean crowd of white teens […]
Top 6 Things Wrong with Trump denying Pelosi Gov’t Transport
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s petty cancellation of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s trip on military transport to Brussels and Afghanistan was clearly his revenge for her cancellation of his State of the Union message until he ends the shutdown of the government. Here are the top 5 things wrong with this step: […]
If Trump declares an Emergency, Can Congress or Courts Strike it Down?
By Chris Edelson | – If President Donald Trump declares a national emergency to fund some portion of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border without congressional authorization, what would happen next? Would the courts step in? What is Congress’ role? As I explain in my book “Emergency Presidential Power,” presidents generally claim emergency power two […]
How Not to Build a “Great, Great Wall:” A Timeline of Border Fortification
By Greg Grandin – New York ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The point was less to actually build “the wall” than to constantly announce the building of the wall. “We started building our wall. I’m so proud of it,” Donald Trump tweeted. “What a thing of beauty.” [Note: Today’s author, the superb Greg Grandin, has written […]
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