Nadia Prupis, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – One of every five of the corporate executives who met with the Trump administration within the first 100 days represented the banking or financial sector’ “President Trump not only has betrayed the promises of candidate Trump by failing to break up the special-interest monopoly […]
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Donald Trump
Neoconservatives almost Giddy over Trump Syria Strike
By Jim Lobe | FPIF | (Originally published in Lobelog) | – – Many architects of the Iraq War openly hope Trump will go further in pursuing regime change in Syria — and then Iran. After the pre-dawn cruise-missile strike against Syria’s al-Shayrat airfield, neoconservative hawks, many of whom beat the drums for war in […]
Can a New Era of Progressive Protest Revolutionize our values in Age of Trump?
By Ira Chernus | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – You could hear the deep sadness in the preacher’s voice as he named “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.” With those words, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., launched a scathing indictment of America’s war in Vietnam. It was […]
After the Chemical Attack, It’s Time to Get Rid of the ‘Muslim Ban’
By Peter Certo | (Otherwords.org) | – – Now that he cares about the fate of Syrian children, I hope Trump will open up our country — not bomb theirs. When I saw footage of the alleged sarin gas attack in Syria, I felt ill. The whole episode, which killed up to 100 civilians in […]
What is Trump trying to Hide by disappearing WH Visitor Logs?
By Nadia Prupis, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – ‘The only reasonable conclusion is to believe the Trump administration has many things it is trying to hide’ The decision comes just days after the Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington (CREW) and other watchdog groups sued the Trump administration for visitor […]
No, MSM: Man-Baby Trump didn’t become President with Missile Strikes
By Bill Moyers | BillMoyers.com | – – It’s been a week now since Donald Trump once again became our president. Here’s how it happened. After he unleashed missiles on a Syrian airfield, members of Washington’s national security establishment and elite pundits swooned. Top Democrats and Republicans led the way. Good soldiers all in the […]
Syria: to Assad & Kurds go the Spoils; Sunni extremists have Lost
By Mehmet Ozalp | (The Conversation) | – – The devastating gas attack in Syria, attributed to the Assad regime, and the swift US missile response is a game-changer for all parties involved in the Syrian conflict. This is a complex war, but it helps to look at the key players in three interlocking layers. […]
Who Profits from Trump’s dramatic but useless Bombings?
By William Astore | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – What does an “America-first” foreign policy look like under President Donald Trump? As a start, forget the ancient label of “isolationism.” With the end of Trump’s first 100 days approaching, it looks more like a military-first policy aimed at achieving global hegemony, which means it’s a potential […]
Can we survive simultaneous Trump, Ahmadinejad Presidencies?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – BBC Monitoring, which translates foreign-language news reports, has a rundown on reactions in Persian to the surprise registration by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to run for president in the May 19 Iranian elections. Ahmadinejad was a complete disaster and made Iran a laughingstock by his erratic pronouncements, his […]
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