By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Russia is not going to yield its sphere of influence in Syria to Donald Trump or anyone else. Russia has all but won the Syrian War as we speak. There is no longer any feasible pathway for the rebels to take the capital of Damascus. The […]
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Donald Trump
Donald Trump: Global Ecocide
By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Can one determined and willfully ignorant man both stem the green tide and push the world over the brink into ecocide? In Pittsburgh, where I worked for two months in 1986, I breathed clean air. The steel mills along the rivers leading into […]
Why We Need Political Islam
By Shlomo Ben-Ami | (Project Syndicate) | – – MADRID – US President Donald Trump has put on the back burner an executive order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group. He should leave it there permanently. Inclusive governments that are seen to represent the overwhelmingly devout Muslim societies of the Arab […]
Can the West Coast throw up a Green wall against Trump’s Assault on Environment?
By Arun Gupta. | ( Yes! Magazine ) | – – Despite a string of victories in the last few years limiting the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure on the West Coast, Donald Trump’s presidency shows it was never going to be easy to defeat the oil and gas industry. In two months, Trump has […]
Will the US missile strike be the turning point in Syria’s shifting war?
By Harout Akdedian | (The Conversation) | – – The US has struck the Syrian airbase used to launch a suspected sarin gas attack against Khan Sheikhun that killed more than 80 civilians. US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cited the chemical attack as the reason for their country’s first direct […]
Disgust as Corporate Media and DC Politicians Gush Over Trump’s New War
By Nika Knight, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – According to DC pundits, Trump was a dangerous maniac…until he started bombing?’ “We see these beautiful pictures at night from the decks of these two Navy vessels in the eastern Mediterranean,” Brian Williams said, describing footage of the U.S. missile strike. “I am […]
Trump: Syrian Refugees can have Tomahawks but not Asylum in US
By Lyndal Rowlands | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – U.S. President Donald Trump Thursday night described the deepening Syrian refugee crisis as partial justification for the first direct U.S. airstrike against the Syrian government, even though the United States still bans all refugees from Syria. Several rights groups responded Friday, […]
Trump Straining to bring back Torture, Indefinite Detention?
By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – When George W. Bush and Dick Cheney launched their forever wars — under the banner of a “Global War on Terror” — they unleashed an unholy trinity of tactics. Torture, rendition, and indefinite detention became the order of the day. After a partial suspension of these […]
Kushner of Arabia: Can Trump’s Son-in-Law Figure out Iraq?
By Shahram Akbarzadeh | (Informed Comment) | – – Days before President Donald J. Trump ordered cruise missile strikes on Syria, his son-in-law Jared Kushner visited Iraq to learn first-hand how the Iraqi government assesses the security situation, more than a decade after the United States delivered regime change to that country. The issues facing […]