Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video Clip) | – – TYT metadata: “Poor people don’t fund Jason Chaffetz’s campaigns, so they can take a long walk off a short pier. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. . . “Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is proposing a quick fix for low-income Americans […]
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Donald Trump
What Syrian Refugees think of Trump’s Refugee Ban
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Reuters Arabic reports that a wave of anger swept the Syrian refugee camps of southern Lebanon Monday and Tuesday when they learned that Trump intends to ban Syrians and five other nationalities from coming to the US for at least 3 months and all refugee entries […]
Is Trump at war with Oceana this Week, or Eastasia?
Rebecca Gordon | Tomdispatch.com | – – In his inaugural address, President Trump described a dark and dismal United States, a country overrun by criminal gangs and drugs, a nation stained with the blood seeping from bullet-ridden corpses left at scenes of “American carnage.” It was more than a little jarring. Certainly, drug gangs and […]
Why Trump EO is Still a Racist Muslim Ban
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Whether or not the new Trump Executive Order banning visas for citizens of 6 Muslim-majority countries for a 90 day period and likewise excluding all refugees for six months stands up in the courts, it is still a piece of sordid bigotry. The rationale for the […]
As Trump Bans Somalis, 100s dying from Hunger in Severe Drought
The Watchers : Watching the World Evolve and Transform | – – 110 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in just one region of Somalia as severe drought gripped the country, causing hunger crisis. The death toll was announced by prime minister Hassan Ali Khaire today and it comes from the […]
Ben Carson thinks Slaves came as “Immigrants,” earned “Less”
CBS | (Video News Clip) | – – “Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson is facing backlash after referring to slaves as immigrants. CBSN’s Vlad Duthiers has the story on what exactly Carson said.” “13:26: BEN CARSON: “That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity. There were other immigrants who […]
AG Jeff Sessions as Gump: SNL Cold Open
Kate McKinnon | (Saturday Night Live) | Video Clip | – – “Attorney General Jeff Sessions (Kate McKinnon) chats with strangers (Octavia Spencer, Leslie Jones, Kyle Mooney, Aidy Bryant, Beck Bennett) at a bus stop.” Saturday Night Live: “Jeff Sessions Gump Cold Open – SNL”
All the President’s Generals: Do they Want War with Iran?
By William D. Hartung | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – In the splurge of “news,” media-bashing, and Bannonism that’s been Donald Trump’s domestic version of a shock-and-awe campaign, it’s easy to forget just how much of what the new president and his administration have done so far is simply an intensification of trends long underway. […]
Trump covers Rockwell: Sometimes it Feels like, Obama’s Watching You
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump is angry at his predecessor, former president Barack Obama, this weekend. He says he discovered (from the digital toilet paper ‘Breitbart,’ apparently) that a FISA court ordered a wire tap of Trump Tower in fall of 2016, and that it continued even though investigators […]
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