By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In 1957 Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta went to Ghana in connection with its independence from Britain. The British had grabbed the fabled West African Gold Coast in the nineteenth century in order to profit from its gold and other resources (after having profited […]
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Impeachable Offense? Trump golfs while Hawaiians endure Nuclear Panic
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A false alert was sent out by the state of Hawaii on Saturday to residents’ cell phones warning of an incoming North Korean nuclear strike, as Mary Papunfuss of Huffpost explains. That is a remarkable falsehood and symptomatic of the hysteria in the age of Trump, […]
Trumpist UK Thugs waving US Flags try to Apprehend London’s Muslim Mayor
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – London Mayor Sadiq Khan was about to begin a speech on gender equality to the leftist Fabian Society when he was interrupted by British Trumpist hooligans shouting that they intended to make a citizen’s arrest of the mayor. After a while, during which Khan leafed through […]
Trump allegedly Paid $130,000 to Porn Star for Her Silence
TeleSur | – – The deal was brokered by President Trump’s lawyer with the adult-film actress a month before the 2016 presidential elections. U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal attorney arranged a US$130,000 payment to a former porn star before the 2016 election to keep her from going public about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump, […]
‘Shithole countries’: Trump uses the rhetoric of dictators
By Henry Giroux | (The Conversation) | – – George Orwell warns us in his dystopian novel 1984 that authoritarianism begins with language. In the novel, “newspeak” is language twisted to deceive, seduce and undermine the ability of people to think critically and freely. Donald Trump’s unapologetic bigoted language made headlines again Thursday when it […]
Not falling for Phony Sympathy: Iranians on all sides oppose Trump’s policies
By Reese Erlich | (48hills.com) | – – During a recent reporting trip to Iran, I interviewed almost two dozen people at random in both rich and poor neighborhoods of Tehran. All the middle and upper-middle class people I spoke with said the government of President Hassan Rouhani had made economic progress, although not as […]
Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’ Backfires, Improves Attitudes Toward Them
TeleSur | – – A recent study shows the U.S. “Muslim ban” became unpopular among U.S. voters after its implementation, media coverage contributed to shift. Political scientists revealed that public opinion on the so-called Muslim ban has shifted after a nationwide debate on immigration, racism and religion in the U.S. was sparked as a result […]
The US Role in Turning Countries into Shitholes and provoking Immigration
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump just can’t help letting the cat out of the bag. And boy does his administration have a lot of cats in bags. The line of the Republican Party right wing has been that voter suppression laws are necessary for the integrity of elections. In fact, […]
Unused to Real Journalists, Trump envoy to Hague Stunned at Questions on his Bigoted Lies (Video)
Pete Hoekstra told Whoppers defaming Muslims and the Netherlands
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