Tomdispatch.com | – – Among the stranger features of the 2016 election campaign was the success of Donald Trump, a creature of globalization, as an America First savior of the white working class. A candidate who amassed billions of dollars by playing globalization for all it was worth — he manufactured clothes and accessories bearing […]
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Far Right ‘Project Veritas’ Scam EXPOSED; Attempt to Smear Moore Victims (TYT Video)
By Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola | The Young Turks | (Video Report) | – – The Washington Post exposed Project Veritas’ most recent scam. Cenk Uygur, and John Iadarola the hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. “A woman who falsely claimed to […]
Trump meets Native Vets, uses ‘Pocahantas’ as Insult
TeleSur | – – “(Trump should) stop using our historical people of significance as a racial slur against one of his opponents,” a Native American advocate said. President Donald Trump has provoked the ire of Native Americans once again by using a meeting meant to honor Native World War Two veterans as an occasion to […]
With 305 dead in Sinai Terror, Trump babbles Wall & Visas
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – As the death toll in this weekend’s horrific terrorist attack on a Sufi mosque near El Arish in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula rose to at least 305, the patriarch of the Coptic Church, Tawadros II, affirmed the solidarity of Egypt’s some 8 million Christians with the Muslim […]
Every Time we Laugh at Trump, It’s a ‘Tiny Revolution’
By Linda Kiernan | (The Conversation) | – – The power of laughter is something of a theme in Donald Trump’s presidency. Trump’s humourless response to Barack Obama’s jibes at the White House correspondents’ dinner in 2011 allegedly steeled his reserve to run for president in the first place; the New York Times recently asked […]
What if the US never fell for al-Qaeda’s trap & avoided ‘War on Terror’?
By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – “Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.” — Thucydides You’ve heard the platitude that hindsight is 20/20. It’s true enough and, though I’ve been a regular skeptic about what policymakers used to call the Global War on Terror, it’s always easier to poke holes […]
‘Trump Talks Too Much’: Iran Shrugs Off Oil Boycott Threat
TeleSur | – – An Iranian official said Trump sees himself as the chief of a global village: “This comes as he is just the president of the U.S., and a hated one.” Iran has denounced a potential boycott of the country’ss crude oil recently floated by U.S. President Donald Trump, slamming the statements as […]
Trump still wants Expensive Coal but the Market wants Cheap wind & Solar
By Jonathan Marshall | (Consortiumnews.com) | – – Market trends now favor renewable energy as a cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels, but President Trump’s resistance to this good news is doing real damage in the fight against global warming, reports Jonathan Marshall. With petrochemical billionaires Charles and David Koch paying many of the GOP’s bills […]
The Falsehood of Trump’s ‘Precision Strikes’ and ‘Clean Wars’
By Paul Rogers | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | – – Trump’s worldview promises low-cost military success. The blasting apart of civilian lives in Iraq says otherwise. Many previous columns in this series focus on the transition in the western way of war since 9/11 from tens of thousands of “boots on the ground” to “remote warfare”. […]
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