By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Bill O’Reilly is off the airwaves, but it doesn’t really matter. The despicable strategy of presslord Rupert Murdoch of orienting his Fox Cable “news” toward the nativist far right in the United States will continue. They’ll just find another O’Reilly. Worse, there is more or less […]
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Is Trump Taking Us to War Everywhere?
By Olivia Alperstein | (Otherwords.org) | – – No one expected Trump to be a peace president, but he seems bent on taking us to the verge of World War III. No one ever expected Donald Trump to be a peace-loving president. On the campaign trail, he endorsed torture, said he’d bomb the families of […]
How Middle Eastern Immigrants Boost US Competitiveness
Sami Mahroum | ( Project Syndicate) | – – DUBAI – In his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein chose a Muslim linguist, “Dr. Mahmoud,” to help the book’s Martian-raised protagonist make the transition to life in the United States. Stranger may be fiction, but Heinlein’s selection of a […]
Don’t want to lose the Next Mideast War? Don’t Fight One
Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Make no mistake: after 15 years of losing wars, spreading terror movements, and multiplying failed states across the Greater Middle East, America will fight the next versions of our ongoing wars. Not that we ever really stopped. Sure, Washington traded in George W. Bush’s expansive, almost […]
As Leftist Turks Protest, Trump congratulates Erdogan on Authoritarian Turn
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Several hundred Turks demonstrated in Istanbul on Monday in protest at the referendum result on Sunday transforming Turkey into a presidential system and handing vast powers to right wing politician Tayyip Erdogan. In contrast, US president Donald J. Trump called Erdogan to congratulate him on his […]
Was US Airstrike on Syrian Mosque a War Crime?
Human Rights Watch | – – (Washington, DC) – United States forces appear to have failed to take necessary precautions to avoid civilian casualties in a March 16, 2017 strike that killed at least 38 people in western Aleppo in Syria, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 16-page report, “Attack on […]
Trump White House Taking “Marching Orders” from Hundreds of CEOs: Report
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 […]
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 […]
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