By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Many progressives are suffering Trump exhaustion. The new administration has set the country back on so many fronts that it may not even be possible to follow all the breaking, and very bad, news. Every time you take some comfort in a successful lawsuit against the […]
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Why would Trump Spend $54 Billion More on the Pentagon? To Start a War, Obviously.
By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus The president apparently wants to put the U.S. on a permanent war footing to sustain his unpopular presidency. So, let me see if I’ve got this right. North Korea has been pushing its ally China to rein in the United States. Pyongyang is worried that Washington […]
Iranian Woman Visiting US arrested, taken to distant Jail Despite Valid Visa
TeleSur | – – Alia Ghandi was denied U.S. entry to visit her family in Portland. Although courts rejected the so-called “Muslim ban,” an Iranian tourist was detained at an airport and jailed “without cause” in Portland, Oregon. Regardless of the fact that federal courts have repeatedly outlawed U.S. President Donald Trump’s discriminatory anti-Muslim travel […]
The Arab Spring and the Western Winter
Ishac Diwan | (Project Syndicate) | – – BEIRUT – There are many striking parallels between the “Arab Spring” that began in 2010 and the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum, the election of US President Donald Trump, and the far-right resurgence across Europe. In each case, an old order fell, and progressive parties have been too […]
Trump’s New Decree to ‘Wreak Havoc’ on Climate, Reward Big Oil
TeleSur | – – The latest executive order is seen by critics as a reckless attempt to boost energy industry profits at the cost of the environment and public health. U.S. President Donald Trump made good on campaign promises Tuesday, signing an executive order reversing measures put in place by the Obama administration to address […]
The simple Number that will Defeat Trump’s attempt to Roll back Obama Energy Policies
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s Executive Order deregulating dangerous gas emissions is being signed today at the Environmental Protection Agency. This is the greatest mean-spirited reversal since the Red Coats, defeated in 1783, returned in 1812 and burned down the White House. Trump can use the might of the Federal […]
True, Trump hasn’t Criticized Putin for Navalny Arrest; but Navalny is more like Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The meme du jour about the protests in Russia on Sunday is that Donald Trump did not criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin for arresting the protesters, including their leader, Alexei Navalny. Apparently the pressure on the State Department from Russia hawks in Congress was so great […]
What the Civil Rights Movement can teach us about Resistance in Age of Trump
By Jon Else | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – On a glorious afternoon in August 1963, after the massive March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom wrapped up on the national mall, President John F. Kennedy, prodded by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, welcomed John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin, and other march organizers […]
After Trump Massacres in Mosul, Campaign against ISIL Halted
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Candidate Donald Trump called last year for carpet-bombing of Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) in Iraq and Syria. It is possible that Trump has loosened the rules of engagement for the US Air Force, which is providing air support to the Iraqi Army. Looser rules could well be […]