Republican Party

Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, and Jimmy Dore | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Ted Cruz has won Kansas and Maine. Can he mount a serious comeback? Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (ThinkTank), and Jimmy Dore, hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down.” The Young Turks: “Ted Cruz Making A Comeback?”

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Top 5 Crazy things Ben Carson said about Middle East and Islam

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Ben Carson is withdrawing from the GOP primary fight. Since he has emerged as the front runner, the focus of the press and politicians has been on Donald Trump and his erratic and often bizarre pronouncements. But back last fall, Trump was running neck and neck […]

Far Right

Numbers Game: Can the Republican Establishment still Defeat Trump?

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Francesca Fiorentini | (AJ+ Video Report) | – – “Donald Trump is well on his way to the Republican nomination for president. But Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and John Kasich think they can stop him. Here’s how.” AJ+: ” Can Donald Trump Be Stopped?”

National Security Agency

US Airstrikes have made Hundreds of Thousands of Widows, Orphans in past 15 Yrs; GOP Pledges New level of War Crimes

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By Mattea Kramer | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The crowd that gathered in an airplane hangar in the desert roared with excitement when the man on stage vowed to murder women and children. It was just another Donald Trump campaign event, and the candidate had affirmed his previously made pledge not only to kill […]

Foreign Policy

Can we trust Middle East Policy to any of these Presidential Candidates?

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By Simon Reich | (The Conversation) | – – Elections, the perennial wisdom tells us, are generally not decided by foreign policy issues. But who’s to say that 2016 will not buck the trend, as it has in so many other ways? We are potentially only one Paris-style terrorist attack or a brazenly aggressive act […]

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GOP Candidates up ante, Promise 4 Major Ground Wars, murder of Innocents, Large Genitalia

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – At yet another GOP debate, there was a foreign policy section, which Fox News predictably put under the heading of “terrorism.” Brett Baier asked Marco Rubio about Daesh (ISIL, ISIS), noting that Rubio has proposed “sending a larger number of American ground troops to help defeat […]

Acidification of Oceans

As Coasts Flood, why isn’t the Corporate Press asking Candidates about Climate Change?

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The US corporate press is letting the presidential candidates set the agenda. Occasionally someone will step out of line, as Fox’s Megyn Kelly did when she pressed Donald Trump on his misogyny and general disrespect of women. But virtually no one in the mass media has […]

Islamophobia

Debunked: The GOP “Civilization Jihad” Conspiracy Theories

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Bridge | (Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding, Georgetown U.) |- – • Presidential candidate Ben Carson has recently peddled a conspiracy theory about a Muslim “civilization jihad” plan to take over America. • Carson gets his ideas from Frank Gaffney, who was also Donald Trump’s dubious source in calling for a Muslim ban. […]

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Don’t be fooled: Lindsey Graham & GOP Establishment just as Crazy as Trump

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Lindsey Graham has been posing as the voice of reason in the Republican Party for the past few weeks, warning Tuesday that if Donald Trump gets the Republican nomination and Hillary Clinton is the Democratic standard-bearer, then “crazy loses to dishonest” in the public’s eye. There […]