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Archives for October 2016

Fundamentalists
Is the Trump Catastrophe the end of the Religious Right in America?

Is the Trump Catastrophe the end of the Religious Right in America?

contributors

John Feffer | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – The world according to Donald Trump is very dark indeed. The American economy has tanked. Mexico has sent a horde of criminals over the border to steal jobs and rape women. The Islamic State, cofounded by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, is taking over the globe. “Our country’s […]

Children
Michelle Obama:  Trump a Cruel, Lifetime Sexual Predator - "It Hurts."

Michelle Obama: Trump a Cruel, Lifetime Sexual Predator – “It Hurts.”

contributors

Michelle Obama | New Hampshire Speech on Trump | – – Transcript via NPR: – – . . . And now, here I am, out on the campaign trail in an election where we have consistently been hearing hurtful, hateful language about women — language that has been painful for so many of us, not […]

Featured
US Goes to War with Houthis in Yemen (Openly)

US Goes to War with Houthis in Yemen (Openly)

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The US Navy in the Red Sea fired Tomahawk missiles into Yemen early Thursday morning, taking out three radar stations. Those facilities had allowed the Houthi rebels who control North Yemen to target US destroyers in the Red Sea on several occasions in recent days (they […]

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza, open air Israeli prison, has reached 2 mn. Population

Gaza, open air Israeli prison, has reached 2 mn. Population

contributors

By IMEMC | – – The population of the Gaza Strip reportedly exceeded two million, on Tuesday night, following the birth of Walid Jihad Shaat, from the Rafah district, southern Gaza. Official sources stated, according to Al Ray, that the Gaza Strip broke the barrier of 2 million yesterday evening, when the newborn baby was […]

Authoritarianism
Partial Police? Uniformed Texas Officers Wear Trump Hats

Partial Police? Uniformed Texas Officers Wear Trump Hats

contributors

By TeleSur | – – A dozen police officers face “benign” discipline after they appeared with Donald Trump while sporting his “Make America Great Again” caps in uniform. More than a dozen San Antonio police officers in uniform wore U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hats during his stop in Texas […]

Boko Haram
Family & Friends, not Religion, Draw People into Terrorist Groups

Family & Friends, not Religion, Draw People into Terrorist Groups

contributors

By Rose Delaney | (Inter Press Service) | – – LONDON (IPS) – A recent study supported by the government of Finland has found widespread misconceptions regarding what drives people to join Islamist militant groups like Boko Haram. Boko Haram is Nigeria’s militant Islamist group, wreaking havoc across the nation through a series of abductions, […]

Climate Change
Clinton brings back Gore, talks Green, but still Opposes Carbon Tax

Clinton brings back Gore, talks Green, but still Opposes Carbon Tax

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton campaigned in Miami with Al Gore, attempting both to shore up her credentials with both environmentalists and Millennial youth. Gore, Bill Clinton’s vice president, very narrowly lost the 2000 election to George W. Bush, mainly because of a disputed Florida count. Gore […]

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Apocalypse Or Bust:  ISIL and the Battle For Dabiq

Apocalypse Or Bust: ISIL and the Battle For Dabiq

contributors

By David Patrikarakos | ( RFE/RL ) | – – The town of Dabiq, in northern Syria, around 25 miles from Aleppo, with its population of just under 3,500, is an unimpressive site for a battle that is supposed to herald the Apocalypse. Yet, according to the Hadith (a collection of reports about the sayings […]

Foreign Policy
In a Multipolar World, the US can no Longer Intervene at Will

In a Multipolar World, the US can no Longer Intervene at Will

contributors

By Dilip Hiro | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – In the strangest election year in recent American history — one in which the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson couldn’t even conjure up the name of a foreign leader he “admired” while Donald Trump remained intent on building his “fat, beautiful wall” and “taking” Iraq oil […]

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