By Luis Gómez Romero | (The Conversation) | – – In an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, United States president-elect Donald Trump highlighted some campaign promises that he actually plans to keep. Among others, he confirmed that he will build his promised wall on the Mexican border and deport up to three million undocumented migrants. […]
Archives for November 2016
5 Trump Headlines more outrageous than the “Hamilton” Tiff
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump is the master of misdirection, the techniques magicians use to get you to look elsewhere while they perform their sleight of hand. This weekend on social media was taken up with his slamming matches with the cast of the play “Hamilton,” who addressed a respectful […]
No to the New Normal
By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The night after the election, this long-time pacifist dreamed she shot a big white man carrying an arsenal of guns. He was wandering around a room full of people, waving a pistol and threatening to fire. Someone pushed a gun into my hand and said, “Shoot […]
After ISIL, is there any hope of Iraqi National Unity?
Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – The fight against the [so-called] Islamic State [group, or IS] has united Iraqis. Details of a new Shiite-sponsored plan that will try and make that unity last leaked in Baghdad last week. If the extremist group that caused Iraq’s current security crisis starting mid-2014, have done […]
US: Trump’s Justice, CIA Picks Threaten Rights
Human Rights Watch | – – (Washington) – President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as United States attorney general reinforces fears that Trump’s administration will threaten human rights protections, Human Rights Watch said today. Sessions has said that he supports the use of torture and has expressed a range of views inimical […]
Bad Rain Falling: Who’s to Blame for our Trump Catastrophe?
By Todd Gitlin | (Billmoyers.com) | – – These days are for resistance to the abomination that has befallen us; as also for decent conduct among our injured humanity of every shape and color; as also for “tears of rage, tears of grief,” in the pained words of our Nobel laureate, who some 50 years […]
Is Lt.-Gen. Flynn Right that Islam is not a Religion?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The new National Security Adviser to incoming President Donald J. Trump, Lt.-Gen. Michael Flynn, has called Islam a “cancer” and maintained that it is a “political ideology” masquerading as a religion. He made this generalization about the religion of 1.6 billion people out of the 7.4 […]
Which of Trump’s Cabinet picks is most Racist and Islamophobic?
TeleSur | – – The attorney general nominee has made racist statements in the past while his new national security adviser is an Islamophobe. Donald Trump has disclosed more names to to fill his cabinet, choosing the controversial Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Representative Mike Pompeo as CIA director and Lt. Gen. (ret.) […]
Woman demeans Christian Assyrian-American as ‘Terrorist’ for Speaking Jesus’ Language
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Aramaic was the language spoken by Jesus. Although the New Testament survives in koine Greek, likely it had an Aramaic substrate. The Gospels make clear that Jesus spoke Aramaic by occasionally quoting his original words in that language. Jesus says to the little girl he heals, […]
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