By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump picked a fight with almost everyone but his buddy Vladimir Putin this weekend. His continued tweaking of China over its claims on Taiwan produced a sharp rebuke from Beijing. John Brennan, head of the CIA, pushed back against Trump’s branding of the agency as […]
Archives for January 2017
Credible: Author of Trump’s dirty dossier ‘had UK agencies’ for clients
By Georgi Gotev, James Crisp | Euractiv.com | – – EXCLUSIVE/ Christopher Steele, the former MI6 spy and author of the dirty dossier on President-elect Donald Trump, claimed to have carried out investigations for UK financial regulatory authorities in emails seen by EurActiv.com. The “dirty dossier”, written by Steele, a former Russia operations officer for […]
World’s Richest 8–All Men–as Wealthy as Half of Humanity: Oxfam
TeleSur | – – The world will have its first trillionaire in only 25 years, the organization found. Just eight individuals, all men, own as much wealth as half of the world’s population, Oxfam said Sunday night, slamming the rich for fueling global inequality by dodging taxes, driving down wages and using their power to […]
Israeli Soldiers Uproot Hundreds Of Olive Trees For Illegal Colonialist Road
IMEMC | – – Israeli soldiers started, on Monday morning, the illegal uprooting of hundreds of olive trees, as part of a plan to uproot hundreds of Palestinian trees to pave a new road for an illegal colony, east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. The WAFA Palestinian News Agency […]
Trump and the Pee-Pee Party: Alec Baldwin at SNL
NBC’s Saturday Night Live | (Video Skit) | – – “President-elect Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) holds his first press conference since getting elected.” Donald Trump Press Conference Cold Open – SNL
In the Age of Trumpian Reaction, is MLK’s Legacy to the 99% being Reversed?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Reaction has two main meanings in English. One is to respond to some new situation (not specifying the nature of the reaction). The other is to resist some innovation. In this second sense, a reactionary is one who wants to go back to a previously existing […]
Instead of Stereotyping Trump Voters, Progressives need to Get them Back
By George Lakey | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | – – In ordinary times, progressives might get away with casual images of their political opponents, but these are not ordinary times. If these were ordinary times, progressives might get away with casual images of our political opponents. Those who disagree “lack information,” or “remain prejudiced,” […]
Islam Ban sought by Far Right Austrian Party founded by ex-Nazis
TeleSur | – – Before he announced his proposal, Strache warned the crowd of the “existential threat” posed by Islam to Europe. As the vortex of right-wing populism courses through Europe, Austria is no stranger to such discourse: the head of its far-right Freedom Party said Saturday that there should be a complete ban on […]
5 Images that refute Trump’s attack on Hero John Lewis
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It began when Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) announced that he would not attend the inaugural of Donald J. Trump because he did not consider him a legitimate president. Lewis, sometimes called “the conscience of Congress,” emerged to prominence as a very young man in 1963-66 as […]
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