Washington, DC| AFP | – The investigation — a dual counterintelligence and criminal probe — was launched after the president fired FBI director James Comey in May 2017, the Times said, citing anonymous sources. The counterintelligence aspect consisted of determining whether Trump was knowingly or unknowingly working for Moscow and whether he was a threat […]
Archives for January 2019
Pompeo’s US Jingoism and Anti-Iran Warmongering Rejected by Mideast Public
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a major and extremely embarrassing foreign policy speech in Cairo on Thursday, which is probably inconsequential since his major talking points departed from the positions of his president, Trump. Also, aside from some generals and kings and princes, nobody in the region agrees with anything he said. Pompeo’s message […]
Israel’s Jim Crow Segregated Road-Wall Opens in Occupied Palestinian West Bank
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israel has opened Route 4370 in Jerusalem, in the central occupied West Bank, dividing Palestinian and Israeli settlers. The Haaretz news outlet reported that the highway, which has been called the “Apartheid Road,” is divided in the middle by a high wall; the road’s western side serves Palestinians who cannot enter Jerusalem, […]
Tucker Carlson’s ‘Daily Caller’ Photoshop-shames AOC to Preserve Male Chauvinist Plutocracy
Far-right media has been attacking Ocasio-Cortez by posting old videos and fake nude photos. Freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has come out against news organizations who are working hard to discredit or embarrass her. Far-right and right-wing media outlets and random social media trolls have been ramping up their attacks against progressive candidates and politicians, […]
Climate Emergency: Oceans Hotter than in Recorded History and Getting Hotter
Tampa, United States | AFP | – The world’s oceans are heating up at an accelerating pace as global warming threatens a diverse range of marine life and a major food supply for the planet, researchers said Thursday. The findings in the US journal Science, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, debunk previous reports […]
Trump’s Republic of Lies: Once to every nation comes the moment to decide
( Tomdispatch.com) – In one of the Bible stories about the death of Jesus, local collaborators with the Roman Empire haul him before Pontius Pilate, the imperial governor of Palestine. Although the situation is dire for one of them, the two engage in a bit of epistemological banter. Jesus allows that his work is about […]
Trump as Marie Antoinette: “Let them Eat Wall!” (Jamiol Cartoon)
Via Jamiol’s World
Donald J. Mubarak? Why Trump Declaring a National Emergency over Wall is Very Bad
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s talk of declaring a national emergency so that he can build a border wall with Mexico is the most dangerous thing he has ever said after suggesting that Saudi Arabia should get a nuclear bomb. The 1976 law under which Trump claims he can declare a state of emergency […]
Not One Network Should Have Aired Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rant
(Otherwords.org) – The president is going to demonize the media no matter what they do. So why not do the right thing? Way back in 2014 — a century ago, it feels like — President Barack Obama requested time on major networks for an Oval Office address on immigration reform. Fearing the subject was too […]
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