(Foreign Policy in Focus) – Critics dismiss it as a dream. But that’s precisely what it is. It’s visionary. By John Feffer, February 20, 2019. Print Shutterstock It’s become a common trope of the Trump era for columnists and commentators to attack the lunacy of the far right at the same time as castigating the […]
Archives for February 2019
Racism v. Racist: Why Brenda Lawrence and Rashida Tlaib are Right
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As I noted yesterday, in Michael Cohen’s opening statement during his public testimony to the House Oversight and Reform Committee, he alleged that Donald Trump is a racist, saying: ‘ He once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn’t a “shithole . […]
Carbon farming: how smart agriculture can both feed people and fight climate change
By Richard Lindsay | – Imagine “carbon emissions”, and what springs to mind? Most people tend to think of power stations belching out clouds of carbon dioxide or queues of vehicles burning up fossil fuels as they crawl, bumper-to-bumper, along congested urban roads. But in Britain and many other countries, carbon emissions have another source, […]
Britain sees Hottest Winter Day in Recorded History as Global Heating Accelerates
By Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS | – Paris (AFP) – As western Europe enjoys record highs for winter temperatures, southern parts of the continent are being hit with snow flurries. What is going on with the weather, and how closely are the topsy-turvy temperatures linked to climate change? – What’s causing the heat? – On Monday Britain […]
Iran’s Religious Leaders Keep Foreign Minister Zarif on to pursue European Diplomacy
Tehran (AFP) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rejected Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s resignation on Wednesday, saying the departure of the public face of the Islamic republic’s detente with the West would be against its best interests. Zarif’s abrupt announcement on Instagram late on Monday that he was quitting had sparked rumours of mass resignations in […]
Top Six Pieces of Dirt Cohen Dished on Trump in his Opening Statement
Michael Dean Cohen’s prepared remarks for his public congressional testimony on Wednesday were obtained by Politico. Here are what struck me as the top 6 most egregious revelations about Trump’s venality: 1. Trump running for president was just a public relations stunt. He expected to benefit financially “Mr. Trump would often say, this campaign was […]
The Trojan Horse of US “Aid” to Venezuela
(Informed Comment) – Hope and US Aid at the Border: the title of a recent New York Times video deodorizes the US attempt to overthrow President Maduro of socialist Venezuela and replace him with a hand-picked member of the Venezuelan elite, capitalist class. As the major media presents it, the US is altruistically rushing to […]
In Middle East, Impunity for Human Rights Abuses reigned in 2018: Amnesty
Beirut (AFP) – “The crackdown on civil society actors and political opponents increased significantly in Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia,” the rights watchdog said in its annual regional report. “Is it acceptable for activists to undergo arbitrary detention, torture, sexual harassment … and even enforced disappearances simply for expressing their opinions in a peaceful way,” […]
The Survival of the Richest: The Real Wall
( Tomdispatch.com) – Like a gilded coating that makes the dullest things glitter, today’s thin veneer of political populism covers a grotesque underbelly of growing inequality that’s hiding in plain sight. And this phenomenon of ever more concentrated wealth and power has both Newtonian and Darwinian components to it. In terms of Newton’s first law […]
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