Bill Ritter, Jr. | (The Conversation) | On Tuesday, March 28, President Trump traveled to the Environmental Protection Agency to sign an executive order rolling back a number of climate-related regulations that have taken effect over the past eight years. The president’s team claims this effort will help bring our nation closer to energy independence, […]
ISIL Now Controls only 7% of Iraq: What will its Defeat Mean for the Country?
Peter Bartu | (OpenDemocracy.net) | – – The west has treated ISIL as enemy number one while local actors see it as a sideshow in a political arena stretching from the Mediterranean to Iran. What does the defeat of ISIL in Mosul mean for Iraq? NurPhoto/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved. A general view shows […]
Trump: We’re Not Going Into Syria . . . Unless We Do (TYT)
Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola, & Jayar Jackson |The Young Turks|(Video)| – – “Our Dumbass-In-Chief can’t figure out how to not contradict himself inside the same sentence. Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola, and Jayar Jackson, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. . . “President Donald Trump on Tuesday tried to clarify his administration’s policy toward Syria after […]
“Steve Bannon just Snapped” – “Super-Scary” (TYT & Maz Jobrani)
The Young Turks | (Lively Video Discussion) | – – “The Trump Administration would like you to think they aren’t still plagued with infighting. Wrong. Sad. Babies. Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola, and Maz Jobrani, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. . . “White House advisers Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner are at war, creating the […]
Bill O’Reilly driven from air by Advertiser Boycott over Sexual Harassment?
Lawrence O’Donnell | The Last Word | (Video News Clip) | – – “Bill O’Reilly is off the air for Easter “vacation,” but Gabe Sherman reports the Murdochs are fighting over O’Reilly’s future. Attorney Lisa Bloom, who is calling on New York state to investigate sexual harassment claims at Fox News, also joins Lawrence O’Donnell.” […]
Risk of Mass Starvation Rising Rapidly in Africa, Yemen
TeleSur | – – “This really is an absolutely critical situation that is rapidly unfolding across a large swathe of Africa from west to east.” The risk of mass starvation in four countries — northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen — is rising rapidly due to drought and conflict, the U.N. refugee agency said […]
Can António Guterres Fend Off America’s War on the UN?
By Dulcie Leimbach | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – When António Guterres was chosen by the United Nations Security Council in October to become the next leader of the UN, neither he nor anyone else could have predicted precisely who would be commanding the Oval Office of the White House […]
What Trump looks like from Cuba …
By Mattea Kramer | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – I’ll tell you up front that my personal vehicle has crowns of rust on the rear wheel wells and an interior that smells vaguely of dog puke. It’s a 2006 Mazda3 with 150,244 miles on it and it gets me around my modest world well enough, […]
Donald Trump: Global Ecocide
By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Can one determined and willfully ignorant man both stem the green tide and push the world over the brink into ecocide? In Pittsburgh, where I worked for two months in 1986, I breathed clean air. The steel mills along the rivers leading into […]