AJ+ | (Video Clip) | – – “President Trump is calling for an investigation into voter fraud, and media sources have discovered that his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was actually registered in two different states. Here are some other things you should know about Bannon.” AJ+: “Steve Bannon: What You Need To Know” —- Related […]
Wind Power Juggernaut Really doing for 100K Workers what Trump only Promised
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Big news on the wind power front. First, it has emerged in the US as the number one renewable energy source, generating more electricity than hydro-electric for the first time. This milestone came in 2016 after 8,727 megawatts (MW) of new wind installations were activated. For […]
The Rural-Urban Divide in the US in 6 Charts!
By Brian Thiede, Lillie Greiman, Stephan Weiler, Steven C. Beda, Tessa Conroy | (The Conversation) | – – Editor’s note: We’ve all heard of the great divide between life in rural and urban America. But what are the factors that contribute to these differences? We asked sociologists, economists, geographers and historians to describe the divide […]
41 Killed in US Attack on Syrian Mosque
TeleSur | – – “It was right after prayers at a time when there are usually religious lessons for men in it,” one witness told AFP. On Thursday the U.S. government confirmed that it carried out an airstrike in Syria which, according to AFP, struck a mosque killing 46 civilians. A spokesperson for U.S. Central […]
How the Iraq War came Home & brought us Trump
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – If you want to know where President Donald Trump came from, if you want to trace the long winding road (or escalator) that brought him to the Oval Office, don’t look to reality TV or Twitter or even the rise of the alt-right. Look someplace far […]
Populist Wilders may have come up short, but Dutch intolerance is still real
By Annemarie Toebosch | (The Conversation) | – – The Dutch elections on March 15 have received a lot of attention in the international media. The reason for the attention is clear: A Trump lookalike populist, Geert Wilders, was rumored to win big as part of a Western populist movement that some call the “Patriotic […]
Israeli Pol threatens Crimes against Humanity in Lebanon
TeleSur | – – A far-right Israeli minister said Lebanese civilians must be direct targets in a future war over Hezbollah’s rising political sway in Lebanon. The next war Israel will launch against Lebanon must take the country back to the “Middle Ages” and should target civilians in the country, far-right Israeli Education Minister Naftali […]
Islamophobia barring young Western Muslims from Ordinary Politics
By Peter Hopkins and Robin Finlay | (The Conversation) | – – Muslim youths tend to be portrayed as politically disengaged or potentially extremist. Debates about the “war on terror”, and US president Donald Trump’s immigration plans are damaging how the world sees young Muslims today. But the way that Muslim youth are being talked […]
Exit Polls: Tolerant Dutch Reject Wilders’ anti-Muslim Hate Speech
TeleSur | Many see the Dutch vote as a referendum on the viability of the viciously anti-Muslim, anti-migrant politics represented by Geert Wilders. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s center-right VVD Party remained the biggest in Parliament after an election Wednesday with 31 of the 150 seats, the first exit poll said, handing a significant defeat […]
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