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Bill of Rights
Will Trump Bring in a New Era of Surveillance and Torture?

Will Trump Bring in a New Era of Surveillance and Torture?

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TeleSur | – – Trump’s picks for important security positions look intent on rolling back civil liberties. While there are many questions about what U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will change once he officially takes office on Jan. 20, one of the biggest questions, and indeed concerns, is what a Trump administration will bring in terms […]

Donald Trump
Trump’s Pentagon Hunger Games:  The Generals “haven’t done the job.”

Trump’s Pentagon Hunger Games: The Generals “haven’t done the job.”

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By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com | – – President-elect Donald Trump’s message for the nation’s senior military leadership is ambiguously unambiguous. Here is he on 60 Minutes just days after winning the election. Trump: “We have some great generals. We have great generals.” Lesley Stahl: “You said you knew more than the generals […]

Donald Trump
Will Trump cancel Iran deal or practice the Art of the Deal?

Will Trump cancel Iran deal or practice the Art of the Deal?

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by Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | – – US President-elect Donald Trump’s bluster about the Iran nuclear deal has created a lot of confusions and uncertainties about the fate of the deal. The anti-deal statements he made during and after the race to the White House election campaign ranged from direct threats to “tear […]

African-Americans
Neofascist Roof will conduct own defense in Murder Trial

Neofascist Roof will conduct own defense in Murder Trial

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TeleSur | – – Roof allegedly shot and massacred nine African-American churchgoers. Dylann Roof, the white supremacist charged with shooting up a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine parishioners, was granted Monday the ability to represent himself in his upcoming trial. Facing 33 charges of hate crime murder, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel […]

Authoritarianism
The Last Days of Democracy?

The Last Days of Democracy?

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By Adil E. Shamoo and Bonnie Bricker | Foreign Policy in Focus | – – A fraudulent campaign has resulted in the election of a fraudulent president. What can be done to save American democracy? The recent presidential campaign season brought political pornography to the American people. Donald Trump and Steve Bannon, his senior counselor […]

Iraq
Does Turkey's Erdogan Dream of Neighboring Mosul?

Does Turkey’s Erdogan Dream of Neighboring Mosul?

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By Lucy DerTavitian | (Informed Comment) | – – The battle over Mosul appears to have ignited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s expansionist Ottoman era fantasies. He gained a few more adversaries recently when he claimed that Mosul, along with Aleppo, Western Thrace in Greece, and Kosovo, are part of Turkey. Erdogan’s comments come at […]

Donald Trump
Maybe if most Americans knew who Berlusconi was they wouldn't have elected Trump

Maybe if most Americans knew who Berlusconi was they wouldn’t have elected Trump

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By Bill Emmott | (Project Syndicate) | – – LONDON – For the past couple of weeks, the world has been guessing at how US President-elect Donald Trump will behave in office and what policies he will pursue, following a long campaign full of contradictory statements. America’s previous businessman-presidents – Warren G. Harding and Herbert […]

Climate Change
The Catastrophic Downstream Effects of Trump Anti-Climatism

The Catastrophic Downstream Effects of Trump Anti-Climatism

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By Tharanga Yakupitiyage | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS, Nov 24 2016 (IPS) – Although U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has hinted he may be softening his stance on climate change, many are still uncertain of what lies ahead concerning climate action within and beyond the United States. A demonstration against the XL […]

Latin America
When Reagan backed S. Africa Racism and Castro inspired Mandela

When Reagan backed S. Africa Racism and Castro inspired Mandela

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TeleSur | – – The world remembers Nelson Mandela as the freedom fighter and president who liberated South Africa from apartheid. But many look back with a selected memory of how the former prisoner’s story unfolded. The man who former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher [and US President Ronald Reagan] branded a “terrorist” was a […]

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