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Dan Dinello

Dan Dinello , Professor Emeritus at Columbia College Chicago — is the author of Children of Men, a critical analysis of Alfonso Cuarón’s visionary dystopian science fiction film masterpiece. His other books include Finding Fela: My Strange Journey to Meet the AfroBeat King – a memoir of his 1983 trip to Lagos, Nigeria, to film African musical legend Fela Kuti, and Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology. Dan runs the Website shockproductions.com and has also contributed chapters to books about Avatar, Westworld, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Ridley Scott, and Star Trek among others. He is an Informed Comment regular.

Donald Trump
Avatar of Chaos, Cruelty and Death: Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror isn’t Over

Avatar of Chaos, Cruelty and Death: Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror isn’t Over

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – Serving as gangster President Trump’s hatchet man, Musk promised a lean efficient government but gave us chainsaw-massacre firings that devastated government functionality. While gloating about solving the fabricated grift and criminality of US foreign aid, Musk terminated life-saving medications for dying babies and ended food supplies for starving children. […]

Authoritarianism
American Psycho: Trump’s Delusional Crusade Transforms America into a Pariah State

American Psycho: Trump’s Delusional Crusade Transforms America into a Pariah State

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – In Franz Kafka’s story “The Metamorphosis,” Gregor Samsa awakens to “find himself transformed into a monstrous vermin” — a terrifying metamorphosis that leaves him alienated and rejected by his family. Similarly, Trumpism rejects vast segments of the population as unworthy of belonging. Almost overnight, immigrants, government workers, scientists, lawyers, […]

Donald Trump
Trump’s Lawless Deportation Machine Disappears Immigrants into Blacksite Hellhole

Trump’s Lawless Deportation Machine Disappears Immigrants into Blacksite Hellhole

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Trump kidnapped hundreds of Venezuelan men on March 15, spiriting them away to a black site hellhole outside the reach of due process, habeas corpus, and American justice. Accusing the victims, without evidence, of being members of the Tren de Aragua gang and invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies […]

Donald Trump
Demonic Duo Trump and Musk Detonate a Blast Wave at US Foreign Aid, Harming Millions

Demonic Duo Trump and Musk Detonate a Blast Wave at US Foreign Aid, Harming Millions

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment, Feature) – Too lazy to bother with the laborious process of democracy, President Trump bestowed power onto the maniacal zealot Elon Musk and turned him loose to gut the US government, including the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) — the decades-old agency in charge of distributing American foreign aid […]

Donald Trump
Pyromaniac-in-Chief – America goes MAGA to Burn it all Down

Pyromaniac-in-Chief – America goes MAGA to Burn it all Down

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Reelecting the Insurrectionist who provoked the January 6 attack is a monumental dereliction of civic duty by the American people. Trump was provided a plurality mandate — enough of a match for him to burn America down. The electorate affirmed that the worst human being to hold the presidency deserves […]

Donald Trump
The Super-Rich have a long history of Backing Fascism and Buying the White House: It is Happening Again

The Super-Rich have a long history of Backing Fascism and Buying the White House: It is Happening Again

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Hopping around the rally stage like a drunken monkey, Elon Musk — the world’s most awkward man — demonstrated his subservience to the alpha ape Trump by repeatedly baring his bloated, bone-white belly. Several weeks ago, Musk made a fawning, cringe-worthy spectacle of himself as the primate Cult Leader watched […]

Donald Trump
American Women vs. Maga Men: The 2024 Election is a Gender Battle where Abortion Rights are the Flashpoint

American Women vs. Maga Men: The 2024 Election is a Gender Battle where Abortion Rights are the Flashpoint

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – American women reject Trump. From his criminalizing of abortion to the ridiculing of unmarried women, from his predatory sexual harassment to racist attacks on immigrants, Trump has been very successful at repulsing female voters. Women favor Kamala Harris 58-37 in a recent NBC poll, while men prefer Trump […]

Authoritarianism
The French showed us how to Fight SCOTUS’s Immunization of Trump for 2nd-Term Despotism

The French showed us how to Fight SCOTUS’s Immunization of Trump for 2nd-Term Despotism

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The MAGA Supreme Court created a lawless presidency with their opinion on Trump immunity last week. In doing so, it obliterated a basic principle of American constitutional government: “No one is above the law.” Enabling abuses of power, the 6-3 decision on Trump v. United States gives Trump such vast immunity […]

Donald Trump
Wooing MAGA Billionaires, Fascist Felon Trump holds a Fire Sale on his Potential Presidency

Wooing MAGA Billionaires, Fascist Felon Trump holds a Fire Sale on his Potential Presidency

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – At the dawn of Nazi Germany a few weeks after Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor, Reichstag president Hermann Göring invited two dozen of Germany’s wealthiest and most influential bankers and industrialists to his home to solicit funds for the upcoming election, according to historian David de Jong in […]

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