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Donald Trump
Why Trump let Saudi Arabia and UAE censor his "America First" Speech on Energy

Why Trump let Saudi Arabia and UAE censor his “America First” Speech on Energy

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Sunday the NYT revealed that Trump’s staff ran his May, 2016 speech on “America First” by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for their input into the energy passages, and actually altered the text based on their editing. The hollow joke of Trump’s “America first” slogan could not […]

Donald Trump
10 Poorest States in US to have voted for Trump are Poorer than Baltimore

10 Poorest States in US to have voted for Trump are Poorer than Baltimore

Juan Cole

*The wording of this piece has been slightly revised and two links added. Trump has been throwing shade on Baltimore. But he constantly praises himself at his rallies in the Red States for the great job he’s done in bringing people prosperity. Open Data Network says GDP per capita in the Baltimore metro area in […]

Climate Change
Europe, are you Crazy?  As a Continent Melts, New Coal Plants Planned and Permitting Blocks Wind Farms

Europe, are you Crazy? As a Continent Melts, New Coal Plants Planned and Permitting Blocks Wind Farms

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The heat wave that has swept Europe and given Paris the weather of Madras is certainly embroiled in human-caused climate change. The severity and frequency of such extreme weather is exacerbated by the 2.4 trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide human beings have spewed into the atmosphere since about 1750, […]

Civil Rights
Trump's Supreme Court overturns Magna Carta (1215) and Montesquieu (1748) for Sultan Donald John

Trump’s Supreme Court overturns Magna Carta (1215) and Montesquieu (1748) for Sultan Donald John

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US Supreme Court on Friday, by a 5-4 Republican Party majority, temporarily ruled to allow Trump to divert monies dedicated by Congress to the Defense Department budget to wall-building in the Southwest. If the court makes the ruling permanent, it will be attacking the principle of the “power of […]

Climate Change
Scotland Renewables making enough Electricity to power Two Scotlands and other Wind Power Successes

Scotland Renewables making enough Electricity to power Two Scotlands and other Wind Power Successes

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As The Independent put it in its headline, for the first six months of this year, Scotland generated enough electricity with wind turbines to power two Scotlands (with regard to household energy requirements). Of course, households are not the only consumers of electricity– industry and retail are big in that […]

Featured
Without Political Boycotts, the Civil Rights Movement Might have failed: Congress is gutting Constitution to Protect Israeli War Crimes

Without Political Boycotts, the Civil Rights Movement Might have failed: Congress is gutting Constitution to Protect Israeli War Crimes

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (informed Comment) – The House of Representatives on Thursday passed by a 398-17 margin a resolution condemning the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. In so doing, they weakened the US First Amendment of the Constitution, which forbids Congress to censor political speech. Americans don’t need the House’s permission to express their […]

Iran
Iran Crushing Rights just when it Needs understanding in the West:  Must Release Prominent Anthropologist

Iran Crushing Rights just when it Needs understanding in the West: Must Release Prominent Anthropologist

Juan Cole

Detention of French-Iranian Anthropologist Confirms Worrying Trend

Donald Trump
Yes, Obstruction; Yes, Collusion:  The Mueller Report Proved the one and Gave Evidence for the Other

Yes, Obstruction; Yes, Collusion: The Mueller Report Proved the one and Gave Evidence for the Other

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump keeps trying to hypnotize people by saying “No collusion, no obstruction,” and saying that Mueller exonerated him. Since so few Americans and so few in Congress will actually read the Mueller report, he thinks he can get away with the Big Lie. Mueller explicitly denied yesterday that he had […]

Donald Trump
Russian Bribes, Mideast Plots and the Election of Trump: What Mueller has already Told Us

Russian Bribes, Mideast Plots and the Election of Trump: What Mueller has already Told Us

Juan Cole

Reprint edition The Mueller report sheds further light on the infamous Seychelles meeting in January, 2017, which appears to have aimed at establishing a back channel for the Trump administration to the circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin, brokered by Mohammed Bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates. That is, this story is not about […]

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