Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump spoke on foreign policy Sunday on “Face The Nation,” further explaining his thinking on US troops in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. He seems to have made it clear that the US troop presence in Iraq is not, as advertised, to help Baghdad mop up ISIL remnants but rather to […]
Turkey, NATO ally, Rejects US “Coup Attempt” in Venezuela
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It is no surprise that Iran should be supporting the Venezuelan government of Maduro, given that both typically take anti-imperialist stands. What is astonishing is that NATO member Turkey has piled on the criticism, along with the Turkish press. It is s sign of US-Turkish relations being at their nadir. […]
Global Warming caused Enormous city-sized Hole discovered in Antarctic Glacier
In an academic paper in the journal Science Advances nestles a short sentence that at first glance is hard to detach from the specialist prose and mathematical formulas that dot it. On profile T3-T4, we confirm the formation of a cavity 4 km [roughly 2 and a half miles] wide by 350 m [0.2 miles] […]
Europe declares independence of Trump, Creates Channel for Iran Trade
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In what French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called “an important geo-political gesture,” France, Germany and the UK have swung into action with the backing of the European Union to set up a mechanism, called Instex, which will permit European firms and banks to continue to trade with Iran without […]
Trump Explodes at CIA over Iran: “Naive and Passive,” “Go Back to School!”
Coats: “We continue to assess that Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activities.”
Top 10 Ways that the United States is the Most Corrupt Country in the World
The US is so corrupt that our ruling, Republican Party, would even deny human-made climate change and adopt pro-carbon policies
Bolton & Trump’s Gerontocrats may drag us into Venezuela over Oil when they could just buy an EV
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – There are many things wrong with National Security Adviser John Bolton, but the worst is his fixation on petroleum politics. His response to the complex crisis of Venezuela is to hope that US energy corporations can produce some of that country’s oil (“It will make a big difference to the […]
America’s 7 Racist Exclusions: From Muslim Visa Ban to 1930s Exclusion of Jews
Revised.- ed. Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The two-year anniversary of Trump’s Muslim visa ban and Holocaust Remembrance Day have arrived more or less together, and it is worthwhile reviewing how they reveal an ugly side to America. US history is replete with racism as public policy. It has been more often our history than […]
How Long til Trump & GOP Radical Islamophobia causes Major Massacre?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Three extremist white nationalists who plotted to blow up a Somali-American apartment complex in Kansas have been sentenced to 25 years in prison. The men made and tested explosives to use on the Somali immigrants, whom they called “cockroaches” and other terms that CNN couldn’t repeat. Somalis are Sunni Muslims. […]
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