By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald J. Trump 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue/ Mar-a-Lago Florida (Golf Course) Dear Prime Minister May and Mayor Khan: I was devastated to learn that so many people were killed or wounded on London Bridge Saturday night. The special relationship between my country and the United Kingdom is […]
Who needs Trump: State Policies driving huuje advances in Wind Power
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Anyone who is depressed about Trump’s sabotage of action to halt climate change should take heart from a remarkable development in Kansas.. Governor Sam Brownback, a little-government arch-conservative who has run the state into the ground and ruined its education system and been a disaster in […]
What’s the most effective way to fight terrorism? – Juan Cole on CBS
Reena Ninan | CBS News | (Video Clip) | – – “A new article in The Nation suggests Ariana Grande has a better approach to fighting terrorism than Defense Secretary James Mattis. After a deadly attack at Grande’s concert in Manchester, the singer is now reaching out to victims and thanking them for their strength. […]
Did Trump’s Climate Disavowal just kill Capitalism?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The last time capitalism faced a crisis this deep, it was 1929. People minded the Great Depression. All those people Joe McCarthy persecuted in the 1950s for having joined the Communist Party when they were young and angry had been angry because of the Great Depression. […]
Top 5 Climate Catastrophes to which Trump just Doomed his own Supporters
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On Thursday, Trump delivered himself of one of the most brain-dead speeches ever given by an American president, more imbecilic even than Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” or Nixon’s “I am not a crook.” He withdrew from the Paris climate accords, saying that he was elected to represent […]
Trump, Paris Accords and the End of the American Century
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – As Trump seems likely to pull out of the Paris Climate accord, he will be creating several kinds of leadership vacuum. One is a vacuum of global political leadership. Another is a vacuum of corporate and technological leadership. In short, renouncing American commitments on Climate is […]
Baghdad and Manchester: Let’s Commemorate ISIL Victims in Both
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – ISIL (ISIS, Daesh) lashed out at the civilian population in Iraq on Tuesday with three bombings and over 60 casualties. With its signature warped sadism, the organization sent a suicide bomber with a truck into a crowded square in the upscale, largely Shiite shopping district of […]
Coal in Death spiral as India cancels 14 gigs, and Solar prices Plummet
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – China and India have knocked the United States off the top spot of the index of best places to invest in renewables. Analysts cite the impact of Trump’s policies in favor of coal and petroleum. Meanwhile, as Trump talks up a return of coal in the […]
Germany: We Europeans must Depend on Selves, not Trump’s USA
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, certainly knew what she was doing when she made her otherwise cautious statement. “The times,” she said, “in which we can entirely depend on others, are gone. This, I have experienced in the last few days. We Europeans must take […]
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