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Top 10 Ways Americans judge Trump in the Comey Covfefe
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - On the eve of former FBI director James Comey's testimony, Trump seems to be tanking in the polls, and his firing Comey seems…
Trump’s Ally: Saudi Arabia’s drive for Aristocratic Hegemony in the Middle East
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Saudi Arabia is making a drive to become a regional hegemon. It has long used its oil wealth to achieve a great deal…
London Mayor Sadiq Khan uninvites Trump as opposed to Humane British Values
By Juan Cole | (informed Comment) | - - Trump's shameful and out of context attacks on Sadiq Khan, the popular mayor of London, have only reminded us of what a boor…
How Trump should have responded to London Attacks if he were Normal
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Allies Furious as Trump w/draws from G7 Climate Commitment, May leave Paris Accord
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump bombed at the G7 summit in Italy. Despite an "intense" discussion with Germany, France and the others, who made it clear as…
Top 5 Questions about Kushner’s back channel to Moscow
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In a meeting with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the US, WaPo reveals that Jared Kushner asked that a private, encrypted back…
Only Putin is happy with Trump’s NATO Bull-in-China-Shop Catastrophe
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Back in 2016 the talking heads on tv kept expecting candidate Trump, who made headlines almost daily saying racist and offensive things, to "transition." Their theory…
Pope to Trump: Climate Change is Real and we have to act in Solidarity
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Pope Francis gave Donald J. Trump a going away present after their meeting on Wednesday. It was a copy of his Encyclical on…
The Other Terrorism: Toxic CO2 Gas Promoted by Trump Budget, Shell
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Terrorism is properly defined as non-state actors using violence against civilians to achieve a political purpose. Some argue that this definition lets states…
Terror and Geopolitics: Manchester 2017 and 1996
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Manchester, UK, was hit with the deadliest bomb attack on Monday since a June Saturday morning in 1996, when a massive 3000 lb.…
Trump on Islam: Neo-Orientalism and anti-Shi’ism
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump's speech on Islam, written by notorious Islamophobe Stephen Miller, who used to organize Orwellian Two Minutes Hate sessions against Muslims at Duke,…