Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – The world’s most poorly kept secret is that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi) is escalating his state-sponsored […]
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Feature, not Bug: Trump’s Chaos Theory of Government
Jacek Rostowski | (Project Syndicate) | – – WARSAW – In the weeks since Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States, it has […]
Neither Informants nor Saudis: Wrong Ways to Slam Muslim Ban
By Dina El-Rifai | (Otherwords.org) | – – I’m a Muslim woman and a social justice advocate. I’m terrified, heartbroken, and outraged by Donald Trump’s […]
Speaker of British House of Commons: Trump not Welcome Here
TeleSur | – – “An address by a foreign leader to both houses of parliament is not an automatic right; it is an earned honor,” […]
“This Land:” The pro-Immigrant Radicalism of Lady Gaga and Guthrie at Half-Time
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – By beginning with Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” and then switching to Woody Guthrie’s “This Land […]
Will Trump use the Next ISIL attack to sweep away our Liberties?
By Allison Beth Hodgkins | (Informed Comment) | – – You have to hand to the civil society groups pushing back on the Trump administration’s […]
Why Trump’s Immigration Order is a Tragedy for Everyone, Except Trump
By Barbara Elias | (Informed Comment) | – – For the moment, federal courts have interrupted the president’s immigration order. Judge Robart remarked in his […]
Trump’s Coming “Islamo-China” War . . . or, Whatever
By Ira Chernus | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – What kind of national security policy will the Trump administration pursue globally? On this issue, […]
SNL: Bannon puts Trump up to Disastrous Calls to World Leaders
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Yes, Trump, Some Americans also murder: Some are Your White Supremacists
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In an interview with Bill O’Reilly airing Sunday afternoon, O’Reilly observes of Russian President Vladimir Putin: […]