Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Paramount Global corporation has fired late night comedian Stephen Colbert even though Colbert dominated his time spot. Paramount owns […]
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Persecution and the threat to the refugee system
By Brad K. Blitz | (OpenDemocracy.net) | – – We need to accept that for millions of refugees persecution is the principal reason for flight […]
Trump Visa Denials target same countries Bush vowed to Overthrow
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s shameful halt to the admission of refugees for 6 months and his 3-month pause in […]
New report reveals top Israeli official living in illegal colonial settlement
IMEMC News | – – An Israeli Finance Minister, who is in charge of implementing a law to demolish Palestinian homes in the West Bank, […]
Trump sees Press as Public Enemy No. 1 – Reporters w/out Borders
By IPS News Desk | – – ROME (IPS) – “Alarmed” by the new administration’s “repeated attacks on the media and blatant disregard for facts […]
Trump Is Carpet-Bombing . . . U.S. Foreign Policy
By Phyllis Bennis | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) | – – Already Trump is super-charging U.S. militarism, gutting diplomacy, and punishing the victims […]
Torture works . . . to produce Fake News (and that’s how we Got into Iraq)
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I told this story back in 2005 but it is a good story, has held up, […]
From Ugly American to American Bully
By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – I came of age during America’s Cold War with the Soviet Union, witnessing its […]
How Trump’s ‘Alternative Facts’ Will bite his own Supporters on the Ass
By Peter Certo | ( Otherwords.org ) | – – If Trump can sell a plain-as-day lie about his inauguration crowd, he can lie about […]
US Government Scientists Go ‘Rogue’ in Defiance of Trump
TeleSur | – – Twitter accounts are being used as a tool of resistance to fight censorship and bring reliable scientific information to the public. […]