Informed Comment - Part 1374

Now Trump’s Targets: Many US Latinos fled chaos of Reagan’s anti-Left crusade

By Luis Gómez Romero | (The Conversation) | – – In an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, United States president-elect Donald Trump highlighted some campaign […]

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Donald Trump

5 Trump Headlines more outrageous than the “Hamilton” Tiff

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump is the master of misdirection, the techniques magicians use to get you to look elsewhere […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump

No to the New Normal

By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The night after the election, this long-time pacifist dreamed she shot a big white man carrying […]

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Iraq

After ISIL, is there any hope of Iraqi National Unity?

Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – The fight against the [so-called] Islamic State [group, or IS] has united Iraqis. Details of a […]

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Bill of Rights

US: Trump’s Justice, CIA Picks Threaten Rights

Human Rights Watch | – – (Washington) – President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as United States attorney general reinforces fears that […]

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Republican Party

Bad Rain Falling: Who’s to Blame for our Trump Catastrophe?

By Todd Gitlin | (Billmoyers.com) | – – These days are for resistance to the abomination that has befallen us; as also for decent conduct […]

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Donald Trump

Is Lt.-Gen. Flynn Right that Islam is not a Religion?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The new National Security Adviser to incoming President Donald J. Trump, Lt.-Gen. Michael Flynn, has called […]

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Donald Trump

Which of Trump’s Cabinet picks is most Racist and Islamophobic?

TeleSur | – – The attorney general nominee has made racist statements in the past while his new national security adviser is an Islamophobe. Donald […]

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