By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Carol E. Lee at NBC reported Wednesday that last summer Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state, called Trump a “f*cking moron.” The remark came after a number of incidents in which Trump had contradicted Tillerson on policy, and directly after Trump made salacious remarks to a […]
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Saudi Arabia wants to improve Image; Here’s How
They have to stop intervening, fighting wars and fomenting radicalism; an image touch-up won’t help
The Message on Climate must be ‘Yes We Can,’ not Apocalypse Now’
By Jon Christensen | (The Conversation) | – – There’s been no shortage of pessimistic news on climate change lately. A group of climate scientists and policy experts recently declared that we have just three years left to dramatically turn around carbon emissions, or else. Meanwhile a widely circulated New York magazine article detailed some […]
Gov.’s branding Mosque bombing ‘terrorism’ astonishes US Press
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – This Saturday, a Bloomington, Minnesota mosque was attacked with an improvised explosive device, which destroyed an office with fire and blew out windows but luckily no one was injured. Some members of the congregation were shaken up pretty badly. On Sunday, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton visited […]
Iran’s Rouhani lashes out at Trump Over Nuclear Deal
By TeleSur | – – Hassan Rouhani calls for upholding the 2015 nuclear deal despite new U.S. sanctions. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who was inaugurated for a second term on Saturday, has accused the United States of trying to undermine Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers, and called for more negotiations amid new U.S. sanctions. […]
Leftist Kurds with US Air Support breach Walls of ISIL Capital, enter Old City
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Al Jazeera reports that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) supported by the US Air Force and other international allies, has breached the walls around the old city of al-Raqqa in eastern Syria and managed to get into the old city itself. Al-Raqqa is the capital of […]
How Trump Used the London Attacks to Further His Agenda (Cole Rising Up Interview)
Rising Up with Sonali | Sonali Kolhatkar | (Audio and Video Interview) | “Just days before the UK elections, US president Donald Trump has wielded his Twitter account as a weapon once more, accusing London’s mayor Sadiq Khan of making a “pathetic excuse” for the attack that killed 7 people on London bridge last Saturday. […]
Trump, Saudi Arabia and yet another arms deal
Russell E. Lucas, Michigan State University The first stop on Donald Trump’s first trip as U.S. president was to Saudi Arabia. That was no accident. His decision was surely based on the fact that the alliance between Saudi Arabia and the United States is one of the foundations of American foreign policy in the Middle […]
Wikileaks’ Assange claims Victory after Sweden drops Charges, Vows to Publish More
TeleSur | – – Swedish prosecutors dropped the rape investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday, saying the investigation had not been able to proceed because of legal obstacles. “Today is an important victory for me and for the U.N. human rights system,” Assange said in an address on the balcony of the Ecuadorean […]
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