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Archives: US politics
Macron on way to see Trump: “There is no ‘Plan B’ re: Iran Nuclear Deal”
Washington (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron, who is heading to Washington to urge his US counterpart to stay in the Iran nuclear deal, said in an interview broadcast Sunday that there…
Top Six Reasons Pompeo should not be Secretary of State
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - NBC is reporting that Mike Pompeo lacks the votes in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to have his nomination to be Secretary of…
Exposing Canary Mission’s campaign against Palestinian human Rights: A Resource for College and University Leaders
N.B. Yes, I have been smeared by this odious hate group, but there's not much they can do to me. But they are trying to ruin the careers of our young Americans…
Is this America? Entire Island of Puerto Rico plunged into Darkness Again!
The Watchers: Watching the World Evolve and Transform | - - Posted by Matti K on April 18, 2018 The power grid has collapsed in Puerto Rico and the entire island lost…
Syria After Trump’s Withdrawal: Top Reasons an “Arab Force” will Fail
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - President Trump's determination to withdraw US troops from eastern Syria by October, so that GOP candidates for representative and senator can run on…
What People get wrong about Iranian-Americans (Looking at you, Mike Pompeo and John Bolton) (Video)
AJ+ | (Video News Clip) | - - "What do you think of when you hear "Persian" or “Iranian”? Iranian-Americans (aka Persians) break down common myths and misconceptions about them, and tell…
Growing up with Fear of Gun Violence in America: The Weaponization of Everyday Life
By Frida Berrigan | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Guns. In a country with more than 300 million of them, a country that’s recently been swept up in a round of protests…
Comey did it to himself & Us, by gutting Privacy, Encryption, & 4th Amendment
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In former FBI director James Comey’s interview with ABC News, he attempted to position himself as an upholder of the rule of law,…
Behind the Struggle with Mueller & Comey: Trump is the Triumph of Privilege over Law
By Martin Powers | (Informed Comment) | - - Frustration and bewilderment are common in media accounts of this administration’s expansive chaos. Even well educated writers turn to expletives, as if proper…
Will Bolton and MEK pull an Iraq War-like Chalabi-type Scam on Iran?
By Nadejda K. Marinova (Author of Ask What You Can Do For Your (New) Country: How Host States Use Diasporas (Oxford University Press, 2017).[1] Informed Comment | - - On the fifteenth…
Trump can’t Actually care much about Syrians if he only let in 11 Refugees this Year
TeleSur | - - "We are seeing the impact of the Trump administration's words and policy and actions that slams the door on refugees," says Oxfam America. The United States has accepted…
The Tragedy of American Great Power Moves on the Middle East: Trump Can, so he Will
By Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | - - As assumed, the US, the UK and France launched their coordinated airstrikes on Syria in the early hours of Saturday, April 14 to…
How the CIA’s secret torture program sparked a citizen-led public reckoning in North Carolina
By Alexandra Moore | (The Conversation) | - - President Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel, is reported to have overseen a U.S. site in Thailand where torture of a…
Top 5 Lessons from the History of America’s Defeats
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - The lessons of history? Who needs them? Certainly not Washington's present cast of characters, a crew in flight from history, the past,…
Ryan steps down, with Lifetime dream of transferring Trillions from People to Super-Rich Fulfilled
By Jake Johnson, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | - - Having successfully rammed through tax legislation that massively rewards America's billionaires—including his long-time patrons Charles and David Koch—and sets the…
Protests won’t stop Trump derailing Mueller Inquiry; Putting the Left in Congress Will
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The broad hints Trump gave Monday that the search of his personal attorney's offices on a tip from Robert Mueller might lead him…
America’s Forever Wars as Spectator Sport
By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - The purpose of all wars, is peace. So observed St. Augustine early in the first millennium A.D. Far be it from me…
Will Trump divert attention from Cohen Raid by attacking Syria?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Matt Apuzzo of the New York Times reports that FBI agents produced a warrant at the offices in the Rockefeller Center of Trump's…