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Archives: US politics
Justice Roberts used bad Data to end Voting Rights Act & other shoddy SCOTUS Mistakes
By Ryan Gabrielson | ( ProPublica ) | - - ProPublica review adds fuel to a longstanding worry about the nation’s highest court: The justices can botch the truth, sometimes in cases…
“Tell me how this Ends”- Gen. Petraeus has decided Forever War Doesn’t
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com | - - It took 14 years, but now we have an answer. It was March 2003, the invasion of Iraq was underway, and Major General…
3 ways Trump’s nuclear strategy misunderstands Iran’s Mood
By Nancy Gallagher | (The Conversation) | - - U.S. President Donald Trump has refused to tell Congress that the 2015 nuclear deal the Obama administration reached with Iran and five other…
No, It Wasn’t Iran: Top 7 Reasons Baghdad took Kirkuk
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Iraqi Army and its Shiite militia adjuncts have taken Kirkuk city and raised the Iraqi flag over the state house, taking down…
In Absence of US Leadership, War Breaks out between Kurds and Baghdad
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The "Voice of Iraq" reports that last night artillery duels broke out between Iraqi army forces and Kurdish Peshmerga paramilitary personnel to the…
How Trump’s Foreign Policy Mood Swings made US a Rogue State
By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - From his feud with Bob Corker to his plans to renege on the Iran deal, Trump's mood swings mean a dangerous…
Singer Marc Anthony to Trump: You will be held Accountable for needless American Deaths in Puerto Rico
TeleSur | - - Singer-songwriter, Marc Anthony took to Twitter to decry the U.S. administration's "tone-deaf, idiotic, callous and disrespectful approach" to Puerto Rico. Marc Anthony took to social media to decry…
SNL: Kelly Anne Conway as “It” devours Anderson Cooper
Saturday Night Live | (NBC) | (Video Clip) | - - Anderson Cooper (Alex Moffat) has an unexpected run-in with Kellyanne Conway (Kate McKinnon). [See also Trump as Stephen King’s ‘It’: Lashing…
Under Trump, Gitmo continues to Gnaw away at tattered US Rule of Law
By Karen J. Greenberg | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Eight years ago, when I wrote a book on the first days of Guantanamo, The Least Worst Place: Guantánamo’s First 100 Days,…
Oklahoma’s Ominous Earthquakes: the Price of Fracking (Video)
AJ+ | (Video News Report) | - - "The earth is shaking in Oklahoma, and it’s far from normal—a recent study by Cornell University and the U.S. Geological Survey has linked the…
Why do the Super-Rich hate the Poor & Workers so Much?
Sam Pizzigati | Institute for Policy Studies | - - Only days after the horrific aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, Donald Trump unleashed a tweet that outraged many but surprised…
Elbaradei: Trump Propaganda on Iran Nuclear Deal like Run-up to Iraq War
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Trump administration (actually UN Ambassador and far right Evangelical Nikki Haley) has decertified Iran from compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of…
More civilian Airstrike Deaths under Trump than in 8 years of Obama
By Steven Feldstein | (The Conversation) | - - When President Donald Trump took office in January, it was unclear whether the bombast from his campaign would translate into an aggressive new…
Germany: Immediate Danger of Mideast War if Trump dumps Iran Deal
Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Foreign Minister warns that Europe will take the Russian and Chinese side on the Iran issue against the USA. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel…
As Trump disses Puerto Rico Again, 83% in dark, 36% Drinking Dirty Water
The Watchers | - - According to latest figures, the death toll in Puerto Rico caused by the passage of Category 4 Hurricane "Maria" on September 20, 2017, has risen to 45. There…
Baghdadified: The Militarization of US Cities and Police
By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - “This... thing, [the War on Drugs] this ain't police work... I mean, you call something a war and pretty soon everybody gonna be…
Trump wants 10-fold increase in Atom Bombs but is after Iran, which has none
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - As far as I can figure, the US presently has about 6,800 nuclear warheads, though it aims at going down to 4018 once…
Corporations Shouldn’t Get to Have ‘Religious’ Objections to Your Health Care
By Martha Burk | (Otherwords.org) | - - Expanding "corporate citizen" rights into health care could ultimately affect everybody, not just women. When Obamacare — aka, the Affordable Care Act — became…