Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new CNN poll done in mid-January (and reported by Jennifer Agiesta) finds that 51 percent of Americans favor the conviction and removal of Donald J. Trump as president. Only 45 percent disagree. 53 percent of Americans think he does a rotten job as a president. As George Conway pointed […]
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US politics
A Dream Denied: Black Americans mostly left behind by progress since Dr. King’s death
By Sharon Austin | – On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back then, over a half century ago, the wholesale racial integration required by the 1964 Civil Rights Act was just beginning to chip away at discrimination in education, jobs and public […]
Indelible Legacy: Or How This Became a Gitmo World
Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua Dratel | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In January 2002, the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility in Cuba opened its gates for the first 20 detainees of the war on terror. Within 100 days, 300 of them would arrive, often hooded and in those infamous orange jumpsuits, and that would just […]
The U.S. and Iran are Having a Huge Food Fight in Iraq after Trump assassinated Soleimani
By Bamo Nouri | – When thousands of anti-government protesters returned to Iraq’s streets on January 10, they were expressing anger at the explosion of foreign interference in their country’s affairs in early 2020. “Keep your war away,” one banner read, referring to the escalation of US-Iranian tensions in early January following the US assassination […]
Khamenei: Trump Killed Soleimani to help ISIL Terrorists, but is Impotent; Trump: “Be careful with your Words”
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump on Friday warned Iran’s clerical Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to be “careful with his words” after the ayatollah gave a fiery sermon against the US and Europe on Friday in Tehran. Trump urged Iran to give up “terrorism’ and to “make Iran great again.” Khamenei, Iran’s “August Leader” gave […]
The Trump Organized-Crime Style: Bullying Europe, Bullying Iran and Impeached for Bullying Ukraine
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I was for my sins watching CNN the other evening and as I remember I saw Chris Cuomo on a panel say that what Trump did in withholding $400 million in congressionally appropriated military aid from Ukraine was not technically a crime. I was astonished, since Cuomo is usually a […]
Top Ten Ways China Looms over the Iowa Caucuses
Washington, D.C. (Special to Informed Comment) – The 2020 Iowa Caucuses will take place on Monday, February 3, 2020, as the first official nominating contest in the presidential races. As presidential candidates and campaign media are heading for the Hawkeye State, China, on the other side of the world, is closely watching the 2020 Iowa […]
The War Powers Act isn’t Restraining the President: Congress Must de-Fund Wars
(Foreign Policy in Focus) – By any measure, the War Powers Act has failed to constrain presidential warmaking. A simpler step would be to stop funding wars. Practically speaking, the Trump administration’s extrajudicial assassination of a top Iranian general was probably legal. The rationale is straightforward: Congress has steadily settled on a constitutionally dubious theory […]
With Trump’s Iran Attack Abroad, Iranian-Americans and Muslim-Americans are Unfairly Targeted at Home
Irvine, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) – A day under the Trump Administration typically consists of angry tweets, an absurd amount of misinformation, and reckless decisions made by an egotistical maniac. Just three days into the new year we saw exactly that as the Trump Administration launched an attack on Iran, killing the nation’s top […]
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