Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US Supreme Court on Friday, by a 5-4 Republican Party majority, temporarily ruled to allow Trump to divert monies dedicated by Congress to the Defense Department budget to wall-building in the Southwest. If the court makes the ruling permanent, it will be attacking the principle of the “power of […]
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Civil Rights
Cop Arrests Nurse For Doing Her Job (TYT Video)
Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian and Maytha Alhassen | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “A police officer in Salt Lake City arrested a nurse because she refused to break the law. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian and Maytha Alhassen of The Young Turks, break it down.” TYT: “Cop Arrests Nurse For Doing Her Job […]
What can today’s Activists learn from the Summer of Love and the New Left?
Ira Chernus | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – It’s the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. What better place to celebrate than that fabled era’s epicenter, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, where the DeYoung Museum has mounted a dazzling exhibition, chock full of rock music, light shows, posters, and fashions from the mind-bending […]
As Trump Breaks it, Top Ten Things we need to do to Fix America
By William R. Polk | (Informed Comment) | – – Let me suggest what seem to me to be the major categories of challenges men who care about the country face, but before I do, let me frankly state my position: I think the Democratic Party leaders had it coming to them. Obama’s rhetoric raised […]
Given Trump’s Betrayal, Can we Crowdfund American Aid and Soft Power Abroad?
David Holdridge | (Informed Comment) | – – The current debate between liberals and the Trump Administration on American soft power abroad is not being framed correctly. Liberals should be arguing for more American citizen engagement overseas rather than for maintaining and extending into the future a dependency on USAID and the State Department. Since […]
Top 5 Ways Obama is Behind Leaks, Protests against Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump did an interview with “Fox and Friends” for this morning in which he alleged that former president Barack Obama is behind the leaks that have bedeviled Trump’s White House. The Fox agent provocateur asked Trump a leading question as to whether Obama is also behind […]
Is Trump a bigger danger to the US or Europe?
By Joschka Fischer | (Project Syndicate) | – – BERLIN – Little more than a month after US President Donald Trump’s inauguration, it has become clear that nothing good will come of his presidency. Unfortunately, the pessimists turned out to be realists: things really are as bad as they said they would be. Worst-case scenarios […]
We want our Muslim Physicians Back! How America reclaimed a victim of Injustice
By Charles Ornstein | (ProPublica) | – – In a clandestine mission that had the makings of a hostage rescue, the Cleveland Clinic and its lawyers arranged for medical resident Suha Abushamma to fly back to the United States yesterday, more than a week after she was forced to leave because of President Donald Trump’s […]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren silenced on Floor for Reading King Letter re: Sessions
CNN International | (Video News Report with text Appendix) In an extremely rare rebuke, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren was cut off while speaking on the Senate floor. She had been reading a 1986 letter by Coretta Scott King critical of Jeff Sessions, now President Donald J. Trump’s nominee for attorney general, who was then a […]
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