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Constitution
In growing Constitutional Crisis, Trump attacks CIA, FBI over Investigations
President Donald Trump attacked the probe into possible collusion between his campaign and Russia as a “political hit job”
Trump, McCabe and our Permanent Constitutional Crisis
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s conviction that being president means never having to say you are sorry, and being able to do whatever the hell you please, is likely to cause him legal trouble sooner or later. His vindictive firing of deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, just before McCabe could […]
US university demands Palestinian academic not criticise Israel in speech
Middle East Monitor Palestinian academic Hatem Bazian says Arizona State University asked him to sign a contract in which he pledges not to criticise Israel at a university event. Arizona State University is reported to have asked Palestinian academic Hatem Bazian to sign a contract in which he pledges not to criticise Israel at an […]
Yemen War: Bernie Sanders et al. Try to get US Out
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday proposed a bipartisan resolution to take the US Pentagon back out of the Yemen War. The war was declared by Saudi Arabia and its allies in 2015 when Zaydi Shiites of the Helpers of God […]
Thousands of US Citizens Jailed Over Debts as Small as US$28
TeleSur | – – One in three Americans has been reported to a private collection agency with the majority of cases affecting Latin American and African-American communities. The United States, where the streets are paved with gold and US$28 can send a young single mother or an 80-year-old grandmother to jail for a week or […]
A Crisis of Democracy: Trump’s block of Dem Response to Nunes
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s refusal to release the response of the Democratic minority on the House Intelligence Committee to the declassified Nunes memo cherry-picking intelligence reports has been decried as a politicization of intelligence. It has been pointed out by legal scholar Laurence Tribe that Congress could in any […]
The Art of Keeping Guantanamo Open: The Uncharged, Untried and their Paintings
By Erin L. Thompson | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – We spent the day at a beach in Brooklyn. Skyscrapers floated in the distance and my toddler kept handing me cigarette filters she had dug out of the sand. When we got home, I checked my email. I had been sent a picture of a […]
Trump’s attack on UCLA Athletes’ right to Dissent an Attack on America
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – So Trump intervened with Chinese authorities to release three UCLA basketball players guilty of shoplifting from a mall in Hangzhou while playing in China. They thanked him, he told them to change their ways. Then Levar Ball, the father of LiAngelo Ball–one of the three freed […]
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