By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – At the GOP debate Tuesday night, Ted Cruz came out swinging wildly. Blitzer: Senator Cruz, you have said you would, quote, “carpet bomb ISIS into oblivion,” testing whether, quote, “sand can glow in the dark.” Does that mean leveling the ISIS capital of Raqqa in Syria […]
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Trump, Daesh/ ISIL, and the Cliché of Civilizations
By By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – A few politicians and intellectuals decry "Islamofascists," but the real target of Islamophobia is the mainstream Islam of mosques, moderate imams, and your friendly Muslim neighbors. I was listening to a German parliamentarian the other night. She was making some anodyne comments about […]
“A Profile in Cowardice” (Political Cartoon)
Paul Jamiol | Jamiol’s World | – – Via Jamiol’s World
Trump’s call for Spying on US Muslims recalls FBI bugging of MLK, Black Churches
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – As Donald Trump supporters beat a ‘Black Lives Matter’ protester at his rally in Birmingham, Ala., Trump himself reminded us of the dark days when a paranoid J. Edgar Hoover had the FBI monitor the Rev. Martin Luther King and black Churches of the Southern Christian […]
Trump: My Iran Deal would be 100x Better, I’d Make World Obey
CNN | (New Day Video Report) | – – “Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump talks to CNN’s New Day about the nuclear agreement with Iran.” CNN: “Donald Trump: My Iran nuclear deal would be 100 times better”
Top Cringe Worthy Foreign Policy Moments in GOP Debate
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Well we had the primetime GOP debate, so the 2016 election season has formally begun. Trump declared himself more or less an independent. When Megyn Kelly pressed him on his history of misogyny and putting down women, he threatened not to be nice to her any […]
America’s Mass Killings and our National Security State
By Karen J. Greenberg – Tomdispatch.com Imagine that you’re in the FBI and you receive a tip — or more likely, pick up information through the kind of mass surveillance in which the national security state now specializes. In a series of tweets, a young man has expressed sympathy for the Islamic State (ISIS), al-Qaeda, […]
Ted Cruz: “Obama Is Funding Terrorists via Iran Deal!” (Forgets Reagan, Cheney)
Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, and Jimmy Dore | (The Young Turks) | – – “Mitt Romney may be the only major Republican not running for President right now, but that’s not going to stop him from getting involved. He recently started a catfight with Ted Cruz, attacking him for his claims that President Obama is […]
White non-terrorist La. Cinema Shooter Loved Hitler, Hated Liberals
John Iadarola, Jimmy Dore, Jayar Jackson, Michael Shure | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “A day after the shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana we now know a little about shooter John Russel Houser. Based on social media posts what’s clear is that he hated liberals and admired Hitler and the Westboro Baptist Church. John […]
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