National Security State

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “New poll out from YouGov that is even more concerning than some of the other crazy polls we’ve covered recently. How many people in this country would be in favor of a military coup? The answer may surprise you… Cenk Uygur, host of the […]

Democratic Party

Clinton Calls For Tougher Response To Russia On Syria, Ukraine

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By RFE/RL | – – WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton, the former U.S. secretary of state who is now a leading contender to be the next president, has called for a stronger response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine and Syria, saying Moscow’s objectives were “to stymie, to confront, and to undermine American power whenever and wherever.” […]

Militarization

How the Sept. 11 Attacks Changed American Lives Forever

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By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.org) | – – Fourteen years later and do you even believe it? Did we actually live it? Are we still living it? And how improbable is that? Fourteen years of wars, interventions, assassinations, torture, kidnappings, black sites, the growth of the American national security state to monumental proportions, and […]

Foreign Policy

Why Dick Cheney is just as wrong about Iran as he was about Iraq

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By William Beeman | (Informed Comment) | – – There are so many lies in Dick Cheney’s address to the AEI that one hardly knows where to begin in refuting them. He claims that the “international community” has called for the complete cessation of uranium enrichment by Iran. The “international community” apparently consists of Israel […]

American Jews

Whether Jewish Refugees in ’30s or Syrians today, USA Falls Short of own Ideals

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Germany, a country of 80 million, will take in 800,000 refugees this year, many of them Syrians. That is 1 percent of their population. It would be like the USA taking in 3 million refugees in one year. The US takes in 70,000 refugees a year. […]

Foreign Policy

GOP jumps Shark again: Call For Canadian Border Wall

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Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola, and Jimmy Dore | (The Young Turks Video report) | – – “Scott Walker is attempting to out-Trump Donald Trump by discussing the idea of a building a wall along our Canadian border. Ana Kasparian (The Point), John Iadarola (Think Tank), and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show Podcast), hosts of […]

Displaced and Refugees

Ghoul’s Glossary: “Migrants” or “Refugees” or “Anchor Babies”?

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Migrants: Those who voluntarily go to another country to live and work, seeking a better life. Refugees: Those who are forced out of their homes, because of political persecution or natural disaster or a chronically bad economy. and have no choice but to try to make […]

Domestic Surveillance

Appeals Court Falls for Government’s Shell Game in NSA Spying Case

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By Cindy Cohn | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s opinion today in Klayman v. Obama is highly disappointing and, worse, based on a mistaken concern about the underlying facts. The court said that since the plaintiffs’ phone service was provided by one subsidiary of Verizon—Verizon […]

National Security State

Jeb Bush’s Torquemada Platform (Political Cartoon)

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Paul Jamiol | (Jamiol’s World) Via Jamiol’s World