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Leaked Audio Exposes Oil & Gas Execs Laughing With Joy Over Cozy Access to Trump Officials
By Jon Queally, staff writer |- (Commondreams.org) – “It’s really a new world for us and very, very helpful,” said powerful fossil fuel lobby group’s CEO during closed-door meeting A newly-leaked audio recording reveals that oil and gas executives in a private meeting were “giddy” with laughter in the summer of 2017 as they rejoiced […]
How Trump’s Recognition of Israeli Usurpation of Syrian Golan Strengthens Iran, Russia in ME
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s call for recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, a part of Syria, is intended to help his and his donors’ ally Binyamin Netanyahu win the Israeli elections. It is another example of his uncanny ability to sabotage his own policies. Not to mention to sabotage any […]
Statue of Liberty, R. I. P.: Trump and the End of Citizenship
Halfway through Trump’s presidency, his administration has moved to use citizenship as an exclusionary factor
Kushner of Arabia wanted to Give Some of Jordan to Palestinians and some of Saudi Land to Jordan
“There were plans for an oil pipeline from Saudi Arabia to Gaza, where refineries and a shipping terminal could be built.”
Trump and Don Jr. Wage Scathing War of Words on . . . Conservatives of Britain and Germany?
Chancellor Angela Merkel sid Germany would “continue our effort” to raise defense spending “but not at the expense of development aid.”
How Progressives can build on Trump Catastrophe to Remake America
There’s finally a good chance that Congress will repeal the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF)
No Exit: America’s Senior Generals and the Trap of Infinity Wars
(Tomdispatch.com) – “Veni, Vidi, Vici,” boasted Julius Caesar, one of history’s great military captains. “I came, I saw, I conquered.” Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton echoed that famed saying when summing up the Obama administration’s military intervention in Libya in 2011 — with a small alteration. “We came, we saw, he died,” she said with […]
When it Comes to Actively Defending Religious Minorities, Trump is no George Washington; but he Should Be
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – If Trump were actually acting as a president, he could and would tamp down the terrifying spread of hatred against Muslims that has resulted in several mass murders at mosques in the English-speaking world in recent years. All he would have to do is come out and say that ordinary […]
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