TeleSur | – – The U.S. President’s legal team is also undergoing a shake-up. Sean Spicer, the controversial White House press secretary, has resigned and will be replaced by his former deputy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Spicer is said to have quit after denouncing chaos in the West Wing and telling the U.S. President Donald Trump […]
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US politics
How our Intel Agencies Screwed us by Letting Sessions, Trumpies get away with Russia Scheme
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller at WaPo report from a US intelligence source that former Russian ambassador to the US, Sergei Kislyak, told Moscow that he had discussed campaign-related matters with Jeff Sessions twice in the summer of 2016. This revelation directly contradicts Sessions’ […]
Can Trump use the presidential pardon to thwart the Russia investigations?
By Austin Sarat | (The Conversation) | – – Speculation is mounting that President Donald Trump could issue a pardon to members of his family and close associates who are suspected of colluding with Russia in the 2016 campaign. Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, recently cautioned about “the possibility […]
The U.S. Empire is ‘Fraying’ and ‘Collapsing’: Pentagon Study
TeleSur | – – Report says Washington should consider the “post-primacy” milieu as a “wakeup call”. A study by the Pentagon, “At Our Own Peril: DoD Risk Assessment in a Post-Primacy World” says the US framework of international order that was established after the Second World Wat is “fraying” and “collapsing”. “While the United States […]
Top 4 Lessons Trump can Learn from Napoleon in Russia
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s New York Times interview can only be understood, to the extent that it can be understood, as the ramblings of someone suffering from delusions of grandeur. It is rambling, full of non sequiturs, and of bizarre allegations. Trump said that he regretted appointing Jeff Sessions […]
Empire of Destruction: Mosul reveals Myth of Precision Bombing
By Tom Engelhardt | (Via Tomdispatch.com ) | – – You remember. It was supposed to be twenty-first-century war, American-style: precise beyond imagining; smart bombs; drones capable of taking out a carefully identified and tracked human being just about anywhere on Earth; special operations raids so pinpoint-accurate that they would represent a triumph of modern […]
Trump hands Putin gift, cancels Support for Syrian Rebels
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Greg Jaffe and Adam Entous at WaPo report that Trump cancelled the CIA program to support the remnants of the Free Syrian Army a month ago. The decision was made in a meeting of Trump with CIA director Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser H. R. […]
What, or who, Explains Spike in Hate Crimes against US Muslims?
By Brian Levin | (The Conversation) | – – Hate crimes against Muslims have been on the rise. The murder of two samaritans for aiding two young women who were facing a barrage of anti-Muslim slurs on a Portland train is among the latest examples of brazen acts of anti-Islamic hatred. Earlier in 2017, a […]
Unable To Kill Obamacare, Republicans Plot To Kill Medicare (TYT Video)
Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Republicans want to privatize, cut, and eventually kill Medicare. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. “If House Speaker Paul Ryan has his way, the 115th Congress won’t just repeal Obamacare, it will dramatically reform Medicare, turning the program into a […]
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