By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A tsunami of reports about hate crimes directed at minorities are coming in from all over the country in the wake of Der Donald’s presidential win. African-Americans have also been targeted, as with students at the University of Pennsylvania. As have Latinas/ Latinos. * In Wisconsin, […]
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US politics
America’s Dark Underbelly is now its Face
By Peter Certo | (Otherwords.org) | – –
How can Progressives get through the Next 4 Years? Organize!
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Anti-Trump demonstrations have broken out all over the country in the wake of his surprise victory on Tuesday. Latinos are afraid he will deport their undocumented relatives, breaking up millions of families. Women are afraid for their basic rights to control their bodies, a right Trump […]
Putin targets East Aleppo rebels; Did Trump’s Election doom them?
by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Some 2,000 rebel fighters, most of them Muslim fundamentalists, others remnants of the Free Syrian Army, are trying to break the Syrian regime’s blockade of East Aleppo. But they may soon face cruise missiles launched at them from Russian submarines in the Mediterranean, along with other […]
Trump may reset Russian ties but will the Mideast Stymie him?
By Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | – – Mr. Donald Trump’s electoral victory has created shockwaves worldwide. It was as unexpected as it was unwelcome to many peoples, particularly in the Middle East. Most people in the region appear to be at a loss. Political commentators and pundits are projecting a series of hard […]
America’s Sisi: On What Has Been Lost, and What Must Be Done
David M. Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – “When the people love you, that is the most important thing for me.” So spoke General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the onetime savior and now iron-fisted tyrant of the Arab Republic of Egypt, days after he had seized power in a military coup in July 2013. Egypt’s […]
Why the White Working Class Rebelled: Neoliberalism is Killing Them (Literally)
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Democratic Party has been the Establishment for eight years, and the Clintons have arguably been the Establishment for 24 years. Since the late 1990s, members of the white working class with high school or less have seen their life-chances radically decline, even to the point […]
Dear Ann Coulter: Ben Franklin didn’t think you or Trump are White, Either
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Many of the anxieties that have roiled this year’s election have had an underlying theme, of the decline of white America. Now, as the word “white” is used in common American parlance, it is certainly true that that demographic is declining rapidly as a proportion of […]
Have Americans joined Egyptians in losing right to Protest & to Privacy?
By Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah | (Inter Press Service) | – – LONDON (IPS) – Many US citizens may instinctively believe they still live in the land of the free, but a new global rights rating system shows the country is far less tolerant than they may think. The world’s first systematic review of how well countries […]