By Dee Goddard | (The Conversation) | – – At a recent “Town Hall” debate Hillary Clinton announced that she would appoint a cabinet that is half female if she is elected president. When questioned by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, Clinton pledged: “Well, I am going to have a cabinet that looks like America, and […]
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US politics
Chomsky: Sanders Mobilizes Force That Could Change the Country
TeleSur | – – During a public event on Tuesday, renowned professor Noam Chomsky took time to reflect on the political impact of the Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. Internationally renowned professor Noam Chomsky discussed the political impact of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Tuesday, saying that his policy proposals reflect “the positions of the […]
Boehner: Ted Cruz is Lucifer, most miserable SOB I’ve worked with
New York Daily News | (Video News Report) Ada Statler-Throckmorton of The Stanford Daily reported: “When specifically asked his opinions on Ted Cruz, Boehner made a face, drawing laughter from the crowd. “Lucifer in the flesh . . . I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have […]
Trump’s Foreign Policy is just GOP Boilerplate, only more Confused
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump tried his hand at foreign policy on Wednesday, and the results weren’t any prettier than his incessant forays into domestic policy. He does not know anything serious about either one, but of course his fund of ignorance is far deeper when it comes to […]
Big Money in Politics Doesn’t Just Drive Inequality. It Drives War.
By Rebecca Green | ( Otherwords.org) | – – Military contractors have shelled out over $1 million to the 2016 presidential candidates — including over $200,000 to Hillary Clinton alone. The 2016 presidential elections are proving historic, and not just because of the surprising success of self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders, the lively debate among feminists […]
Trump culture: threat, fear and the tightening of the American mind
By Michele Gelfand and Joshua Conrad Jackson | (The Conversation) | – – For the past 10 months, Donald Trump has been a political enigma. Against the predictions of journalists, policy wonks and odds makers, a tabloid darling with no political experience and few coherent policies is now poised to be the Republican nominee for […]
Winning in Losing: How Sanders pushed Clinton to the Left
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Bernie Sanders’ path to the nomination as the Democratic Party standard bearer in 2016 was all but closed off by Clinton’s four big wins on Tuesday. His only hope had been to get close enough to her in pledged delegates to have a substantial number of […]
Not just Trump: Anti-Muslim Hatred becomes GOP Orthodoxy
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Trump: Candidate of American Decline
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com | – – “Low-energy Jeb.” “Little Marco.” “Lyin’ Ted.” “Crooked Hillary.” Give Donald Trump credit. He has a memorable way with insults. His have a way of etching themselves on the brain. And they’ve garnered media coverage, analysis, and commentary almost beyond imagining. Memorable as they might be, however, […]
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