By Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola, Jimmy Dore | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Ted Cruz and John Kasich are doing their best to stop Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination. One strategy that they came up with is to divvy up the remaining states, essentially telling voters to choose their new […]
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US politics
Over 80 senators push Obama to increase military aid to Israel; but not Bernie
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — More than 80 percent of American senators signed a letter addressed to US President Barack Obama urging him to reach an agreement on an increased military aid package to Israel. “In light of Israel’s dramatically rising defense challenges, we stand ready to support a substantially enhanced […]
ISIL Endgame: Obama to send 250 more US Troops into Syria
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Obama is announcing Monday morning in Hanover, Germany, that he will send another 250 US troops, likely mostly special operations, into Syria, bringing the total to 300. The 50 troops already there are embedded with the YPG or People’s Defense Units of the leftist Democratic […]
It’s Possible: Koch Brother Says Hillary Clinton Might Be Best Choice for Him
By Jon Queally, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – Asked if he could actually see himself supporting Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical general election against Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, or John Kasich – billionaire rightwinger Charles Koch smiled, but didn’t say no. (Image: Screenshot/ABC News) When the oligarchs speak, take it with a grain […]
Not al-Qaeda: Abu Zubayda as Bush’s Mengele Experiment
By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Intro: Rebecca Gordon catches the nightmarish quality of those [Bush] years, now largely buried, in the grim case of a single mistreated human being. It should make Americans shudder. She has also just published a new book, American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial […]
Trump’s Bad ideas are just our Current Practices on Steroids
By Janine Jackson | ( Otherwords.org) | – – Mass deportations? Attacks on innocent [non-]combatants? Punishing abortion restrictions? They’re all happening already. Readers of The Boston Globe were recently treated to an unusual spectacle — a parody front page and insert filled with mock stories of how a Donald Trump presidency might play out. “Deportations […]
The Iraq War Never Ended: An Interview with Anand Gopal
By Charles Davis | ( TeleSur | – – The U.S. is at war with the same extremist group it claimed to have defeated five years ago, and it’s relying on sectarian extremists to "win" again. The United States is winning the war on terror, just as it always has. The Islamic State group is […]
Murdering Civilians: US Drone Whistleblowers Step Out of the Shadows
By Pratap Chatterjee | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – In a trio of recent action-packed movies, good guys watch terrorists mingling with innocent women and children via real-time video feeds from halfway across the world. A clock ticks and we, the audience, are let in on the secret that mayhem is going to break loose. After […]
Top 7 ways Harriet Tubman is the most Badass Spy & Warrior ever to grace US Currency
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Despite US schools’ tendency to give students several years of American history, over and over again, most of us probably have only a foggy idea who Harriet Tubman, chosen to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, was. That she was an abolitionist and helped out […]