Maged Mandour | ( OpenDemocracy) | – – Backwards looking politics is a malaise affecting both the west and east. It breeds violence as global elites clamber to maintain their grip on power. Flickr/Darron Birgenheier. Some rights reserved.Comments by leading republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, on banning Muslims from entering the United States garnered […]
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US politics
British Parliament Debates ban on Donald Trump: “He is a Wazzock!”
AJ+ | (Video Report) – – “Members of the UK Parliament debated whether or not to let Donald Trump into their country after a petition to ban him got more than 570,000 signatures.” AJ+: “Donald Trump Called A Wazzock In UK Parliament” P.S.: On The Guardian on the insult ‘wazzock’ in north England : “The […]
Palin for Trump: ‘Political Correctness’ (anti-racism) is a Suicide Bomb Vest
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The term “political correctness” has a long and varying history, but what do Donald Trump and Sarah Palin mean when they attack it? They are using it to mean anti-racism. A day after Martin Luther King Day, Sarah Palin endorsed Donald Trump for president in Ames, […]
GOP Billionaires Complain Super-Pacs aren’t Buying Election Effectively
Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Republican billionaires are used to being able to buy elections, and are now crying about how Super-PAC’s aren’t all-powerful. Donald Trump’s “earned media” is throwing a wrench into their plans. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down . . . […]
A radical solution to Daesh/ ISIL: Stop Intervening in the Middle East
Peter Van Buren | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – How can we stop the [so-called] Islamic State [group]? Imagine yourself shaken awake, rushed off to a strategy meeting with your presidential candidate of choice, and told: “Come up with a plan for me to do something about ISIS!” What would you say? What Hasn’t Worked You’d […]
On MLK Day, let’s Remember Ike’s warning about the Military-Industrial Complex
By Shahid Buttar | Electronic Frontier Foundation [Sunday] marked the 55th anniversary of a world-historical speech by the last war hero to occupy the White House: President Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower. His last speech while in office holds crucial implications for the U.S. today, as well as the history we celebrate . . . on […]
Out of Gas in Iranian Waters
By Michael G. Roskin | (Informed Comment) | – – Why did two U.S. Navy boats drift into Iranian waters? And why was it so easy for Iran to capture them? The best explanation is that the Riverine Command Boats—repurposed for freedom of navigation (FON) operations at sea—ran out of gas. The images of our […]
Americans more likely to get hit by Lightning than Terrorism, but 51% Fear It
By Peter Certo | (Foreign Policy In Focus) | – – One in 3.5 million: That’s your annual risk of dying from a terrorist attack in the United States, at least according to Cato analyst John Mueller. Rounded generously, that comes out to roughly 3 one-hundred thousandths of a percentage point, or 0.00003 percent. And […]
War Talk, Jingoism and White Supremacy at GOP Debate
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The GOP presidential debate last night veered even further right on international issues, given the absence of Ron Paul, who represents the Libertarian wing of the party that is less interested in foreign wars. Ted Cruz started off with a promise of war on Iran over […]
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