By Jim Hightower | (Otherwords) | – – The Tyndall Report, a non-partisan media monitoring firm that has been tracking the nightly news broadcasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC, found that Trump is tromp, tromp, tromping over the airtime of everyone else. From last January through November, these dominant flagship news shows devoted 234 minutes […]
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US politics
Paiute Native Tribe: Oregon Militia is Polluting our Ancestral Land
AJ+ | (Video News Report) | – – “The armed group occupying a federal wildlife refuge in Burns, Oregon, are being sent a message from the indigenous Paiute tribe whose actual ancestral land is being occupied.” AJ+: ” Native American Tribe’s Answer To Oregon Militia”
The Ultimate Blowback from U.S. Foreign Policy? Donald Trump.
By Walden Bello | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) | – – How the CIA, bad trade deals, and wanton military intervention caused the social crises that gave us the Donald. (Really.) When the late Chalmers Johnson introduced the word “blowback” to describe the adverse consequences of Washington’s actions in the world, he wasn’t […]
Burns, Or. Residents to Armed Bundy Men: ‘Leave! Now!’
AJ+ | (Video News Report) – – “The town of Burns, Oregon, has mixed messages for Ammon Bundy and his crew of armed occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Dena Takruri heard from both sides at last night’s community meeting. Shot by video journalist Jessica Sherry.” AJ+ “Oregon Standoff: Burns Gives Armed Occupiers An […]
Turning to the Dark Side: US Candidates Compete to Promise the Most Torture and Slaughter
By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – They’re back! From the look of the presidential campaign, war crimes are back on the American agenda. We really shouldn’t be surprised, because American officials got away with it last time — and in the case of the drone wars continue to get away with […]
In Irony, Trump Trolls Ted Cruz with Birtherism; WH Amused
Nancy Cordes | CBS Evening News | (Video News Report) | – – “Donald Trump is back in the “birther” game. The GOP presidential candidate is taking on Ted Cruz by questioning his citizenship, a tactic he previously used against President Obama. Nancy Cordes reports.” 1. CBS Evening News: “Trump goes after Cruz for Canadian […]
Britain’s Debate over Banning Trump by the Numbers
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The British parliament will debate a motion to ban Donald Trump from the UK on January 18. Typically 100,000 signatures on a petition will provoke such a debate, but many more Britons asked for it than that. Trump would hardly be the first person banned there […]
The Surprising Reasons Washington’s ISIL Obsession obscures the Real Threats
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) It’s time to panic! As 2015 ended, this country was certifiably terror-stricken. It had the Islamic State (IS) on the brain. Hoax terror threats or terror imbroglios shut down school systems from Los Angeles to New Hampshire, Indiana to a rural county in Virginia. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, citing terror […]
A Letter from Norway on our Epidemic of Mass Shootings
By John L Hanson | (Informed Comment) | – – Why is it easier to buy a gun than to board a Plane? Why doesn’t America change their weapon law? What is your view on the Gunlaw in the USA? I am teaching in Norwegian Upper Secondary schools this academic year as a Fulbright Scholar […]
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