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Archives: Republican Party
Trump blasts Iran for backing Syria, ignores Russia, Praises Saudis
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump more or less threatened to wipe out the 25 million people of North Korea in his speech at the UN. Then he…
How GOP plans to repeal Health Care will blight millions of Lives
By Simon Haeder | (The Conversation) | - - At the end of July, the nation held its collective breath as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) looked poised to achieve his…
Are US troops in Afghanistan causing Talibanism?
By Ann Jones | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Here we go again! Years after most Americans forgot about the longest war this country ever fought, American soldiers are again being deployed…
Trump as Stephen King’s ‘It’: Lashing out at Clinton, N. Korea
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Beltway Bandits who are always opining about Trump transitioning from campaign mode to presidential stature, and pronouncing after he does something petulant,…
Superstorm Donald Hits GOP, aims to Ravage US
By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) | - - If Trump succeeds in ramping up military spending and gutting everything else, we’ll be left with a bunch of…
Book-Burning, Trump’s Torchbearers & Reading Donald Duck
By Ariel Dorfman | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - The organizers of the white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville last month knew just what they were doing when they decided to carry torches…
Rice Vindicated: She did Unmask Trump, Bannon– but they were meeting UAE
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The United Arab Emirates crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan slipped into the United States on December 15 for a secret meeting…
Chinese Americans came at Same Time as Bannon’s Irish
AJ+ | (Video Report) "There are now more than 4 million Chinese people living in the United States. Surprisingly, most of these immigrants came in the last few decades, starting in the…
If she had said, “Back off, you Creep!”
By Gail Ukockis | (Informed Comment) | - - The image of Donald Trump looming ominously behind Hillary Clinton still disturbs me on a visceral level. He may have belittled his…
Our failing Forever Wars and the End of Democracy
By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - When it comes to the “world’s greatest military,” the news has been shocking. Two fast U.S. Navy ships colliding with slow-moving commercial…
Tax Cuts for the Rich Help the Rich, Not You
By Josh Hoxie | ( Inequality.org ) | - - Big money will pull out all the stops to sell you a tax plan that exclusively benefits the wealthy. Don’t buy it.…
Gov. Rick Scott enabled Irma’s Fury through Climate Denialism & Should Resign
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Florida Gov. Rick Scott did not cause Irma, but he enabled the Frankenstorm. Before becoming governor in 2011, Scott had been an entrepreneur…
What are American Soldiers really still dying for in the Mideast?
By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - I used to command soldiers. Over the years, lots of them actually. In Iraq, Colorado, Afghanistan, and Kansas. And I’m still fixated on…
Bannon & Trump lost Long ago: White Christians not a Majority in US
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In 1976,when Jimmy Carter was elected, a big majority (81%) of Americans identified as both white and Christian, with 4 in 10 of…
Trump “presidency” as Ponzi Scheme: Madoff in the White House?
John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - Here and abroad, Trump's wealthy backers understand that his populist rhetoric is a masquerade. In 1993, I arrived one fall evening in…
Deporting Dreamers will cost US $400 bn. over 10 Years
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump's consiglieri, Jeff Sessions, came out yesterday to smear the some 800,000 young people in the DACA program, undocumented people brought to the…
The only Winners around Trump are the People who messed up the Mideast
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - It was bloody and brutal, a true generational struggle, but give them credit. In the end, they won when so many lost. James…
“If he only had a Heart”: Trump as empty Kettle (Cartoon)
Paul Jamiol | Jamiol's World Cartoons | - - Via Jamiol's World Editorial Cartoons