Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – As of today, the 2007 UN Security Council embargo on conventional arms shipments to Iran expired. At least from the point of view of international law, Iran can now purchase powerful and advanced weapons such as the Russian S-400 anti-aircraft system, or the Su-30 fighter jet. Still, although Iranian […]
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Donald Trump
Trump’s Body Count in Historical Perspective: Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths on his Hands
Alexandria, Va. (Special to Informed Comment) – Many presidential biographies are somewhere between pseudo profound and pure fluff, arguing presidents be judged by Hollywood-like silliness like “presidential bearing” and “leadership qualities.” In 2014, I wrote Presidents’ Body Counts, my book arguing presidents be judged based on their human rights records. How many lived or died […]
Can America escape the cave of Trump’s Quirky Isolationism?
( Tomdispatch.com ) – The so-called Age of Trump is also an age of instantly forgotten bestselling books, especially ones purporting to provide the inside scoop on what goes on within Donald Trump’s haphazard and continuously shifting orbit. With metronomic regularity, such gossipy volumes appear, make a splash, and almost as quickly vanish, leaving a […]
Dear Sen. Perdue: Kamala is the name of Great Americans
Senator David Perdue, at a rally in Macon, Ga., for Donald Trump, made fun of Kamala Harris’s name. He pretended not to know which syllable the stress was on, saying “Kamala, or Kamala, Kamala-mala-mala, I don’t know.” Perdue has a history of bigotry. His campaign ran an ad on Facebook against rival Jon Ossof, who […]
Fearing Rout, Republicans unleash their Inner Racist
( Otherwords.org ) – If you’re a rich Republican who’s done nothing in the House of Representatives for so long that you’re essentially seen as a piece of furniture, what do you do when faced with a popular, well-organized, grassroots opponent who’s about to overtake you? Apparently, you unleash your inner racist. Across the country, […]
America is Complicit, as Yemen Spirals toward Mass Starvation
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mark Lowcock of the United Nations gave an impassioned and apocalyptic speech on Thursday warning that 4 million Yemenis who had been receiving aid no longer are, because of a shortfall in donor contributions, and the country could be on the cusp of mass starvation. There already is widespread malnutrition […]
Creeping Plutocracy after ‘Citizens United’: How US Election Spending skyrocketed to the GDP of some whole Countries
By William C.R. Horncastle | – The amount of money spent on US elections eclipses the annual total economic output of some small countries. The total spending by candidates, political parties and independent campaign groups in the 2016 race was US$6.5 billion – comparable to the GDP that year of Monaco, Kosovo or Liechtenstein, and […]
Who really defeated the Islamic State – Obama/Biden or Trump/Pence?
By Brian Glyn Williams | – One common claim by President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has been that his administration beat IS, or what’s formally known as the Islamic State terrorist group. It came up most recently in the vice presidential debate, when Mike Pence boasted, “We destroyed the ISIS caliphate. … You know when […]
The United States of Paranoia — From the Salem Witch Hunt to Conspirator-in-Chief Donald Trump
By Steve Fraser | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – News is “faked”; elections are “rigged”; a “deep state” plots a “coup”; Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died suspiciously in bed with a pillow over his face; aides of ex-president Barack Obama conspire to undermine foreign policy from a “war room”; Obama himself was a Muslim mole; […]
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