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 […]
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Radical Al-Shabab uses Trump in Recruiting Video & Muslim preachers denounce him along with ISIL
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The foremost academic expert on Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) and Muslim radical thought, Will McCants at Brookings, tweeted out late Friday: Shabab uses Trump's anti-Muslim statement in new recruitment video (10:50 mark): https://t.co/Amdr4NUH3l — Will McCants (@will_mccants) January 1, 2016 (I apologize that YouTube removed the content […]
Biggest Trump Lies 2015: 76% of what Donald Trump Says is Garbage
Nik Zecevic and Margaret J. Howell | (TheLipTV video report) | – – “Presidential hopeful Donald Trump has won the 2015 PolitiFact “Lie of the Year” award. While investigating Trump’s statements during his political campaign, PolitiFact found that 76% of Trump’s statements were either mostly false, false or “pants on fire” out of the 77 […]
When did Justifying Large Scale Civilian Deaths in Bombardments become a Bipartisan Consensus?
By Stephen Zunes | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – There’s a bipartisan effort to justify the killing of civilians in the “war on terrorism.” There has been a lot of consternation expressed in the media at a series of statements by Republican presidential candidates during their most recent debate and elsewhere in which […]
Would Syrian Refugee Baby Jesus be allowed to immigrate to the US?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In this political season in which Syrian refugees have become a political football, it is worthwhile remembering that baby Jesus is depicted by the Bible as being a Syrian political refugee not once but twice. In ancient times, “Syria” referred not to the area of the […]
Poll: Bernie Sanders would beat ‘Embarrassment’ Trump by a Landslide
Wochit News | (Video report) | – – A Quinnipiac Poll has found that 61% of Americans say Donald Trump does not share their values, 50% would be positively embarrassed to have him as president, and that Sen. Bernie Sanders would defeat him 51% to 38% . Sec. Hillary Clinton would defeat Trump by 47% […]
Ghoul’s Glossary: A Donald Trump Translation Dictionary
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Constitution, US: 1. An time-consuming optional document that can be abrogated for lack of time. 2. syn. politically correct (s.v.) criminal: 1. syn. Mexican. 2. syn. Hillary Clinton. family: accomplices. (As in, the families of ISIL members must be killed.) fascism: (word not found in this […]
Did Obama Really “Surrender the Middle East to Putin?”
By Brian Glyn Williams | (Informed Comment) | – – A perusal of the “writing on the hall” commentary of the Right Wing in the last two months–since a small Russian force of 2,000 was inserted into the remaining Syrian government-controlled portions of Syria on September 30th–leads to one inevitable conclusion. Namely, that Obama’s “inactivity, […]
Surprise! Male Chauvinist Pig Trump gets vulgar with Hillary Clinton
Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “During the Democratic debate Hillary Clinton returned from the bathroom break a bit late. What’s the big deal? Donald Trump took the opportunity to attack Clinton. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) discuss on The Young Turks. . . . […]
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