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Archives: US politics
In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See: Going Local, remaining Indivisible
By H Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | - - “In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” Writing decades ago, the poet Theodore Roethke could not have foreseen these dimmest…
Why the Great Wall of Trump will be a Costly Failure
David Cook Martín | (The Conversation) | - - Donald Trump tweeted on Jan. 6 that “any money spent on building the Great Wall (for the sake of speed), will be paid…
Trump’s Visa Ban is about anti-Muslim Bigotry, not Security
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Reuters is reporting that on Wednesday, Trump will announce a halt to the issuing of visas to citizens of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya,…
The Dutch to Trump: We have the Second best Words
VPRO zondag met lubach | (Video Satire> | - - "The whole world was watching for the inauguration of the 45th president of the United States: Donald J. Trump. Because we realize…
Trump’s ‘nationalism’ is just the Globalism of the 1%
By John Feffer | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Donald Trump is a worldly fellow. He travels the globe on his private jet. He’s married to a Slovene and divorced from a…
Trump Signs Executive Orders Pushing Dakota, Keystone Pipelines
TeleSur | - - The decision comes as a blow to environmentalists and Indigenous groups opposing the controversial projects. U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive orders Tuesday to revive the controversial Dakota…
Trump to al-Sisi: Syria’s al-Assad is a Brave, steadfast Man (Beirut Report)
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - al-Diyar (The Lands) [Beirut] reports on what Egyptian officials allegedly leaked about the telephone conversation between Donald J. Trump and Egyptian president `Abdel…
Your Presidency Sucks: The Republican Party and its Orange Bunny
By David Faris | (Informed Comment) | - - When the late Roger Ebert saw director Vincent Gallo’s film The Brown Bunny at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003, he gave it…
Oil-Rich Arab States Quietly Join Israel in Cheering for Trump
TeleSur | - - Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf Arab allies are happy to see Obama leave office as President Donald Trump would be “very, very tough” on Iran. While the…
Trump to CIA: We now have 2nd Chance to take Iraq’s Oil
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald Trump has had a contentious relationship with the US intelligence community, in part over their conviction that the Russian Federation attempted to…
Dispatch from DC: On the National Mall, the state of a nation
By Lisa Benton-Short | (The Conversation) | - - On Jan. 20, Americans focused their attention on Washington, D.C., as the presidential inauguration ceremony took place on the National Mall, a place…
Protesters Face Increasing Criminalization in Trump Era
TeleSur | - - Changes aim to hit protestors with criminal records and beefed up fines and impunity for police who accidentally kill them. Donald Trump was officially sworn in Friday as…
All the terrible things Trump plans to do to Women (besides that one)
By Juan Cole | - - About 1 million women and their supporters demonstrated in Washington, D. C. on Saturday, but many millions more rallied in cities like New York, Chicago, Los…
The left’s response to Trump and US Neofascism must be international
By Sayantan Ghosal | (The Conversation) | - - With Donald Trump’s inauguration as American president, one more event considered by many to be beyond the realm of possibility has come to…
Translating Trump’s inaugural Speech from the original German
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald Trump's inaugural speech, like the candidate himself, was a chain of falsehoods, saber-rattling and scary Neofascist uber-nationalism. But it could be difficult…
Top 3 Ways to rig an Election
By William deBuys | ( Tomdispatch.com ) - - Donald Trump was right. The election was rigged. What Trump got wrong (and, boy, does he get things wrong) is that the rigging…
The Inauguration of White Supremacy
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump's cabinet has no Latinos, the first time that minority, which comprises 18 percent of Americans, is absent for twenty-five years. Trump famously…
Is Trump the Shock America needs to Transition to Social Democracy?
David Graham Sweet | (Informed Comment) | - - Here on the “Left Coast” there’s much anguish & foreboding over the results of our recent election, and talk of “resistance.” I’m anguished…