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Archives: US politics
![Here we go Again: Trump Admin Threatens Iran](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/here-we-go-again-trump-admin-thr-187x137.jpg)
![Why Trump’s Muslim ban is bad for business](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/why-trumps-muslim-ban-is-bad-for-187x137.jpg)
Why Trump’s Muslim ban is bad for business
By Shainaz Firfiray | (The Conversation) | - - Donald Trump’s executive order to restrict immigration from seven countries has sparked widespread criticism from several quarters, including the business world. Not only…![Trump Threatens to Send US Army to Mexico for ‘Bad Hombres’](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/trump-threatens-to-send-us-army-187x137.jpg)
Trump Threatens to Send US Army to Mexico for ‘Bad Hombres’
TeleSur | - - It was not clear from the excerpt who exactly Trump considered "bad hombres" — drug cartels, immigrants, or both. President Donald Trump threatened his Mexican counterpart Enrique Peña…![Trump Can’t Make America Great Again without Immigrants](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/trump-cant-make-america-great-ag-187x137.jpg)
Trump Can’t Make America Great Again without Immigrants
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In 2016, the US birthrate fell to 59.6 births per 1,000 women, the lowest ever recorded. Birth rates rise and fall over time,…![Trump Donated $10,000 to Beit El Israeli Squatter Settlement](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/trump-donated-10000-to-beit-el-i-187x137.jpg)
Trump Donated $10,000 to Beit El Israeli Squatter Settlement
IMEMC News | - - US president-elect Donald Trump made a $10,000 donation to the West Bank settlement of Beit El in 2003, Washington Post Newspaper revealed, Sunday. The newspaper said that…![Trump sends heavier weapons to Leftist Syrian Kurds to Fight ISIL](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/trump-sends-heavier-weapons-to-l-187x137.jpg)
Trump sends heavier weapons to Leftist Syrian Kurds to Fight ISIL
TeleSur | - - A Syrian militia led by the Kurdish leftist group YPG said they received armored vehicles from the U.S. military, the first such support. The U.S. has boosted support…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/sportswriter-150x137.gif)
The Superbowl of American Values: Kaepernick and the Touchdown of Dissent
By Robert Lipsyte | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - The Super Bowl is superfluous this year. Who needs a reality show about violence, domination, and sexism, not to mention brain damage, now that…![Trump’s Alt-Reality: White Terrorism against Mosque justifies Muslim Ban](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/trumps-alt-reality-white-terrori-187x137.jpg)
Trump’s Alt-Reality: White Terrorism against Mosque justifies Muslim Ban
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump staffer Stephen Miller, an arch-conservative, defended Trump's Muslim ban on television Monday by pointing to Europe, where he alleged there were Muslim…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/index-1-187x132.jpg)
Starbucks Plans to Hire 10,000 Refugees After Trump Travel Ban
TeleSur | - - In a letter from the CEO, Starbucks told employees it would do everything possible to support affected workers. Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz said on Sunday…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/People-from-seven-Muslim_-629x472-1-187x137.jpg)
72% of Refugees, Muslim & Otherwise, are Women and Children
By Salil Shetty | (Inter Press Service) | - - LONDON (IPS) - The gloves are off. With today’s Executive Order on “Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Attacks by Foreign Nationals,” President…![German Ambassador 1933: “Hostility to Jews Aimed Mainly at ‘Immigrants'”](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/german-ambassador-1933-hostility-187x137.jpg)
German Ambassador 1933: “Hostility to Jews Aimed Mainly at ‘Immigrants'”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Here are two newspaper articles from spring, 1933. They concern the issue of early Nazi policy toward Germany's Jews. In the first, the…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/bankersprins-180x137.jpg)
From ‘Draining the Swamp’ to Bankocracy: All Trump’s Betrayals
By Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com | - - Irony isn’t a concept with which President Donald J. Trump is familiar. In his Inaugural Address, having nominated the wealthiest cabinet in American…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/blnd2-1-187x137.png)
This time Dr. Strangelove is President: On the Political Psychology of Donald Trump
By Daniel Brumberg | (Informed Comment) | - - Is Donald Trump rational? Is he sane? Often posed before his election, this question is now a matter of urgent debate among commentators,…![The Sadism of Racist Exclusion: Courts Temporarily Block Trump](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/the-sadism-of-racist-exclusion-c-187x137.jpg)
The Sadism of Racist Exclusion: Courts Temporarily Block Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Picking on immigrants and refugees is the act of a sadistic bully, since they are the one fairly large group of residents of…![Trump renders Green Cards for 250,000 Iraqis and Iranians Worthless](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/trump-renders-green-cards-for-25-187x137.jpg)
Trump renders Green Cards for 250,000 Iraqis and Iranians Worthless
By Marcelo Rochabrun | ProPublica | - - Update: A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security told Reuters on Saturday morning that the President’s executive order will, in fact, stop green…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/walln-1-187x137.jpg)
Mexico ‘Astonished’ at Israel’s Netanyahu’s Tweet backing Wall
TeleSur | - - Earlier on Saturday, Netanyahu tweeted: "President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel's southern border... Great success. Great idea." Mexico's government on Saturday rebuked Israel for…![Persecution and the threat to the refugee system](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/persecution-and-the-threat-to-th-187x137.jpg)
Persecution and the threat to the refugee system
By Brad K. Blitz | (OpenDemocracy.net) | - - We need to accept that for millions of refugees persecution is the principal reason for flight today as it was before, during and…![Trump Visa Denials target same countries Bush vowed to Overthrow](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/trump-visa-denials-target-same-c-187x137.jpg)
Trump Visa Denials target same countries Bush vowed to Overthrow
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump's shameful halt to the admission of refugees for 6 months and his 3-month pause in allowing entry to the US from seven…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/implode-1-187x137.jpg)
Trump sees Press as Public Enemy No. 1 – Reporters w/out Borders
By IPS News Desk | - - ROME (IPS) - “Alarmed” by the new administration’s “repeated attacks on the media and blatant disregard for facts in the first three days of Donald…![Trump Is Carpet-Bombing . . . U.S. Foreign Policy](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202173345im_/http://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/trump-is-carpet-bombing-u-s-fore-187x137.jpg)