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Archives: Steve Bannon

Is Trump’s Travel Ban Succeeding despite Court Blocks?

TeleSur | - - The rate of refugee resettlement has also seen a sharp decline. Despite federal courts halting Trump's restrictive and discriminatory travel ban executive order on six-Muslim majority countries for…

Trumpism: White Terrorist Murders 2 after harassing Muslim-American

TeleSur | - - According to one witness, the suspect was heard saying “get off the bus, and get out of the country because you don't pay taxes here.” Amidst rising rates…

Trump in Absolute Monarchy during Iran’s Election

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The spectacle of Trump and of cronies such as alt-Neo-Nazi Steve Bannon hobnobbing with the Saudi monarchy, of the president curtsying to King…

Alabama Passes Bill to Protect Confederate Monuments even at cost of Economy

TeleSur | - - Some Southern cities are rethinking the appropriateness of keeping such emblems on public property. Not Alabama. Alabama lawmakers on Friday approved a bill that prohibits the removal of…

How President Bannon’s Whiteboard Sank Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump's approval ratings are in the toilet compared to any other modern president at this stage of his presidency. At least some of…

How Middle Eastern Immigrants Boost US Competitiveness

Sami Mahroum | ( Project Syndicate) | - - DUBAI – In his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein chose a Muslim linguist, “Dr. Mahmoud,” to…

“Steve Bannon just Snapped” – “Super-Scary” (TYT & Maz Jobrani)

The Young Turks | (Lively Video Discussion) | - - "The Trump Administration would like you to think they aren't still plagued with infighting. Wrong. Sad. Babies. Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola, and…

Bannon booted from US National Security Council, takes swipe at Susan Rice

TeleSur | - - "General McMaster has returned the NSC to its proper function,” Bannon said in a statement. U.S. President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has been removed from the…

Is Trump really a Fascist?

By David Prochaska | (Informed Comment) | - - The “highly unusual,” “unprecedented” Trump administration is leading us into “uncharted territory,” but where exactly? Since last November’s election, some commentators trying to…

What everyone Needs to know about alt-NeoNazi President Steve Bannon

AJ+ | (Video Clip) | - - "President Trump is calling for an investigation into voter fraud, and media sources have discovered that his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was actually registered in…

Zombie America: Is it too late to Fight Trump’s Real-Life Dystopia?

By John Feffer | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - Dystopias have recently achieved full-spectrum dominance. Kids are drawn to such stories -- The Giver, Hunger Games -- like Goths to piercings. TV shows…

We ignore the Violence of Radical White Populist Extremism at our Peril

By Sindre Bangstad | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | - - We ignore the terrorist threat from right-wing extremism at our peril. But the main threat to democracy in our time is even more…

Oppression in the Land of the Free: A Muslim Leader Speaks Out

By Edu Montesanti | TeleSur | - - An interview with Hatem Abudayyeh, head of Chicago's Arab American Action Network, on the rising criminalization of Arab and Muslim life in the US.…

Top 5 Ways Obama is Behind Leaks, Protests against Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump did an interview with "Fox and Friends" for this morning in which he alleged that former president Barack Obama is behind the…

“Get out of my Country!” White Terrorist Shoots Asian-American Engineers in Wake of Trump Visa Ban

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - It is alleged that Adam W. Purinton, a regular at a bar and grill, went up to two Indian-American patrons on Wednesday night…

Should Bannon Resign? He and Milo Fake-Newsed Hillary as Pedophile

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The interview that emerged on the internet of practicing Catholic Milo Yiannopoulos expressing approval of some instances of priest pedophilia with boys has…

CPAC, OK with alt-NeoNazism, drops Milo over Teen Sex Comments

TeleSur | - - Milo Yiannopoulos will not be allowed to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference following the discovery of his comments supporting pedophilia. Breitbart editor and self-described "occasional fellow…

How Trumpist White Supremacy Builds On Earlier Far-Right Upsurges

By Matthew N. Lyons | (TeleSur) | - - The "alt-right" network has brought together multiple currents, from neo-Nazis to men's rights activists, right-wing anarchists to neo-reactionaries. The day after Donald Trump's…

Is Steven Bannon marching America toward Messianic Apocalypse?

By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - What does it mean for international relations when the most powerful country in the world becomes a pariah state? [In] Der…