Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump spoke on foreign policy Sunday on “Face The Nation,” further explaining his thinking on US troops in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. He seems to have made it clear that the US troop presence in Iraq is not, as advertised, to help Baghdad mop up ISIL remnants but rather to […]
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US politics
Netanyahu’s Likud Party uses Trump Photo in Israeli Election Billboard
Trump is popular in Israel because of his tough policies towards the Palestinians
Could Trump Really Launch a War With Iran?
This time around, the U.S. is pretty much alone.
Democrats To Deny Funding to Trump’s Muslim Visa Ban on 2nd Anniversary
We are dropping American made bombs on countries … the US then made the decision to block those people inside those countries…”
Our Man from Boeing: Has the Arms Industry Captured Trump’s Pentagon?
Candidate Donald Trump saw the revolving door between government and industry as a problem.
Bolton & Trump’s Gerontocrats may drag us into Venezuela over Oil when they could just buy an EV
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – There are many things wrong with National Security Adviser John Bolton, but the worst is his fixation on petroleum politics. His response to the complex crisis of Venezuela is to hope that US energy corporations can produce some of that country’s oil (“It will make a big difference to the […]
America’s 7 Racist Exclusions: From Muslim Visa Ban to 1930s Exclusion of Jews
Revised.- ed. Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The two-year anniversary of Trump’s Muslim visa ban and Holocaust Remembrance Day have arrived more or less together, and it is worthwhile reviewing how they reveal an ugly side to America. US history is replete with racism as public policy. It has been more often our history than […]
So Much Losing: America’s Small Unending Wars of the 21st Century
Endless war for any goal except to preserve the republic isn’t a measure of fortitude but the path to national suicide.
Workers & a Seasoned Speaker Defeated Trump on Shutdown; it Wasn’t about Gender
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some of the language being used for the victory of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over President Donald Trump with regard to ending the month-long shut-down of the US government has played on gender reversals. Jimmy Kimmel, not known for being politically correct, said that Trump ‘bent over’ for her. Nancy […]