By Neal Gabler | ( Billmoyers.com) | – – The founder of the right-wing network inflicted harm on the body politic that may be impossible to heal. Fox News creator and former chief Roger Ailes, who died at 77 last week from complications after a fall in his Florida home, may have been the most […]
Archives for May 2017
Comeygate: How Orwell can Explain why Trump keeps Changing his Story
By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com | – – The Trump administration seems intent on tossing recent history down the memory hole. Admittedly, Americans have never been known for their strong grasp of facts about their past. Still, as we struggle to keep up with the constantly shifting explanations and pronouncements of the new administration, […]
Only Putin is happy with Trump’s NATO Bull-in-China-Shop Catastrophe
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Back in 2016 the talking heads on tv kept expecting candidate Trump, who made headlines almost daily saying racist and offensive things, to “transition.” Their theory was that he was acting out for his base in the GOP primaries but then would dial it back in the general election. […]
Thousands protest against Trump in ‘hellhole’ Brussels
EurActiv.com | – – Thousands of protesters carrying effigies of Donald Trump marched through Brussels on Wednesday (24 May) after the US president arrived for talks with the EU and NATO. “Trump not welcome,” said banners waved by the crowd, which police said numbered around 9,000. Organisers put the size of the demonstration at 12,000. […]
Iran: Does the Rouhani Win Matter for Human Rights?
By Tara Sepehri Far. | ( Human Rights Watch ) | – – In Second Term, Should Move on Rights Reforms When the 2017 election season kicked off April 21, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani did not go into the race possessing an enviable track record of defending human rights. While he achieved his 2013 election […]
What Iranian women want: rights, jobs and a seat at the table
By Azadeh Davachi | (The Conversation) | – – Issues affecting women were conspicuously absent from Iran’s 2017 presidential election. That’s unless one finds useful the leading conservative candidate Hojjat al-Islam Ebrahim Raisi’s comment that his government would enhance women’s dignity within the family, because women should be “good mothers and wives”. The absence was […]
US Reputation under Trump Tanking, Costing Economy Billions
By Daniel Korschun, Boryana V Dimitrova, and Yoto V. Yotov | (The Conversation) | – – U.S. News and World Report recently published its annual “Best Countries” ranking, based on how thousands of people around the world perceive other nations. Switzerland topped the 80-country ranking, followed by Canada and the United Kingdom. One big surprise […]
Pope to Trump: Climate Change is Real and we have to act in Solidarity
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Pope Francis gave Donald J. Trump a going away present after their meeting on Wednesday. It was a copy of his Encyclical on the challenge of climate change, Laudato Si’, mi Signor,”Praised may you be, my Lord.” This document begins with a paean to Saint Francis, […]
Boycott Trump! Hit him where it Hurts
By Mattea Kramer | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – In normal times, Dee from New York would have ordered her copy of The Handmaid’s Tale from Amazon, but these are not normal times. Amazon is on the Grab Your Wallet list, a campaign to boycott retailers that sell Trump family products, which began as […]
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