Category Trump presidency
Has America Gone Insane?
“You can’t talk about hope until you can see reality and reality is pretty bleak, but that’s the starting point.”
Noam Chomsky: Trump and His Enablers Are ‘Criminally Insane’
In a new interview with Scientific American, the celebrated linguist and political theorist opines on a range of topics including classical liberalism, Trump’s presidency and his own vision of a better world. He also further clarifies why he considers the Republican Party to be “the most dangerous organization in human history.” By Jacob Sugarman Truthdig TD ORIGINALS November […]
The Uber-Rich: Tyranny or Revolution, Scum vs. Scum, The Cult of Trump
Three by Christ Hedges: Trump, the Uber-Rich, the corporate state and elections.
Freedom Rider: The Migrant Caravan and U.S. Policy, by Margaret Kimberley
A truly democratic United States would not destroy other countries and would do better by its own people. The migrant caravan and fear of it are proof of failure on both counts.
Violent Political Rhetoric Can Feed Political Violence, by Ed Kilgore
… if political rhetoric in this country continues on its current trajectory, people are going to start getting killed, and then inevitably, the violence will escalate.
US Government-Funded News Network Ran a Hit Piece on Soros That Called Him a “Multimillionaire Jew”
The taxpayer-subsidized video portrays Soros as a threat to Latin American democracy. Featuring ominous music and images of street violence, the 15-minute video begins with the narration: “George Soros has his eye on Latin America.
The Murderous Saudi Regime, by Ann Wright
Journalists I spoke with in Istanbul cited President Trump’s comments on the U.S. press as one of the causes of the impunity of authoritarian governments to jail critical journalists.
Federal Lawsuit Alleges Trump’s Threats Against The Press Are Unconstitutional, By Steve Denning
[Trump] has: “engaged in conduct intended to retaliate against specific news organizations and journalists whose content and viewpoints displease him. Through his actions, Trump has intentionally conveyed to all writers and journalists that …they may be subject to retaliation by the federal government. That conduct violates the Constitution.” By Steve Denning Senior Contributor Leadership Strategy Forbes October […]
Kavanaugh Hearings: Toxic Masculinity is Endemic to the Far Right, Henry Giroux
An interview of Henry Giroux on the Kavanaugh Hearings: Government run amuck and the ramifications beyond the hearings
Chris Hedges: American Anomie
The reconfiguring of American society into an oligarchy and the collapse of our democratic institutions have left most of the population disempowered. … Ruleless-ness means the norms that govern a society and create a sense of organic solidarity no longer function.
End Impunity and Open Investigation on Palestine
The occupation of the Palestinian territory may be one of the most well-documented situations,… with…experts alleging that violations of international humanitarian and human rights law have occurred.
Space Force: Stealing the Heavens for War, by Karl Grossman
The Outer Space Treaty, of which Russia and China and the U.S. are parties, designates space as a global commons to be used for peaceful purposes. Indeed, the U.S., along with the UK and the Soviet Union, worked together assembling the treaty. Space Battle by Villenummisalo. Deviantart.net By Karl Grossman Women Against Military Madness Newsletter […]
Polly Mann: Who is Biased?
The Gaza Ministry of Health reported 12,844 Gazan casualties, victims of live fire or tear-gas inhalation.
Tomgram: Engelhardt, History, Memory, and Donald Trump
Still, don’t for a second imagine that Donald Trump won’t be remembered. He will — into the distant future in a way that no other American president is likely to be.
We Will Resist Trump’s Authoritarian War on the Media, by Mike Ludwig
These are the words of a man who would rather be king than president.
From Venezuela to McCain, Big Media and Human Rights Industry in Lockstep
The victims of empire are never more invisible than when it is time to whitewash a departed warmonger.
Jim Hightower: Corporations Are Waging All-Out Class War
Now, the time of a new democratic rebellion is upon us again, for We the People are suddenly in the grip of a brutish level of monopolistic power.
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Victory in Our Time (The U.S. Military is Winning. No, Really, It Is!)
Expressed differently, the United States has not won a major conflict since 1945; has a trillion-dollar national security budget; has had 17 military commanders in the last 17 years in Afghanistan, a country plagued by 23,744 “security incidents” (the most ever recorded) in 2017 alone; has spent around $3 trillion, primarily on that war and the rest of the war on terror…
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