Favorite Since retiring from the military last year, former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley has become a senior adviser to JPMorgan Chase bank, joined the faculties of Princeton and Georgetown, and embraced the lucrative paid speaking circuit. From military pay of $204,000 a year, Milley is sure to skyrocket…
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Trump’s Support and Praise of Despots Is Central to the U.S. Tradition, Not a Deviation From It
Favorite Since at least the end of World War II, supporting the world’s worst despots has been a central plank of U.S. foreign policy, arguably its defining attribute. The list of U.S.-supported tyrants is too long to count, but the strategic rationale has been consistent: In a world where anti-American sentiment is prevalent, democracy often…
Trump’s War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised
Favorite From the start of his presidency, Donald Trump’s “war on terror” has entailed the seemingly indiscriminate slaughter of innocent people in the name of killing terrorists. In other words, Trump has escalated the 16-year-old core premise of America’s foreign policy — that it has the right to bomb any country in the world where…
The New Yorker’s Big Cover Story Reveals Five Uncomfortable Truths About U.S. and Russia
Favorite The New Yorker is aggressively touting its 13,000-word cover story on Russia and Trump that was bylined by three writers, including the magazine’s editor-in-chief, David Remnick. Beginning with its cover image menacingly featuring Putin, Trump and the magazine’s title in Cyrillic letters, along with its lead cartoon dystopically depicting a UFO-like Red Square hovering over and phallically…
A Clinton Fan Manufactured Fake News That MSNBC Personalities Spread to Discredit WikiLeaks Docs
Favorite The phrase “Fake News” has exploded in usage since the election, but the term is similar to other malleable political labels such as “terrorism” and “hate speech”; because the phrase lacks any clear definition, it is essentially useless except as an instrument of propaganda and censorship. The most important fact to realize about this new…
Donald Trump, Voting Machine Truther, Should Demand Recounts to Prove He Won
Favorite ON ELECTION DAY, when polls suggested Donald Trump was headed for defeat, the candidate loudly questioned the integrity of the process, arguing on Fox News that reported problems with electronic voting machines made it impossible to be sure that the results would be fair. .@realDonaldTrump: “There’s something really nice about the old paper ballot…
The Stark Contrast Between GOP’s Self-Criticism in 2012 and Democrats’ Blame-Everyone-Else Posture Now
Favorite It is not an exaggeration to say that the Democratic Party is in shambles as a political force. Not only did it just lose the White House to a wildly unpopular farce of a candidate despite a virtually unified establishment behind it, and not only is it the minority party in both the Senate…
Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit
Favorite The parallels between the U.K.’s shocking approval of the Brexit referendum in June and the U.S.’ even more shocking election of Donald Trump as president last night are overwhelming. Elites (outside of populist right-wing circles) aggressively unified across ideological lines in opposition to both. Supporters of Brexit and Trump were continually maligned by the dominant media narrative…
Hillary Clinton tem enormes chances de vencer segundo grande parte das pesquisas
Favorite Grande parte dos brasileiros, assim como o resto do mundo, aguarda ansiosamente o resultado das eleições presidenciais americanas entre a candidata do Partido Democrata, Hillary Clinton, e o candidato do Partido Republicano, Donald Trump, que parecem não ter fim. Essa ansiedade, embora seja compreensível, contradiz praticamente todas as pesquisas e modelos estatísticos publicados pela…
Ecuador Cuts Internet Access for Julian Assange to Preserve Neutrality in U.S. Election
Favorite The government of Ecuador confirmed on Tuesday that it had decided “to temporarily restrict access” to the internet inside its embassy in London, effectively cutting off Julian Assange, the editor of WikiLeaks, who has lived there since he was granted political asylum in 2012. Assange first reported on Monday that his internet connection had…