Bill Maher Leads Attack on Larry Wilkerson over Trump Meeting with Putin
Larry Wilkerson is roughed up by Bill Maher for the crime of saying taking steps to avert nuclear war with Russia is a good idea.
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Can the Migration Plan of Spain’s PSOE Reverse the Fortunes of Europe’s Social Democrats?
Why he future of the EU social democratic parties very likely depends on how the PSOE will address the migration issue.
Read more...Michel Barnier Nixes Theresa May’s Customs Union Scheme as Bad Brexit Dynamics Worsen
More Brexit Groundhog Day as the EU is compelled to say the same old “nos” to the UK.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: Three Failing Experiments – Mine, America’s Humanity’s?
Engelhardt’s birthday post reflects on how failings are catching up with us, individually and collectively.
Read more...Financial Times: Chinese Officials “Awed” by Trump’s “Skill as a Strategist and Tactician”
Believe it or not, many top Chinese officials are impressed with Trump’s game so far.
Read more...Brexit Crash Out Virtually Certain
Brexit uglies are only getting uglier.
Read more...Reader Coping Strategies for Engaging With Committed Liberals
Reader survival strategies for dealing with dogmatic friends and colleagues.
Read more...Worksheet for the 2018 Midterms (Status Quo, with a Look at the Winners So Far)
After all the sound and fury, status quo ante
Read more...(Mis)Adventures in Portland and a Visit to Occupy ICE
My visit last week to Portland was more exciting, in the good and bad sense, than I expected it to be.
Read more...John Feffer: Trump Doctrine as Kamikaze Antiglobalism
Is extreme antiglobalism the doctrine that undergirds many of Trump’s actions?
Read more...Usage Examples of “Our Intelligence Community”, with Implications
Elite language about “the intelligence community,” and what it implies
Read more...A New Way to Think About Solving the World’s Biggest Problems
The Simultaneous Policy (SIMPOL) will consist of a series of multi-issue global problem-solving policy packages, each of which is to be implemented by all or sufficient nations simultaneously
Read more...Trump Tariffs Hit Largest US Aluminum Company, ALCOA
Tariffs misfire yet again.
Read more...Migrants, Pro-Globalization “Leftists,” and the Suffocating Middle Class
Economic migrants seek prosperity and are justified in doing so, yet they can also be seen as pawns in an international strategy that destroys the negotiating leverage of workers. The resulting contradictions potentially render conventional political classifications obsolete.
Read more...Tariq Ali: “No Real Choice” at the Ballot Box for the People of Pakistan
Corruption keeps growing like cancer in Pakistan. This combined with military repression and on-going terror attacks from the Islamic State, means Pakistanis will see a continuation of the status quo, says Tariq Ali in this RNN interview.
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