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Post #527: The Crimes of the Trump Regime

(Note to the Reader: This is the fifth iteration of a blog originally posted after the first two weeks of…

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APB: The US Denies Visas to Palestinian UN Delegation

For a second consecutive year, the US State Department has denied visas to members of the Palestine Liberation Organization and…

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Post #526: Is Xi Coming, and Will AI and Human Rights be on the Agenda?

Xi Jinping has indicated that if the US approves a second major arms shipment to Taiwan, it would cross a…

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Post #153: The Dirt Keeps Piling On

2 Mar 20176 Mar 2017
At a news conference on February 20, Donald Trump said: “I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge, no person that I deal with does.” …
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The Shirker

2 Mar 2017
Donald Trump’s repeated denials of responsibility for the death of a soldier in Yemen, and his efforts to shift that responsibility to others (President Obama in this case), are evidence…
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Lies, Lies, and More Lies

1 Mar 2017
Donald Trump's address to Congress yesterday (Feb. 28) earned him high marks, probably because the bar was set so low that even a smattering of rationality warranted applause. But the…
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“Winning” Wars

27 Feb 2017
“We have to start winning wars again.”  So said Donald Trump in explaining to US governors why the US must spend an additional $56 billion on the military.  This man…
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Post #152: While Our Attention is Elsewhere, Climate Change Worsens

27 Feb 201727 Feb 2017
Donald Trump’s presidency has gotten so much attention that the latest threats to climate stability have received only passing notice. To be sure, Trump’s belief that climate change is a…
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The Enemy of My Enemy

24 Feb 201724 Feb 2017
As Roger Cohen points out in a New York Times op-ed, “enemy of the people” is a tradition among fascists—“a near-perfect totalitarian pedigree deployed with refinements by the Nazis, Stalin…
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Bannon Speaks

23 Feb 201723 Feb 2017
Stephen Bannon came out from the shadows to say a few precious words at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland.  He said the president is focused on three things:…
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The State Department’s Disappearing Act

22 Feb 201722 Feb 2017
Those of us who expressed anxiety about President Trump’s appointment of ExxonMobil’s chief executive as secretary of state may have to shift gears.  Our concern now might have to be…
MEDIA

MEDIA

20 Feb 201721 Jul 2019
Seven paths to a Trump exit.  Keith Olbermann's last "Resistance" video.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmkXR7EL_RY Fifteen cartoonists from around the world interpret The Donald. http://www.boredpanda.com/donald-trump-election-caricatures/   http://www.nbcnews.com/video/javad-zarif-foreign-minister-of-iran-full-interview-with-richard-engel-880666691718.  The minister, who led the Iran…
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Post #151: Trump, Europe, and Chaos

20 Feb 201727 Feb 2017
Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of Defense James Mattis went to the Munich Security Conference with reassurances about the US commitment to NATO.  But their visit was anything but…
DOCUMENTS & REPORTS

DOCUMENTS

18 Feb 201724 Sep 2018
ↂUS Sen. Jeff Flake announces his decision not to seek reelection in a sharp attack on Trump's "betrayal" of America: www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/us/politics/jeff-flake-transcript-senate-speech.html. ↂChina's foremost historian of China-Korea relations offers a sharp criticism…
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HUMOR

18 Feb 201724 Apr 2017
John Oliver takes apart Ivanka and Jared (20 min. video): https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/apr/24/john-oliver-ivanka-jared-trump-last-week-tonight A picturebook on Jared Kushner's trip to Iraq in April 2017: http://taskandpurpose.com/jared-kushner-iraq-storybook-pictures/ "Impeachara," a very funny take on Trumpian bad…

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