“I Felt Like I Was Being Physically Ripped Apart”: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Opens Up About Her New Fame, Trump, and Life in the Bubble
“I Felt Like I Was Being Physically Ripped Apart”: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Opens Up About Her New Fame, Trump, and Life in the Bubble The pressure is intense. But beneath the caricatures, she says, “I’m not a superhero. I’m not a villain.” by Abigail Tracy March 11, 2019 5:25 pm photo above: Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez pictured in […]
Judgment days
In a small Alabama town, an evangelical congregation reckons with God, President Trump and the meaning of morality Please go to the end to read the fascinating article by the above title and subtitle1. WN: Trump – “Angel of Light” A kind of mantra in my Canadian white evangelical upbringing went, “You can be sincere […]
Pope Francis allies accuse Trump White House of ‘apocalyptic geopolitics’
Article vetted by the Vatican offers scathing critique of Steve Bannon, who is Catholic, the Trump White House and ‘evangelical fundamentalism’ in the US photo above: Ivanka Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and President Donald Trump stand with Pope Francis during a meeting at the Vatican on May 24, 2017. Evan Vucci—AP WN: Utterly appalling and […]
Neoliberalism in the Driver’s Seat: Trump and Ryan’s Ruling-Class Schemes
Thursday, April 06, 2017By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout | Interview photo above: House Speaker Paul Ryan looks on as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 28, 2017. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) an excerpt: Donald Trump ran a campaign to “make America great again,” promising […]
Trump Revives a Shameful Tradition: Targeting a Minority Group with Crime Reports
February 8, 2017 What the author is describing is scapegoating, ubiquitous in human cultures and history. René Girard, recently deceased, is the dominant modern theorist in this regard. For more on scapegoating violence and Girard on my website, please see amongst others this and this. (You will also see below each article related posts highlighted.) […]
EXCLUSIVE: Top Trump Aides’ Deeper & Linked Roles in Putin Agenda Revealed; Russian Mafia Nexus With Trump & Aides Goes Back Years
Published on November 4, 2016 by Brian Frydenborg New threads in the Team Trump/Team Putin tangled web show Manafort and Page linked to each other as part of a Russian plot to control Ukraine and also show a mutual Russian mafia godfather linking them with each other and Trump, providing even deeper and more fertile […]
Creating a National Security State “Democracy” Or How the American Political System Changed and No One Noticed
By Tom Engelhardt Tomgram: Engelhardt, Resurrecting My Parents From the Dead for Election 2016 | TomDispatch an excerpt: To say that this is the election from hell is to insult hell. There’s been nothing like this since Washington forded the Rubicon or Trump crossed the Delaware or delivered the Gettysburg Address (you know, the one […]
Trump, America, and the Abyss
November 3, 2016 4:47 p.m. By Andrew Sullivan I have decided to post a few articles warning against Trump’s America. It is that dire. The world never has seen a potential evil dictator like Trump, in terms of capacity to do evil like no other before. Period. An evil dictator heading up the most evil […]
“The Making of Donald Trump”: David Cay Johnston on Trump’s Ties to the Mob & Drug Traffickers | Democracy Now!
August 10, 2016 Story an excerpt: DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: So, keep in mind he sought mercy for a drug trafficker. So, Freddy Trump Jr. died of alcoholism early. And when Old Man Trump died, he had a new grandson—a great-grandson, who was born a few days later—very sickly child, nearly died several times, huge medical […]
Nuclear disarmament: back on centre stage
by Elizabeth Renzetti The Globe and Mail Published Friday, Aug. 05, 2016 6:00 AM EDT Last updated Friday, Aug. 05, 2016 9:27AM EDT an excerpt: Could Donald Trump accidentally be the best friend of the nuclear disarmament movement? This may sound like Dr. Strangelove-level madness, but the prospect of the Republican presidential candidate anywhere near […]
Cold War, Détente, Neo-McCarthyism, and Donald Trump
August 2, 2016 By Stephen F. Cohen What’s going is that the United States and its neocon war hawks are flirting dangerously with the possibility of real war with Russia, as Michael Klare and Stephen Cohen have noted. As Ignatius certainly knows but most Americans may not, the United States was deeply involved in agitating […]
Part 2: Michael Moore with Piers Morgan: Good Morning Britain
Published on Jul 5, 2016 With over one million Americans killed by guns since John Lennon, Michael Moore is in Britain and speaking with Piers Morgan about guns, Donald Trump, Brexit and the EU. Full Interview Good Morning Britain (06/24/16) Please also see this about Michael Moore’s new film, Fahrenheit 11/9, release date September 21, […]
Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All
The Political Scene July 25, 2016 Issue By Jane Mayer image above: “I put lipstick on a pig,” Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter, says. He feels “deep remorse.” Illustration by Javier Jaén “The Art of the Deal” made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and […]
Adventures in the Trump Twittersphere
Zeynep Tufekci MARCH 31, 2016 Mr. Trump’s rise is actually a symptom of the mass media’s growing weakness, especially in controlling the limits of what it is acceptable to say. an excerpt: For decades, journalists at major media organizations acted as gatekeepers who passed judgment on what ideas could be publicly discussed, and what was […]
WHO ARE ALL THESE TRUMP SUPPORTERS?
At the candidate’s rallies, a new understanding of America emerges. image above: Trump’s energy flows out of him, as if channelled in thousands of micro wires, and enters the minds of his followers. ILLUSTRATION BY SEYMOUR CHWAST AMERICAN CHRONICLES JULY 11 & 18, 2016 ISSUE By George Saunders an excerpt: From the beginning, America has […]
The Language of War
Posted on June 19, 2016 by wjastore an excerpt: The language of war fascinates me. I was reading President Obama’s response to Donald Trump on whether Obama “gets it” when it comes to the threat of terrorism and came across this passage: “Someone [Donald Trump] seriously thinks that we don’t know who we are fighting? […]