Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Hail to the Duffer in Chief
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The Sport of Plutocrats
Golf Is Trump
By Robert Lipsyte
While waiting for Trump to jump the tracks, let’s savor the day when his inevitable train wreck first passed through a critical safety switch. On June 9th, President Trump alienated his true base -- the reactionary rich -- by driving his golf cart onto
Leah Bolger and Norman Solomon – Do the People Want War?
Talk Nation Radio: Kathy Kelly on Stopping Permanent War
During each of 20 trips to Afghanistan, Kathy Kelly, as an invited guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, has lived alongside ordinary Afghan people in a working class neighborhood in Kabul. She and her companions in Voices for Creative Nonviolence believe that “where you stand determines what you see.” In June, 2016, Kathy participated in a delegation that visited five cities in Russia, aiming to learn about Russian opinions regarding NATO exercises taking place along their border. Kelly
Tomgram: Ann Jones, Can the Age of Trump Spur Medicare for All?
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Scandinavia in Maryland?
Medicare for All in One State
By Ann Jones
You may have noticed that quite a few of the formerly united states of America have been choosing to go their own way. My own state, Massachusetts, now blooms with
Focus: Russia Sanctions and Europe – July 31, 2017
State TV interview: Putin defends massive cut of US diplomatic staff in Russia in response to sanctions – TASS
VIDEO: Putin: US diplomatic mission needs to cut 755 employees, time to show we won’t leave anything unanswered – YouTube
Washington can decide embassy staff cuts, Kremlin says – TheHill
Putin says the U.S. diplomatic mission in Russia needs to cut 755 employees. What do all these people do? – The Denver Post
U.S. embassy in Moscow says locked out of diplomatic property – reuters.com
What’s in the Russia sanctions bill that Trump will sign – ABC News
Will Trump hold signing ceremony on Russian sanctions? – TheHill
ARCHIVE: Text of bill to provide congressional review and to counter aggression by the Governments of Iran, the Russian Federation, and North Korea – docs.house.gov
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Spreading the Cult of Carbon
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America’s Carbon-Pusher in Chief
Trump’s Fossil-Fueled Foreign Policy
By Michael T. Klare
Who says President Trump doesn’t have a coherent foreign policy? Pundits and critics across the political spectrum have chided him for failing to articulate and implement a clear international agenda. Look closely at his overseas endeavors, though, and one all-too-consistent
Focus: Syria – July 29, 2017
ISIS militants fight back in Raqqa, hit SDF-held areas – ARA News
Daesh claims deadly attack in Syria against US-backed force – AP
Savage gunfights between Kurdish forces and ISIS in the streets of Raqqa (VIDEO) – almasdarnews.com
PHOTO: Raqqa: ISIS SVBIED attack against YPG in Raqqa today – WorldOnAlert on Twitter
In pictures: ISIS overruns, destroys Kurdish base in Hasakah (PHOTOS) – almasdarnews.com
At least 11 Kurdish fighters killed in clashes with ISIS in Syria’s Raqqa – ARA News
Raqqa: YPG suffered heavy losses in Raqqa [list] – WorldOnAlert on Twitter
British ex-soldier arrested in Turkey and accused of fighting alongside Kurdish rebels – telegraph.co.uk
Congressional Opponents of Sanctions As Nuts As Supporters
By David Swanson, American Herald Tribune
Both houses of Congress have now passed big new sanctions bills by veto-proof majorities, in fact with near unanimity. The vote this week in the House of Misrepresentatives was 419–3 on a bill to sanction Russia, Iran, and North Korea as punishment for primarily imaginary crimes, despite the sum total of the global legal bodies having asked the United States to judge these crimes, skip over a trial, and move right ahead with punishment being exactly equal
Why and How to Bring Environmental and Peace Movements Together
If war were moral, legal, defensive, beneficial to the spread of freedom, and inexpensive, we would be obliged to make abolishing it our top priority solely because of the destruction that war and preparations for war do as the leading polluters of our natural environment.
I happened to read a report this week from a U.S. environmental think tank that advocates for the U.S.