Posts Tagged ‘ Donald Trump ’

How Congress Is Cementing Trump’s Anti-Climate Orders into Law

August 12, 2017
How Congress Is Cementing Trump’s Anti-Climate Orders into Law

MARIANNE LAVELLE - These efforts are mostly flying under the radar, but they could short-circuit lawsuits and make it harder to restore environmental protections.

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Posted in August 2017, Big Picture | No Comments »

Why and How to Bring Environmental and Peace Movements Together

August 8, 2017
Why and How to Bring Environmental and Peace Movements Together

DAVID SWANSON - 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.

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Posted in August 2017, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

In Our America: Community Building 101

July 27, 2017

ALI KING - As the night of Tuesday, November 8, began to go downhill, like many Americans, I felt stunned and sickened. I hadn't actually allowed myself to imagine things going the way they did and the unthinkable had happened. Just a few months earlier, everyone was scoffing at the idea of Trump becoming...

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Posted in July 2017, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

An Open Letter To Rep. Barbara Lee: ‘Think Through The Implications Of Our Actions’

July 17, 2017
An Open Letter To Rep. Barbara Lee: ‘Think Through The Implications Of Our Actions’

NORMAN SOLOMON - More than a decade and a half ago, your eloquent words and courageous vote set a high bar as you stood up against a war frenzy on the House floor. Three days after 9/11, you implemented the kind of brave wisdom that we desperately need in a world beset by the...

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Posted in July 2017, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

Trump Is Missing an Opportunity in Cuba

July 15, 2017

MEL GURTOV - President Obama’s engagement with Cuba was one of his administration’s success stories. The policy shift was based on the entirely realistic as well as humanitarian assessment that permanent estrangement deepens enmity, isolates two peoples and separates families, reduces opportunities for improvement in the quality of life in Cuba, inhibits the...

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Posted in Analysis, July 2017 | No Comments »

Pruitt Will Launch Program to ‘Critique’ Climate Science

July 11, 2017
Pruitt Will Launch Program to ‘Critique’ Climate Science

EMILY HOLDEN - U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is leading a formal initiative to challenge mainstream climate science using a "back-and-forth critique" by government-recruited experts, according to a senior administration official. The program will use "red team, blue team" exercises to conduct an "at-length evaluation of U.S. climate science," the official said, referring to...

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Posted in Big Picture, July 2017 | No Comments »

Trump’s Wall: Ultimate Symbol of an Ultimate Con

July 9, 2017
Trump’s Wall: Ultimate Symbol of an Ultimate Con

ANDREW MOSS - Though Donald Trump failed to get his wall funded when Congress passed a recent $1.1 trillion federal spending package, he did succeed in creating a wall of sorts. Fashioned partly out of words and partly out of existing physical structures and technologies, Trump's wall has effectively cast a shadow of...

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Posted in Analysis, July 2017 | No Comments »

Trump Abdicates Control of US Military Interventions

July 7, 2017

MEL GURTOV - Now, just below the radar, the US military is engaged in an ever-increasing number of “advise-and-assist” missions, supplemented by major arms deals and CIA-run drone strikes, that commit the US to long-term intervention in Africa and the Middle East. And Donald Trump, unlike Barack Obama, is happy to cede operational...

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Posted in Analysis, July 2017 | No Comments »

The Trump-Putin Meeting and the Fate of the Earth

July 5, 2017
The Trump-Putin Meeting and the Fate of the Earth

NORMAN SOLOMON - Any truthful way to say it will sound worse than ghastly: We live in a world where one person could decide to begin a nuclear war -- quickly killing several hundred million people and condemning vast numbers of others to slower painful deaths. Given the macabre insanity of this ongoing situation,...

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Posted in Analysis, July 2017 | No Comments »

Coal Miners Are Pawns in Trump’s Fossil Fuel Agenda

June 18, 2017
Coal Miners Are Pawns in Trump’s Fossil Fuel Agenda

ROB BYERS - Earlier this spring, I was asked a question about my late father, who had been a coal miner in the 1970s and ’80s. It had to do with a familiar romantic storyline: Did he feel at home underground? Was it a calling that tugged at him during the layoffs, a longing...

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Posted in Analysis, June 2017 | No Comments »

Needed: A Public Plan for Peace

May 8, 2017
Needed: A Public Plan for Peace

ROBERT C. KOEHLER - The American will to wage war — endless war, pointless war, total war — is, I fear, impervious to public opinion and even political action. It remains alive deep in the underground bunker of American militarism, protected from sanity. This goes beyond the staying power of our loser generals, who...

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Posted in Analysis, May 2017 | No Comments »

Get Real About Preventing War with North Korea

April 30, 2017
Get Real About Preventing War with North Korea

PATRICK T. HILLER - It is time for the public and its servants – our elected officials – to get away from the pretense that there are no alternatives to projecting and using military force, when indeed there are many constructive responses. This matters greatly, because a study has shown that there is a...

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Posted in Analysis, April 2017 | No Comments »

Trump’s Climate Demands Roil U.S. Allies

April 24, 2017
Trump’s Climate Demands Roil U.S. Allies

ANDREW RESTUCCIA - President Donald Trump’s abrupt turnaround on U.S. climate policy is fueling tension with several of America’s closest allies, which are resisting the administration’s demands that they support a bigger role for nuclear power and fossil fuels in the world’s energy supply.

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Posted in April 2017, Big Picture | No Comments »

The Democratic Party’s Anti-Bernie Elites Have a Huge Stake in Blaming Russia

April 22, 2017
The Democratic Party’s Anti-Bernie Elites Have a Huge Stake in Blaming Russia

NORMAN SOLOMON - After Hillary Clinton’s devastating loss nearly six months ago, her most powerful Democratic allies feared losing control of the party. Efforts to lip-synch economic populism while remaining closely tied to Wall Street had led to a catastrophic defeat. In the aftermath, the party’s progressive base -- personified by Bernie Sanders --...

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Posted in Analysis, April 2017 | No Comments »

Civil Rights Advocates Renew Efforts to Oust Bannon

April 17, 2017
Civil Rights Advocates Renew Efforts to Oust Bannon

NEWS RELEASE - As news outlets continue to report on whether embattled White House chief strategist and white nationalist Stephen Bannon will continue serving in the administration, 23 diverse civil rights groups are reminding the Trump Administration that governing through Bannon’s divisive and hateful campaign style is out of step with the country.

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Posted in April 2017, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

Intelligence Professionals: Trump Should Rethink Syria Escalation

April 15, 2017
Intelligence Professionals: Trump Should Rethink Syria Escalation

VETERAN INTELLIGENCE PROFESSIONALS FOR SANITY - More than two dozen ex-U.S. intelligence officials urge President Trump to rethink his claims blaming the Syrian government for the chemical deaths in Idlib and to pull back from his dangerous escalation of tensions with Russia.

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Posted in April 2017, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

“They’ll Never Learn” Department: Trump and North Korea

April 13, 2017
“They’ll Never Learn” Department: Trump and North Korea

MEL GURTOV - As Donald Trump prepared to meet Xi Jinping, his administration was going down the old road of believing it can pressure China to solve the North Korea nuclear weapons problem—or face a US-initiated trade war.

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Posted in Analysis, April 2017 | No Comments »

U.S. Out of Korea

April 7, 2017
U.S. Out of Korea

DAVID SWANSON - My biggest concern is not the embarrassment of a U.S. public afraid of the tiny impoverished nation of North Korea. If that embarrassed me, how would I survive what U.S. culture makes of ISIS, or -- for that matter -- the election of Donald Trump? My biggest concern is that U.S....

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Posted in April 2017, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

Trump’s Budget Assault on the Environment

April 5, 2017
Trump’s Budget Assault on the Environment

HARVEY WASSERMAN - Donald Trump’s first budget makes his antipathy to the environment clear—and his love for fossil fuels and nuclear power even clearer.

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Posted in Analysis, April 2017 | No Comments »

Leaked NAFTA Plan Another Gift to Corporations

April 3, 2017
Leaked NAFTA Plan Another Gift to Corporations

ARTHUR STAMOULIS - The Trump administration’s leaked plan to “tweak” the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) confirms one of our worst fears: that President Trump is poised to let big corporations dictate how NAFTA is rewritten.

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Posted in April 2017, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

Trump’s Coal Mining Promise Can’t Be Fulfilled

April 1, 2017
Trump’s Coal Mining Promise Can’t Be Fulfilled

JAMES HAUGHT - Even if Trump wipes out federal pollution and safety controls, I doubt that it will “get . . . miners back to work.” They would stand a better chance if Trump shifted enough federal funds to training for jobs of the future instead of easy but hollow promises that he can’t...

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Posted in Analysis, April 2017 | No Comments »

The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump, a Political Hot Potato, is Back

March 18, 2017
The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump, a Political Hot Potato, is Back

TOM DICHRISTOPHER - The White House's budget blueprint released Thursday seeks to revive spending for a hotly contested facility in Nevada that would store the nation's nuclear waste.

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Posted in Big Picture, March 2017 | No Comments »

Trump Is Our Imperial Vulture Come Home to Roost – We Must Repent

March 10, 2017

BOB FITRIKAS and HARVEY WASSERMAN - As the nightmare reality of Donald Trump sinks in, we need to put our resistance in a larger perspective.

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Posted in Analysis, March 2017 | No Comments »

Let’s Give the CIA the Credit It Deserves

March 10, 2017
Let’s Give the CIA the Credit It Deserves

NORMAN SOLOMON - For months now, our country has endured the tacit denigration of American ingenuity. Countless statements -- from elected officials, activist groups, journalists and many others -- have ignored our nation’s superb blend of dazzling high-tech capacities and statecraft mendacities. Fortunately, this week the news about release of illuminating CIA documents by...

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Posted in Analysis, March 2017 | No Comments »

Trump Can Prove He’s Not a Putin Puppet by Blowing Up the World

March 2, 2017
Trump Can Prove He’s Not a Putin Puppet by Blowing Up the World

NORMAN SOLOMON - Four weeks into Donald Trump’s presidency, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote that “nothing he has done since the inauguration allays fears that he is in effect a Putin puppet.” The liberal pundit concluded with a matter-of-fact reference to “the Trump-Putin axis.” Such lines of attack have become routine, citing...

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Posted in Analysis, March 2017 | No Comments »

What You Need to Know about the “Carbon Bubble” to Understand Trump

February 26, 2017
What You Need to Know about the “Carbon Bubble” to Understand Trump

ALEX STEFFEN- You can’t understand what Trump’s doing to America without understanding the “Carbon Bubble.”

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Posted in Analysis, February 2017 | No Comments »

The Long Road to Impeach Trump Just Got Shorter

February 11, 2017
The Long Road to Impeach Trump Just Got Shorter

NORMAN SOLOMON - The momentum to impeach President Trump is accelerating.

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Posted in Analysis, February 2017 | No Comments »

Your Guide to the Sprawling New Anti-Trump Resistance Movement

February 8, 2017
Your Guide to the Sprawling New Anti-Trump Resistance Movement

JOSHUA HOLLAND - An explosion of new activism offers a ray of hope in these dark political times.

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Posted in February 2017, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

Activists Call for National General Strike in the US to Bring Down Donald Trump

February 7, 2017

ANDREW GRIFFIN - Activists are calling for people to stop working and buying things for a day to bring down Donald Trump.

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Posted in February 2017, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

Nomination of Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General Poses Threat to Our Democracy

February 6, 2017

COMMON CAUSE: Karen Hobert Flynn, Paul S. Ryan, Allegra Chapman - The nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions to serve as U.S. Attorney General is a threat to many of our nation’s most cherished ideals of democracy. His actions and publicly stated views are out of touch with our nation’s citizens, its laws, and with...

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Posted in Analysis, February 2017 | No Comments »

Does Rachel Maddow Want Russia Bombed?

February 5, 2017
Does Rachel Maddow Want Russia Bombed?

DAVID SWANSON - Does Rachel Maddow Want Russia Bombed? Here's why I ask. Maddow devotes many minutes on MSNBC stirring up hatred of Russia in order to establish that there is a vague possibility that President Donald Trump might be corrupted by a foreign government.

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Posted in Analysis, February 2017 | No Comments »

An Inside\Outside Strategy for Defending the US Republic

January 30, 2017
An Inside\Outside Strategy for Defending the US Republic

MARIA STEPHAN - Both the administrative pillar of resistance and the ‘Indivisible’ legislative pillar will be bolstered if linked to a grassroots strategy of cross-issue mobilizing and direct action – the core strategy.

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Posted in January 2017, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

Reclaiming Our Democracy

January 28, 2017
Reclaiming Our Democracy

ANDREW MOSS - Donald Trump can hardly sustain a movement as a "cure" or unifier. Something much deeper has to be involved, and that something is nothing less than the reclamation of our democracy and the democratic promise of the American experiment.

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Posted in Analysis, January 2017 | No Comments »

Breaking Badlands: National Park Service Goes Yugely Rogue, Insists On Pesky Facts

January 26, 2017
Breaking Badlands: National Park Service Goes Yugely Rogue, Insists On Pesky Facts

ABBY ZIMET - Well this is cool: Trumpian efforts to block information on climate change - 'cause who needs science and/or a planet? - have sparked fierce, creative, heart-stirring resistance by the National Park Service and its many friends, suggesting the Revolution may yet be tweeted.

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Posted in January 2017, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

Chinese Billionaire Says US Wasted Trillions on Wars and Wall Street

January 22, 2017
Chinese Billionaire Says US Wasted Trillions on Wars and Wall Street

LAUREN MCCAULEY - "In the past 30 years, America had 13 wars spending $2 trillion," said Alibaba founder Jack Ma. "What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?" Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland on Wednesday, Chinese billionaire Jack Ma accused the United States of spending too...

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Posted in Big Picture, January 2017 | No Comments »

Allegations Against Russia Less Credible Every Day

January 13, 2017
Allegations Against Russia Less Credible Every Day

DAVID SWANSON - The U.S. government has now generated numerous news stories and released multiple "reports" aimed at persuading us that Vladimir Putin is to blame for Donald Trump becoming president. U.S. media has dutifully informed us that the case has been made. But a closer analysis finds a different reality.

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Posted in Analysis, January 2017 | No Comments »

Yes, Dubya, Now I Miss You

December 28, 2016
Yes, Dubya, Now I Miss You

DAVID SWANSON - When George W. Bush made the case for attacking and destroying the nation of Iraq, he made claims that, if true, would have justified nothing. And he proposed as evidence for those claims fraudulent, implausible, and even ridiculous pieces of information. But he was expected to produce evidence. There was no...

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Posted in Analysis, December 2016 | No Comments »

Urgent to Progressives: Stop Fueling the Anti-Russia Frenzy

December 24, 2016
Urgent to Progressives: Stop Fueling the Anti-Russia Frenzy

NORMAN SOLOMON - Many big factors affect any presidential race, and the Russian government may have tried to be one of them for the 2016 election—though it’s hardly the slam dunk that agencies like the CIA and U.S. mass media are now claiming. But in any event, this month it has become routine for...

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Posted in Analysis, December 2016 | No Comments »

How to Scrap the Electoral College

December 20, 2016
How to Scrap the Electoral College

JOHN LAFORGE - The Electoral College is based on state law, so when enough additional states pass the National Popular Vote bill -- enough to add up to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House -- then the “electors” would be legally bound to vote for the popular vote winner and...

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Posted in Analysis, December 2016 | No Comments »

People Are in the Streets Protesting Donald Trump. But When Does Protest Actually Work?

December 18, 2016
People Are in the Streets Protesting Donald Trump. But When Does Protest Actually Work?

ERICA CHENOWETH - The politics of dissent is back in the United States. Since 2011, the country has witnessed the resurgence of popular action — from Occupy Wall Street to Flood Wall Street to Black Lives Matter to Standing Rock. Since Nov. 8, many Americans have participated in protests and marches in nearly every...

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Posted in Analysis, December 2016 | No Comments »

Trump’s Possible Path out of Ukraine Crisis

December 4, 2016
Trump’s Possible Path out of Ukraine Crisis

JONATHAN MARSHALL - If Donald Trump wants to make a decisive and constructive mark on U.S. foreign policy early in his presidency, there’s no better place to start than by helping to end the brutal war in Ukraine that has claimed some 10,000 lives.

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Jury is Still Out on Trump’s Foreign Policy Agenda

November 24, 2016
Jury is Still Out on Trump’s Foreign Policy Agenda

ROBERT PARRY - By inviting in Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat hostile to “regime change” wars, President-elect Trump may be signaling a major break with Republican neocon orthodoxy and a big shake-up of the U.S. foreign policy establishment.

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Posted in Analysis, November 2016 | No Comments »

Fear and Strength in Oregon’s Immigrant Communities Post-Election

November 18, 2016
Fear and Strength in Oregon’s Immigrant Communities Post-Election

ERIC TEGETHOFF - Immigrant communities across Oregon are preparing to take President-elect Donald Trump at his word regarding ramping up deportations during his presidency.

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Posted in Big Picture, November 2016 | No Comments »

Are the US and Russia Sleepwalking into War?

November 2, 2016
Are the US and Russia Sleepwalking into War?

RAMESH THAKUR - Are the increasingly frosty relations between the United States and Russia going to turn into all-out war? Former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Ramesh Thakur weighs the evidence.

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Posted in Analysis, November 2016 | No Comments »

Donald Trump Brings the Crisis in Masculinity Into Focus

October 11, 2016
Donald Trump Brings the Crisis in Masculinity Into Focus

ROB OKUN - The crisis in masculinity and the presidential election got hitched this weekend, thanks to Donald Trump. While a vast majority of men—this election season’s silent majority—reject Mr. Trump’s “locker room” ideas about manhood, many are reluctant to publicly say so. That may be changing.

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Posted in Analysis, October 2016 | 1 Comment »

Latest Syria Trainwreck Shows the Obama Administration Is in a State of Confused Agony

September 27, 2016

RUSSIA INSIDER/THE SAKER - The latest developments in Syria are not, I believe, the result of some deliberate plan of the USA to help their “moderate terrorist” allies on the ground, but they are the symptom of something even worse: the complete loss of control of the USA over the situation in Syria and,...

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Posted in Analysis, September 2016 | No Comments »

This Moment at Standing Rock Was Decades in the Making

September 17, 2016
This Moment at Standing Rock Was Decades in the Making

JENNI MONET - North Dakota’s militarized response to activists opposing the Dakota Access pipeline—and the Standing Rock Sioux’s fierce resolve—reflect the area's particular racial divides.

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Posted in September 2016, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

The Debut of Our Revolution: Great Potential. But.

September 5, 2016
The Debut of Our Revolution: Great Potential. But.

NORMAN SOLOMON - While Bernie Sanders was doing a brilliant job of ripping into the Trans-Pacific Partnership during the livestreamed launch of the Our Revolution organization on Wednesday night, CNN was airing a phone interview with Hillary Clinton and MSNBC was interviewing Donald Trump’s campaign manager. That sums up the contrast between the enduring...

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Posted in Analysis, September 2016 | No Comments »

McKibben: Time to Declare a War (Literally) on Climate Change

August 22, 2016
McKibben: Time to Declare a War (Literally) on Climate Change

JON QUEALLY - We're under attack, says author and climate campaigner Bill McKibben, and the only way to defeat the enemy is to declare a global war against the destructive practices that threaten the world's imperiled ecosystems and human civilization as we know it.

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Posted in August 2016, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

Evaluating Obama’s Foreign Policy Record

June 10, 2016
Evaluating Obama’s Foreign Policy Record

MEL GURTOV - How should we evaluate Obama’s foreign policy record? Right-wing critics will of course excoriate Obama for all the usual things—weakness against adversaries like Russia and China, negotiating with instead of subverting Cuba and Iran, eviscerating the US military, undermining relations with Israel. On the left, Obama is already being...

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Posted in Analysis, June 2016 | No Comments »