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U.S.-Kurdish Security Ties Were Never Meant to Be Long-term

Via: it-is-me • Op/Ed • 38 Comments • 6 years ago

President Donald Trump's announcement last Sunday of a U.S. redeployment of forces from positions along the northeastern Syrian-Turkish border has been panned by a wide swath of the foreign policy...

How To Stage a Coup in 7 Easy Steps

By: sister-mary-agnes-ample-bottom • Op/Ed • 276 Comments • 6 years ago

In his novel 1984 , George Orwell wrote, “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” In 2019, Trump said , "Just remember:...

Custer Died For Your Sins, tributes from Indian Country

Via: 1stwarrior • Op/Ed • 12 Comments • 6 years ago

Fifty-years years ago Vine Deloria, Jr., an enrolled citizen of the Standing Rock Lakota Nation, published Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. For 1969 mainstream America the title was...

Americans Support For Impeachment Hearings (And Removal of Trump) Has Exploded (Up) In The Past Few Weeks

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 251 Comments • 6 years ago

For months support for the impeachment of Donald Trump pitter- pattered along, without an impetus from congressional leadership or a consensus by major media. Trump had committed numerous...

No Trump Building In Kurdistan, So Kurds Go Under The Bus

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 122 Comments • 6 years ago

The Kurds have no power on the world stage, no prime real estate on which to build Trump hotels or Trump condos, and no oligarchy or autocrat leaders for Trump to cozy up to, so naturally,...

The Humiliation Of Lindsey Graham

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 40 Comments • 6 years ago

It was a cri de cœur from Lindsey Graham, the lament of the sycophant scorned. President Trump’s decision to abandon our Kurdish allies in Syria by leaving them undefended against a...

The Firing of former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch

By: sister-mary-agnes-ample-bottom • Op/Ed • 107 Comments • 6 years ago

First, a bit of background from Wiki : Former Ambassador Yovanovitch is a graduate of Princeton University, where she earned a B.A. in History and Russian Studies in 1980. She studied at the...

What Trump Supporters Are Doing To America

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 309 Comments • 6 years ago

First of all , I am not talking about all Trump supporters. Some of them, I assume, are good people. But the conservatives haven't sent us their best. I heard on the news this morning that the...

Donald Trump vs. the United States of America

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 10 Comments • 6 years ago

Donald Trump vs. the United States of America Just the facts, in 40 sentences. Sometimes it’s worth stepping back to look at the full picture. He has pressured a foreign leader to interfere in the...

What Did Joe Biden Do Wrong?

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 68 Comments • 6 years ago

I am creating this thread for the purpose of giving a place for Trump supporters and/or others to explain to us exactly what they think Joe Biden did in Ukraine that merits the president of the...

The Volker Texts: What Quid Pro Quo Looks Like

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 5 Comments • 6 years ago

The Volker Texts: What Quid Pro Quo Looks Like The more information becomes public about L’Affaire Ukrainienne, the wider and deeper the controversy becomes. Late last night, Congress released...

Fox News Created This Problem

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 41 Comments • 6 years ago

Fox News Created This Problem by Martin Longman - Washington Monthly October 2, 2019 The people who are close to William Barr, who really know him, know that he only ever turns off...

Trump’s Economy Is Failing Exactly Where He Needs It to Succeed

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 49 Comments • 6 years ago

When shockingly poor data on U.S. manufacturing was released Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump was ready with his usual response to any bad economic news: He blamed Federal Reserve...

Trump Hits New All Time Low In CNBC Poll

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 27 Comments • 6 years ago

Trump has never had an approval rating this low in the CNBC poll. He is at 37% approval. Perhaps more disconcerting for him is the approval he has on the economy, which is just 42%. Next stop,...

Who Ever Runs against the Trump will have a Ridiculously high chance of beating him......107% Guaranteed!

By: badfish-hd-h-u • Op/Ed • 65 Comments • 6 years ago

Clinton has 90 percent chance of winning: Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation...

Different Verse, Same as the First?

By: sister-mary-agnes-ample-bottom • Op/Ed • 269 Comments • 6 years ago

Remember this Op-ed printed in the New York Times on September 5th of last year? I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration I work for the president but like-minded...

All The Presidents* Men*

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 63 Comments • 6 years ago

Mike Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State, who is said to lust after the White House circa 2024, was listening in on the infamous Trump phone call to the Ukranian president in which the president* of...

Climate change is already here. 2020 could be your last chance to stop an apocalypse

Via: it-is-me • Op/Ed • 47 Comments • 6 years ago

The world is drifting steadily toward a climate catastrophe. For many of us, that’s been clear for a few years or maybe a decade or even a few decades. But others have known that a reckoning was...

How Hamas Leaders Fool Palestinians

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Op/Ed • 1 Comments • 6 years ago

How Hamas Leaders Fool Palestinians By Bassam Tawil , Gatestone Institute, September 25, 2019 In recent years, reports have surfaced regarding the wealth and luxurious lives...

We Shouldn’t Disgrace Ourselves

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 39 Comments • 6 years ago

Over the last 24 hours, in emails and tweets, I’ve heard people say some version of ‘Hey, it’s a twofer. Maybe this new scandal will take out Trump and Joe Biden!’ Let me say that there are lots...

Let's Stop the Hatred

By: loretta-mashkawidee-kemsley • Op/Ed • 183 Comments • 6 years ago

I grew up in a REP family in a REP neighborhood, worked on Reagan's campaigns and was a lifelong REP for my entire life until about a decade ago when I changed my affiliation to IND because of...

You didn't object

Via: loretta-mashkawidee-kemsley • Op/Ed • 114 Comments • 6 years ago

Dear Republicans: You didn’t object when you heard Donald Trump say he likes to grab women “by the pussy.” You didn’t object when he kicked the American media out of the Oval Office and handed...

It's Time To Throw Trump The Fock Out

By: john-russell • Op/Ed • 48 Comments • 6 years ago

The Wall St Journal is reporting this afternoon that Trump asked the president of the Ukraine, 8 times, to investigate the Biden family, and work with Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani in...

Hillary Clinton tries to delegitimize the 2016 and 2018 election results, again

Via: it-is-me • Op/Ed • 52 Comments • 6 years ago

Hillary Clinton is a threat to democracy — at least according to Hillary Clinton. The two-time failed presidential candidate commiserated with failed 2018 Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey...

Corey Lewandowski's stonewall campaign finally crumbles: Are impeachment counts coming?

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 15 Comments • 6 years ago

Corey Lewandowski's stonewall campaign finally crumbles: Are impeachment counts coming? On Tuesday the House Judiciary Committee held the first public hearing to be billed as part of an...

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