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The dangerous myth of American hegemony
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 15 Comments • 2 Likes • 5 years ago
“The United States today seems incapable of correctly appraising how its power to coerce other actors in the international system is diminishing. ”
he Trump administration unveiled plans recently to send as many as 120,000 troops to Iran if American forces are attacked or if work on a nuclear weapons program is resumed. This stunning revelation, in the absence of any real provocation from Tehran, has justifiably caused great alarm...
The Trumps vs. de Blasio on NYC Crime
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 5 years ago
“As for Eric Trump’s claim that “you have never created a job in your life,” we assume Trump was talking about as an employer. But what about de...”
President Donald Trump and his son Eric both took shots this week at New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, saying crime has risen in the city under his leadership. That’s wrong, according to crime data kept by the New York Police Department. Major felony offenses have dropped every year de Blasio...
Deadly Abortion Bans Endanger Pregnant People's Live
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 5 years ago
“"These bans reinforce violence against women by victimizing survivors of rape and sexual violence twofold by denying their right to access abortion”
WASHINGTON - Responding to the Alabama Senate approving a measure on Tuesday that would outlaw almost all abortions in the state, Tarah Demant, the Director of the Gender, Sexuality and Identity Program at Amnesty International USA said: "Alabama’s vote is the latest in a string of abortion...
Undermining Trump-Bolton War Narrative, British General Says No Evidence of 'Increased Threat' From Iran
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 18 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
“"Intelligence and military officials in Europe as well as in the United States said that over the past year, most aggressive moves have originated...”
A British general threw a wrench into the Trump administration's narrative that Iran is plotting attacks on American troops in the Middle East by telling reporters gathered at the Pentagon Tuesday that "there's been no increased threat from Iranian-backed forces" in the region. "We...
Michael Cohen Destroyed Not Just Trump but Also His House GOP Defenders
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 5 years ago
“A president who talks like a mob boss got protected by his GOP mob-boss wannabes. Cohen, a former Trump enforcer himself, made them all look...”
We the American people are governed today by very bad men, and a few bad women, and after two years, this humiliation feels like a chronic illness for which there’s no relief, a mysterious infection nobody can diagnose or treat. We all know well that the president is a liar, a serial sexual...
Trump vs. the Constitution: A Guide
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 5 years ago
“It may be true that Donald Trump has read the Constitution. But it’s unclear if he understands it.”
In his speech at the Democratic National Convention last week, Khizr Khan, a Muslim-American lawyer and father of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq, waved a pocket copy of the Constitution in the air and challenged Donald Trump. Referencing the Republican’s call to ban Muslims from entering the...
How gullibility and cynicism explain Trump voters: The sycophants of a leader who fulfills their narcissistic fantasies will do anything to support him
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 94 Comments • 5 Likes • 5 years ago
“In Part 1, we looked at Trump’s lies through the lens of the Washington Post’s own “bottomless Pinocchio” lists as well as three academic studies...”
In Part 1, we looked at Trump’s lies through the lens of the Washington Post’s own “bottomless Pinocchio” lists as well as three academic studies based on their data, before turning to a broader perspective. That involves seeing Trump’s lies as part of a larger rhetorical strategy, as described...
‘Unhinged, insensitive and lying’: Trump uses bogus bar graph to spread falsehood about Puerto Rico hurricane aid
Via: Don Overton • World News • 21 Comments • 5 years ago
“ "His racism knows no boundaries," said San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz.”
President Donald Trump spent the opening minutes of a campaign rally in Panama City Beach, Florida on Wednesday attacking hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico for not sufficiently appreciating his administration’s relief efforts—which critics have decried as grossly inadequate—and attempting to use a...
NewsTalkers definition of Trolling
By: Don Overton • Metafied • 17 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
Trolling is making a comment that is supposed to upset another member so much that they might make a violation in return. So for example, if someone writes, "I thought you had something to say that made sense, but you don't as usual", you are implying that they don't have anything that makes...