Trump’s assertion that he intends to keep US troops in Iraq to spy on Iran has produced a firestorm of protest and controversy in Baghdad
Trump isn’t giving people orders to commit violence. But fringe violent racists clearly are taking encouragement from Trump’s outrageous bigotry
From Muslim Visa Ban to 1930s Exclusion of Jews
A big problem is that television news covers a similar plot by a Muslim 357 times more than it covers plots by the Western far right wing
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His was a full, impactful life cut short by an assassin’s cruel bullet, and his was a wide-ranging critical intellect that put the unhealthy foundations of capitalist America under the microscope of a seasoned pathologist
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The only way Republicans can avoid being taken over by the Neo-Nazis the way they were previously taken over by the Evangelicals is to make a clean break with Trumpism and Breitbartism and Mercerism
The Trumps may not be classy, but they wouldn’t know working-class if it fell on them like a meteor
Netflix has been forced to pull Episode 2 of comedian Hasan Minhaj’s “Patriot Act” for Saudi viewers because it criticizes the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi
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