Due to Trump, the US is not seen as trustworthy on world stage
Jan 06,2021 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN Instead of making a serious effort to deliver the COVID vaccine to US arms, Donald Trump’s last act has been a futile […]
30 years post-Cold War, Turkey tries to strike balance with US, Russia
BY ŞEYMA NAZLI GÜRBÜZ İSTANBUL NEWS ANALYSIS JAN 03 President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Sept. 16, 2019. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images) The S-400 crisis […]
The US military is facing a danger unlike any war – a president seeking to sow division and discord
Trump, who has help polarise the nation according to a number of former commaders now wants to use the military for further incendiary confrontations Kim Sengupta Donald Trump showed a remarkable degree of infatuation with the military when he started his presidency. He was fulsome in his praise towards them […]
Trump believes the US army has got his back. He’s about to get a surprise – and I know why
Protesters have to be protected, writes Robert Fisk – but the question is by whom? And from whom? Like in the Middle East, soldiers are key @indyvoices 14 hours ago […]
How the Bible Belt lost God and found Trump
He’s a divorced adulterer who ran a gambling empire, so how did America’s Moral Majority get so evangelical about Donald Trump? I went down to Alabama a few weeks […]
Pentagon awards $10bn cloud computing deal to Microsoft, snubbing Amazon
Source: The Guardian The Pentagon has awarded Microsoft a $10bn cloud computing contract, beating out favourite Amazon, whose competitive bid drew criticism from US president Donald Trump and its business rivals. Bidding […]
Kurdish soldiers I spoke to feared Trump would be a treacherous ally. But the scale of his betrayal is terrifying
We are already on the downslope leading to the ethnic cleansing of up to 2 million Kurds in the vast triangle of land which they call Rojava in northeast Syria […]
Trump Stands Up for Religious Freedom
Source: Wall Street Journal President Trump isn’t known as a champion of human rights, but on Monday he became the first American president to convene a meeting at the United […]
Presidential candidate Jay Inslee visits a Detroit mosque; talks Trump, Muslim Ban, and BDS
Source: Michigan Radio By MALAK SILMI Washington Governor and Democratic Presidential Candidate Jay Inslee visited the Islamic Center of Detroit Tuesday to speak with community members and listen to issues that […]
In his first public statement, Washington’s new Catholic archbishop slams Trump for ‘diminishing our national life’
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein Washington’s new Catholic leader — the country’s lone black archbishop — on Thursday issued his first public statement since his installation, accusing President Trump of “diminishing […]
National Cathedral leaders: Trump’s racial comments ‘give cover to white supremacists’
Source: CNN By Caroline Kelly, CNN (CNN)Leaders of the Washington National Cathedral slammed President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on minority lawmakers and the city of Baltimore as a “dangerous” rallying cry […]
Making sense of evangelicals’ support for Trump
Source: The Guardian How can evangelicals support Donald Trump? That question continues to befuddle and exasperate liberals. How, they wonder, can a man who is twice divorced, a serial liar, […]
GOP Rep. Justin Amash Breaks With Party, Says Trump Engaged in ‘Impeachable Conduct’
Source: Time BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE / AP (WASHINGTON) — A Republican congressman from Michigan on Saturday became the first member of President Donald Trump’s party on Capitol Hill to accuse him […]
Trump proposes new US immigration plan favoring ‘merit’ over family ties – as it happened
Source: The Guardian By Vivian Ho (now) and Jamiles Lartey(earlier) The Mueller team unsealed evidence today that indicated that Michael Flynn told them of several instances of “persons connected to the Administration or Congress” interfering with the […]
Trump cites Ramadan as time of ‘hope, tolerance and peace’
Source: Associated Press By KEVIN FREKING WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump celebrated the month of Ramadan Monday evening as a time when people join forces in “pursuit of hope, […]
Trump Pushes to Designate Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group
Source: The New York Times By Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt and Maggie Haberman WASHINGTON — The White House is pushing to issue an order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist […]
President Trump has made more than 10,000 false or misleading claims
Source: The Washington Post By Glenn Kessler , Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly It took President Trump 601 days to top 5,000 false and misleading claims in The Fact Checker’s database, an average of eight claims […]
Mick Mulvaney: Faith is driving many Trump administration policies
Source: Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) — White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney declared at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Tuesday (April 23) that faith drives the Trump […]
Trump administration discourages use of ‘two-state solution’
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON (JTA) — The White House is discouraging the use of the term “two-state solution” when describing possible outcomes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A senior White […]
In Attacking Ilhan Omar, Trump Revives His Familiar Refrain Against Muslims
Source: The New York Times By Maggie Haberman and Sheryl Gay Stolberg WASHINGTON — President Trump has often seen the political benefits of stigmatizing Muslims. During the 2016 campaign, he would not rule […]
