Donald Trump’s Best Legal Strategy: An Apology
Source: Time BY Samuel Breidbart and Vinay Nayak Breidbart and Nayak are students at Yale Law School. It’s time for Donald Trump to do something he’s pretty much never done before: […]
In first Trump-Merkel meeting, awkward body language and a quip
Reuters International MAR 17, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 17, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (reuters_tickers) By Jeff Mason and Andreas Rinke WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The first face-to-face meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump […]
Donald Trump’s Muslim ban is nothing compared to Theresa May’s ‘Christian’ approach to immigration
May is hardly the first avowedly Christian politician who would have made Jesus ruin his cute trick with the loaves and fish by puking over the lot of them Matthew Norman @IndyVoices When starting a column such as this, the sense of inadequacy is even more overwhelming than usual. The […]
President Donald Trump signs new travel ban, exempts Iraq
By Ariane de Vogue, Jeremy Diamond and Kevin Liptak, CNN Story highlights President Donald Trump’s original executive order was rolled out to chaos six weeks ago The order will make clear that lawful permanent residents are excluded from any travel ban Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump signed a new executive order […]
Donald Trump just signed a revised Muslim ban
By Emily C. Singer President Donald Trump signed a revamped version of his botched travel ban on Monday, hoping that tweaks to the executive order will withstand the all-but-certain legal challenges the policy stands to face. “This revised order will bolster the security of the United States and her allies,” Secretary of State Rex […]
FBI chief James Comey ‘urges Justice Department to publicly refute Donald Trump’s wiretap claim’
President alleges Barack Obama monitored his communications, without providing evidence Caroline Mortimer @cjmortimer FBI director James Comey has asked the Justice Department to reject publicly Donald Trump’s claim that Barack Obama wiretapped his communications, according to US media reports. Senior officials close to Mr Comey said he has privately called on the department […]
Best-selling children’s author Mem Fox ‘sobbed like a baby’ as she was detained by US border control
‘I have never in my life been spoken to with such insolence’ says the 70-year-old writer Lucy Pasha-Robinson @lucypasha The Independent US Mem Fox said she was insulted by US border guards Twitter A best selling children’s author said she “sobbed like a baby” after she was detained and “insulted” by US border control […]
New Trump Deportation Rules Allow Far More Expulsions
WASHINGTON — President Trump has directed his administration to enforce the nation’s immigration laws more aggressively, unleashing the full force of the federal government to find, arrest and deport those in the country illegally, regardless of whether they have committed serious crimes. Documents released on Tuesday by the Department of […]
A Back-Channel Plan for Ukraine and Russia, Courtesy of Trump Associates
By MEGAN TWOHEY and SCOTT SHANEFEB. 19, 2017 President Trump on his way to Charleston, S.C., on Friday. Although he has expressed hope that the United States and Russia can work together, it is unclear if the White House will take a privately submitted peace proposal for Ukraine seriously. CreditAl […]
Trump names Lt Gen HR McMaster as national security adviser
Source:BBC US President Donald Trump has named Lt Gen HR McMaster as his national security adviser. He will replace Lt Gen Michael Flynn who was fired after just three weeks and three days in the job.A lieutenant general with the US Army, HR McMaster served in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he […]
Trump administration ‘had a secret plan to lift Russian sanctions’ and cede Ukraine territory to Moscow
Senior Trump aides met with an opposition politician from Ukraine in New York Tom Hamburger, Rosalind S Helderman Washington DC President Trump’s personal lawyer and a former business associate met privately in New York City last month with a member of the Ukrainian parliament to discuss a peace plan for […]
Trump’s defence chief, in Iraq, says – We’re not here for your oil
Reuters International FEB 20, 2017 – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (L) receives a gift from Iraq’s Defence Minister Erfan al-Hiyali during a visit to Baghdad, Iraq February 20, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer (reuters_tickers) By Phil Stewart BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The U.S. military is not in Iraq “to seize anybody’s oil”, […]
New U.S. travel ban to spare green card holders – Trump official
Reuters International FEB 18, 2017 Demonstrators march during the “Day Without Immigrants” protest in Washington, DC, February 16, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein (reuters_tickers) MUNICH (Reuters) – A new version of a Trump administration travel ban will not stop green card residency holders or travellers already on planes from entering […]
How will we get over the Trump addiction?
The media circus that is the current administration will come to an end soon, and politics will go back to normal. But what will we do for entertainment? Robert Fisk @indyvoices Not long after the Lebanese civil war ended more than a quarter of a century ago, I found my […]
Donald Trump’s abandonment of the two-state solution descended into dark comedy very quickly
There was laughter. Not because this was an intended joke by Donald Trump, but because his words were so flippant, so careless, so ignorant, so utterly deplorable, that laughter was the only psychological human release available to sane men and women after such tragic frivolity Robert Fisk @indyvoices Donald Trump’s […]
Palestinians denounce US comments on 2-state solution, say alternative is apartheid
FEB. 15, 2017 (File) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A United States official said on Tuesday that the US was not necessarily committed to the two-state solution as the sole way out of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, sparking criticism from Palestinian officials who upheld that the two-state solution remained the only alternative to […]
Trump pledges ‘great’ Mideast peace deal
From the sectionMiddle East US President Donald Trump has said he will work very hard to deliver “really a great peace deal” between Israel and the Palestinians. After his first meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr Trump told his visitor both sides would have to make compromises. […]
Think things are bad for Palestinians right now? Wait until Trump and Netanyahu cosy up together
Since the President’s rise to power, Israel’s government has been drunk with power and impunity. It has dropped its thin mask of supporting the two state solution, moving at a dizzying speed to build as many settlements as possible in the occupied Palestinian territory Omar Barghouti When President Donald Trump […]
What Trump and His Supporters Can Learn From Muslim Leaders
By Craig Considine CHARLES PHELPS CUSHING/CLASSICSTOCK VIA GETTY IMAGES Support for Donald Trump is surging across the United States. This is particularly troubling because in recent weeks, he has called for banning Muslim immigration, shutting down mosques, spying on Muslims, making Muslims carry ID badges, and a few other […]
Donald Trump has managed to unite Muslims and Jews in a way that few have ever managed to do
Trump’s Muslim ban was painfully evocative of Jewish stories of migration to the US – or tragic accounts of family members denied entry to the US as refugees, only to be killed in the Holocaust. Dozens of rabbis were recently arrested while demonstrating against the ban outside Trump Tower Rachel Shabi […]