25 August 2019 — Reminiscence of the Future…
Daniel Larison arrived three days ago to a conclusion that Donald Trump Doesn’t Know How to Negotiate. Well, we have known that for quite some time now. As Larison notes:
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Washington’s Utterly Failed Diplomacy
9 August 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
The Bully on the Block
There seems no longer any attempt, or semblance, of seeking diplomacy by Washington. Sanctions and aggression are wielded with reckless abandon. Russia, China, and even America’s own supposed European allies are subject to sanctions by Washington in a high-handed dismissal of any mutual dialogue to resolve alleged grievances.
As the ocean waters rise, so do the islands of garbage
26 July 2019 — The Tricontinental
The Thirtieth Newsletter (2019)
Dear Friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Twelve-year-old Aeshnina Azzahra’s letter to Donald Trump. (click to enlarge)
On 12 July 2019, a twelve-year-old girl from Gresik (Indonesia), Aeshnina Azzahra, wrote a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump. The letter was delivered to the U.S. embassy in Jakarta and released to the press. ‘My country’, she wrote, ‘is the second largest contributor to waste. And some of that waste is your waste’. Then, she asked three powerful and sincere questions: ‘Why do you always export your waste to my country? Why don’t you take care of your own waste? Why do we have to feel the impact of your waste?’
Trump’s Vision for Africa? The 1960s By Wayne Madsen
26 July 2019 — WSWS
Although Donald Trump can barely place a single country in Africa, his few utterances on the continent have yielded what can only be described as a nostalgia for the 1960s. It was a decade that saw three white minority-ruled governments ruling in South Africa, Rhodesia, and the South African territory of South-West Africa. All three white-ruled entities practiced varying degrees of apartheid. This was accomplished through economic, social, and political means.
The fascists in the White House
16 July 2019 — WSWS
The tirades by President Donald Trump over the past three days have no precedent in the history of the US presidency. Trump, backed by a cabal of advisors in the White House, speaks openly as a fascist, demonizing people of different races and national origins, vilifying socialism, and declaring that those who oppose his administration’s policies are disloyal to the country and should leave it.
Iran Faces US Aggression and European Hypocrisy, but this Time It’s Ready
12 July 2019 — Global Research – Middle East Eye
There is no reason to expect that a declining and desperate empire will conduct itself in a civilised manner. Iran is prepared for the worst
By Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi
Western cultural arrogance rears its Medusa-like head each time US President Donald Trump rails about obliterating Iran.
If You Provoke the Entire World, Something May Happen By Andre Vltchek
11 July 2019 — New Eastern Outlook
The United States believes that it is so invincible, exceptional and so frightening that no one would ever dare to protest, let alone defend its people against constant humiliation, economic embargos and military threats.
Kim Darroch – the Simple Explanation By Craig Murray
9 July 2019 — Craig Murray
The media is full of over-complicated theories as to who might have leaked Kim Darroch’s diplomatic telegrams giving his candid view on the Trump administration. I should start by explaining the FCO telegram system. The communications are nowadays effectively encrypted emails, though still known as “telegrams”: to the Americans “cables”. They are widely distributed. These Darroch telegrams would be addressed formally to the Foreign Secretary but have hundreds of other recipients, in the FCO, No.10, Cabinet Office, MOD, DFID, other government departments, MI6, GCHQ, and in scores of other British Embassies abroad. The field of suspects is therefore immense.
Western News Agencies Mistranslate Iran’s President Speech – It Is Not The First Time Such ‘Error’ Happens
26 June 2019 — Moon of Alabama
Yesterday the news agencies Associated Press and Reuters mistranslated a speech by Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani. They made it sound as if Rouhani insulted U.S. President Donald Trump as ‘mentally retarded’. Rouhani never said that.
The agencies previously made a similar ‘mistake’.
What Comes After Trump – World War III? By Federico Pieraccini
11 June 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Those who are familiar with my articles would be aware that I am not given to catastrophism or alarmism. But perhaps the time has come to reflect on who will be president after Trump (whether after this or the next term) and what this will mean for relations with Russia and China.
Trump in the UK: A Marriage Made in Hell By Seth Ferris
8 June 2019 — New Eastern Outlook
We have all seen it time and again – the US walks into some developing country, gives its support to its favoured politicians, irrespective of whether they are in government or not, and then starts trying to dictate domestic policy by offering “aid” the poor country is in no position to refuse.
The Trump ‘Deal’: An Ultimatum and a Setup By Elias Samo
3 June 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
A few weeks ago I wrote an article about the Trump Deal of the century titled “The Deal of the Century: Two Con Men’s Job”, published by Strategic Culture Foundation on May 5th, 2019.
At the time of writing the article, not enough credible material was published about the “Deal”, so the article’s introduction was “Yes, ‘You can judge a book by its cover’, especially if the ‘book’ is the ‘Deal of the Century’ and the ‘cover’ lauds two con men, Trump and Netanyahu.” Now, apparently enough credible material about the content of the ‘Deal’ has been published, particularly the article in ‘Hayom’, the Israeli Jewish paper. The deal merits a second look, without resorting to reading a ‘book’ by its cover.
