ANDREW LEVINE—Trump is not a rightwing ideologue because he is not an ideologue at all. The very idea gives him too much credit. Indeed, Trump has no settled political convictions. How could he? If his tweets are any indication, he cannot even hold a thought for more than a day or two. He just goes with whatever is on his mind.
January 6, 2018
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PAUL STREET—The real question is how an “idiot surrounded by clowns” got into the White House. The Democratic Party establishment wants people to think that Russia did it – a charge as moronic as Trump’s claim to have won the popular vote but for millions of illegal immigrant ballots.
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DAVID WALSH—Merkin notes a “disturbing lack of clarity” about terms such as harassment, assault and “inappropriate conduct.” She observes, moreover, that expressing “sexual interest is inherently messy and, frankly, nonconsensual—one person, typically the man, bites the bullet by expressing interest in the other, typically the woman—whether it happens at work or at a bar.
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Who Will Pay the $250+ Billion Reconstruction Cost in Syria?
39 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—America’s corruption deserves a Nobel Prize, like was won by Henry Kissinger and Barack Obama; but, this one should be called the “Hypocrisy Prize” and awarded directly to the US Government — an invoice, “amount due,” totaling the damages done by this Government to all of the governments that had posed no threat to US national security but that the US Government nonetheless overthrew, starting with Thailand in 1948.
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US Criticized for Calling SC Meeting on Iran
12 minutes readSTEPHEN LENDMAN—Addressing Haley directly, Nebenzya added: “Instead of focusing on the solution of acute crises in Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, North Korea and Africa, you suggest meddling in the internal affairs of other states. We do not want to be accomplices to destabilization in Iran or elsewhere.”