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And plans to build a $500m city as restitution. Arguably, successive kings of Saudi Arabia have had the blood of Americans on their hands. Most notable of course is the blood of those who perished on 9/11. This is why it’s so perplexing that successive presidents of the United States have been so willing to… Read more.
One of the perverse features of Donald Trump’s malignant narcissism is the shameless way he engages in projection. The psychopathology afoot here is called projection. It is defined by people attributing to others traits, faults, and blame that inhere in themselves. And it explains almost every insult Trump has hurled at his opponents throughout this presidential campaign.… Read more.
Lewis Hamilton passed title rival Sebastian Vettel to take a dominant victory in the United States Grand Prix but will have to wait at least one more race to win his fourth world championship. The Mercedes driver is 66 points clear of Vettel, who finished second, with only 75 still available in the remaining three… Read more.
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And, with all due respect to Kelly, I was stunned. To White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, the conversation between the president of the United States and the spouse of a fallen soldier is ‘sacred’ … President Trump has been on the receiving end of significant criticism after Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) said he told… Read more.
It is now conventional wisdom that “Donald Trump is like Adolf Hitler.” The Washington Examiner crystallized this in a report on December 28, 2016, under the headline “Seven times the media compared Trump to Hitler.” But the Washington Post gave this meme über credibility when it published an editorial on February 29, 2016, under the… Read more.
Two things explain Donald Trump’s incriminating refusal to criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin: Russia’s meddling to help him win the US presidential election; and Credible reports that Putin has compromising information on his shady businesses and kinky assignations in Moscow (some of which former British spy Christopher Steele documented in lurid detail in his famous… Read more.
Puerto Rico In an extraordinary public letter, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz begged the American public to stand by Puerto Rico as President Donald Trump openly threatens to remove federal aid workers from the still-battered island. ‘I ask every American that has love, and not hate in their hearts, to stand with Puerto Rico… Read more.
The death toll in the bombing that hit the centre of Mogadishu on Saturday continues to rise, with more than 300 people now believed to have been killed and hundreds more seriously injured. The scale of the loss makes the attack, which involved a truck packed with several hundred kilograms of military-grade and homemade explosives,… Read more.
Iran, Russia and European leaders roundly condemned President Trump’s decision on Friday to disavow the Iran nuclear deal, saying that it reflected the growing isolation of the United States, threatened to destabilize the Middle East and could make it harder to resolve the growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula. [Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain,… Read more.
