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More than 120 refugees are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean after a boat sank off the Libyan cost on Friday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said. … At least 1,850 refugees have lost their lives on the dangerous crossing so far this year, says the IOM. … After drifting for a… Read more.
Reza Aslan is to religion what Fareed Zakaria is to politics: easily the most interesting, informed, and impartial TV commentator in his field. Each man is like an oasis in a vast desert of empty-headed twits parroting partisan talking points as insightful commentary. This is why CNN firing Aslan means a far greater loss for… Read more.
The media used allusions to the Super Bowl to hype former FBI director James Comey’s testimony today before the Senate Intelligence Committee. As it played out, though, sports fans could be forgiven for feeling duped. Granted, the suckers who flocked to local bars to watch, as if it were a big game, could at least… Read more.
Much is being made of the way the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is rolling out the red carpet for President Trump – complete with bells, whistles, and gilded displays that appeal more to a visiting Mideast king (i.e., Trump’s ego) than a US president. This might seem ironic, even self-abnegating – given Trump’s virulent anti-Muslim… Read more.
President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State. The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an… Read more.
It behooves everyone else to do the same. Since day one of his presidency, we’ve been treated to the spectacle of Trump blurting out outrageous and erroneous statements of policy only to have one or another of his advisers correct him. This was the case, for example, when he said he would Kick out NATO… Read more.
It is mainly the feat of an idiot, full of lies and hypocrisy, accomplishing nothing. In fact, Donald Trump became a billionaire and the most powerful man in the world by telling big lies and being brazenly hypocritical. He calls it his “flexible” strategy for success. In truth, this nouveau fascist figured out long ago… Read more.
President Obama reportedly warned President-Elect Trump that dealing with a belligerent North Korea will be his most urgent and vexing foreign-policy challenge. Sure enough, the consensus among world leaders today is that North Korea poses an existential threat not just to its neighbors but even to the United States. The Kremlin has sent Russian troops… Read more.
Remember the campaign days when Trump used to boast that no country would dare disrespect his presidency the way he claimed so many were disrespecting Obama’s? For example, he routinely ridiculed Obama as weak and pathetic for Allowing Russian fighter jets to buzz US warships in the Black Sea; Trump boasted: It just shows how… Read more.
Idle bluster, abject ignorance, bald-faced lies, and thin-skinned petulance characterized Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The same, alas, are characterizing his presidency. But it’s one thing for the media to cover his campaign as little more than reality TV. It’s quite another for them to cover his presidency as such. Yet that’s precisely what they’re doing… Read more.
