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The U.S. Senate’s Historic Vote on Yemen, with Some Historical Perspective

By dnexon

In foreign policy

On December 1, 2018

On Wednesday, the Senate voted to advance a resolution invoking the War Power Act and giving President Trump 90 days to end American involvement in Yemen. Mark Weisbrot at The Guardian and Alex Ward at Vox both provide good explanations of the significance of the vote and the very strong chance that the resolution is […]

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Looks Like I Need to Rethink My Environmental History Courses

By Erik Loomis

On November 16, 2018

Donald Trump’s forestry policy seems solid: President Trump on Friday told Fox News host Chris Wallace that he believes wildfires in California could be eradicated if the state had raked all 33

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Leadership for the 21st Century

By Erik Loomis

On November 13, 2018

Things sure are going well: And, according to a source outside the White House who has spoken recently with the president, last week’s Wall Street Journal report confirming Trump’s central role du

The Trump Doctrine

By Erik Loomis

In General

On November 11, 2018

Evidently, the Trump Doctrine is making the United States a global laughingstock by yelling at all other nations incoherently and ignorantly. The Le Monde report concerned events in Washington in early April this year, when the leaders of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia visited the White House for a meeting and a joint press conference. At […]

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The Election of Donald Trump Was a Devastating Blow to Neoliberalism

By Erik Loomis

On November 11, 2018

Thankfully, we elected a man of the people in 2016. President Donald Trump watched election returns Tuesday with dozens of friends in the palatial East Room of the White House, including Republican me

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“Soros-Occupied State Department”

By dnexon

On October 27, 2018

Apropos my various posts on this subject. Straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Just moments ago, Lou Dobbs guest Chris Farrell (head of Judicial Watch) says Caravan is being funded/dir

National Security as Magical Thinking

By dnexon

In foreign policy

On October 21, 2018

Trump just announced that the United States will be exiting the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, which Reagan and Gorbachev signed in 1987. The treaty was a key inflection point in the process that ended the Cold War, so it seems almost fitting that an administration captured by interwar conservative foreign-policy thinking would give it […]

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Only the Finest Foreign Policy

By Erik Loomis

On October 11, 2018

Sure the Saudis just murdered a famous journalist. But is Trump going to do anything about this? Ha ha ha ha, of course not. After all, this is what they pay him for. Instead, let’s make more mo

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The Continuing Rise of American-style Fascism

By dnexon

On October 5, 2018

Yesterday, Tucker Carlson, in the process of attacking opponents of Brett “Yalie MacYaleface” Kavanaugh, had this to say: You can see in the protests by the way, these are not the children

The Opposite of Neoconservativism is not Isolationism

By dnexon

In foreign policy

On September 25, 2018

In my recent Foreign Affairs article on progressive foreign policy, I wrote about seizing a middle ground between “liberal internationalists” and “anti-hegemonists.” I struggled a bit with what to call the further left, but I knew from the outset that I wasn’t going to label them “isolationists.” The term is a lot like “neoliberalism.” When the far […]

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Our Educated Populace

By Erik Loomis

On September 24, 2018

Above: Lakers Hall of Fame center Donald J. Trump It’s a real wonder this nation is falling apart. A photoshopped picture depicting Trump rescuing people during Hurricane Florence has been share

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Build That Wall!

By Erik Loomis

On September 21, 2018

I maintain that the most important thing to understand about Donald Trump is that he is a fucking moron. We have daily evidence of this, but here is some more. Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell c

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