What a country, eh?
Source: Trump’s America: Federal Judge Tells New Citizens To Like Trump Or Leave | Crooks and Liars
Category: USA
By True Activist at trueactivist.com The majority of America’s mainline media is owned and controlled by a mere 6 corporations, but few in the U.S. are aware of this… Unless you go out of your way to seek truthful news from reputable sources, chances are you – like the majority of the populace – are …
Source: What You’re Not Told: 90% Of American Media Is Controlled By Six Corporations
Media coverage has not wavered since US voters went to the polls, and now the focus has turned to what kind of president Donald Trump will be.
Sparks were flying on Fox News when two members of the Electoral College told conservative television host Tucker Carlson that they refuse to vote for Donald Trump on December 19th when they offici…
Source: 2 Electoral College Members Tell Fox News They Won’t Vote for Trump (VIDEO) – US Uncut
Those seen as being close to Chris Christe have been forced out.
Source: Key figures purged from Donald Trump transition team
By Andrew Kolin | (Informed Comment) | – – According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, “Labor …
Source: Election Postmortem: Did the Labor Unions get Taken for a Ride? | Informed Comment
“White America may be shocked by the election of Donald Trump, but black and brown America smelt it coming.”
Source: The foul stench of fascism in the US – News from Al Jazeera
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Democratic Party has been the Establishment for eight years, and …
Source: Why the White Working Class Rebelled: Neoliberalism is Killing Them (Literally) | Informed Comment
By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanMillions of people around the world are committed to opposing the Republican’s dangerous and divisive agenda. Their work, like the work of the incoming administration, has just begun.
Something Canadians have always known about their country but don’t crow about – is how crucial, and underrated, kindness is.
Here I was thinking I was part of a sensible majority when it turns out I am in fact part of an elitist minority. Discombobulating, isn’t it?
As Trump heads to the White House, Trump’s transition team has assembled a shortlist of who could make up Trump’s Cabinet. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie are among those in consideration for attorney general. Christie is also being considered for homeland security secretary, as is Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke. Secretary of the interior might go to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin or oil executive Forrest Lucas. Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich are in the running for secretary of state. Donald Trump is also expected to quickly nominate a conservative Supreme Court justice to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Antonin Scalia.
Donald J. Trump was elected 45th president of the United States on Tuesday, defeating Hillary Rodham Clinton in a stunning upset that reverberated around the world. Trump carried at least 279 Electoral College votes to Clinton’s 218, although Trump appears to have narrowly lost the popular vote. Donald Trump has never held elective office. He opened his campaign in 2015 with a speech calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists. Trump has proposed banning all Muslims from entering the United States. He openly mocked his opponents, reporters, Asians, African Americans and the disabled. More than a dozen women have accused Trump of sexual assault, and he was heard in a 2005 videotape boasting about sexually assaulting women. Throughout the campaign, Trump drew the enthusiastic support of white nationalists and hate groups. Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke, who ran unsuccessfully for a U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana, cheered the outcome of the election. Duke tweeted, “This is one of the most exciting nights of my life -> make no mistake about it, our people have played a HUGE role in electing Trump! #MakeAmericaGreatAgain.”
On the same day Donald Trump was elected, the World Meteorological Organization reported that the five years from 2011 to 2015 were the hottest on record, with hundreds of thousands of deaths likely due to global warming from human activity. The report found human-induced climate change was directly linked to extreme events, including an East African drought and famine in 2011 that claimed over a quarter-million lives, and “Superstorm” Sandy in the U.S. that caused $67 billion of damage in 2012. Delegates at the United Nations climate summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, are expressing panic over Tuesday’s election results, saying President-elect Donald Trump may threaten the future of any international agreement to slow catastrophic climate change. Trump has said he will “cancel the Paris Climate Agreement and stop all payments of U.S. tax dollars to U.N. global warming programs.” Trump has also promised to promote coal power and fracking, and says he will allow for oil and gas drilling on federal lands. He has also promised to ask TransCanada to renew its permit application for the Keystone XL pipeline. For more, we’re joined by Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org. He’s the author of several books, including “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.” His recent article for The New York Times is titled “Why Dakota is the New Keystone.”
Source: Bill McKibben: Trump’s Presidency Comes When the Warming World Can Least Afford It | Democracy Now!
And now for the what might have been: They are saying Bernie Sanders would have done Donald Trump like a dinner.
Source: US election 2016: Bernie Sanders and the alt-left could have trumped Trump
For starters: Make the $38 billion military aid package dependent on Israeli actions to dismantle the occupation, and recognize the State of Palestine already. By Sam Bahour Again, the Republican candidate in the U.S. presidential elections lost the popular vote but won the election. Such is a function of the mechanics of the U.S. flavor of democracy where not every vote matters; only votes in key states matter. Nevertheless, billionaire Donald Trump is heading to the White House. Trump’s ascent into the U.S. presidency will be the material for political analysts and historians, not to mention Hollywood, for many years to come. That…
Source: Trump’s first steps on Israel/Palestine | +972 Magazine
Friday 11 November 2016. The theorising has begun. How did it happen that this moronic individual became leader of the United States of America? The most powerful nation in the world. Some say the Democrats selected the wrong candidate. There may be some substance in that but Trump told those unhappy with conventional establishment politics, what…
Source: Day to Day Politics: Can he deliver? No. – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Russian government officials had contact with members of Donald Trump’s campaign team, a top Russian diplomat confirmed on Thursday.
Source: Russia’s deputy foreign minister confirms Moscow had contact with Trump campaign team
Former prime minister Paul Keating says Australia should “cut the tag” with the United States following Donald Trump’s shock win in Tuesday’s presidential election, and instead assert our own foreign policy in the Asian region.
Source: Paul Keating says ‘cut the tag’ with the US after Donald Trump’s shock win
After the shock election result in the US, Australians have reacted to Donald Trump’s victory.
Source: Ipsos poll shows what Australians feel about President Donald Trump
The Canadian immigration site has broken as people look to leave the US in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s election as the country’s new president.
It took years to create the Donald Trump storm system — and it will take years to untangle what just happened
Source: We deserved this, America — and now we have no idea what the hell to do about it – Salon.com
The nativist rabble-rousing and promises of expulsion and exclusion that carried Donald Trump to victory are worryingly similar to the resurgence of Meir Kahane’s Kach movement in Israel. Neither can be ignored. On the eve of the U.S. presidential elections I stood opposite an alcove in Kraków’s High Synagogue, gazing into an empty socket in which a Torah scroll once stood. The synagogue — named for the fact that the prayer hall was installed on the first floor, in order to protect its Jewish congregants from the Christian gathering-places nearby — is no longer active, but evidence of its past remains: the circular window…
Source: Trump’s win poses a challenge we must respond to | +972 Magazine
Take a look at commentary about the night Trump won the White House by Truthdig staff including Editor in Chief Robert Scheer and contributors Bill Boyarsky and Bill Blum.
Source: Donald Trump Got Elected President and This Is How It Happened (Multimedia) – Truthdig
As I write this, adrenaline is drilling through me. Right now, it’s not clear who will be the next president of the United States, though it is looking likely to be Donald Trump. The polling largely suggested a Hillary Clinton win. Much of it suggested a clear Clinton win. What has instead occurred is a surprise result, and not only because people “in the beltway”, or the class/education equivalent, believed nobody in their right minds could vote for Trump.
With the US Election only days away, the rest of the world watches on as the American public decides who will be the next ‘leader of the free world’ – Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump? Hillary Clinton has been a key player on the world stage for years now, so we have some idea of…
Behind all the handwringing about the “working class,” pundits may be missing this election’s biggest surprise
If Hillary Clinton’s so-called scandal endangers her presidency, what about Donald Trump’s massive corruption?
Source: In the media narrative, Hillary Clinton is corrupt — so what the hell is Donald Trump? – Salon.com
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – All Hallow’s Eve, contracted now to Halloween, became conflated with the …
Source: Emails and Groping: Our Halloween Election keeps Scaring us to Death | Informed Comment
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are taking markedly different approaches to the elephant in the room.
Source: Hillary Clinton email scandal: Harry Reid accuses FBI boss of favouring Donald Trump
While many Americans fear the extremes of a Donald Trump Presidency, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign slogan offers little hope: “Corporate Totalitarianism We Can Believe In”, writes Liam McLoughlin. “By means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms — elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all theMore
Source: American Voters Spoilt For Choice: Do You Want Classical or Corporate Totalitarianism? – New Matilda
Mexico has erected a full-length border wall to keep out the millions of Americans hoping to flee from a potential Trump Presidency.
The wall, which stretches the entire length of the Mexico-US border, was built by a team of Mexican labourers who until recently had formed the backbone of the American agricultural industry. They’ve since pre-empted a Trump victory and returned home, causing the US agricultural industry to collapse.
A Mexican spokesperson said the country could not accommodate such an influx of illegal immigration, particularly from a country full of people crazy enough to vote for a pseudo-fascist reality TV host.
Yesterday thousands of Americans were trapped on the Californian and Texan borders, desperately looking for gaps in the wall. One man said he planned to hire a Mexican immigrant to build him a large ladder to enable him to scale the wall. He then remembered there were no Mexican immigrants available. He will start work on the lad
America’s history has progressed imperfectly, but make no mistake about it, it has progressed, Sally Kohn says in a letter to her daughter.
Source: A letter to my daughter regarding Trump (Opinion) – CNN.com
Rocky Dabscheck tunes in as Donald Trump reveals in an exclusive radio interview his plans to “Make America great again”.
Source: Making America great again
By Munir Moon | (Informed Comment) | – – The middle class is getting crushed. But there is hope. The …
In case you missed it, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter appeared on the Thom Hartmann Program in 2015 and, during the interview, stated that the political scheme in the United States is far from what it seems. Carter stated that America is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has resulted in a total […]
Source: Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Isn’t A Democracy, It’s An Oligarchy
Donald Trump steps up his attacks against Republicans, but says his campaign shackles are now off.
Conspiracy theories about Drumpf abound, some serious, some satirical… like this one?
Source: Is The Donald actually working for Hillary? – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Monday 10 October 2016 To call it a storm of criticism might be a little understated. Probably the word avalanche best describes the overwhelming reaction to Donald Trump’s latest revelation of crass incubus. Now on top of the video CNN has released audio showing Donald Trump making vulgar remarks about women over a 17 year…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Cable news and social media in the United States don’t go …
Source: The Shootings you Didn’t Hear Trump Denounce because, not Muslim
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The situation is escalating quickly.
Source: Militarized Police Turn Peaceful Native American Protest Into a War Zone
By Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Donald Trump is one of …
Source: Mainstream Media focusing on Political Infotainment, not Policy | Informed Comment
A poll of voters nationwide and focus groups in swing states show voters believe Hillary Clinton was the clear winner in Monday night’s debate.
Source: CNN Poll Shows Hillary Clinton Clobbers Donald Trump in First Debate
Millions of viewers across the United States and beyond tuned into the first Presidential debate, smashing ratings records and sending Monday night bar sales soaring.
The first of three debates between the major-party contenders saw Hillary Clinton simply let Donald Trump be Trump—sour, shrugging and full of falsehood.
Source: Live Blog: The First 2016 Presidential Debate – Truthdig
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