Section: AlterNet (USA)
State Department Worried Trump Is Going to Be a Foreign Policy Madman
Click here for reuse options! We’re dealing with a president-elect who may well start a war over Twitter. Foreign policy is a tricky beast for any new president, at any time. But 2016 presents some particular international challenges: ISIS, Syria, Russia and the Ukraine, Russia and Syria, China and Iran (to name just a few). When a new...
State Department Worried Trump Is Going to Be the Real Madman of Foreign Policy Theory
Click here for reuse options! We’re dealing with a president-elect who may well start a war over Twitter. Foreign policy is a tricky beast for any new president, at any time. But 2016 presents some particular international challenges: ISIS, Syria, Russia and the Ukraine, Russia and Syria, China and Iran (to name just a few). When a new...
Trump Declares All-Out War on Environment With Fossil Fuel-Loving, Climate Change-Denying Cabinet Nominees
Click here for reuse options! The president-elect has surrounded himself with advisers who put profits over the American people—and the planet. Scientists have recently warned in a major new report that the increasingly rapid melting of Arctic ice could be potentially irreversible and have severe implications not just for Arctic ecosystems, but...
Trumped by Vladimir Putin: The Russian Strongman Has Upended American Democracy
Click here for reuse options! The U.S. finds itself at a crossroads unseen since the Civil War, and we have a ruthless autocrat to thank. It is very likely now that Donald Trump will be inaugurated as president of the United States on Jan. 20, in no small part because of the direct intervention in and manipulation of the American electoral...
What Did Donald Trump Know About Vladimir Putin’s Attempt to Hack the Election—and When Did He Know It?
Click here for reuse options! The plot thickens: Everything about Trump’s oddly subservient attitude toward Putin suggests dark possibilities. One of the most memorable moments of the 2016 presidential campaign was the GOP debate in which the man who would later become our president-elect felt the need to reassure the American people about...
Rex Tillerson: An Oligarch’s Dream at the State Department
Click here for reuse options! To succeed in setting up your U.S. oligarchy, you’re going to need to be friendly with oligarchs in other major powers.. If confirmed by the Senate, the next secretary of state will enter into the service of the second employer he has ever had in his life: the United States government. Since his graduation from...
Robert Reich: 6 Big Reasons Why It’s Hard to Believe Trump Was Fairly Elected
Click here for reuse options! How can electors be expected to submit their ballots with this dark cloud hanging overhead? A dark cloud of illegitimacy hangs over the pending presidency of Donald Trump. Consider:1. The CIA has concluded that Russia intervened in the election in order to help Trump become president. The secret CIA assessment found...
Robert Reich: 6 Reasons Why Trump’s Presidency Is Illegitimate
Click here for reuse options! And they’re all related to Russia. “A dark cloud of illegitimacy hangs over the pending presidency of Donald Trump,” wrote former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Facebook Sunday night, following CIA reports of Russian interference in the presidential elections, and specifically interference that...
Do CIA Revelations Mean Trump Will Be Putin’s Puppet?
Click here for reuse options! Now that the CIA has determined that the Russians intervened in the presidential election to help Trump win, the Cold War politics of left and right have been flipped. In 1964, when Barry Goldwater ran against Lyndon Johnson, a man named John A. Stormer self-published a book called None Dare Call It Treason. It...
Robert Reich: 6 Reasons Why Trump’s Presidency Is Illegitimate
Click here for reuse options! And they’re all related to Russia. “A dark cloud of illegitimacy hangs over the pending presidency of Donald Trump,” wrote former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Facebook Sunday night, following CIA reports of Russian interference in the presidential elections, and specifically interference that...
