Section: AlterNet (USA)
Is Dwight Eisenhower’s ghost haunting Joe Biden’s foreign policy team?
In his first words as President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken said, “We have to proceed with equal measures of humility and confidence.” Many around the world will welcome this promise of humility from the new administration, and Americans should too.Biden’s foreign policy team will also...
The neoliberal roots of US bad behavior: Eisenhower’s ghost haunts Biden’s foreign policy team
In his first words as President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of State, Antony Blinken said, “we have to proceed with equal measures of humility and confidence.” Many around the world will welcome this promise of humility from the new administration, and Americans should too.Biden’s foreign policy team will also...
These psychological mechanisms explain why facts won’t change anyone’s mind
Jay Maddock, Texas A&M University A rumor started circulating back in 2008 that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. At the time, I was serving as chair of the Hawaii Board of Health. The director and deputy director of health, both appointed by a Republican governor, inspected Obama’s birth certificate in the state records...
Rudy Giuliani discussed a preemptive pardon with Trump: report
Rudy Giuliani, erstwhile spokesperson for LifeLock identity theft protection services and current top lawyer in President Donald Trump’s muddled efforts to overturn his electoral defeat, discussed a preemptive pardon with his boss, according to a new report.Two individuals told The New York Times that the pair of longtime friends had...
Rudy Giuliani discussed a preemptive pardon with Trump: report
Rudy Giuliani, erstwhile spokesperson for LifeLock identity theft protection services and current top lawyer in President Donald Trump’s muddled efforts to overturn his electoral defeat, discussed a preemptive pardon with his boss, according to a new report.Two individuals told The New York Times that the pair of longtime friends had...
It’s time for Biden to take on the Pentagon bloat
Now that Joe Biden is slated to take office as the 46th president of the United States, advice on how he should address a wide range of daunting problems is flooding in. Nowhere is there more at stake than when it comes to how he handles this country’s highly militarized foreign policy in general and Pentagon spending in particular. Defense...
European Court of Human Rights green-lights youth climate lawsuit
What has been described as possibly “the most important case ever tried by the European Court of Human Rights” cleared a significant hurdle Monday when the international body ordered more than 30 European governments to respond to a historic youth-led lawsuit seeking to force political leaders to take ambitious action against the...
Biden’s nominee for State backed every failed foreign intervention of the last 25 years. Is there hope?
Donald Trump’s defeat doesn’t mean that we no longer have to relitigate why he won. He increased his voter base by more than 10 million even while losing, after all. Republicans have (probably) retained control of the Senate, came close to winning the House and did not lose a single state legislature. For all their enabling of Trump,...
Republican senator suddenly worries about ethics after ignoring them for 4 years
In a shocking news development, Senator John Cornyn of Texas has received a revelation: Transparency and ethics suddenly matter in government, after all.Cornyn, blissfully unfamiliar with this topic for the past four years, has rediscovered his indignation hot button with the help of a New York Times (erstwhile “fake news”) story...
Trump’s delusional supporters will rage and scream no matter what. Democrats should stop trying to make peace
Even after the landslide defeat of Donald Trump, Republicans across the board continue to be terrified by Trump’s disciples. Fear of the Red Hats has always been one of the primary reasons why the rest of Trump’s party has refused to speak out against his ongoing horror show. It’s not the only reason, but it’s one of the...
