Section: Salon (USA)
#LetsMakePeace: Trump goes on odd tweetstorm praising Russia — and Rosie O’Donnell
(Credit: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) President Trump said in a tweet on Thursday that Russia is laughing at the U.S. because of the Democratic party’s obsession with Russia — but President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov don’t appear to be paying much attention. “Russia must be laughing up their sleeves watching as the...
A coup in real time? Historian Timothy Snyder says the Comey firing is Trump’s “open admission of collusion with Russia”
James Comey, Donald J. Trump (Credit: Getty Images/Drew Angerer/Mark Wilson) Has the other shoe finally dropped? Is this the beginning of Donald Trump’s attempted coup? Trump is a plutocratic authoritarian. As I have previously argued, it is fair to call him a fascist. He has repeatedly demonstrated this fact through his words and deeds...
Twerk for Peace: Activism and anger in the wake of the inauguration
Gaycation: United We Stand (Credit: Viceland) “The journey towards equality is not a linear journey.” – Parmesh Shahani, author of “Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)longing in Contemporary India” Before the rise of 45 and his rightwing minions, if you regularly watched “GAYCATION,” a docu-series/travelogue in which Ellen Page and her best...
Top 5 bad hombres loved by Trump
Donald Trump; Vladimir Putin (Credit: Getty/Drew Angerer/AP/Photo montage by Salon) They are, to coin a phrase, “bad hombres.” They are men who order the slaughter of peaceful demonstrators and the roundup of political rivals. They arrest pesky journalists, if they don’t murder them first. They rig elections, if they hold them at all. And...
Trump’s Russia problems under scrutiny next week
(Credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) What happened to RussiaGate? A month ago, the headlines were flowing. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had been fired for lying about his meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Attorney General Jeff Sessions had to recuse himself because he lied, under oath, about what he knew of...
Trump’s Russia problems under scrutiny next week
(Credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) What happened to RussiaGate? A month ago, the headlines were flowing. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had been fired for lying about his meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Attorney General Jeff Sessions had to recuse himself because he lied, under oath, about what he knew of...
Trump’s Russia problems under scrutiny next week
(Credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) What happened to RussiaGate? A month ago, the headlines were flowing. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had been fired for lying about his meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Attorney General Jeff Sessions had to recuse himself because he lied, under oath, about what he knew of...
Is the Trump administration enabling genocide in Yemen? And will Americans ever pay attention?
The site of an air raid that hit a funeral reception in the Arhab district, 40 kilometres north of the capital Sanaa, on February 16, 2017. (Credit: Getty/Mohammed Huwais) While President Donald Trump has been busy distracting attention from the Russia inquiry at home and shoring up his humanitarian credentials in Syria, his administration has...
The Washington Post has a lobbyist as a writer. Here are 12 times they didn’t disclose conflicts of interest
(Credit: AP/Gerald Herbert) The Washington Post has repeatedly failed to inform readers about major financial conflicts of interest in pieces by opinion writer Ed Rogers. Rogers is a leading Republican lobbyist who has used his Post column to advocate for the interests of his firm’s clients without disclosure in at least a dozen instances...
Was Michael Flynn a Russian agent of influence? A modest proposal for how that could have gone down
Michael Flynn (Credit: Getty/Kevin Hagen) It’s been a bad week for Michael Flynn. It seems that the former national security adviser and Trump campaign official may have lied on his application for a top-secret security clearance back in January 2016, and he apparently neglected to inform Department of the Army officials of his trip to...
