Category Archives: USA

While he goes low, we went high

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Muller

While a funny cartoon published on Truthdig had expected a million MEs in Donald Trump’s inaugural speech, it was rather dozens of WEs. Despite seemingly lining up with millions of American assumed losers, it was factually the majestic plural. Like sheepish schoolchildren, … Continue reading →

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An Angry and Uninformed Obama

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Muller

As Juan Cole has pointed out, President Obama seems not to be aware of the likely real motives of Omar Mateen, who had killed at least 49 guests of the Pulse nightclub in Orlando last weekend, when mentioning “self-radicalization on … Continue reading →

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Obama’s Drone War Drives Terrorism

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Muller

What has been a concern for many years, namely that Obama’s (who infamously had bragged that he was “good at killing people”) largely expanded drone war with its disproportionate number of civil casualties, has been addressed by four former US … Continue reading →

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Dianne Feinstein

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Muller

Kudos to Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairperson of the U.S. Senate Select Committee of Intelligence, which has released 525 heavily redacted pages [pdf] of the original CIA torture report. I suppose that Feinstein has not read all 6200 pages. I have instantly stopped … Continue reading →

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Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Syria

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Muller

“This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.” When recently addressing the American people, to explain his long-awaited new strategy in the never-ending Global War on Terror, President Obama suggested … Continue reading →

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