On election day, reporting for NPR, Yara Bayoumy wrote about the authoritarian and fascist leaders around the world-- from Netanyahu and Viktor Orbán to Putin and Bolsonaro-- who preferred Trump and now have to contend with Biden, a typical dues-paying member of the military industrial complex.
-by Reese Erlich@ReeseErlichPresident Donald Trump has convinced Republican isolationists and hawks that he supports their views.
Iranian civilians are endangered by recent sabotage carried out against both military and civilian targets. Here a woman sells spices in the bazaar. Photo: Reese Erlich-by Reese Erlichauthor, The Iran Agenda Today: The Real Story Inside Iran and What's Wrong with U.S. Policy.During the past month, Iran has suffered a half-dozen explosions and fires at military and civilian sites.
There was never any doubt-- at least not among people with 3-digit IQs-- that Donald Trump would be a catastrophic president. He isn't intelligent or even vaguely competent and he is completely self-obsessed and narcissistic. The Democrats gambled that running even a horrible and widely-hated candidate like Hillary would be a safe bet in the kind of lesser-of-two evils contest they like best. The Democrats lost the bet.
New polling across Europe shows that more than 60% of respondents in Germany, France, Spain, Denmark and Portugal said they had lost trust in the United States as a global leader. Negative attitudes of the US were most marked in Denmark (71%) Portugal (70%), France (68%), Germany (65%) and Spain (64%).
Other than nations that have transactional relationships with Trump, the whole world generally detests him. Both friends of the U.S. like the EU countries and foes of our country, like North Korea, look at him like a buffoon. Even if you don't understand German, the video above gives you an idea of what kind of esteem Germans hold the president-- especially when you compare that to how admired Barack Obama was there.Last week Trump mouthed off about how great his relationship is with murderous Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, boasting how the U.S.
The U.S. embargo, unsupported by any country in the world, harms the nation’s ordinary working people.Innovative chef Alexix Alvarez; photo by Sandra Vasquez-by Reese ErlichHAVANA— Chef Alexis Alvarez was in panic mode. He was preparing a gourmet meal for visitors from the United States when the electricity went out.
Earlier today, we looked at how Trump is changing housing laws to normalize his own-- and his family's-- endemic racism. But that isn't the only law he's changing to justify his own ugly behavior patterns.
