Tag: Donald Trump
“The Crowd Is Untruth”: Why American Political Life Is Increasingly Deformed
“The crowd is untruth”
Soren Kierkegaard, Point of View, “That Individual”
To understand the broadly dysfunctional nature of current American politics, we must first learn to look more capably behind the news. There, suitably distant from any adrenalized jumble...
Trump renews sanctions on Iran following US withdrawal from nuclear deal
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday restoring key sanctions on Iran with the hope of levying “maximum economic pressure” on Tehran over its nuclear program and other destabilizing activity in...
Report suggests that Trump’s Mideast team seeks an end to Palestinian ‘refugee’ status
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East policy team’s effort to shutter the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) may include efforts to clarify that millions of Palestinians are not refugees, according to a...
Jerusalem municipality fast-tracks expansion of and renovations to US embassy
The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem will expand its office space, creating new entrances and service areas, thanks to fast-tracking of permits by the Jerusalem municipality.
According to a report in Hadashot news, the expansion will...
Trump administration released tens of millions in aid to Palestinians
The Trump administration quietly released tens of millions of foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority recently that had been frozen as part of a review process.
The foreign aid, which totals roughly $61 million, is...
An end to illusions about Egypt
The Egyptian government recently passed a new law against spreading “rumors.” By “rumors,” the regime of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi means anything that might undermine confidence in or tell the truth about his...
Is Trump being tricked into war with Iran?
According to Fox News prime-time star Tucker Carlson, the mainstream media is characteristically missing the big story. Carlson believes that the “real news” about American foreign policy in recent weeks isn’t U.S. President Donald...
Charlottesville, one year later
It was an image straight out of a standard Jewish nightmare. The spectacle of neo-Nazis and their Ku Klux Klan allies holding a torchlight parade through the streets of an American city while chanting...
Would Trump Use the Bomb?
After the Helsinki Summit between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin, certain fearful matters of “high politics” in American diplomacy are discussed only in whispers, so as to seemingly reduce the likelihood of...
Not the time to go soft on Iran
As far as most of the administration’s detractors were concerned, it was just another in a series of bizarre moments from U.S. President Donald Trump. The president’s tweet threatening Iran with “CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH...