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UN human rights chief: Trump’s attacks on press ‘close to incitement of violence’

Jay Murdock

Aug 13, 2018
6 min

UN human rights chief: Trump’s attacks on press ‘close to incitement of violence’

Exclusive: Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, who steps down this month, says US president’s rhetoric echoes that of the worst eras of the 20th century Julian Borger in New York | The Guardian | August 13, 2018 Donald Trump’s anti-press rhetoric is “very close to incitement to violence” that would lead to journalists censoring themselves or being attacked, the outgoing UN human rights commissioner has said. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, a Jordanian prince and diplomat, is stepping down this mon

‘It felt like the heavens were falling’: Afghans reel from Moab impact

Jay Murdock

Apr 14, 2017
4 min

‘It felt like the heavens were falling’: Afghans reel from Moab impact

Locals describe the moment the ‘mother of all bombs’ was dropped, as critics question the wisdom of deploying the weapon By Sune Engel Rasmussen in Kabul / The Guardian / Friday 14 April 2017 10.51 EDT After his evening prayers, Mohammad Shahzadah closed the house gates and sat down for dinner. Then the blast came, engulfing the sky in flames and sending tremors through the ground. “The earth felt like a boat in a storm,” Shahzadah said. “I thought my house was being bombed.

The bombing of Afghanistan shows the US is led by a one-man wild card

Jay Murdock

Apr 14, 2017
2 min

The bombing of Afghanistan shows the US is led by a one-man wild card

First Syria, now Afghanistan – obscene and pointless bombings. But Donald Trump has tasted the sweet cup of war and no one seems able to control him By Simon Jenkins /The Guardian / April 14, 2017 Bombs are the fool’s gold of war. Imprecise, expensive and cruel, their strategic utility diminishes the farther they fall from a politician’s desk. The US, with Britain in tepid accord, has been bombing unstable Muslim states for 16 years and has delivered nothing but death and ana

Jay Murdock

Apr 13, 2017
6 min

The Reality Show Presidency Goes to War

Why Trump Was Able to Sucker the World on Syria By NEAL GABLER | APRIL 12, 2017 It is pretty amazing how quickly the media and suck-up politicians can transform a mendacious, hypocritical, amateurish, ignorant, incoherent, bigoted buffoon who is way, way out of his depth into a man of courage, which is what they did to President Trump this past weekend. All it takes is some saber rattling and launching a few dozen missiles. Granted, the Trump brand is already so tarnished tha

US missile strike in Syria: morally right but done for the wrong reasons?

Jay Murdock

Apr 10, 2017
5 min

US missile strike in Syria: morally right but done for the wrong reasons?

Newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic urge caution over attack and express doubts Donald Trump had thought through its implications By Roy Greenslade / The Guardian / April 10, 2017 Right action. Wrong actor. That was the majority reaction to Donald Trump’s missile strikes in Syria among UK newspapers. Editors could not bring themselves to echo the government’s unequivocal backing for the US president’s belligerent response to the chemical attack attributed to Bashar al-As

Trump officials broadcast president’s plan for Syria: wait for global response

Jay Murdock

Apr 9, 2017
5 min

Trump officials broadcast president’s plan for Syria: wait for global response

HR McMaster, Nikki Haley and Rex Tillerson defend president’s missile strikes, emphasizing Russia’s role in ‘the solution’ and new priority to depose Assad By Alan Yuhas in San Francisco / The Guardian / April 9, 2017 In world capitals, at the United Nations and in military briefings, leaders spent the weekend trying to deduce what doctrine might lie behind the first direct attack by the US on the forces of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. On Sunday, the White House articula

Donald Trump has jumped into a quagmire with his eyes shut

Jay Murdock

Apr 7, 2017
4 min

Donald Trump has jumped into a quagmire with his eyes shut

The president has just swaggered his way into the single most complex civil war in living memory – and he does so with little credibility or legitimacy By Richard Wolffe / The Guardian / April 7, 2017 It may be hard to believe, but Donald Trump is even more simplistic than George W Bush in matters of war. George W Bush enjoyed all the certainty of a very simple man: you were either with us or against us, good or evil, marching for democracy or plotting terrorist attacks. Yet

Trump’s senseless Syria strikes accomplish nothing

Jay Murdock

Apr 7, 2017
3 min

Trump’s senseless Syria strikes accomplish nothing

The US bombing of a Syrian airfield is flip-floppery at its worst. And it signals to America’s foes that Trump can be easily dragged into military quagmires By Moustafa Bayoumi / The Guardian / April 7, 2017 Donald Trump, the man who just over a month ago wanted to bar entry of all Syrian refugees into the United States, now wants us to think that he cares deeply about Syrian children. I don’t believe it. What I do believe is that our president is a bad actor. He was a bad ac

Jay Murdock

Sep 10, 2013
4 min

Obama Remembers He’s Not George W. Bush

It may come to naught — calls for peace so rarely still the drums of war — but there was a moment Monday when the odds for sanity seemed to finally stand a chance of prevailing. It came when President Obama acknowledged the Russian proposal for Syria to avert war by agreeing to destroy its chemical weapons stock as “a potentially positive development.” It was quintessentially an un-Bush moment when suddenly this presidential “decider” seemed possessed of a brain capable of re

Why the GOP Is Suddenly the Party of Peace

Jay Murdock

Sep 8, 2013
4 min

Why the GOP Is Suddenly the Party of Peace

Earl Ofari Hutchinson; Author and political analyst Posted: 09/08/2013 12:44 pm The stunning number of GOP law makers that are vehemently opposed to US war making against Syria has been nothing less than astounding. Lame duck Minnesota GOP congressperson Michelle Bachman’s flat-out assertion that Syrian intervention would be a bad call and the US is war-weary seemed to punctuate much of the GOP’s new thinking about war. The eye-catching part of their sudden remake as the part

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