Tuesday, August 22, 2017
What Happened to Trump’s Beef With North Korea? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ
Donald Trump Hit Pakistan On Afghanistan War With Provocative Criticism | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
Monday, August 21, 2017
Inside Story - Will Donald Trump Last through His First Full Term as US President?
Yet the president insists there is "no chaos" in his administration. But the polls tell a different story. His approval ratings have plummeted and members of his own Republican party are questioning his capability as president, with some calling the White House a "sinking ship'.
Trump has become increasingly isolated in recent months, shunned by major business leaders and at odds with his party's congressional leadership. And his comments after the violence in Charlottesville estranged him from more than half the nation.
Many are now beginning to wonder how long he will last as president. | Presenter: Hashem Ahelbarra | Guests: Oliver McGee - former Trump adviser; David A Love - Executive Editor of Black Commentator dot com; Jeanne Zaino - Professor of political science and international studies at Iona College
UN Accuses Saudi, UAE of Funding Armed Groups in Yemen
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Saudi Arabia,
UAE,
UN,
Yemen
Making Sense of a Chaotic Week at the White House
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PBS,
White House
Army Pro-Nazi Party: Elite German Military Unit Probed over Far-right Extremist Claims
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German military,
Germany,
Nazism
Watters' Words: Dismantling America's History
Sunday, August 20, 2017
Inside Story - Why Does Europe Continue to Be a Terrorist Target?
A woman died of her injuries following a similar attack in a car in the seaside resort of Cambrils nearby. Five men were shot dead by police. That followed an explosion at a house in the town of Alcanar, 200km south of Barcelona, where bomb makers are thought to have lived.
Authorities said the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils were related and the work of a large cell that had been plotting for a long time from Alcanar.
Four arrests have been made, while seven other members of the suspected cell are confirmed dead.
The attacks in Spain are the latest in cities all over Europe. Most were claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), which is being driven from strongholds in the Middle East. So how potent a force are ISIL fighters in Europe? | Presenter: Hashem Ahelbarra | Guests: Yasser Louati - Human rights activist; Milo Comeford - Tony Blair Institute for Global Change; Greg Barton - Professor of Global Islamic Politics, Deakin University.
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Europe,
Inside Story,
terrorism
The Listening Post - Charlottesville, Trump and the Media
Given that the Robert E. Lee monument in question harkens back to the era of slavery in the US, a potent message was being sent. They were met with force that didn't come from the police. And when a car ploughed into a crowd of anti-fascist protesters, killing one and injuring many more, the recriminations were swift.
One of the so-called news sites that has been incubating far-right culture - a favourite of white supremacists, The Daily Stormer, was dumped by its online hosts for its toxic take on what happened in Charlottesville.
But that will hardly shake the confidence of the movement, not with the mixed, coded messaging coming out of President Donald Trump's White House.
Some of the president's comments had voices in the white power movement rejoicing.
"The response of Trump to say that 'we're seeing hatred on many sides' is really conspicuous and I think that people on the right are saying 'We got away with it,' says Shuja Haider, editor of Viewpoint Magazine.
Trump waited another 48 hours to condemn racism.
"Everyone heard that silence as an unwillingness to call out white supremacy and Nazism by name," explains Andrew Marantz, contributing editor for The New Yorker. "I think that the neo-Nazis heard it that way. I think that the far left heard it that way. I think Republican senators heard it that way."
Like many politicians, Donald Trump leaves much open to interpretation.
And for all his bluntness, all the hectic, late-night tweeting, Trump is more skilled at using coded messaging - what's known as dog whistling. It all started with his campaign slogan "Make America Great Again", which is seen by some as a rallying cry for a return to a different America, a whiter one.
"Dog whistle politics is just that. An attempt to convey racialised sentiments without using actual racialised language," says Osamudia James, a law professor at the University of Miami.
"One of the reasons these coded dog whistles are so effective is because while they reach the extremists that they're targeted towards, they kind of escape detection by most people," adds Haidar.
The showdown in Charlottesville took many Americans by surprise. But should it have?
Fascism Is Rising In America - Richard Wolff
Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City University of New York, and the University of Paris I (Sorbonne).
Saturday, August 19, 2017
The Islamic State's Claim to Spain
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Al-Andalus,
ISIS,
Islamic state,
Muslim Spain,
Spain
Tucker: Left Won't Stop with Civil War Era Monuments
Tucker: Bannon Never Forgot Why Trump Got Elected
Bannon 'Going to War for Trump' after White House Exit
Krauthammer: Steve Bannon Is a Double-edged Sword for Trump
Inside Story - How Open Is Saudi's Invitation to Hajj Pilgrims from Qatar?
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Inside Story,
Qatar,
Saudi Arabia,
the Hajj
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