Новости за 17.04.2017

By Sam Husseini They promised to challenge the corrupt establishment. But after being elected president, both of them committed political fraud.

By Robert Parry / Consortiumnews The Democrats’ Russia-made-Hillary-lose hysteria has pushed a weakened president into the arms of hawks who support massive U.S. military intervention around the world. (Pictured, center: Star neocon Robert Kagan.)

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The renowned linguist comments, “In our culture and society, it’s considered very courageous to send a huge bomb somewhere”—but the consequences may not be what was intended.

France is on the verge of committing a nativist mistake comparable to those the U.S. and U.K. made in 2016.

Since his election in 2015, the 45-year-old prime minister has been the object of much admiration and many a meme.John McCallum / CC BY-ND 2.0 The Canadian prime minister’s good looks and rhetoric distract from his terrible environmental approach, argues journalist Bill McKibben. In a piece for The Guardian, the author of “Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist” explains that while in many ways Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau are polar opposites, when it comes to climate change... Читать дальше...

By Justin Elliott / ProPublica In one case, an official working on energy regulation recently lobbied for oil and coal companies — but the White House won’t say whether he received an ethics waiver.

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Turkey’s historic referendum on Sunday will move the country from a parliamentary to a presidential system. The move to presidentialism in and of itself isn’t the problem.

By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org A president is empowered to manage the military might of the nation. But he is not empowered to initiate warfare on his own.

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By Lauren McCauley / Common Dreams As an opponent noted: “Threats, oppression, imprisonment, censorship, defamation—and yet [nearly] half of the people of Turkey” voted against expanding the president’s authority.

It’s been more than a week since the Trump administration abruptly switched out of “America first” mode and into intervention mode in Syria, but the American public has been lacking something very important ever since.