Scientific American on Tuesday endorsed Joe Biden, the first presidential endorsement in the magazine’s 175-year history. Screenshot: Joe Biden and President Trump. (Alex Wong/Getty Images; David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Its editors said they felt “compelled” to do so because President Trump’s well-documented rejection of science, from climate change to the coronavirus, has cost…
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PEW Research: Half of voters, including a majority of Biden supporters, expect it will be difficult to vote in this year’s election–August 13, 2020
As Democrats and Republicans prepare for their party conventions, a new national survey finds high voter engagement with the presidential campaign – and a record share saying it “really matters” who wins in November when it comes to making progress on important national issues. Yet the coronavirus outbreak continues to cast a large shadow over…
Videos on Joe Biden in German Language: Joe Biden is right person to beat trump | He might choose Female Vise president for running mate | Three reason why Trump will loose in election — FES DC org
Warum Joe Biden der Richtige ist um Trump zu schlagen – Joe Biden is the right person to beat Donald Trump —-by Knut Dethlefsen on FES Foundation Unser Kollege Knut Dethlefsen leitet das FES-Büro in Washington D.C. In seinem Logbuch gibt er regelmäßig Einblicke in die US-amerikanische Politik und aktuelle Entwicklungen im Land. In dieser…
Mehdi Hasan and Noam Chomsky on Biden vs. Trump– The Intercept Video
The Intercept’s Mehdi Hasan speaks with world-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky on the 2020 presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Now that Bernie Sanders has dropped out and endorsed Biden, does the progressive left have a moral obligation to hold their noses and vote for the former vice president, despite his…
Watch: Trump and Macron clash at awkward NATO news conference — LIVE on Euro news
Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron traded public barbs over ISIS and defence spending during an awkward news conference ahead of the NATO summit in London. The U.S. president acknowledged he and his French counterpart were having a “minor dispute” over trade tariffs but promised that “we’ll work it out.” But the two leaders repeatedly contradicted…
Videos: Trump Facing Live Impeachment Hearings | The 11th Hour | MSNBC and Republicans, Losing Impeachment Fight, Call Democrats "Dumb": A Closer Look
Trump Facing Live Impeachment Hearings | The 11th Hour | MSNBC Trump calls the impeachment investigation a hoax but it’s about to get very real as the first witnesses testify under oath, on the record and in public next week. Aired on 11/08/19. Source: MSNBC Republicans, Losing Impeachment Fight, Call Democrats “Dumb”: A Closer Look…
Pathological power: the danger of governments led by narcissists and psychopaths — By Steve Taylor on The Conversation com
After spending his early life suffering under the Nazis and then Stalin, the Polish psychologist Andrew Lobaczewski devoted his career to studying the relationship between psychological disorders and politics. He wanted to understand why psychopaths and narcissists are so strongly attracted to power as well as the processes by which they take over governments and…
USA: Day After Trump Denigrates Homeless, Sanders Unveils $2.5 Trillion #HousingForAll Plan to Address Crisis — Common Dreams org
“My administration will be looking out for working families and tenants, not the billionaires who control Wall Street.” – Sen. Bernie Sanders A pedestrian walks past tents and trash on a sidewalk in downtown Los Angeles on May 30, 2019. The city agreed to allow homeless people on Skid Row to keep their property and…
Identity politics in the West: “Islam – no longer the bogeyman” — By Stefan Buchen on Qantara.de
The champions of white identity are re-grouping. In the West hostility towards Islam has had its day. It is now being absorbed into common or garden racism, says Stefan Buchen in his essay (…) The French scholar Olivier Roy was perhaps the first to recognise the pitfalls of this way of looking at the world…
Trump Gets Negative Ratings for Many Personal Traits, but Most Say He Stands Up for His Beliefs — PEW Research Center
Trump rated lower for trustworthiness than Obama, Bush, Clinton Donald Trump receives generally negative ratings from the public across a range of personal traits and characteristics. Just 24% of Americans say Trump is even-tempered, while nearly three times as many (70%) say that description does not apply to him. Fewer than half say that Trump…
Trump’s visit has thrown the special relationship into unprecedented turmoil — By Martin Farr on the Conversation com
A special moment. EPA/Chris Ratcliffe One of the few conventions Donald Trump has observed as president has been to venerate Winston Churchill. The intention was obvious therefore when on the evening of his arrival in the UK he was feted at Churchill’s birthplace, Blenheim Palace. Indeed, in the whole of his three days in Britain,…
Ramadan ad featuring Trump, Putin, Kim and others goes viral (VIDEO)
An ad by Kuwaiti mobile phone operator Zain, in which a young Muslim boy calls on world leaders to address crises in the Arab world, has gone viral. It concludes with the declaration that Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine. In the video, released on May 17, a young boy addresses lookalikes of Donald Trump,…
Khizir and Ghazala Khan Talk to VOA on Patriotism, American society, Democracy and peaceful Islam
Khizir and Ghazala Khan, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention about their Muslim American son who died while serving in Iraq, talked to VOA’s Muhammad Atif about the controversy that resulted from the speech and Republican candidate Donald Trump’s Response. Earlier Post on PBSJ Blog Father Of Muslim American War Hero To Trump: ‘You…
Father Of Muslim American War Hero To Trump: ‘You Have Sacrificed Nothing’| Watch video on Huffingston post
PHILADELPHIA ― The father of a Muslim American war hero addressed the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, delivering a brutal takedown of Donald Trump and his inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric. Khizr Khan spoke about the heroism of his son, Army Capt. Humayun S.M. Khan, who was killed in action in Iraq by an advancing vehicle loaded with…
Wow. Americans Really, Really Don’t Like Trump or Clinton — by Andrea Germanos,on Common Dreams org|Gallup poll shows the two as among the worst rated presidential candidates since 1956
New Gallup poll shows the two as among the worst rated presidential candidates since 195 Caricatures of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. (Photo: DonkeyHotey/flickr/cc) Via a new Gallup poll, more evidence comes Friday that the nation’s electorate really doesn’t like this year’s leading presidential candidates. Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has the dubious distinction of…
Donald Trump: Make America Hate Again (Documentary Video)
Reich-Wing Watch Published on 16 Mar 2016 The following documentary examines the many parallels between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler. Trump’s right-wing populism, Islamophobia, racism, and nationalism has gained him support from white supremacists who say their groups are growing drastically thanks to Mr. Trump. In a recent interview Donald Trump refused to disavow the…
The Fire Breather : The Rise and Rage of Donald Trump – the fifth estate
CBC News Published on 11 Mar 2016 He has launched often vitriolic attacks on minorities, Muslims, women and pretty much anyone else he wants – and yet Donald Trump’s popularity just keeps on climbing. He is leading the race to win the Republican nomination and his next victory, he hopes, will be the White House….
Germany: Calgary’s Muslim Mayor Naheed Nenshi’s critics to Donald Trump featured on ‘Islamische Zeitung’- Islamic Newspaper | Article in German language
04.01.2016 Erster muslimischer Bürgermeister in Nordamerika kämpft gegen Hass-Rhetorik. Von Christina Horsten Typ mit dem breiten Grinsen Foto: WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, swiss-image.ch, Photo Remy Steinegger Naheed Nenshi ist der erste muslimische Bürgermeister einer nordamerikanischen Metropole. Aus dem kanadischen Calgary heraus setzt er sich für die Verständigung der Religionen ein, kritisiert Donald Trump und will so…
Why is the Mainstream Media Ignoring Sanders’ Campaign? — Video and Transcript on The real News com
REPORTER: Donald Trump getting saturation coverage from the media. JAISAL NOOR, TRNN: Even Fox News is talking about the lack of media coverage of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. REPORTER: At the same time Bernie Sanders, who got higher poll numbers than Trump in a recent poll is largely being ignored. So is Sanders being treated…
USA: Poll Shows Sanders Would Trounce Trump in General Election — by Nadia Prupis on Common Dreams org
Latest Quinnipiac survey shows voters favor Sanders over Trump by 13 percentage points – nearly double the lead Hillary Clinton would enjoy in defeating the billionaire Republican With voters favoring Sanders over Trump 51 to 38 percent, Sanders would win the general election by 13 points—more than any other candidate would get squaring off with…
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