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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting at the World Economic Forum, Jan. 25, 2018, in Davos. (AP/Evan Vucci)
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Military Showdown Between Turkey and US In Syria Looms Near

As Turkish troops push further into Syria in their ongoing campaign to route US-backed rebel factions from the region, the risk of a US-Turkey military confrontation looms nearer.

ZeroHedge.com
By ZeroHedge.com
Turkish troops take control of Bursayah hill, which separates the Kurdish-held enclave of Afrin from the Turkey-controlled town of Azaz, Syria, Jan. 28, 2018. (DHA-Depo Photos via AP)

Two days after we reported that Turkey valiantly demanded that US forces vacate military bases in the Syrian district of Manbij, when Turkey's foreign minister Melet Cavusoglu also said that Ankara is calling upon the US to cease any and all support to Syrian Kurdish forces and militias, not surprisingly the US refused, and on Monday a top American

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Trump Infrastructure Plan: Pay Tolls and Privatized Highways

$200 billion taken from other programs. Taxpayers borrow $800 billion plus interest. Then come tolls and user fees.

Steven Rosenfeld
By Steven Rosenfeld
President Donald Trump, accompanied by Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, holds a flowchart of highway projects as he speaks to the media in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Aug. 15, 2017. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

As President Donald Trump delivers his first State of the Union address Tuesday, pay close attention to his next big priority—an infrastructure plan—which, over time, could eclipse the trillion-dollar giveaway to the rich in the GOP’s just-passed tax plan. And track the response from Democrats, who will have to decide if they will back a plan

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Using Immigrants to Shame American Blacks

During the whirlwind of discussion following President Trump’s describing African countries as “shitholes,” many of his critics demonstrated that they’d succumbed to the same stereotypes as the president.

Ishmael Scott Reed
By Ishmael Scott Reed

Opinion -- I wasn’t surprised that some of our leading “thought leaders” didn’t know that Nigerians are among the most highly educated immigrants. I wasn’t. I visited Nigeria in 1999 and met a number of intellectuals, scholars, and writers. Upon my return, I published two anthologies that included 41 Nigerian writers, selected and edited by

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The State of Our Union: A House Divided, Enslaved & Mired in the Mistakes of the Past

“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”— Abraham Lincoln

John Whitehead
By John Whitehead
A man dressed in red-white-and-blue sits on the curb during a protest against President-elect Donald Trump, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

History has a funny way of circling back on itself. The facts, figures, faces and technology may change from era to era, but the dangers remain the same. This year is no different, whatever the politicians and talking heads may say to the contrary. Sure, there’s a new guy in charge with a talent for stirring up mayhem and madness, but for the

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In the US it’s “Objectively Reasonable” for Cops to Kill Arrestees with Hands Up

Pressing for hate-crime or federal civil rights violations in the deaths of unarmed black people by police is somewhat of a staple in the arsenal of police-brutality activists. Unfortunately the track record of success is all but nonexistent.

Thandisizwe Chimurenga
By Thandisizwe Chimurenga
Protesters rally against a grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner in Foley Square, Dec. 4, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo)

Erica Garner never stopped fighting for justice for her father Eric, who was killed by an NYPD officer with an illegal chokehold in 2014. The 27-year-old -- who passed away at the end of December last year -- led vigils and protests, spoke at rallies and on panels, and endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential campaign. And this week, she

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Trump Epitomizes the Erosion Of U.S. Leadership in Davos

Despite Donald Trump’s speech to the World Economic Forum in which he attempted to reassure global leaders on his “America First” ideology, the damage to U.S. credibility may already be done.

Alon Ben-Meir
By Alon Ben-Meir
President Donald Trump waits to deliver a speech to the World Economic Forum, Friday, Jan. 26, 2018, in Davos. (AP/Evan Vucci)

DAVOS -- (Opinion) Just one year after Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States, the U.S. has already experienced alarming setbacks to its global leadership role and has badly damaged its image. In short order, Trump has managed to bewilder friends and allies, intensify the enmity between the U.S. and its

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