Juan Cole | Did Trump Just Paint a Target on Backs of US Diplomats and Businessmen?




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Juan Cole | Did Trump Just Paint a Target on Backs of US Diplomats and Businessmen? 
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Juan Cole, Informed Comment 
Cole writes: "The United States as a superpower is in competition with global and regional competitors for influence in the world. Its rivals and enemies will take advantage of Trump's insult of Africa, the Caribbean and Central America to reduce US leverage there and to increase their own." 
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Smoking Penalties, ER Fees, Premiums on the Poor: How States Want to Shrink Medicaid 
Jeff Stein, The Washington Post 
Stein writes: "Indiana hopes to make Medicaid enrollees pay a fee if they smoke cigarettes. Arizona wants to put a five-year limit on how long its poor residents can be enrolled in the program." 
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Carrier to Lay Off 215 More Workers From Indiana Plant Despite Trump's Vows to Save Jobs 
Summer Meza, Newsweek 
Meza writes: "The Indiana-based heating and air conditioning plant Carrier will lay off 215 workers this week, the last of about 600 layoffs that were previously announced, despite efforts from President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to prevent the company from moving operations to Mexico and slashing its workforce." 
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The Machinations of Empire: TPS, DACA and the Salvadorans Who Will Soon Be at Risk of Deportation 
Hilary Goodfriend, Jacobin 
Goodfriend writes: "Hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans will soon be at risk of deportation - just the latest injustice they've suffered at the hands of the US state." 
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Infamous Neo-Nazi Website Praises Trump's Racist Remarks 
Luke Barnes, ThinkProgress 
Barnes writes: "The Daily Stormer, one of the world's largest neo-Nazi websites, praised Donald Trump for referring to Haiti, El Salvador and several African countries as 'shitholes,' saying it showed that the President aligned with them on race and immigration." 
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Israel Has Already Killed Three Palestinian Children in 2018 
Maureen Clare Murphy, The Electronic Intifada 
Murphy writes: "The second week of 2018 is not yet over and already Israeli occupation forces have killed three Palestinian children." 
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Trump Expands Offshore Drilling in "Assault" on Biodiversity and Indigenous Communities 
Subhankar Banerjee, Nermeen Shaikh and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "Bipartisan opposition is growing to President Trump's proposal to greatly expand offshore oil and gas drilling. The reversal of the Obama-era restrictions would open more than a billion acres of water in the Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico to offshore oil and gas drilling." 
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