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

13 January 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now:  Reader Supported News ATTENTION TO THE FUNDRAISER ... PLEASE! - Everyone please hold up and donate. This is taking FAR to long for what amounts to a few donations. DONATE folks! Thanks to all. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Juan Cole | Did Trump Just Paint a Target on Backs of US Diplomats and Businessmen?  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."  READ MORE 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."  READ MORE 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."  READ MORE 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."  READ MORE 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."  READ MORE 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."  READ MORE 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."  READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation