By Dalia Abu Ramadan This article was originally published by Truthout How can recreational projects be proposed when even the most basic foundations of life have not yet been rebuilt? In February, Donald Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” struck a $50 million agreement with the football-governing body FIFA, with grand promises to build a national […]
Hugh J. Curran In a recent interview on CBC, Timothy Snyder, an historian at the University of Toronto, noted that the U.S. is in “a catastrophic self-destructive mode”. The war of aggression against Iran is the latest evidence of this since it is “wildly counter-productive”. He also commented on PM Mark Carney’s initial support for […]
Duaa Eldeib for ProPublica They entered the world the way babies should, with piercing cries announcing their arrival. They passed their newborn screening tests. Some made it to their 2-week wellness visits without concern. Then, without warning, their systems began to shut down. A 7-week-old boy in Maryland developed sudden seizures. An 11-pound girl in […]
Donald Trump has been raging at Pope Leo’s criticism of the Iran war for weeks, and he just unleashed his most vile attack yet. Trump accused the pope of “endangering a lot of Catholics” by advocating for peace. Yet a new Washington Post poll finds that Trump is losing this battle very badly. Large majorities react negatively to Trump’s claims about the pope, and even more strikingly, big majorities approve of the pope’s message of peace, even though Trump is bombarding America with relentless lies and propaganda about both the pope and the war. We talked to scholar-of-religion Sarah Posner, who writes for Talking Points Memo and hosts the Reign of Error podcast. We discuss why this polling is encouraging in nonobvious ways, why there’s a schism between white evangelicals and Catholics over Trump, how MAGA encourages Trump to imagine himself fighting a spiritual war against the pope, and why that’s a political disaster for him. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.