John Peeler: impeachment is only on the table should the House Democrats decide they want to make a symbolic statement.
John Peeler
John Peeler is a retired professor of political science at Bucknell University, specializing in Latin American and international affairs. After growing up in Florida and Georgia, he moved north as a teenager, and began a lifelong leftward migration. He’s been writing primarily for LA Progressive since 2008. He continues to live in central Pennsylvania.
Trump and Mexico: Whiplash Alert!
John Peeler: So now, with his threat to close the border and impose new tariffs, Trump is putting himself on both sides of the issue, effectively allying with Democrats trying to sink the new agreement, even as he keeps trying to get it passed.
Captain Ahab Harpoons Own Foot: Trump, Central America and Mexico
John Peeler: The countries Trump is now targeting are in the shape they’re in because of decades of US efforts to “help” them. The country we’re not helping, Nicaragua, is in better shape.
Living with a Scumbag: Response to Mueller Report
John Peeler: With the Republican majority in the Senate and no “smoking gun” so far, the prospects of bringing impeachment successfully to conviction in the Senate is near zero.
New Zealand: Shock and Awe in a Surprising Place
John Peeler: As mourner, Jacinda Ardern made the gesture of wearing a head covering to show respect and solidarity toward the Muslim victims, and led the whole nation in an outpouring of grief and solidarity.
Brexit: As a British Constitutional Crisis
John Peeler: We have a government that cannot command a majority on the major issue of the day, but which is kept in power by members who don’t agree with the prime minister on that issue.
Nicaraguans Try Talking: Venezuela, Not So Much
John Peeler: The leadership of every Latin American country must always consider how his/her actions might affect the US, and what the US might do to affect her/his country.
Criticize Israeli Policies? Yes. Antisemitism? No.
John Peeler: Israel has won the long conflict with Palestinian nationalism, but in the process Zionism has lost its soul.
¡Fuera Maduro! Socialism Does Not Imply Incompetence
John Peeler: Any leftist or socialist regime in Latin America must deal with the fundamental reality that the United States (whether under Republican or Democratic presidents) will be unsympathetic if not outright hostile.
Trump Orders Prosthetic Intelligence
John Peeler: Acknowledging the widely suspected Intelligence Deficit in Washington, particularly in the White House, Trump tweeted, “I will be the only president in history to have prosthetic brains!!”
Of Walls, and Mending
John Peeler: This conservative agenda on immigration is part and parcel of the broader right-wing project of dismantling as much as possible of the New Deal and Great Society reforms of the 1930s and 1960s.
Venezuela: Model for Taking Down Leftists in Latin America
John Peeler: While most leftist governments in Latin America have been competent managers of their national economies, even in the face of US hostility, Chávez and especially Maduro have been egregiously incompetent.
The Hole: Trump’s No-Win Dilemma
John Peeler: A deal with the Democrats that would actually fly would have to include a more permanent fix for the immigrants than the three year truce that Trump offered.
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