Caricature Mohammed Ben Salmane et l'Oncle Sam

Caricature de Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com

Caricature Donald Trump lié à l'Arabie saoudite

Caricature de Kevin Siers, The Charlotte Observer, NC

Chronique dans "Trudeau le midi" à QUB radio: novembre approche pour les élections de mi-mandat et dossier Khashoggi

Dans les dernières quinze minutes de l'émission du 18 octobre: https://www.qub.radio/#/balado?id=0666b10f-5b4f-4863-8833-a96f00044eef

Chronique dans "Nathalie le midi": élections et dossier Jamal Khashoggi

Nos échanges dans la section "Réécouter" du 18 octobre:

https://www.blvd.fm/reecouter/12696-nathalie-le-midi-chronique-de-luc-laliberte-professeur-d-histoire-et-analyste-de-politique-americaine-concernant-la-volonte-de-donald-trump-d-effectuer-un-second-mandat

Caricature Jamal Khashoggi: dernière contribution...

Caricature de Jamal Khashoggi

Bad Romance: la relation Trump-Kim peut-elle durer?

 En lisant le titre de cet article du Washington Post je n'ai pu faire autrement que de penser au titre du succès de Lady Gaga. C'est le président lui-même qui affirmait il y a quelques jours que le leader nord-coréen et lui étaient "tombés en amour". Si le passé est garant de l'avenir dans les relations entre les deux pays, l'un des deux hommes pourrait bien avoir le coeur brisé.

 "North Korean rhetoric tends to be over the top in both praise and disdain — last year the regime called Trump a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard” — and formal written communication can be particularly hyperbolic, veterans of past negotiations and other North Korea watchers said. They warned that Trump would be wise to focus on what Kim does rather than what he writes in a letter."

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-and-north-koreas-kim-caught-in-a-bad-romance/2018/10/02/68943c4e-c587-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html?utm_term=.b6c9e56a7222

Caricature ALENA ou l'USMCA?

Caricature de RJ Matson, Portland, ME

Donald Trump, l'évasion fiscale et la fortune familiale

Les rumeurs circulent depuis bien longtemps, mais une enquête du New York Times permet de découvrir que le président américain a bénéficié de bien plus qu'un million de dollars de la fortune fortune familiale. Il aurait disposé d'une importante somme pour ensuite la faire fructifier grâce à des combines douteuses. Donald Trump a rejeté les conclusions de cette enquête plus tôt aujourd'hui. Je rappelle que le président refuse toujours de divulguer ses rapports d'impôts.

 "But The Times’s investigation, based on a vast trove of confidential tax returns and financial records, reveals that Mr. Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate empire, starting when he was a toddler and continuing to this day.

Much of this money came to Mr. Trump because he helped his parents dodge taxes. He and his siblings set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents, records and interviews show. Records indicate that Mr. Trump helped his father take improper tax deductions worth millions more. He also helped formulate a strategy to undervalue his parents’ real estate holdings by hundreds of millions of dollars on tax returns, sharply reducing the tax bill when those properties were transferred to him and his siblings.

These maneuvers met with little resistance from the Internal Revenue Service, The Times found. The president’s parents, Fred and Mary Trump, transferred well over $1 billion in wealth to their children, which could have produced a tax bill of at least $550 million under the 55 percent tax rate then imposed on gifts and inheritances.

The Trumps paid a total of $52.2 million, or about 5 percent, tax records show."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Des enveloppes contenant de la ricine au Pentagone? Le FBI enquête

Des enveloppes contenant une protéine particulièrement toxique, la ricine, auraient été envoyées au Pentagone. Le poison d'une exceptionnelle violence a été intercepté avant d'entrer au Pentagone.

 “All USPS mail received at the Pentagon mail screening facility yesterday is currently under quarantine and poses no threat to Pentagon personnel,”

  https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/02/pentagon-envelope-ricin-825135

Caricature #MeToo: sale période pour les hommes...

Caricature de David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star, Tucson, AZ

Mitch McConnell veut un vote sur la nomination de Brett Kavanaugh cette semaine

Si on a accordé une semaine au FBI pour mener une enquête sur les allégations à l'endroit de Brett Kavanaugh, le meneur des Républicains au sénat Mitch McConnell entend bien voter cette semaine. Le temps presse pour les Républicains qui devront assumer le poids politique d'une telle décision. Seront-ils tous et toutes solidaires?

 "Nevertheless, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) doubled down Tuesday on his vow to hold a vote by the end of the week on Kavanaugh, saying he was the victim of open “floodgates of mud and muck.”

“One thing we know for sure: The Senate will vote on Judge Kavanaugh here on this floor, this week,” McConnell said during a floor speech in which he also dismissed some recent media reports about Kavanaugh’s decades-old behavior.

His comments come as Democrats are pressing for a more expansive FBI investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh. On Monday, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee called for FBI interviews of about two dozen people who might have information relevant to three Kavanaugh accusers."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mcconnell-vows-kavanaugh-vote-here-on-this-floor-this-week/2018/10/02/d47f4ff4-c567-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html?utm_term=.5b81a26bcb54