Politics

Max Boot’s argument for the importance of NATO unwittingly draws attention to one of the biggest problems with the alliance over the last two decades:

Iceland’s prime minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson has stepped down amid widespread anger over allegations that his family attempted to hide millions in offshore account. The leaked “Panama Papers” documents showed he and his wife used an offshore firm to allegedly hide million-dollar investments. Gunnlaugsson  asked Icelands President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson to dissolve parliament and call an early election.

ISIS has reportedly carried out a chemical attack on a Syrian military airport in eastern Syria. Militants were attempting to recapture the military airport in Deir ez-Zor when they deployed the chemical weapon on Monday, state media said. A Syrian TV station reported late on Monday that “The terrorists fired rockets carrying mustard gas” and targeting the airbase in the south of Dayr al-Zawr city” According to Press TV: The report did not disclose whether there were any casualties.

The reason to be for Trump and Sanders is that the political-economic-media establishment hates and fears them.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/05/why-the-establishment-hates-trump/

http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/04/trump-is-right-to-propose-nato-reassessment/

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Wisconsin Republican voters go to the polls for their presidential primary today, and Trump seems certain to lose the state to Cruz. Nate Cohn explains why Trump is having so much trouble in the Badger State:

But his problem in Wisconsin is mainly about the state’s demographics, not self-inflicted wounds. Even a 10-percentage-point loss there wouldn’t necessarily indicate any shift against him.

The state has always looked as if it would be one of Mr. Trump’s worst. This was true even before the primaries began.