Tag Archives: Trevor Gillum

Vitiate the Vote

TREVOR GILLUM – In defending his 2014 voter ID law, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker proclaimed, “It doesn’t matter if there’s one, 100 or 1,000. Amongst us who would be that one person who would like to have our vote canceled out by a vote that was cast illegally?”[1] Similarly, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory heralded his […]

Putin’s Syria Gamble: Middle East Déjà Vu?

BY TREVOR GILLUM – When asked directly whom the Russian air strikes inside Syria were targeting, Russian foreign minister Sergey V. Lavrov responded tersely, “If it looks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it’s a terrorist, right?”[1] Under the pretext […]