Month: September 2020

As the Trump administration moves quickly and systematically to erase every last remnant of Barack Obama’s legislative and regulatory legacy—from the Iran deal to the Affordable Care Act to the Clean Power Plan—consumer advocate Ralph Nader has a simple question for the former president: where have you been? “Besides raising funds for his presidential library (about $1 billion), is getting press primarily for being paid $400,000 or more per speech before Wall Street and other…

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As President Donald Trump continues to ratchet up tensions between the United States and North Korea through saber-rattling on Twitter and in television interviews, the U.S. has quietly begun preparing to put nuclear-armed B-52 bombers on “24-hour ready alert,” a status not seen since the end of the Cold War. Commentators and national security analysts quickly denounced the reported steps as a severe and extremely dangerous consequence of White House “hysterics.” “You would be shocked…

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Fourteen international aid agencies on Friday expressed that they were “appalled” by the global community’s complacency regarding the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Yemen, and called for a resolution to the civil war that’s gone on for two years—while in its own statement, Amnesty International called for an end to complicity in the conflict from the U.S. and its allies. “This is not the time for carefully balanced statements,” read a statement signed by groups including…

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As President Donald Trump continues his bellicose rhetoric towards North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during his trip to the Asia-Pacific region this week, organizations from the U.S., South Korea, and Japan on Monday demanded an “urgent pivot towards peace” and called on their leaders to rein in the militarization that could lead to “catastrophe.” Trump is in Japan on Monday as he continues his nearly two-week “Indo-Pacific” tour, which will also include stops in South…

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After more than a week of refusing to respond to questions about his stance on domestic violence while also expressing sympathy for accused wife-abuser and ousted White House staff secretary Rob Porter, President Donald Trump on Wednesday finally declared that he is “totally opposed to domestic violence of any kind.” While Trump insisted that “everyone knows” he is opposed to domestic abuse, he took a total of nine days to make his stance clear as…

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A GOP candidate for Kentucky secretary of state is taking heat after he joked on Tuesday that he wants to use Rep. John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthEx-CBO director calls for more than trillion in coronavirus stimulus spending Rep slams ‘vulgar images’ and ‘racist words’ that disrupted virtual youth anti-violence event Unemployment to remain above 9 percent into 2021: CBO MORE (D-Ky.) for target practice.  Carl Nett, who used to work in the Secret Service, was replying…

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A new ad by a GOP Senate candidate shows a mountain crushing the U.S. Capitol building.  West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, the top GOP challenger to Sen. Joe ManchinJoseph (Joe) ManchinTrump administration seeks to use global aid for nuclear projects Shelley Moore Capito wins Senate primary West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice wins GOP gubernatorial primary MORE (D-W.Va.), said in the ad he would “blow up” Washington and challenge the liberal elite if elected. Click Here: cheap…

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The Trump administration is considering a set of proposals developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a retired CIA officer — with assistance from Oliver North, a key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal — to provide CIA Director Mike Pompeo and the White House with a global, private spy network that would circumvent official U.S. intelligence agencies, according to several current and former U.S. intelligence officials and others familiar with the proposals. The sources say the plans…

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Comedian George Carlin famously invented the seven words you cannot say on television, but it appears that it took Donald Trump becoming president to learn what seven words scientists and advisors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are no longer allowed to say or write in their official capacities. “[CDC] banned from using ‘science-based’ and “evidence-based’ terms. Are we now going to use Voodoo & leeches to treat diseases?” —Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.)Government…

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The right-wing Israeli legislature approved a law on Tuesday that increases the number of votes required to cede control of any portion of Jerusalem to “a foreign party,” in a move that journalist Glenn Greenwald characterized as the government “candidly and explicitly admitting its real policy” of “apartheid” and shattering any remaining pretense “that Israel is working in a ‘peace process’ toward a two-state solution.” The move is just the latest blow to the potential for a…

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