From the Trump campaign to the Green New Deal
With the 2020 election approaching, President Trump is undertaking steps to improve his popularity in key demographics that support him. As The Nation reports, the Trump administration is trying to implement several policies to deter immigration and reduce environmental regulations in order to better court his base and businesses. Protests continue in Iraq, as outrage continues […]
The Green New Deal & What it Leaves Out: Reading Act V of Cory Morningstar’s Research
The Ghion Journal For last week’s Words of Others podcast, I read Act V of investigative journalist Cory Morningstar’s ongoing series about the NGO Industrial Complex. It’s a lengthy piece titled For Consent: The Green New Deal is the Trojan Horse for the Financialization of Nature. As is per usual for Morningstar, she wades through an exhaustive amount […]
NBA-China outrage reveals how free speech is being crushed by Washington’s new Cold War
The Grayzone Tensions between the United States and China have boiled over yet again in recent weeks, with the latest dispute being set off by one of the rare sources of unity between the two countries: basketball. Ignited by a now-deleted tweet, in which a high-ranking executive of the National Basketball Association (NBA) expressed support […]
Julian Assange’s Extradition Process Is ‘A Charade’
The Real News Network GREG WILPERT: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Greg Wilpert in Arlington, Virginia. Julian Assange recently lost a court bid to have his upcoming February 2020 extradition hearing postponed. The hearing about the postponement took place on October 21, and according to observers who were present, he could barely speak in […]
Sick and Shrouded in Secrecy: Alabama’s Contract to Gas Humans to Death
CounterPunch For $25,000, Alabama’s Attorney General Steve Marshall has contracted with Tennessee company “FDR Safety,” to assist Alabama in developing a barbaric new protocol – to execute its death row prisoners, whom Alabama treats like human guinea pigs – with nitrogen hypoxia. Paradoxically, FDR Safety specializes in workplace safety consulting, not manufacturing gas masks or gas chambers to exterminate […]
“Release My Mother”: A Yale Student Fights to Halt Deportation of His Mother with Stage IV Cancer
Democracy Now! Tania Romero, an undocumented mother from Honduras and survivor of stage IV cancer, is fighting to remain in the United States with her four children. Two months ago, Romero was imprisoned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the privately owned Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia, interrupting her life-saving medical treatments. In mid-August, […]
Is the Run on the Dollar Due to Panic or Greed?
Truthdig What’s going on in the repo market? Rates on repurchase (“repo”) agreements should be about 2%, in line with the Federal Reserve funds rate. But they shot up to over 5% on Sept. 16 and got as high as 10% on Sept. 17. Yet banks were refusing to lend to each other, evidently passing up big […]
Media Conceal Chile’s State Criminality, Delegitimize Bolivian Democracy
FAIR Chile’s anti-neoliberal rebellion is entering its third week, and the brutal crackdown continues. Hard-right President Sebastian Piñera and his generals have effectively decreed the country’s oligarch-dominated democracy out of existence by sending soldiers into the streets to kill, maim and torture their own people. And, for the most part, the Western corporate media blackout […]
PG&E SPENT MILLIONS ON LOBBYING FOLLOWING BANKRUPTCY, WINING AND DINING LAWMAKERS WHO SPONSORED BAILOUT
The Intercept THE DECISION BY Pacific Gas & Electric to declare bankruptcy in January did not prevent the utility giant from continuing to spend big on political influence in California’s Statehouse. The investor-owned utility’s transmission lines have been blamed for multiple wildfires, including the Tubbs fire in October 2017 and the Camp Fire wildfire in November 2018, the […]
‘Saving our country from the enemy’: Iraqis defend attack on Iranian consulate
Middle East Eye On Sunday night, Iraqi security forces fired tear gas canisters and live ammunition at hundreds of protesters who were attempting to set fire to the Iranian consulate in the holy city of Karbala. Witnesses said protesters scaled the walls surrounding the building, bringing down an Iranian flag and replacing it with an […]