Trump Throws More Red Meat to Nativists, Polluters, and Evangelicals
The Nation As the impeachment inquiry continues, important political battles continue to play out on other terrain. There’s a lot of Signal out there at the moment. On the immigration front, Trump keeps throwing red meat to his base, and the lower courts keep putting holds on his plans. This week, a coalition of advocacy […]
Bolivia and Tulsi Gabbard
Bolivia is dealing with the contentious results of a recent election and, as The Nation reports, “Even if this fraud thing falls apart, I don’t know if people who are protesting against the results will accept the results, because there’s so much mistrust in…the whole electoral process.” The murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has left many wondering […]
Eating Their Own: How the Clinton Wing is Retaliating Against Gabbard by Funding Her Opponent
The Ghion Journal If you’ve paid any attention whatsoever to the national political discourse in the last week, you undoubtedly know at least one thing: Hillary Clinton and Tulsi Gabbard do not like one another. The reasons for this could theoretically stretch back to 2016, when Gabbard stepped down from her Vice-Chair position at the Democratic […]
USAID funds salaries of Venezuelan coup leaders to lobby US politicians for regime change
The Grayzone American taxpayers are now paying the salaries and expenses of dozens of Venezuelan opposition figures who have created a “shadow government” inside Venezuela and abroad. On October 8, USAID signed a bilateral agreement with the faction of the Venezuelan opposition led by National Assembly president Juan Guaidó (whom the Trump administration recognizes as […]
Facebook’s Threat to Democracy Could Motivate Redefinition of Anti-Trust Laws
The Real News Network MARC STEINER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Marc Steiner. Good to have you all with us today. Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has been grilled by the House Financial Services Committee pretty intensely. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: Under your policy, using census data as well, could I pay to target predominantly black zip codes […]
The DNC Versus Democracy
CounterPunch With Bernie Sanders the people’s choice for winner of the Democratic primary in terms of political organizing and campaign contributions, the powers-that-be in the DNC are putting out a call for establishment figures like Hillary Clinton or Michael Bloomberg to join the race. Not being ‘reported’ by the establishment press is that these same kingmakers 1) weighted the […]
“State of Emergency”: Special Report on California’s Criminalization of Growing Homeless Encampments
Democracy Now! In a Democracy Now! special report, we look at the rise in homelessness in many major cities across the United States. California has become the poster-child for this economic and humanitarian disaster, with growing encampments in Los Angeles and the Bay Area as more people are forced onto the streets. The state is home to […]
The Drug Trade Isn’t Just Killing People, but the Planet Itself
Truthdig There are just 15 vaquita porpoises left in the Gulf of California, and in just a few months, that number could plummet to zero. The earth’s most endangered whale has become a victim not only of the usual environmental suspects, but, due to the fact that its habitat in the Sea of Cortez is […]
The Revolution Isn’t Being Televised
FAIR It’s all kicking off everywhere in 2019. Haitians are revolting against a corrupt political system and their President Jovenel Moïse, who many see as a kleptocratic US puppet. In Ecuador, huge public manifestations managed to force President Lenín Moreno to backtrack on his IMF-backed neoliberal package that would have sharply cut government spending and increased transport prices (FAIR.org, 10/23/19). Meanwhile, popular […]
River of Trash
The Intercept THE FISHERMEN STAND thigh-deep in the muddy water as our boat pulls up to the shore, grass shushing against the hull. It is a still, cool morning and mist wicks off the river as the sun begins to rise above the trees. Down the beach, a white egret standing in the shallows takes flight […]