Democracy Under Siege
READING RECOMMENDATION: Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump (2022) * * * * * * * * * * !
https://www.amazon.com/Reign-Terror-Destabilized-America-Produced/dp/1984879790/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1696278337&sr=1-1
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READING RECOMMENDATION: Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order (2023)
https://www.amazon.com/Atrocity-Fabrication-Its-Consequences-Shapes/dp/194976270X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2U19ATZP7AZDZ&keywords=atrocity+fabrication+and+its+consequences&qid=1695317501&s=books&sprefix=atrocity+fab,stripbooks,495&sr=1-1
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READING RECOMMENDATION: Wealth Addiction (1980)
https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Addiction-Philip-Slater/dp/0525230734/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1693751209&sr=1-3
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READING RECOMMENDATION: The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy from Reagan to Trump (2020)
https://www.amazon.com/Scourge-Neoliberalism-Economic-Policy-Reagan/dp/1949762033/ref=sr_1_1?crid=OJ4W4S1WQORN&keywords=the+scourge+of+neoliberalism&qid=1688662375&s=books&sprefix=the+scorge+of+neoliberalism,stripbooks,203&sr=1-1
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READING RECOMMENDATION: One Nation Under Blackmail – Vol. 2: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein (2022)
https://www.amazon.com/One-Nation-Under-Blackmail-Intelligence/dp/1634243021/ref=pd_bxgy_vft_none_img_sccl_1/132-4013175-6330706?pd_rd_w=U4vCd&content-id=amzn1.sym.26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&pf_rd_p=26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&pf_rd_r=K8NVQYMYKSKPWN79B7MT&pd_rd_wg=rrB3q&pd_rd_r=48d83c7b-74b8-4fe8-a114-8cf6fb74508a&pd_rd_i=1634243021&psc=1
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READING RECOMMENDATION: Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide (2021)
https://www.amazon.com/Laptop-Hell-Hunter-Secrets-President/dp/163758105X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BGDUEIB8LWZR&keywords=laptop+from+hell+miranda+devine&qid=1678313954&s=books&sprefix=laptop+from+hell,stripbooks,321&sr=1-1
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READING RECOMMENDATION: How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt for America's Vanished Voters (2020)
https://www.amazon.com/How-Trump-Stole-2020-Americas/dp/1644210568/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3IWQ832URQ2KT&dchild=1&keywords=how+trump+stole+2020&qid=1595254154&s=books&sprefix=how+trump+stole,stripbooks,274&sr=1-2
Investigative journalist Greg Palast: Here's how Trump will steal the 2020 election
https://www.salon.com/2020/06/15/investigative-journalist-greg-palast-heres-how-trump-will-steal-the-2020-election/
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READING RECOMMENDATION: LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media (2019)
https://www.amazon.com/LikeWar-Weaponization-P-W-Singer/dp/1328695743/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1610995734&sr=1-1
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READING RECOMMENDATION: Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics (2018)
https://www.amazon.com/Network-Propaganda-Manipulation-Disinformation-Radicalization/dp/0190923636/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2FXOQ0XNMDS0&dchild=1&keywords=network+propaganda&qid=1611414280&s=books&sprefix=network+pro,stripbooks,459&sr=1-1
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READING RECOMMENDATION: White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (2017)
https://www.amazon.com/White-Rage-Unspoken-Racial-Divide/dp/1632864134/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21Q9LL7B5SD12&dchild=1&keywords=white+rage+carol+anderson&qid=1611859744&s=books&sprefix=white+rage,stripbooks,231&sr=1-1
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READING RECOMMENDATION: How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America (2020)
https://www.amazon.com/How-South-Won-Civil-War/dp/0190900903/ref=sr_1_1?crid=EA3JAFMEOVHB&dchild=1&keywords=how+the+south+won+the+civil+war&qid=1611870712&s=books&sprefix=how+the+south,stripbooks,235&sr=1-1
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READING RECOMMENDATION: Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another (2019)
https://www.amazon.com/Hate-Inc-Todays-Despise-Another/dp/1949017257/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1611946045&sr=1-1
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READING RECOMMENDATION: Why We're Polarized (2020)
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Were-Polarized-Ezra-Klein/dp/147670032X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2RJ9WZE734KZ0&dchild=1&keywords=why+we're+polarized&qid=1611946278&s=books&sprefix=why+we're,stripbooks,488&sr=1-1
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READING RECOMMENDATION: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class (2021)
https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-History-American-Oligarchy-Reclaiming-ebook/dp/B08DG79GMQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613684277&sr=1-2
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READING RECOMMENDATION: Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right (2020)
https://www.amazon.com/Hate-Homeland-New-Global-Right/dp/0691203830/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2VB0X2SJTGQJE&dchild=1&keywords=hate+in+the+homeland&qid=1618518517&s=books&sprefix=hate+in+the,stripbooks,230&sr=1-1
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READING RECOMMENDATION: The AOC Generation: How Millennials Are Seizing Power and Rewriting the Rules of American Politics (2021)
https://www.amazon.com/AOC-Generation-Millennials-Rewriting-American/dp/0807036439/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=aoc+generation&qid=1620332581&s=books&sr=1-1
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READING RECOMMENDATION: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020)
https://www.amazon.com/Caste-Origins-Discontents-Isabel-Wilkerson/dp/0593230256/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1636121935&sr=1-1
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READING RECOMMENDATION: Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It (2017)
https://www.amazon.com/Nation-Take-Money-Corrupts-Democracy/dp/1632861119/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1624196359&sr=1-1
“… The leading political thinkers of the day were the ones we know so well: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Thomas Paine, George Mason, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin. Their dream was to create a democratic republic, in which ultimate power rested with the citizens. Just after the Declaration of Independence assets the unalienable rights to ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,’ it states:
‘That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principals and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and Happiness…”’
“… In addition to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a shining example of the idealism that defined the era. Ratified in 1780, it is thought to be the world’s oldest still-functioning written constitution. Drafted in part by John Adams, it inspired and informed the U.S. Constitution, forged seven years later. Part I, Article VII, of the Massachusetts chapter reads: ‘Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.’
Government for the common good, not for the ‘profit, honor, or the private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.’
Those words don’t seem to ring true today. Not just for those who follow politics, but for all of us. A profound shift has occurred - one that, perhaps because it has occurred slowly, has yet to fully register as the serious crisis it is. But it has by no means gone unnoticed…” ——- BOOK QUOTE
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READING RECOMMENDATION: Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump (2021)
https://www.amazon.com/Reign-Terror-Destabilized-America-Produced/dp/1984879774/ref=sr_1_1?crid=14GW2AXVTJRCP&keywords=reign+of+terror+spencer+ackerman&qid=1642801774&s=books&sprefix=reign+of+terror,stripbooks,204&sr=1-1
READING RECOMMENDATION: Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom (2005)
https://www.amazon.com/Harriet-Tubman-Freedom-Catherine-Clinton/dp/0316155942/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1MPZLUK8QHGN1&keywords=harriet+tubman&qid=1649363269&s=books&sprefix=harriet+tub,stripbooks,463&sr=1-3
READING RECOMMENDATION: The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers (2019)
https://www.amazon.com/Hello-Girls-Americas-First-Soldiers/dp/0674237439/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2GLG32354S1PE&keywords=the+hello+girls+americas+first+women+soldiers&qid=1649969598&s=books&sprefix=the+hello+girls,stripbooks,378&sr=1-1
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Ten (10) pragmatic progressive policy objectives
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZXuHutquT8yXoOw_ix2BiziNX4J06IOM/mobilebasic
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The Climate Youth Movement’s Earth Day Message to Biden
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/youth-movement-earth-day-biden
'Just the Beginning': 50+ Arrested for Blockading Citigroup Bank Over Climate Crimes
https://www.commondreams.org/news/citibank-climate-protest-2667882434
We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realized
https://www.vox.com/climate/24139383/climate-change-peak-greenhouse-gas-emissions-action
New Report Details How Vast Military Spending By the Richest Countries Greatly Accelerates Climate Crisis
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/12/05/new-report-details-how-vast-military-spending-by-the-richest-countries-greatly-accelerates-climate-crisis/
Big oil privately acknowledged efforts to downplay climate crisis, joint committee investigation finds
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/30/big-oil-climate-crisis-us-senate-report#:~:text=Big oil has privately acknowledged,fuels, US Democrats have found.&text=Major fossil-fuel firms have,with their own climate plans.
Summer heat risks escalating in the US
https://www.dailyclimate.org/summer-heat-risks-escalating-in-the-us-2668095447.html
With US Workers on the March, Southern States Take Aim at Unions
https://www.commondreams.org/news/with-us-workers-on-the-march-southern-states-take-aim-at-unions
Attorneys Inside the Biden Administration Urge US To Cut Off Israel
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/29/attorneys-inside-the-biden-administration-urge-us-to-cut-off-israel/
How Israel violates International Law in Gaza: expert report
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/how-israel-violates-international-law-in-gaza-expert-report/
How did the World’s Largest Democracy deal with dissent Voices?
https://countercurrents.org/2024/05/how-did-the-worlds-largest-democracy-deal-with-dissent-voices/
ACLU: Open Letter to College and University Presidents on Student Protests
https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/open-letter-to-college-and-university-presidents-on-student-protests
Columbia Climate School Alumni Slam 'Violent Repression' of Gaza Solidarity Protests
https://www.commondreams.org/news/columbia-climate-school-protests
'All Because Columbia Refuses to Divest': Police Storm Campus, Violently Arrest Dozens
https://www.commondreams.org/news/columbia-police-storm-campus
How today's college protests echo history
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/29/1198911364/student-protests-palestine-israel-vietnam-compared-history-1968-columbia-campus
We Owe Student Protesters Our Gratitude
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/we-owe-student-protesters-our-gratitude
Students and children in Gaza thank pro-Palestinian protesters at US college campuses
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/28/middleeast/gaza-students-thank-columbia-protests-intl-latam/index.html
Gaza, Campus Protest, and the Fierce Urgency of Now
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/campus-protests-gaza-martin-luther-king
Multiple states will ‘soon recognize’ Palestine, EU foreign policy chief says
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/24637
US University Students in the Millions Are Demanding Freedom in Palestine
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-university-students-freedom-palestine/5855951
Fear is widespread on American campuses, researcher says
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/28/fear-american-campuses-00154855
When do college protests become criminal? Experts weigh in amid Columbia building takeover
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4633571-college-protests-columbia-building-takeover-hinds-hall/
Why are pro-Palestinian US student protesters wearing masks on campus?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/30/why-are-pro-palestinian-students-wearing-masks-campus
The US student Intifada: Palestine’s new soft power leverage
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/24649
Jewish Prophets Who Predicted Nightmarish Escalation of Israeli-Palestine Conflict Were Blacklisted and Ignored
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/29/jewish-prophets-who-predicted-nightmarish-escalation-of-israeli-palestine-conflict-were-blacklisted-and-ignored/
As student protesters get arrested, they risk being banned from campus too
https://www.kuow.org/stories/as-student-protesters-get-arrested-they-risk-being-banned-from-campus-too
IU offers concessions in wake of arrests at Dunn Meadow protests
https://fox59.com/indiana-news/iu-offers-concessions-in-wake-of-arrests-at-dunn-meadow-protests/
For Turning Our Campus Into a Mini-Police State, Indiana University's President Must Go
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/indiana-university-gaza-protests
Ohio State president: Campus 'will not be overtaken' by student protests
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/education/2024/04/29/ohio-state-protests-president-campus-will-not-be-overtaken/73502582007/
LOOKING BACK: The Largest Pro-Palestinian Protest in U.S. History Was "A Turning Point." Now It's Spreading.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/national-washington-march-free-palestine
LOOKING BACK: The Take: US protesters show up for Palestine. What will Biden do next?
https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2023/11/7/the-take-us-protestors-show-up-for-palestine-what-will-biden-do-next
Four students on why they’re protesting against war in Gaza: ‘Injustice should not be accepted’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/26/college-protests-israel-gaza
We’re Jewish students at Columbia arrested for protesting Israel’s war
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4626720-were-jewish-students-at-columbia-arrested-for-protesting-israels-war/
What students say about the protests rocking their campuses -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/26/student-protesters-israel-gaza-encampments/
The Years 1968 And 2024: Will History Repeat Itself?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/the-years-1968-and-2024-will-history-repeat-itself/
The ’60s saw national teach-ins as a form of peaceful protest — it’s time to bring them back
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4624797national-teach-ins-protest-1960s-climate-change-anti-war/#:~:text=Energy and Environment-,The '60s saw national teach-ins as a form of,time to bring them back&text=On March 24, 1965, 200,speeches against the Vietnam War.
US doubles down on Israel support as campus protests rage over Gaza
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4624967-us-israel-support-campus-protests-gaza/
The Crackdown on Campus Protests Is Happening Everywhere
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/gaza-solidarity-encampments-campus-crackdown-palestine/
Texas Gov. Abbott faces backlash after mass arrest at UT Austin pro-Palestine protest
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4620838-texas-governor-abbott-backlash-mass-arrest-ut-austin-pro-palestine-protest/
McConnell: Leave handling of protests to college presidents
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/28/mcconnell-protests-college-presidents-00154826#:~:text=“What needs to happen, at,,” the Republican leader said.
How universities are cracking down on a swell of tension months into student protests over Israel’s bombardment of Gaza
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/28/us/student-protests-universities-israel-gaza/index.html
Students Are Taking the Lead in Denouncing Gaza Atrocities
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/students-are-taking-the-lead-in-denouncing-gaza-atrocities/
Cable News Viewers Have a Skewed Attitude Toward Gaza War, Survey Finds
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/30/gaza-israel-palestine-cable-news-poll/
What the Student Movement for a Free Palestine Teaches Us
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/student-movement-free-palestine-teaches
Jewish student explains why he’s supporting pro-Palestinian protest at UCLA
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/27/london-gaza-protest-openly-jewish-march-holocaust-survivors-palestine-demonstration#:~:text=After the previous march, Gideon,for Jews during the protests.
Student Protests are Part of an Endless But Positive Tug of War
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/student-protests-are-part-of-an-endless-but-positive-tug-of-war/
Student Protest Movement Could Cause a Tumultuous End to School Year
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/us/columbia-university-remote-classes-protests.html
Pro-Palestinian student protests highlight lessons learned from past demonstrations
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4621996-pro-palestinian-student-protests-israel-gaza-hamas/
Poisoning the American Mind: Student Protests in the Age of the New McCarthyism
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/poisoning-of-the-american-mind-student-protests-in-the-age-of-the-new-mccarthyism/
No, a Shadowy Figure Is Not Buying Tents for Columbia Student Protesters
https://www.wired.com/story/conspiracy-tents-student-protests-gaza/
Empire Managers Say Russia, China And Iran Are Tricking Students Into Opposing Genocide
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/04/26/empire-managers-say-russia-china-and-iran-are-tricking-students-into-opposing-genocide/
Republicans want Columbia’s federal funding stopped. There are at least 3 big problems.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/25/republican-columbia-federal-funding-protests-gaza-israel-00154230
Senior Democrat calls for arrests of ‘leftwing fascists’ urging Gaza ceasefire
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/israel-gaza-ceasefire-adam-smith
Bernie Sanders to Netanyahu: 'It Is Not Antisemitic to Hold You Accountable’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-netanyahu-antisemitism
Jewish student protesters say Columbia’s pro-Palestine demonstrations aren’t antisemitic
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/columbia-protests-jewish-students-antisemitism-b2534817.html
US veterans spark controversial comments after taking a stance on pro-Palestine protest and Gaza
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-799026
House Progressives Blast Attempts to Discredit Pro-Gaza Campus Protests
https://www.commondreams.org/news/student-protest
The Attacks on the Palestine Movement Are Getting Stupider by the Second
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/the-attacks-on-the-palestine-movement-are-getting-stupider-by-the-second/
How do you counter misinformation? Critical thinking is step one
https://www.kuow.org/stories/how-do-you-counter-misinformation-critical-thinking-is-step-one
Stunning police brutality will ignite a student anti-war movement in America
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/29/police-brutality-university-protest
The Grit and Resilience of Student Protesters
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/student-protesters-gen-z-resilience/
Columbia Students File Civil Rights Complaint After Arrests, National Guard Threat
https://www.commondreams.org/news/columbia-students-civil-case
Did Columbia University Violate the 1st Amendment?
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/26/did-columbia-university-violate-the-1st-amendment/
How Columbia University’s complex history with the student protest movement echoes into today
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-gaza-campus-protests-1968-505f9da3aef5ce7a9f7d6eb962dacb5d
DC Police Refuse GWU Request to Arrest Students
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/27/dc-police-refuse-gwu-request-to-arrest-students/
Generation gap: What student protests say about US politics, Israel support
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/26/generation-gap-what-student-protests-say-about-us-politics-israel-support
US faculty speak up and stand alongside student Gaza protesters
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/27/us-faculty-university-students-campus-protests-gaza
The Jewish Solidarity behind the Palestinian Resistance in the US
https://countercurrents.org/2024/04/the-jewish-solidarity-behind-the-palestinian-resistance-in-the-us/
College administrators are falling into a tried and true trap laid by the right
https://theconversation.com/college-administrators-are-falling-into-a-tried-and-true-trap-laid-by-the-right-228732
Campus Protests and the Corporate University
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/30/campus-protests-and-the-corporate-university/
Biden is the graduation speaker for Martin Luther King’s alma mater. It’s a moral disaster
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/26/biden-morehouse-college-commencement#:~:text=Considering King's anti-militarism, and,class is a moral disaster.
Chris Hedges: Revolt in the Universities
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/25/chris-hedges-revolt-in-the-universities/
"Have You No Sense of Decency?”
https://www.unz.com/mhudson/have-you-no-sense-of-decency/
Freedom of Speech Ends Where True Power Begins
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/freedom-of-speech-and-political-power
Campus free speech is getting murky for Republican governors
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/27/republican-states-colleges-free-speech-israel-gaza-complicated-00154702
Are US campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza going global?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/26/are-us-campus-protests-against-israels-war-on-gaza-going-global
Mapping pro-Palestine college campus protests around the world
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/29/mapping-pro-palestine-campus-protests-around-the-world
A Timeline of How the Israel-Hamas War Has Roiled College Campuses
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/us/campus-unrest-israel-gaza-antisemitism.html
Mapped: Where pro-Palestinian student protesters have been arrested
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/27/palestinian-college-protest-arrest-encampment
Student protesters are demanding universities divest from Israel. What does that mean?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/divestment-israel-college-protests
Yale refuses to divest from military weapons manufacturers amid student protests
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/04/17/yale-refuses-to-divest-from-military-weaponry-amid-student-protests/
LOOKING BACK: Students Are Pushing US Colleges to Sever Ties With Military-Industrial Complex
https://truthout.org/articles/students-are-pushing-us-colleges-to-sever-ties-with-military-industrial-complex/
US universities are pipelines to the defense industry. What does that say about our morals?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/18/us-universities-are-pipelines-to-the-defense-industry-what-does-that-say-about-our-morals
Mayday! Mayday! The Ship of State Is Sinking!
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/mayday-ship-of-state-sinking
Universities are increasingly in cahoots with the arms industry – normalising war for profit
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2024/02/28/universities-arms-industry/
Partnerships between universities and arms manufacturers raise thorny ethical questions
https://theconversation.com/partnerships-between-universities-and-arms-manufacturers-raise-thorny-ethical-questions-93005
Capitalizing on Conflict
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/reports/capitalizing-on-conflict
LOOKING BACK: U.S. lawmakers want Congress to have more say over war, weapons deals
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-lawmakers-want-more-congressional-review-before-war-action-taken-2021-07-20/
This Is How the Biggest Arms Manufacturers Steer Millions to Influence US Policy
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/03/07/how-biggest-arms-manufacturers-steer-millions-influence-us-policy.html
The Defense Industry’s Role in Militarizing US Foreign Policy
https://merip.org/2020/06/the-defense-industrys-role-in-militarizing-us-foreign-policy/
Buying and selling arms stock while voting on war should be illegal
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/07/25/buying-arms-industry-stock-while-voting-on-war-seems-like-it-should-be-illegal/
Tlaib Introduces Bill to Stop Politicians Profiting from War
https://tlaib.house.gov/posts/tlaib-introduces-bill-to-stop-politicians-profiting-from-war
No Outside Probe, US Reiterates as Gazans Reportedly Buried Alive in Mass Grave
https://www.commondreams.org/news/nasser-hospital-buried-alive-mass-graves
US Reportedly Working to Stop ICC From Issuing Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu
https://www.commondreams.org/news/netanyahu-arrest-warrants
Trump team argues assassination of rivals is covered by presidential immunity
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4398223-trump-team-argues-assassination-of-rivals-is-covered-by-presidential-immunity/
Biden approval rating mired at historic low: Gallup
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4623548-biden-approval-rating-average-historic-low-gallup/
Biden’s young voter problem keeps getting worse
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/politics/biden-young-voters-what-matters/index.html
Hush money judge rules Trump violated gag order, warns of jail time
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4614870-judge-trump-gag-order-violations/
More Americans have little, no confidence in Netanyahu: Poll
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4620862-more-americans-have-little-no-confidence-in-netanyahu-poll/
Pentagon Confirms Delayed Withdrawal Of U.S. Troops From Niger
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/04/pentagon-confirms-delayed-withdrawal-of-us-troops-from-niger.html#more
Americans go home: Both Niger and Chad yank the welcome mat
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-niger-chad/
Moving to Universal Health Care, Beginning in the States
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/moving-to-universal-health-care-beginning-in-the-states/
Ballooning immigrant detention enrages advocates
https://thehill.com/latino/4621399-immigrant-detention-advocates-border-biden/
‘It’s a deep emotional ride’ – 12 young people in Philly’s toughest neighborhoods explain how violence disrupts their physical and mental health
https://theconversation.com/its-a-deep-emotional-ride-12-young-people-in-phillys-toughest-neighborhoods-explain-how-violence-disrupts-their-physical-and-mental-health-222251
Mexico’s Struggle against Imposition of GM Corn by USA Needs Wide Support as People’s Basic Right to Safe Food is Threatened
https://countercurrents.org/2024/04/mexicos-struggle-against-imposition-of-gm-corn-by-usa-needs-wide-support-as-peoples-basic-right-to-safe-food-is-threatened/
BIDEN SAYS HE TOLD NIGERIA TO KILL FEWER CIVILIANS — BUT NIGERIA KEEPS KILLING LOTS OF CIVILIANS
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/29/nigeria-civilian-casualties-us-military-ai-biden/
Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/24/survey-finds-that-60-firms-are-responsible-for-half-of-worlds-plastic-pollution
Plastic Poisons People. Will the Biden Administration Protect Us?
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/break-free-from-plastic-ottawa-treaty
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Violent Arrest of Emory Professor Spotlights Brutality of Police Crackdown on Campus Protests - VIDEO
https://www.commondreams.org/news/emory-protests-arrests
Emory professor speaks out after being arrested during protest - VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Fx9cb9VW8
Here’s what students need to know about protesting on campus right now
https://www.thefire.org/news/heres-what-students-need-know-about-protesting-campus-right-now
Portland State University Pauses Ties With Boeing as Campus Protests Spread
https://www.commondreams.org/news/boeing-portland-state-university
Biden Claims $95 Billion Foreign Military Aid Bill Is Good for ‘World Peace’
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/24/biden-claims-95-billion-foreign-military-aid-bill-is-good-for-world-peace/
The UniParty’s Day of Infamy
https://original.antiwar.com/David_Stockman/2024/04/23/the-unipartys-day-of-infamy/
The North American Peace Movement at an Inflection Point
https://original.antiwar.com/Roger_Harris/2024/04/23/the-north-american-peace-movement-at-an-inflection-point/
Record numbers in the US are homeless. Can cities fine them for sleeping in parks and on sidewalks?
https://apnews.com/article/homelessness-sleeping-outside-fines-supreme-court-e036c7041cba08d50e3d855942961253
'Let Them Eat GDP Reports': 44 Million Americans Are Food Insecure
https://www.commondreams.org/news/food-insecurity-in-the-us
"Unnecessary and unacceptable": Why the American hunger crisis could get worse in 2024
https://www.salon.com/2023/11/29/unnecessary-and-unacceptable-why-the-american-hunger-could-get-worse-in-2024/
Led by US, Global Military Spending Surged to Record $2.4 Trillion Last Year
https://www.commondreams.org/news/military-spending-record-high
Top GOP megadonor's quiet connection to US militarism
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/jeff-yass/
War & Genocide on Earth Day
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/21/war-genocide-on-earth-day/
CBS News poll finds big majority of Americans support U.S. taking steps to reduce climate change
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-reduce-climate-change-extreme-weather-04-21-2024/#
Rejecting the Facade: Unveiling the Ecological Toll of War
https://original.antiwar.com/Melissa_Garriga/2024/04/21/rejecting-the-facade-unveiling-the-ecological-toll-of-war-and-genocide/
As the Climate Heats Up, Disaster Relief Faces a Sweltering Demand
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/climate-disaster-relief
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Bill Would End Trading in Water Futures
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/water-rights-trading-ban-bill-elizabeth-warren-ro-khanna/#:~:text=With private investors poised to,afternoon, the Guardian has learned.
Senator Bob Graham, 9/11, and the Mirage of American Democracy
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/23/senator-bob-graham-9-11-and-the-mirage-of-american-democracy/
BIDEN’S INDIFFERENCE TO PALESTINIAN LIVES IS SENDING THE MIDDLE EAST INTO THE ABYSS
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/24/intercepted-biden-israel-middle-east-war/
These Student Protests Against Israel Are the Most Important Political Movement of Our Lifetime
https://www.unz.com/aanglin/these-student-protests-against-israel-are-the-most-important-political-movement-of-our-lifetime/
President Biden Smears Pro-Palestinian Protesters as ‘Antisemitic’
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/22/president-biden-smears-pro-palestinian-protesters-as-antisemitic/
Edward Said Warned of Anti-Palestine McCarthyism on Campus
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/23/edward-said-warned-of-anti-palestine-mccarthyism-on-campus/
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL FACULTY CONDEMN ADMINISTRATION FOR MASS ARRESTS AND SUSPENSIONS
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/22/gaza-protests-arrests-columbia-law-school/
CovertAction Bulletin: Student Encampments Resist for Palestine
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/24/covertaction-bulletin-student-encampments-resist-for-palestine/
Johnson demands Biden send in National Guard during raucous Columbia visit
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/24/mike-johnson-columbia-national-guard-00154199#:~:text=
Mike Johnson's trip to Columbia met with brutal hostility
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/24/mike-johnson-columbia-ny-protests
Netanyahu Calls for Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Protesters in the US
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/24/netanyahu-calls-for-crackdown-on-pro-palestine-protesters-in-the-us/
See the scene from pro-Palestinian protests at USC
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2024/04/24/university-of-southern-california-protests-pro-palestinian-digvid.cnn
In This Dystopia, Opposing A Genocide Is Considered Worse Than Committing One
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/04/25/in-this-dystopia-opposing-a-genocide-is-considered-worse-than-committing-one/
Colleges grasp for solutions to pro-Palestinian student protests
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4618518-colleges-pro-palestinian-student-protests/
How Americans felt about campus protests against the Vietnam War -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/24/polling-student-protests-vietnam/
The US House Just Gave Israel $26 Billion for Its War on Gaza’s Children
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-house-26-billion-to-israel
Americans in new poll split on foreign aid package
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4618012-americans-split-foreign-aid-ukraine-israel/
The Democrats who flipped on Israel aid, and why
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/democrats-voted-for-israel-aid/
Historic Number of Democratic Reps Vote Against Unconditional Aid to Israel
https://www.commondreams.org/news/historic-number-dems-vote-no-israel
Sanders Pushes Amendment to 'Cut Billions in Offensive Military Funding to Israel’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-military-funding-israel
Johnson defends Israel when asked about children’s deaths
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4620372-johnson-defends-israel-hamas-childrens-deaths/
'Damning' Independent Probe Finds Israel Has Yet to Provide Evidence Against UNRWA
https://www.commondreams.org/news/unrwa-2667835600
State Department To Delay Withdrawal Of U.S. Troops From Niger
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/04/state-department-to-delay-withdrawal-of-us-troops-from-niger.html
Are the BRICS and Their New Development Bank Offering Alternatives to the World Bank, the IMF and the Policies Promoted by the Traditional Imperialist Powers?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/are-the-brics-and-their-new-development-bank-offering-alternatives-to-the-world-bank-the-imf-and-the-policies-promoted-by-the-traditional-imperialist-powers/
‘In the US they think we’re communists!’ The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/24/in-the-us-they-think-were-communists-the-70000-workers-showing-the-world-another-way-to-earn-a-living
Chad Signals It Wants US Troops To Leave
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/23/chad-signals-it-wants-us-troops-to-leave/
US Tells Iraq To ‘Ensure the Safety’ of US Troops, Threatens Escalation
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/23/us-tells-iraq-to-ensure-the-safety-of-us-troops-threatens-escalation/
LOOKING BACK: Ukraine: US Launches a Fascist Government, and World War Three?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-us-launches-a-fascist-government-and-world-war-three/5372945
ISW: Defeatist propaganda keeping ‘us’ from a Ukraine military victory
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/russia-ukraine-war-isw/
Biden admin isn’t fully convinced Ukraine can win, even with new aid
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/24/biden-ukraine-russia-war-aid-00154143
Kicking the can down the crumbling road in Ukraine
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-aid-2667871647/
Vance versus McConnell defines GOP Ukraine fight
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4609730-vance-versus-mcconnell-defines-gop-ukraine-fight/
GOP critics vow no more US aid for Ukraine
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4619185-gop-critics-vow-no-more-us-aid-for-ukraine/
LOOKING BACK: The Greatest Casualty of the Ukraine War Could Be Planet Earth Itself
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/23/greatest-casualty-ukraine-war-could-be-planet-earth-itself
Trump Sold-Out His Base to Shovel $95 Billion to Ukraine and Israel
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/trump-sold-out-his-base-to-shovel-95-billion-to-ukraine-and-israel/
Inside the fight for top Trump national security roles
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/19/trump-national-security-candidates-00153381
What happens if Trump gets convicted ahead of November?
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4606107-donald-trump-hush-money-trial-stormy-daniels-conviction-election/
Biden Signs TikTok Ban—Among the 'Stupidest and Most Authoritarian' Tech Bills
https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-signs-tiktok-ban
Conservatives' savage child labor agenda wants kids working more for less
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/19/trump-national-security-candidates-00153381
The American people are petrified
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4606943-the-american-people-are-petrified/
Why homicide rates are falling across the country
https://thehill.com/homenews/4606161-us-homicide-rates-falling/#:~:text
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To Save US Democracy, Prioritize the Common Good
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/common-good-democracy
Congressional Progressives Unveil 'Bold' Agenda for Second Biden Term
https://www.commondreams.org/news/congressional-progressive-caucus-2667809236
Capitalism Is Acting Truly Suicidally on Climate
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/capitalism-suicidal-climate
Democrats, remember: Veterans and military families are not a monolithic voting bloc
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4592283-democrats-remember-veterans-and-military-families-are-not-a-monolithic-voting-bloc/
In the Twilight of Empires
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2012-11-21/in-the-twilight-of-empires/
Database Exposes 'Illicit Network Undermining Democracy Around the World’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/progressive-international-reactionaries
Bob Graham Knew Iraq Would Be a Quagmire Even as Most Democrats Fell for Cheney’s Lies
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/bob-graham-iraq-quagmire/
Raskin: Greene ‘recycling direct Russian propaganda’
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4602186-raskin-greene-recycling-direct-russian-propaganda/
Meet Centuria, Ukraine’s Western-trained neo-Nazi army
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/04/07/centuria-ukraines-western-neo-nazi-army/
John Pilger: Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/08/john-pilger-silencing-the-lambs-how-propaganda-works-2/
U.S. Helps Pro-Ukraine Media Run a Fog Machine of War
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/04/11/us_helps_pro-ukraine_media_run_a_fog_machine_of_war_1023961.html
LOOKING BACK: Neo-Nazis in the US no longer see backing Ukraine as a worthy cause
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/11/american-neo-nazi-not-fighting-russia-ukraine-war-far-right-extremist
LOOKING BACK: Profile: Who are Ukraine’s far-right Azov regiment?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment
LOOKING BACK: Commentary: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1GV2TC/
LOOKING BACK: Risking Nuclear War for a Corrupt, Increasingly Repressive Ukraine
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2022/04/25/risking-nuclear-war-for-a-corrupt-increasingly-repressive-ukraine/
LOOKING BACK: A far-right battalion has a key role in Ukraine’s resistance. Its neo-Nazi history has been exploited by Putin
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/29/europe/ukraine-azov-movement-far-right-intl-cmd/index.html
LOOKING BACK: Chronology of the Ukrainian Coup
https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/05/chronology-of-the-ukrainian-c
LOOKING BACK: Congress bans arms to Ukraine militia linked to neo-Nazis
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/380483-congress-bans-arms-to-controversial-ukrainian-militia-linked-to-neo-nazis/
LOOKING BACK: When Western Media Saw Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/06/robert-parry-when-western-media-saw-ukraines-neo-nazis/
LOOKING BACK: The New York Times Discovers Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis at War
https://truthout.org/articles/nyt-discovers-ukraines-neo-nazis-at-war/
LOOKING BACK: There Is No Wisdom in Pretending That Ukraine's Neo-Nazis Don't Exist
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/09/there-no-wisdom-pretending-ukraines-neo-nazis-dont-exist
LOOKING BACK: When US House Saw Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis [“…Rather than fully inform its readers about a crisis that has the potential of becoming a nuclear showdown between the United States and Russia, the Times has chosen to simply be a fount of State Department propaganda, often terming any reference to Kiev’s Nazi storm troopers to be “Russian propaganda…”’]
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/06/robert-parry-when-us-house-saw-ukraines-neo-nazis/
LOOKING BACK: On the Influence of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/29/on-the-influence-of-neo-nazism-in-ukraine/
LOOKING BACK: Why Putin Went to War — One Year Later - On Feb. 24, 2022 Vladimir Putin explained his country’s intentions in Ukraine in a televised speech. How has what he said then measured up to today? Joe Lauria reports.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/24/why-putin-went-to-war-one-year-later/
LOOKING BACK: Ukraine’s “Neo-Nazi Summer Camp”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/military-training-for-young-children-at-ukraines-neo-nazi-summer-camp-recruitment-of-ukraines-child-soldiers-financed-by-us-nonlethal-military-aid/5472801
LOOKING BACK: Profile: Who are Ukraine’s far-right Azov regiment?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment
LOOKING BACK: From Wikipedia: Azov Battalion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion
LOOKING BACK: The Resurgence of Nazism in Ukraine
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/11/the-resurgence-of-nazism-in-ukraine/
LOOKING BACK: How Zelensky Made Peace With Neo-Nazis
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/04/how-zelensky-made-peace-with-neo-nazis/
LOOKING BACK: Western Media Fall in Lockstep for Neo-Nazi Publicity Stunt in Ukraine
https://fair.org/home/western-media-fall-in-lockstep-for-neo-nazi-publicity-stunt-in-ukraine/
LOOKING BACK: They Are Propagandizing For Nazis But Won't Tell You That
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/they-are-propagandizing-for-nazis-but-wont-tell-you-that.html#more
Biden condemns Iran’s strike on Israel: A case study in imperialist hypocrisy
https://countercurrents.org/2024/04/biden-condemns-irans-strike-on-israel-a-case-study-in-imperialist-hypocrisy/
Bipartisan lawmakers rush to battle stations after Iran attack
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/congress-responds-iran-attacks-israel/
Democrats Question U.S. Claims That Israel Isn’t Violating International Law Using American Weapons
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/16/israel-weapons-aid-us-biden-escobar/
Democrats help advance Ukraine, Israel aid in rare rules move
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4604231-democrats-ukraine-israel-aid-rare-rules-move/
Sen. Rick Scott Says He’s a China Hawk. But He’s Made Lots of Money With China-Related Investments
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/rick-scott-china-hawk-florida-investments/
Republican senator Tom Cotton calls for vigilantism to break up Gaza protests
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/16/tom-cotton-gaza-protesters#:~:text=
Bankers upgrade Lockheed stock after Iran strikes at Israel
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/lockheed-martin-israel-war/
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Could the Russians Seize Congress?
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/16/patrick-lawrence-could-the-russians-seize-congress/
U.S.: Leader or Loser in the G7?
https://news.gallup.com/poll/643598/leader-loser.aspx
Biden may be the first Democratic president since Vietnam era to face this problem
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/04/18/biden-young-voters-protests-zeleny-pkg-digvid.cnn#:~:text=
Trump to make history as first US president to face criminal trial
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4590650-trump-to-make-history-as-first-us-president-to-face-criminal-trial/
White House declines invite for Biden to testify in House Oversight impeachment inquiry
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/15/politics/biden-declines-invitation-impeachment-inquiry/index.html
Impeachment ‘Whistleblower’ Was in the Loop of Biden-Ukraine Affairs That Trump Wanted Probed
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/04/17/impeachment_whistleblower_was_in_the_loop_of_biden-ukraine_affairs_that_trump_wanted_probed_1024937.html
The Pentagon is flirting with the dark side of AI
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pentagon-ai/
Report Sounds Alarm Over Growing Role of Big Tech in US Military-Industrial Complex
https://www.commondreams.org/news/military-industrial-complex-big-tech
The F-35 fighter will now cost more than $2 trillion
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/f35-cost/
Rejecting the Facade: Unveiling the Ecological Toll of War and Genocide
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/18/rejecting-the-facade-unveiling-the-ecological-toll-of-war-and-genocide/
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Oppenheimer’s legacy – Portents of a nuclear war on a burning planet
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2024/04/oppenheimers-legacy-portents-of-nuclear.-war-on-a-burning-planet.html
The day of nuclear Armageddon: Newly declassified documents reveal in macabre minute-by-minute detail what the end of the world would like. And why those vaporised instantly by an atomic bomb will be the lucky ones…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13279197/The-day-nuclear-Armageddon-Newly-declassified-documents-reveal-macabre-minute-minute-end-world-like-vaporised-instantly-atomic-bomb-lucky-ones.html
How to Build a Climate Bomb
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/build-climate-bomb
By the numbers - Sometimes we need to stop and take stock
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/by-the-numbers
Roundtable on Current U.S. Foreign Policy: Militarism Unhinged
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/11/roundtable-on-current-u-s-foreign-policy-militarism-unhinged/
What Did Your Taxes Fund in 2023?
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/taxes-fund-2023
House Dems, GOP Team Up to Expand Warrantless Spying on Americans
https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-dems-gop-team-up-to-expand-warrantless-spying-on-americans
Trump’s bizarre, vindictive incoherence has to be heard in full to be believed
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/06/donald-trump-speech-analysis
Former top military officers push back on Trump immunity claim
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4582454-former-top-military-officers-push-back-on-trump-immunity-claim/
A monumental case, unfolding in a court of law and a court of public opinion – Trump goes on trial
https://theconversation.com/a-monumental-case-unfolding-in-a-court-of-law-and-a-court-of-public-opinion-trump-goes-on-trial-227645
Democratic National Committee paid lawyers who represented Biden in special counsel probe
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/12/politics/legal-fees-biden-democrats/index.html
NPR editor says network ‘turned a blind eye’ to Hunter Biden laptop story because ‘it could help Trump’
https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/media/npr-editor-says-network-turned-a-blind-eye-to-hunter-biden-laptop-story/
Should Biden Drop Out?
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-drop-out-debate/
Many say Biden and Trump did more harm than good, but for different reasons, AP-NORC poll shows
https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-immigration-economy-inflation-abortion-21b95914866c2af3a1e7af8e302dbe27
The Mechanism: How the "Order" Based on Made-Up Rules Is Descending Into Savagery
https://www.unz.com/pescobar/the-mechanism-how-the-order-based-on-made-up-rules-is-descending-into-savagery/
War Makes Humans the Most Dangerous Species
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/war-most-dangerous-species
Imagine No War - With the world on the brink of WWIII, perhaps it’s time to realize we are all brothers
https://www.unz.com/article/imagine-no-war/
War and Peace in an Ocean of Lies
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/war-and-peace-in-an-ocean-of-lies/
US Official Says Iran's Message Is: 'Don't F*ck With Us and We Won't F*ck With You’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/u-s-warns-iran
Biden's inaction on Gaza puts US troops at risk
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/biden-gaza-ceasefire/
Enlisting in the Military: A Very, Very Bad Idea
https://original.antiwar.com/reed/2024/04/08/enlisting-in-the-military-a-very-very-bad-idea/
Gaza Asks Us A Question About What Kind Of Future We Want To Have
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/04/09/gaza-asks-us-a-question-about-what-kind-of-future-we-want-to-have/
Brutal, Chaotic War – Norms, Conventions and Laws of Conduct Are Being Erased
https://www.unz.com/article/brutal-chaotic-war-norms-conventions-and-laws-of-conduct-are-being-erased/
Biden Says Israel Is Doing What He Asked, Signaling No Change in US Support
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/07/biden-says-israel-is-doing-what-he-asked-signaling-no-change-in-us-support/
More Than Half a Million Democratic Voters Have Told Biden: Save Gaza!
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/uncommitted-campaign-results-gaza-biden/
An illegal war with Houthis isn't stopping the Red Sea crisis
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/yemen-houthi-red-sea-2667668169/
Will Democrats hold Biden accountable for arming Israel?
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/democrats-congress-israel-weapons/
Refuting Jurists, Lloyd Austin Says US Has No Evidence of Gaza Genocide
https://www.commondreams.org/news/lloyd-austin-israel
“Russia Losing”: Biden Administration Admits It Lied. “Why is Russia Winning All of a Sudden”?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/russian-military-completely-reconstituted-biden-admin-effectively-admits-it-lied/5854298
Vance: Biden’s ‘math’ on Ukraine doesn’t add up
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4590513-jd-vance-biden-ukraine/
Why Is the American Library Association Whitewashing the History of Ukrainian Nazis?
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/american-library-association-ukrainian-nazis/
Who Is to Blame for the War in Ukraine?
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/who-is-to-blame-for-ukraine-war
First UN food supplies arrive in Sudan's Darfur after months, millions still face acute hunger
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20240405-first-un-food-supplies-arrive-in-sudan-s-darfur-after-months-millions-still-face-acute-hunger
Average US Taxpayer Contributed More to Militarism Than Medicare in 2023: Report
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-taxpayers-funding-militarism
Criminalizing the Unhoused Is Inherently Cruel
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/criminalizing-unhoused-cruel
Jayapal, Sanders, and Khanna Say US Housing Crisis Must Be 'At the Top of Our Agenda’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-jayapal-khanna-housing
Librarians fear new penalties, even prison, as activists challenge books
https://apnews.com/article/book-bans-libraries-lawsuits-fines-prison-0914fa6cbb2a99b540cbbd28a38179b4
BBB Scam Alert: The "Can you hear me?" phone scam is still ringing (hint: Just hang up!)
https://www.bbb.org/article/scams/5691-scam-alert-the-can-you-hear-me-phone-scam-is-still-ringing
Medical device firms’ payments to doctors far outstripped those from pharma, study shows
https://coi.ufl.edu/2021/04/07/medical-device-firms-payments-to-doctors-far-outstripped-those-from-pharma-study-shows/
We Found Over 700 Doctors Who Were Paid More Than a Million Dollars by Drug and Medical Device Companies
https://www.propublica.org/article/we-found-over-700-doctors-who-were-paid-more-than-a-million-dollars-by-drug-and-medical-device-companies
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The Specious ‘US Voter Apathy’ Spin
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/03/the-specious-us-voter-apathy-spin/
Billionaire Wealth Is Soaring. We Need Progressive Taxation Now.
https://inequality.org/great-divide/billionaire-wealth-is-soaring/
Trump’s Threats Against Opponents Are Getting Increasingly Violent
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-biden-threats/
Joe Biden Faces 'Clear' Evidence He Lied in Impeachment Probe—Attorney
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-criticized-lying-impeachment-probe-turley-comer-letter-1885288
White House met with Hunter Biden’s legal team just before he ducked subpoena: visitor logs
https://nypost.com/2024/04/06/us-news/white-house-meets-with-hunter-bidens-legal-team-visitor-logs/
‘Are you kidding me?’: Biden-appointed judge torches DOJ for blowing off Hunter Biden-related subpoenas from House GOP
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/05/biden-appointed-judge-torches-doj-00150884
Deconstructed: No to Biden, No to Trump — Insights From Swing-State Voters
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/05/deconstructed-trump-biden-swing-state-voters/
Americans Showing Average Enthusiasm for Voting in 2024
https://news.gallup.com/poll/643172/americans-showing-average-enthusiasm-voting-2024.aspx
Parents are struggling with high prices this year. It may shape how they vote
https://www.kuow.org/stories/parents-are-struggling-with-high-prices-this-year-it-may-shape-how-they-vote
Democratic tensions over Israel threaten to boil over at Chicago convention
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4577481-democrats-israel-gaza-hamas-palestinians-joe-biden-chicago/
Analysis Warns Climate Crisis Threatens US Nuclear Reactors
https://www.commondreams.org/news/analysis-warns-climate-crisis-threatens-us-nuclear-reactors
Report Outlines Which Companies Are Most Responsible for Climate Crisis
https://www.commondreams.org/news/report-companies-climate-crisis
A Pennsylvania County Is Suing the Fossil Fuel Industry for Damages Linked to Climate Change
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05042024/bucks-county-pennsylvania-suing-fossil-fuel-industry/
Should Big Oil Be Tried for Homicide?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04042024/fossil-fuel-companies-homicide-charge/
Not enough war on the ground, the US is taking it to space
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/u-s-space-race/
After six months of war, Israel’s isolation grows with no end in sight
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-gaza-war-oct-7-327bfeb7bfce5cb0de1568bf41a0ff06
US officials’ fury at Biden Gaza policy means mood in State Department now worse than during the Iraq War
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mood-state-department-worse-iraq-172234184.html
More Deaths in Gaza
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/more-deaths-in-gaza/
Aid worker deaths have appalled Israel’s European allies. Some are considering a halt to arms sales
https://apnews.com/article/israel-europe-allies-gaza-criticism-arms-5df91e8c4755823ae041175ca4b7aba2
‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestinian-children-killed-idf-israel-war
The Ghosts of Gaza Are Whispering Every Night
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/06/the-ghosts-of-gaza-are-whispering-every-night/
Active-Duty US Airman Refuses to Eat While Gaza Starves
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/04/the-active-duty-airman-refusing-to-eat-while-gaza-starves/
How Soldiers of Conqueror Armies Also Suffer
https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-soldiers-conqueror-armies-also-suffer/5853859
LANGUAGE IN THE WAR ON GAZA
https://fpif.org/language-in-the-war-on-gaza/
Biden and Netanyahu: United in goal, divided by strategy
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/24258
After Months of Progressive Outcry Over Biden Israel Policy, Establishment Dems Pile On
https://www.commondreams.org/news/establishment-democrats-gaza
In Gaza and Beyond, War Itself Is the Problem
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/war-problem-in-gaza
Sick Cultures: When Belief Systems Turn Pathological
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/04/sick-cultures-when-belief-systems-turn-pathological/
Samantha Power and the Power of a Word
https://www.unz.com/article/samantha-power-and-the-power-of-a-word/
Dreaming of an older, calmer NATO
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/nato-75th-anniversary/
What makes a UN decision binding?
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/un-security-council-israel-gaza/
Niger to Biden: Pack Up Your Forever War and Go Home
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/niger-biden-end-forever-war
Why Care About Kosovo?
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/why-care-about-kosovo/
The rise and fall of loyal US client Juan Orlando Hernandéz
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/honduras-president-arrested/
The Sahel's 'Axis of Resistance’
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/24180
Shouldn’t Every American Enjoy the Luxury of a Roof?
https://inequality.org/great-divide/shouldnt-every-american-enjoy-the-luxury-of-a-roof/
Loneliness can kill, and new research shows middle-aged Americans are particularly vulnerable
https://theconversation.com/loneliness-can-kill-and-new-research-shows-middle-aged-americans-are-particularly-vulnerable-225321
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February 2024 Global Drought Narrative
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/global-drought/202402#:~:text=The SISSA 3-month drought,According to media reports (Euronews.
They Grow Your Berries and Peaches, but Often Lack One Item: Insurance
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/business/economy/crop-insurance-climate-change.html
Higher temperatures mean higher food and other prices. A new study links climate shocks to inflation
https://apnews.com/article/inflation-climate-change-food-prices-heat-6e5297e12868aaf797529bb755268818
Want to Cut the National Budget? Start With Military Spending.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/military-spending-ukraine-israel/
Spending Unlimited
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/02/spending-unlimited-2/
An Oil Company Executive Said the Energy Transition Has Failed. What’s Really Happening?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28032024/inside-clean-energy-saudi-aramco-executive-energy-transition/
The U.S. Breaks Its Self-Imposed Oil Price Ceiling of $79 to Refill the SPR
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/The-US-Breaks-Its-Self-Imposed-Oil-Price-Ceiling-of-79-to-Refill-the-SPR.html
Echoes of East Palestine in the Key Bridge Collapse
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/echoes-of-east-palestine-in-the-key-bridge-collapse/
PENTAGON IGNORES LAW CALLING FOR REPORT ON HOW IT TRAINED SO MANY AFRICAN COUP LEADERS
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/28/matt-gaetz-africa-coups-us-trained-pentagon/
At The UN It Is A Rogue U.S. Against The Rest Of The World
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/at-the-un-it-is-a-rogue-us-against-the-rest-of-the-world.html#more
White House defends Shifa hospital massacre that killed over 400
https://countercurrents.org/2024/04/white-house-defends-shifa-hospital-massacre-that-killed-over-400/
American guns fuel Haiti crisis
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4564355-american-guns-haiti-crisis/
US Meddles in Another Nation’s Elections, Once Again
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/02/us-meddles-in-another-nations-elections-once-again/
Imagine If Russia Or China Did The Things Israel Is Doing In Gaza
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/03/28/imagine-if-russia-or-china-did-the-things-israel-is-doing-in-gaza/
Trump aims his ire at spouses, children of judges at heart of legal troubles
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4562090-trump-ire-spouses-children-judges-legal-troubles/#:~:text=30 minutes ago-,Trump aims his ire at spouses, children of,at heart of legal troubles&text=In the throes of former,“Leave my children alone.”
National Archives hands more Biden emails to House GOP amid impeachment probe: Report
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4565362-national-archives-hands-more-biden-emails-house-gop-amid-impeachment-probe-report/
Why are Americans so unhappy?
https://thehill.com/opinion/4568301-why-are-americans-so-unhappy/
Low-Paid Immigrant Farmworkers Most at Risk From Toxic Weedkiller US Refuses to Ban
https://www.commondreams.org/news/latino-farmworkers-paraquat
While Immigrants Die to Repair Bridges, US Politicians Risk Lives by Building Walls
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/immigrants-bridges-politicians-walls
Immigrants and Latinos are most entrepreneurial in U.S., study finds
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/28/latino-economic-growth-business-native-born-citizens#
'Let Them Eat GDP Reports': 44 Million Americans Are Food Insecure
https://www.commondreams.org/news/food-insecurity-in-the-us
The Tragic Toll Exacted by Medical Errors
https://www.globalresearch.ca/tragic-toll-exacted-medical-errors/5853490
Be a Rainbow in Someone Else’s Cloud? How Kindness Makes Us All Stronger
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/29/be-a-rainbow-in-someone-elses-cloud-how-kindness-makes-us-all-stronger/
Doing This 1 Simple — But Unexpected — Thing While Taking A Walk Could Improve Your Health
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doing-1-simple-unexpected-thing-120402036.html
How to Combat Anxiety in Young People? Help Them Become Solutionaries
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/youth-anxiety-screen-time-solutions
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Russian Roulette in Ukraine
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/russian-roulette-in-ukraine/
Russian refineries targeted by Ukraine's drones
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russian-refineries-targeted-by-ukraines-drones-2024-03-25/
How Ukraine became the unlikely home for Isis leaders escaping the caliphate
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/isis-leaders-ukraine-tukey-syria-caliphate-al-bara-shishani-a9211676.html
US envoy claims ‘ISIS still a threat’ in Iraq as Washington looks to delay withdrawal
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/24057
LOOKING BACK: America’s "Terrorist Academy" in Iraq Produced ISIS Leaders
https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/06/americas-terrorist-academy-in-iraq-produced-isis-leaders/
LOOKING BACK: Falling into the ISIS Trap
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/11/17/falling-into-the-isis-trap/
LOOKING BACK: BLOWBACK: HOW ISIS WAS CREATED BY THE U.S. INVASION OF IRAQ
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/29/isis-iraq-war-islamic-state-blowback/
LOOKING BACK: How the US Helped Create Al Qaeda and ISIS
https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/19/how-the-us-helped-create-al-qaeda-and-isis/
LOOKING BACK: ISIS Feeds Off the Chaos of War
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/30/isis-feeds-off-the-chaos-of-war/
LOOKING BACK: US Allies are Funding ISIS (and Hillary Knew All Along)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/17/us-allies-are-funding-isis-and-hillary-knew-all-along/
It’s War: The Real Meat Grinder Starts Now
https://www.unz.com/pescobar/its-war-the-real-meat-grinder-starts-now/
VIPS MEMO: The French Road to Nuclear War
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/24/vips-memo-the-french-road-to-nuclear-war/
Washington Approves $228 Million in US Military Aid to the Three Baltic States, Estonia Says
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2024-03-23/washington-approves-228-million-in-us-military-aid-to-the-three-baltic-states-estonia-says
The Pentagon keeps failing up — on your dime
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pentagon-budget-2667605794/
A World Going in the Wrong Direction
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/28/a-world-going-in-the-wrong-direction/
Scorecard of U.S. Lies About Its Wars and Proxy Wars
https://www.globalresearch.ca/scorecard-us-lies-about-its-wars-proxy-wars/5852988
Deterrence By Savagery?
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/deterrence-by-savagery.html#more
The Empire Doesn’t Hide Its Worst Deeds, It Just Manipulates How People Think About Them
https://www.globalresearch.ca/empire-doesnt-hide-worst-deeds-just-manipulates-how-people-think-about-them/5852973
US Abstains as UN Security Council Demands 'Immediate Cease-Fire' in Gaza
https://www.commondreams.org/news/u-n-cease-fire-resolution
US Claims Israel Is Following International Law, Not Blocking Aid
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/25/us-claims-israel-is-following-international-law-not-blocking-aid/
Nothing Can Heal Until Palestinians Are Seen as the Human Beings They Are
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gaza-civilians-human-rights
Another State Department Official Resigns Over Biden Gaza PolicyJust 23 House Dems Oppose Bill That Bars UNRWA Funding While Giving Billions to Israel
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-house-unrwa-israel
Close-up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/26/close-up-of-death-culture-1000-in-entertainment-biz-proclaim-support-for-gaza-slaughter/
Majority of Americans now oppose Israeli action in Gaza: Gallup poll
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/27/majority-americans-disapprove-israel-gaza-poll
Inside the anti-Syria lobby’s Capitol Hill push for more starvation sanctions
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/03/20/anti-syria-lobbys-capitol-hill-sanctions/
Haitians Don’t Need More “Dumbasses” From the US State Department Weighing In on the Crisis
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/haitians-state-department-crisis/
“Uncommitted” Is the Antiwar Movement Breaking into Mainstream U.S. politics?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/27/uncommitted-is-the-antiwar-movement-breaking-into-mainstream-u-s-politics/
Biden, Promising Corporate Tax Increases, Has Cut Taxes Overall
https://dnyuz.com/2024/03/25/biden-promising-corporate-tax-increases-has-cut-taxes-overall/
We Must Break the Oligarchy's Grip to End Economic Anxiety for So Many Americans
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchy-economic-anxiety-working-class
Port of Baltimore bridge collapse rattles supply chains already rocked by troubles in Panama and the Red Sea
https://theconversation.com/port-of-baltimore-bridge-collapse-rattles-supply-chains-already-rocked-by-troubles-in-panama-and-the-red-sea-226705
The Simple Key To Happiness: Hydration
https://studyfinds.org/key-to-happiness-hydration/
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World’s top fossil-fuel bosses deride efforts to move away from oil and gas
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/20/fossil-fuels-oil-and-gas-clean-energy#:~:text=The bosses of the world's,at an “unrealistic pace”.
UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023
https://apnews.com/article/wmo-un-climate-global-change-report-warming-2154285aabb0cf83dc9ca4015ea0016d
Scientist: 2023 heat may put world in "uncharted territory”
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/21/climate-extreme-heat-2023#
Total U.S. Billionaire Wealth: Up 88 Percent over Four Years
https://inequality.org/great-divide/billionaire-wealth-up-88-percent-over-four-years/
Chris Hedges: Joe Biden’s Parting Gift to America
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/18/chris-hedges-joe-bidens-parting-gift-to-america/
Social Democracies Continue Happy Streak as Neoliberal US Falls Out of Top 20
https://www.commondreams.org/news/world-happiness-report
Ranking of Countries by Quality of Democracy
https://www.democracymatrix.com/ranking
LOOKING BACK: US score falls in Economist’s annual Democracy Index
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/537204-us-score-falls-in-economists-2020-democracy-index/
LOOKING BACK: US sinks to new low in rankings of world's democracies
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/24/us-world-democracy-rankings-freedom-house-new-low
LOOKING BACK: Confidence in U.S. Institutions Down; Average at New Low
https://news.gallup.com/poll/394283/confidence-institutions-down-average-new-low.aspx
US democracy’s unaddressed flaws undermine Biden’s stand as democracy’s defender − but Trump keeps favoring political violence
https://theconversation.com/us-democracys-unaddressed-flaws-undermine-bidens-stand-as-democracys-defender-but-trump-keeps-favoring-political-violence-221567
LOOKING BACK: Biden’s “Democracy Summit” Prioritized US Hegemony Over Democratic Ideals
https://truthout.org/articles/bidens-democracy-summit-prioritized-us-hegemony-over-democratic-ideals/
LOOKING BACK: Will democracy summit examine US role in perpetuating authoritarianism?
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/12/08/bidens-democracy-summit-should-examine-the-us-role-in-perpetuating-authoritarianism/
LOOKING BACK: 10 Contradictions That Plague Biden's Democracy Summit
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/12/09/10-contradictions-plague-bidens-democracy-summit
The Democracy Election
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/02/28/the-democracy-election/
LOOKING BACK: Elections: a global ranking rates US weakest among liberal democracies
https://theconversation.com/elections-a-global-ranking-rates-us-weakest-among-liberal-democracies-183573
Ukraine and Gaza Threaten US Leadership and Politics
https://www.aaiusa.org/library/ukraine-and-gaza-threaten-us-leadership-and-politics
Senator Chuck Schumer Blasts Bibi for Derailing US Strategic Objectives in Middle East
https://www.globalresearch.ca/whats-bugging-chuck-schumer/5852773
The Urgency of Diplomacy
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/ukraine-war-diplomacy
Bernie Sanders Says US Must 'Fundamentally Rethink' Its Foreign Policy
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-foreign-policy
Anti-War Veterans Echo Aaron Bushnell’s Demand for Gaza Ceasefire
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/21/anti-war-veterans-aaron-bushnell-gaza/
The Bloated Pentagon Budget Is Our Path to Ruin
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/military-pentagon-budget-national-security
William Astore, Cutting the Pentagon Down to Size
https://tomdispatch.com/daring-to-look-a-sacred-cow-in-the-teeth/
US says Arunachal Pradesh is part of India, amid Indo-China tensions
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-says-arunachal-pradesh-is-part-india-amid-indo-china-tensions-2024-03-20/#:~:text=WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters),State Department said on Wednesday.
US ‘prepared’ to deploy troops to Haiti if necessary
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-military-in-haiti/
We Call for the Respect of Haitian Popular Sovereignty and an End to Western Imperialist Intervention
https://www.globalresearch.ca/call-respect-haitian-popular-sovereignty-end-western-imperialist-intervention/5852616
Genocide, Coup d’Etat and Militarization: Palestine and Haiti
https://www.globalresearch.ca/democracy-democratization-palestine-haiti/5852638
“Iraq’s oil wealth is in the hands of Washington, while Iraqi go hungry,” Interview with Hussein Askary
https://www.globalresearch.ca/iraq-oil-wealth-hands-washington-iraqi-go-hungry-interview-hussein-askary/5852825
LOOKING BACK: How the US Creates ‘Sh*thole’ Countries
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/11/19/how-the-us-creates-shthole-countries/
LOOKING BACK: Oil Wars on the Horizon
https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/10/oil-wars-on-the-horizon/
LOOKING BACK: Petroleum Wars in the Age of Climate Disaster: a Bridge Fuel Too Far
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/06/03/petroleum-wars-in-the-age-of-climate-disaster-a-bridge-fuel-too-far/
LOOKING BACK: BP’s Wars, Coups & Dictators
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/07/20/bps-wars-coups-dictators/
U.S. Steps Up Intervention in Somalia
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/15/u-s-steps-up-intervention-in-somalia/
LOOKING BACK: In Somalia, US Bombs the ‘Terrorists’ It Created
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/08/18/in-somalia-us-bombs-the-terrorists-it-created/
LOOKING BACK: The Somalian Labyrinth
https://www.counterpunch.org/2007/01/09/the-somalian-labyrinth/
LOOKING BACK: First the drought, then flood: Climate crisis compounds woes for Somalis
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/11/22/first-the-drought-then-flood-climate-crisis-compounds-woes-for-somalis
UN warns five million could suffer ‘catastrophic’ hunger in Sudan amid war
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/16/sudan-un-warns-5-million-could-suffer-catastrophic-hunger-amid-war
LOOKING BACK: AS’AD AbuKHALIL: Who Is Fighting Whom in Sudan?
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/02/asad-abukhalil-who-is-fighting-whom-in-sudan/
LOOKING BACK: The Hidden Hand of the IMF in Sudan’s Crisis
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/12/the-hidden-hand-of-the-imf-in-sudans-crisis/
LOOKING BACK: The US and Regime Change in South Sudan
https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/15/the-us-and-regime-change-in-south-sudan/
South Sudan shutters all schools as it prepares for an extreme heat wave
https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-schools-closed-heat-wave-b52d535e3ee7284b2832c0cfd14b1167
U.S.-TRAINED NIGER JUNTA KICKS OUT U.S. TROOPS, DRONE BASE
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/19/niger-junta-throws-us-troops-drone-base/
US Looking To Stay in Niger Despite Order To Leave
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/19/us-looking-to-stay-in-niger-despite-order-to-leave/
‘Not defendable’: Top enlisted brass blast conditions for soldiers
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/military-recruitment/
The Senate Should Expand the Child Tax Credit Without Delay
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/senate-expand-child-tax-credit
Budget Proposal Shows GOP 'Is the Party of Cutting Social Security and Medicare’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/social-security-cuts
To Unrig Economy, Dems Propose Raising Taxes on Wealth Over $50 Million
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ultra-millionaire-tax
'Dirty Dozen' Guide Shows 95% of These Fruits and Veggies Tested Positive for Pesticides
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ewg-2024-dirty-dozen-pesticides
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Another year, another delusional Pentagon budget request
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pentagon-budget-2667494544/
VC/DC: Silicon Valley wants its cut of US military spending
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/defense-tech/
The Evil of a Permanent War Economy
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/15/the-evil-of-a-permanent-war-economy/
Alfred McCoy, Living in a Quagmire World
https://tomdispatch.com/the-american-empire-in-ultimate-crisis/
US Rejects Russian Ceasefire Proposal for Ukraine
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/13/us-rejects-russian-ceasefire-proposal-for-ukraine/
Does Putin want to end the war? We should test him
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/putin-negotiations-ukraine/
LOOKING BACK: Veteran's Letter to Biden--Negotiate Don't Escalate in Ukraine
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/15/veterans-letter-biden-negotiate-dont-escalate-ukraine
Putin Threatens To Use Nukes as NATO Continues Sabre Rattling
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/13/putin-threatens-to-use-nukes-as-nato-continues-sabre-rattling/
Are We Stumbling Into World War III in Ukraine?
https://original.antiwar.com/mbenjamin/2024/03/13/are-we-stumbling-into-world-war-iii-in-ukraine/
French Defense Reports Acknowledge Ukraine Is Done With
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/french-defense-reports-acknowledge-ukraine-is-done-with.html#more
US Sending Ukraine More Cluster Bombs as Part of New $300 Million Arms Package
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/12/us-sending-ukraine-more-cluster-bombs-as-part-of-new-300-million-arms-package/
West Should Urgently Reconsider Dangerous, Irrational Concept of Permanent Hostility Against Russia
https://www.globalresearch.ca/west-should-urgently-reconsider-dangerous-irrational-concept-permanent-hostility-against-russia/5852169
Will BRICS launch a new world in 2024?
https://thecradle.co/articles/will-brics-launch-a-new-world-in-2024
LOOKING BACK - Wars for Resources?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/02/27/wars-for-resources/
LOOKING BACK - GOLD AND OIL: PETRODOLLARS AND THE UNITED STATES ATTACKS IN LIBYA, SOMALIA, SUDAN, MALI, IRAQ, SYRIA, LEBANON AND IRAN; UNDERSTANDING OBAMA’S AFRICOM BETRAYAL OF AFRICAN PEOPLE
https://www.balanta.org/news/imwa4buor0g0y5xu4nabs2cdqll8z6
House GOP Advances 'Death Panel' for Social Security in Election Year
https://www.commondreams.org/news/death-panel
Gender wage gap persists in 2023
https://www.epi.org/blog/gender-wage-gap-persists-in-2023-women-are-paid-roughly-22-less-than-men-on-average/
Progressives Unveil OLIGARCH Act to Combat 'Existential Threat' of Extreme Wealth Inequality
https://www.commondreams.org/news/progressives-oligarch-act
LIFE HAPPENS. THAT’S WHY WE NEED A SAFETY NET.
https://otherwords.org/life-happens-thats-why-we-need-a-safety-net/
Republicans Aren’t Done Threatening the Hungry With Planned Cuts to Food Aid
https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-arent-done-threatening-the-hungry-with-planned-cuts-to-food-aid/
The Gilded Age Then, The Gildest Age Now
https://inequality.org/great-divide/the-gilded-age-then-the-gildest-age-now/
The Deadly Results of Economic Inequality
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/deadly-impacts-of-economic-inequality
American Exceptionalism: Inequality in the US and Why It Matters
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/american-exceptionalism-economic-inequality
Global inequality: How the U.S. compares
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/12/19/global-inequality-how-the-u-s-compares/
States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2021
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2021.html
The Prison State of America
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/12/29/prison-state-america
Incarceration Nation
https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/incarceration-nation/
'Not a Radical Idea': Bernie Sanders Unveils 32-Hour Workweek Bill
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-32-hour-workweek
Republicans pan Sanders’s 32-hour workweek bill
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4532457-republicans-pan-sanders-32-hour-work-week-bill/
The rent is too damn high. And Joe Biden knows it.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-journalism
'Working-Class People Aren't Lazy, They're Fed Up,' UAW Leader Tells Senate
https://www.commondreams.org/news/working-class
American Debt Stings Like Never Before in New Era for Households
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-debt-stings-never-era-110029834.html
Zero. That’s how much 28% of the country has saved for retirement.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/zero-thats-how-much-28-of-the-country-has-saved-for-retirement-9cc31bc5
Americans Can’t Tell The Difference Between Facts And Opinions, Study Explains
https://studyfinds.org/americans-facts-opinions/
They're Really Going To Try To Lay All The Blame For Gaza On Netanyahu
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theyre-really-going-to-try-to-lay
As Conflict Rages On, Israel and Gaza’s Environmental Fates May Be Intertwined
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15032024/todays-climate-gaza-israel-sewage-environment-debris-pollution/
Biden says Schumer made ‘good speech’ in breaking with Benjamin Netanyahu
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/15/schumer-netanyahu-speech-biden-reaction#:~:text=Joe Biden on Friday said,of the war in Gaza.
From her lips to Chuck’s ears: Schumer’s rabbi weighs in on his Israel speech
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/16/chuck-schumer-rabbi-israel-remarks-00147416#:~:text=From her lips to Chuck's,American Jews' in criticizing Netanyahu.
Top senator calls on Biden to ‘use all levers’ to pressure Israel over Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/16/biden-senator-chris-van-hollen-israel-gaza-aid
Pro-Israel Right Outraged by Chuck Schumer’s Netanyahu Speech
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/15/chuck-schumer-speech-netanyahu-israel/
Israel Uber Alles?
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israel-uber-alles-2/
If Israel Wants to Be an ‘Independent Nation,’ Let It Be
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/15/if-israel-wants-to-be-an-independent-nation-let-it-be/
The Debate Over Israel as ‘US Aircraft Carrier’
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/12/the-debate-over-israel-as-us-aircraft-carrier/
'Out of Touch with Reality' – White House Fails to Navigate the Israeli Re-calibration
https://www.unz.com/article/out-of-touch-with-reality-white-house-fails-to-navigate-the-israeli-re-calibration/
Gaza & the Legacy of Netanyahu’s ‘War on Terror’
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/11/gaza-the-legacy-of-netanyahus-war-on-terror/
LOOKING BACK: How is Gaza Offshore Gas Development Tied to the Israeli Invasion?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/26/how-is-gaza-offshore-gas-development-tied-to-the-israeli-invasion/
LOOKING BACK: The unrealized potential of Palestinian oil and gas reserves
https://unctad.org/news/unrealized-potential-palestinian-oil-and-gas-reserves
Jewish Progressives Stage Sit-In at Hakeem Jeffries' Office to Protest AIPAC Influence
https://www.commondreams.org/news/hakeem-jeffries-aipac
'That's the Law': Senators Say Biden Must End Arms Sales If Israel Keeps Blocking Aid
https://www.commondreams.org/news/senators-biden-israel-aid
Biden’s Spokespeople Are the Perfect Vessels for His Soulless Gaza Policies
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-press-secretaries-gaza-matthew-miller-john-kirby/
Washington’s Renewed Urgency for TikTok Ban Is Due to War on Gaza
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/15/washingtons-renewed-urgency-for-tiktok-ban-is-due-to-war-on-gaza/
Veterans Aren’t Fooled by Biden’s Mixed Messages on Gaza
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/veterans-biden-gaza
‘Defend the Guard’ Legislation to Be Taken Up By Idaho State House
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/12/defend-the-guard-legislation-to-enter-idaho-state-house/
Which Trump trial will go first, and 4 other questions after a busy week in court
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/16/trump-trial-election-five-questions-00147439
Trump Says Freeing Insurrectionists Would Be One of His 'First Acts’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-freeing-insurrectionists-first-acts
Ralph Reed’s army plans $62 million spending spree to boost evangelical turnout
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/11/ralph-reed-army-spending-trump-00146170#:~:text=Faith & Freedom, a conservative-,it spent four years ago.
Questions grow over possibility of Biden-Trump debates
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4530065-joe-biden-donald-trump-debates-2024/
Analysis Shows 'Unprecedented Surge' of Dark Money Ahead of 2024 Elections
https://www.commondreams.org/news/dark-money
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What Joe Biden’s State of the Union Speech Didn’t Mention
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/08/biden-state-of-the-union-speech/
State of the Union: War and Genocide Are Still the American Way
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/state-of-the-union-war-and-genocide-are-still-the-american-way
Patrick Lawrence: Old Man Shouting
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/11/patrick-lawrence-old-man-shouting/
Biden Budget Includes Over $1 Trillion in 'Militarized Spending': Analysis
https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-military-budget
Biden backtracks on climate plans and ‘walks tightrope’ to court both young voters and moderates
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/08/biden-backtracks-climate-goals-moderate-voters
Biden forgot year of son Beau’s death, Trump’s election, special counsel interview transcript shows
https://nypost.com/2024/03/12/us-news/biden-forgot-year-of-son-beaus-death-trumps-election-special-counsel-interview-transcript/
IMPEACHMENT: A Rapid Succession of Events
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/08/impeachment-a-rapid-succession-of-events/
Biden’s Speech Thrills Ukraine Watchers. Others, Not So Much.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/08/bidens-speech-ukraine-israel-00145989
LOOKING BACK: Russia’s move in Ukraine has parallels with US actions in Kosovo
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/02/22/russias-move-in-ukraine-has-parallels-with-us-actions-in-kosovo/
LOOKING BACK: What Is the Difference Between Kosovo & Donbass?
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/23/what-is-the-difference-between-kosovo-donbass/
Starving Children in Gaza 'Cannot Wait' Weeks for US Port, Aid Groups Say
https://www.commondreams.org/news/starving-children-us-port
The Biden doctrine in Gaza: bomb, starve, deceive
https://www.aaronmate.net/p/the-biden-doctrine-in-gaza-bomb-starve
Complicity in Genocide — The Legal Case Against the Biden Administration
https://www.globalresearch.ca/complicity-genocide-case-against-biden-administration/5851817
Chasing 'tactical' wins, Israel now faces 'strategic' defeat
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/23833
Israel threatens the identity of American Jews
https://thehill.com/opinion/4523878-israel-threatens-identity-of-american-jews/
Hundreds of Palestine supporters protest Israeli real estate event at New Jersey synagogue
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/11/new-jersey-israel-palestine-protest-real-estate
Progressive campaign launched to counter Aipac’s influence in US politics
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/11/new-jersey-israel-palestine-protest-real-estate
On air, Biden walks back his own Rafah 'red line' in real time
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/biden-red-line-rafah/
'Untenable Positions' – Warning Signs Abound
https://www.unz.com/article/untenable-positions-warning-signs-abound/
Gold Star dad arrested after heckling Biden during State of the Union
https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/us-news/heckler-who-shouted-at-biden-during-state-of-the-union-identified-as-gold-star-father/
Senators want to dust off 'Truman Committee' to out war profiteers
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/war-profiteers/
Texas GOP voters want limits on National Guard deployments
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-gop-declaration-war/
A Third of Americans Satisfied With U.S. Global Position
https://news.gallup.com/poll/611858/third-americans-satisfied-global-position.aspx
Congressional inaction will cost Afghan ally lives
https://thehill.com/opinion/4524873-congressional-inaction-will-cost-afghan-ally-lives/
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Gold Star mom blasts ex’s ‘complete BS’ arrest for heckling Biden at SOTU over Marine son’s death, calls prez ‘a failure’
https://nypost.com/2024/03/09/us-news/gold-star-mom-blasts-exs-arrest-for-heckling-biden-over-death-of-marine-son/
Where are US military members stationed, and why?
https://usafacts.org/articles/where-are-us-military-members-stationed-and-why/
The US military is operating in more countries than we think
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/11/08/the-us-military-is-operating-in-more-countries-than-we-think/
How the US created a world of endless war
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/31/how-the-us-created-a-world-of-endless-war
When 'internationalism' became a dirty word
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/rules-based-international-order-biden/
Haitians blame America as country on the brink of 'genocidal civil war’
https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/130323/haiti-america-gang-violence-civil-war-jimmy-cherizier
'They Messed It Up': Biden's Backing for Haiti's Unpopular Leader Digs US Into Deeper Policy Hole
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-03-07/they-messed-it-up-bidens-backing-for-haitis-unpopular-leader-digs-u-s-into-deeper-policy-hole
US should let Haiti reclaim its democracy
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/haiti-henry/
LOOKING BACK - Congress Pushes Back on US-Haiti Policy
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/22/congress-pushes-back-on-us-haiti-policy/
Who Could Have Predicted the U.S. War in Somalia Would Fail? The Pentagon.
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/07/pentagon-somalia-africa-terrorism-failure/
LOOKING BACK - US inks deal to build up to 5 bases in Somalia
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-base-somalia/
LOOKING BACK - Report: US military driving and exacerbating violence in Somalia
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/05/05/conflict-in-somalia-has-no-us-military-solution/
Pakistan's democracy hanging by a thread
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pakistan-election/
LOOKING BACK - Pakistan Cypher Exposes U.S. Pressure to Remove Imran Khan
https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imran-khan-pakistan-cypher-ukraine-russia/
LOOKING BACK - What's so bad about 'aggressive neutrality’?
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/08/28/whats-so-bad-about-aggressive-neutrality/
West Africa continues slide toward instability
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/west-africa-continues-slide-toward-instability/
Blinken Visits Nigeria as Questions Swirl About Civilian Deaths and U.S. Security Ties - The Intercept
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/23/nigeria-civilian-deaths-antony-blinken/
Is that US drone base in Niger really necessary?
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-niger-drone-base/
LOOKING BACK - New report: Decades of US military aid has been a disaster for Nigerians
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/05/23/costs-of-war-decades-of-us-military-aid-has-been-a-disaster-for-nigerians/
LOOKING BACK - Niger becomes latest domino falling to Western-trained militaries
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/07/28/niger-becomes-latest-domino-falling-to-western-trained-militaries/
LOOKING BACK - Case studies: US military assistance in Africa doesn't work
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/08/22/case-studies-us-military-assistance-in-africa-doesnt-work/
LOOKING BACK - Senate shoots down effort to withdraw US troops from Niger
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-troops-in-niger/
LOOKING BACK - What will happen to US troops stationed in Niger if the region explodes?
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/08/17/what-will-happen-to-us-troops-stationed-in-niger-if-the-region-explodes/
25 Years of Venezuelan Defiance
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/02/12/25-years-of-venezuelan-defiance-of-us/
LOOKING BACK - The Tragedy of Venezuela is the Tragedy of the US
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/05/02/the-tragedy-of-venezuela-is-the-tragedy-of-the-us/
LOOKING BACK - Venezuela: Failed Coup Argues for New Approach
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/05/01/venezuela-failed-coup-argues-for-new-approach/
US troops should have left Syria and Iraq long ago
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-military-iraq-syria/
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'Disgraceful' Supreme Court Hands Victory to Trump in 14th Amendment Case
https://www.commondreams.org/news/un-disqualified-in-colorado-supreme-court-hands-victory-to-trump-in-14th-amendment-case
Supreme Court Puts States Into Their Place
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/supreme-court-puts-states-into-their-place.html
Architects of the Disastrous Iraq War Want a Do-Over in Gaza
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/iraq-war-architects-gaza
On Hypocrisy and Genocide – How Gaza Has Exposed the West Like Never Before
https://original.antiwar.com/ramzy-baroud/2024/03/03/on-hypocrisy-and-genocide-how-gaza-has-exposed-the-west-like-never-before/
'Finish the Problem': Presumptive GOP Nominee Trump Endorses Gaza Genocide
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-gaza-genocide
Biden Campaign Taking ‘Extraordinary Steps’ To Prevent Pro-Palestinian Protests at Events
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/01/biden-campaign-taking-extraordinary-steps-to-prevent-pro-palestinian-protests-at-events/
'Starvation Is Taking Place': Sanders Demands Biden Cut Off All Military Aid to Israel
https://www.commondreams.org/news/starvation-is-taking-place-sanders-demands-biden-cut-off-all-military-aid-to-israel
Veterans Burn Uniforms in Solidarity with Airman Who Died After Setting Himself on Fire to Protest Gaza War
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/03/01/veterans-burn-uniforms-solidarity-airman-who-died-after-setting-himself-fire-protest-gaza-war.html
On Safety, Comfort, and the Importance of Speaking Out
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/speaking-out-palestinian-rights
The Problem With Complicity
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-complicity-israel-war-crimes
Gaza Is on the Ballot All Over America
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/uncommitted-campaign-biden-gaza/
Republicans probe FBI about Biden informant accused of lying
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68453638
LOOKING BACK: Grassley Obtains & Releases FBI Record Alleging VP Biden Foreign Bribery Scheme
https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-obtains-and-releases-fbi-record-alleging-vp-biden-foreign-bribery-scheme
LOOKING BACK: IMPEACHMENT: Biden Under Formal Investigation
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/17/impeachment-biden-under-formal-investigation/
LOOKING BACK: THE BASIS FOR AN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY OF PRESIDENT JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR.
https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/LC71519/text?s=1&r=37
LOOKING BACK: SHOCKING MOMENT: Ukrainian Prosecutor General Asked Point Bank About Hunter Biden And Burisma - VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ysiWge30dA
LOOKING BACK: SHOCK MOMENT: FBI Official Admits Doc Alleging Biden Took $5 Million In Bribes Exists To Hawley- VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5N7s0vRQk0
LOOKING BACK: The Bidens’ Influence Peddling Timeline
https://oversight.house.gov/the-bidens-influence-peddling-timeline/
LOOKING BACK: Comer Releases Third Bank Memo Detailing Payments to the Bidens from Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine
https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-releases-third-bank-memo-detailing-payments-to-the-bidens-from-russia-kazakhstan-and-ukraine/
LOOKING BACK: Joe Biden Met Nearly Every Foreign Associate Funneling His Family Millions
https://oversight.house.gov/blog/joe-biden-met-nearly-every-foreign-associate-funneling-his-family-millions/
LOOKING BACK: Law firm registers as foreign agent for Hunter Biden-linked company 8 years later
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/08/cravath-hunter-biden-foreign-agents-00134307
LOOKING BACK: Former Burisma Official: Family Ties Were Big Part of Hunter Biden Brand
https://www.voanews.com/a/former-burisma-official-family-ties-were-big-part-of-hunter-biden-brand/7210757.html
LOOKING BACK: Analysis of Hunter Biden's hard drive shows he, his firm took in about $11 million from 2013 to 2018, spent it fast - VIDEO
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/analysis-hunter-bidens-hard-drive-shows-firm-took-11-million-2013-2018-rcna29462
LOOKING BACK: If the Facts Come Out, it Could Spell the End for Joe Biden
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/09/21/if-the-facts-come-out-it-could-spell-the-end-for-joe-biden-2/
LOOKING BACK: When He Was Vice-President, Joe Biden Acted Like Ukraine Was His ‘Own Backyard’: Fired Ukraine Prosecutor
https://www.globalresearch.ca/fired-ukrainian-prosecutor-says-joe-biden-acted-ukraine-own-backyard/5830468
LOOKING BACK: Biden’s Real Ukraine Scandal: Regime Change and War
https://www.globalresearch.ca/bidens-real-ukraine-scandal-regime-change-and-war/5804424
LOOKING BACK: Four Western provocations that led to U.S.-Russia crisis today
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/12/28/four-western-provocations-that-led-to-u-s-russia-crisis-today/
LOOKING BACK: Evidence of Joe Biden’s Involvement in His Family’s Influence Peddling Schemes
https://oversight.house.gov/blog/evidence-of-joe-bidens-involvement-in-his-familys-influence-peddling-schemes/
LOOKING BACK: Further Evidence Pointing to Biden Family Shady Businesses in Ukraine
https://www.globalresearch.ca/further-evidence-pointing-biden-family-shady-businesses-ukraine-emerge/5822835
LOOKING BACK: Biden’s corruption led to Ukraine’s destruction: fmr. Kiev diplomat
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/07/13/bidens-corruption-led-to-ukraines-destruction-fmr-kiev-diplomat/
LOOKING BACK: IMPEACHMENT: ‘Cognitive Warfare’ on Capitol Hill
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/01/impeachment-cognitive-warfare-on-capitol-hill/
LOOKING BACK: Servant of the Corrupt - Pedro Gonzalez details the connections among Zelensky, oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and Washington, D.C.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/07/22/servant-of-the-corrupt/
LOOKING BACK: Joe Biden: "I don't know" what Hunter was doing for Burisma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXvmLeIXoBA
LOOKING BACK: Patrick Lawrence: The Bidens’ Burisma Bribery
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/07/31/patrick-lawrence-the-bidens-burisma-bribery/
LOOKING BACK: PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Question About Biden
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/09/19/patrick-lawrence-the-question-about-biden/
LOOKING BACK: Biden Should Be Named in Criminal Probe in Ukraine, Judge Rules
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/05/24/biden-should-be-named-in-criminal-probe-in-ukraine-judge-rules/
LOOKING BACK: Patrick Lawrence: The Bidens’ Burisma Bribery
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/07/31/patrick-lawrence-the-bidens-burisma-bribery/
LOOKING BACK: Solomon: These once-secret memos cast doubt on Joe Biden’s Ukraine story
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/463307-solomon-these-once-secret-memos-cast-doubt-on-joe-bidens-ukraine-story/
LOOKING BACK: Joe Biden’s 2020 Ukrainian nightmare: A closed probe is revived
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived/
LOOKING BACK: Biden’s Ukrainegate Problem
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/bidens-ukrainegate-problem/
LOOKING BACK: Records released by House Republicans show that Joe Biden repeatedly emailed Hunter Biden’s business associate in 2014
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/records-released-house-republicans-show-joe-biden-repeatedly-emailed-h-rcna130682
LOOKING BACK: DNI Says Hunter Biden Emails Are Not ‘Russian Disinformation’
https://news.antiwar.com/2020/10/19/dni-says-hunter-biden-emails-are-not-russian-disinformation/
LOOKING BACK: The Ukrainian Influence Peddling Rings – A Microcosm of How Imperial Washington Rolls
https://original.antiwar.com/david_stockman/2019/11/12/the-ukrainian-influence-peddling-rings-a-microcosm-of-how-imperial-washington-rolls/
LOOKING BACK: DC’s Atlantic Council Raked in Funding from Hunter Biden’s Corruption-Stained Ukrainian Employer While Courting His VP Father
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/10/14/dcs-atlantic-council-raked-in-funding-from-hunter-bidens-corruption-stained-ukrainian-employer-while-courting-his-vp-father/
LOOKING BACK: Ukraine’s Oligarchs Turn on Each Other
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/24/ukraines-oligarchs-turn-on-each-other/
LOOKING BACK - Chronology of the Ukrainian Coup
https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/05/chronology-of-the-ukrainian-coup/
LOOKING BACK: New Documentary Sheds Light on Ukrainegate
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/13/new-documentary-sheds-light-on-ukrainegate/
Part Two of ‘UkraineGate – Inconvenient Facts’
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/20/part-two-of-ukrainegate-inconvenient-facts/
Part Three of ‘UkraineGate – Inconvenient Facts’
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/29/part-three-of-ukrainegate-inconvenient-facts/
Part Four of ‘UkraineGate – Inconvenient Facts’
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/02/17/part-four-of-ukrainegate-inconvenient-facts/
LOOKING BACK: Phony ‘Corruption’ Excuse for Ukraine Coup
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/11/02/phony-corruption-excuse-for-ukraine-coup/
LOOKING BACK: We’ve Been on the Burisma Story Since 2014
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/09/24/weve-been-on-the-burisma-story-since-2014/
Craig Murray: US Case & Assange Rebuttal
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/04/craig-murray-us-case-assange-rebuttal-on-day-2/
'Uncommitted' Wins Nearly 20% of Democratic Primary Vote in Minnesota
https://www.commondreams.org/news/uncommitted-wins-nearly-20-of-democratic-primary-vote-in-minnesota
‘Uncommitted’ push in Minnesota scores 11 delegates
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4513740-uncommitted-push-in-minnesota-scores-11-delegates/#:~:text=President
Bumbling Joe Biden freezes for 15 seconds and AGAIN tells press he will 'get in trouble' for taking questions even though White House continues to say he is mentally fit for another term - VIDEO
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13162653/Joe-Biden-freezes-tells-press-trouble-taking-questions-Donald-Trump-Super-Tuesday.html
How Long Can Joe Biden Keep Hiding From His Own Voters?
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-gaza-hiding-voters-campaign/
Democrats ready to hit panic button in Trump-Biden race
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4510890-democrats-ready-to-hit-panic-button-in-trump-biden-race/
Donald Trump, 77, confuses Biden with Barack Obama AGAIN at Virginia rally - marking the third time he's made the same gaffe in the last six months
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13150789/Donald-Trump-77-confuses-Biden-Barack-Obama-Virginia-rally-marking-time-hes-gaffe-six-months.html
Planet-Warming Emissions Would Soar If Trump Wins Second Term: Study
https://www.commondreams.org/news/carbon-emissions-massively-increase-under-trump
Murkowski says she ‘could not’ vote for Trump or Biden
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4506162-murkowski-2024-vote-trump-biden/
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UN Chief Says 'Rules of War' Being Disregarded From Ukraine to Gaza
https://www.commondreams.org/news/un-chief-rules-of-war
Why Would Anyone Kill Themselves to Stop A War?
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/kill-selves-to-stop-war
Killing Oneself to Try to Stop a War
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/02/26/killing-oneself-to-try-to-stop-a-war/
Aaron Bushnell Had Grown Deeply Disillusioned With the Military
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/aaron-bushnell-reddit-fire-protest-israel-palestine/
Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire outside an Israeli embassy. It is our loss he is no longer with us
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/28/aaron-bushnell-self-immolation-gaza-israel
Taking Aaron Bushnell at His Word (and Deed)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/aaron-bushnell-gaza-self-immolation/
Aaron Bushnell Burned Himself Alive To Make You Turn Your Eyes To Gaza
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/02/27/aaron-bushnell-burned-himself-alive-to-make-you-turn-your-eyes-to-gaza/
A Profound Act Of Sincerity
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/02/28/a-profound-act-of-sincerity/
Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence
https://countercurrents.org/2024/03/aaron-bushnells-divine-violence/
Thich Nhat Hanh - Why'd Monks Set Themselves on FIRE - VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuaKH1T0hns
Madmen Arsonists Strike Again: They as Much as Lit Aaron Bushnell’s Match for Him
https://www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2024/02/26/veterans-peace-statement-about-aaron-bushnell-protesting-dea
Air Force looking for ‘lessons’ from airman’s self-immolation over Gaza
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4495319-air-force-airman-aaron-bushnell-self-immolation-israel-gaza/
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Watch: Special Forces Veteran Condemns US Support for Gaza Genocide
https://www.commondreams.org/news/alan-shebaro
Veterans For Peace Statement on Gaza
https://www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2023/10/24/veterans-peace-statement-gaza
Lloyd Austin Says Israel Has Killed Over 25,000 Women and Children in Gaza
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/29/lloyd-austin-says-israel-has-killed-over-25000-women-and-children-in-gaza/
US Blocks Security Council Statement Condemning IDF Killing of Gazans Seeking Aid
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-security-council-statement
Just Two US Lawmakers Sign International Statement Demanding Arms Embargo on Israel
https://www.commondreams.org/news/lawmakers-arms-embargo-israel
If We Want Mid-East Peace, We Must End the US War on Terror, Too
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/end-us-war-on-terror
US Army is slashing thousands of jobs in major revamp to prepare for future wars
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/27/us-army-is-slashing-thousands-of-jobs-in-major-revamp-to-prepare-for-future-wars-00143544
CIA in Ukraine: Why is this not seen as provocation?
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/cia-ukraine-russia/
Putin Warns of Nuclear War If NATO Deploys Troops to Ukraine
https://www.commondreams.org/news/putin-warns-nuclear-war-ukraine
Ukraine's vaunted 'bread basket' soil is now toxic
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-soil-contamination/
William Hartung, False Job Claims Fuel Massive Pentagon Budgets
https://tomdispatch.com/war-is-bad-for-you-and-the-economy/
The Deadly $125-Billion ICBM Boondoggle
https://blog.ucsusa.org/elliott-negin/the-deadly-125-billion-icbm-boondoggle/
Global economy is weighed down by war, uncertainty and instability, trade chief warns
https://apnews.com/article/world-trade-organization-meeting-uae-us-376ad89f7202e06e90a93390205a01f2
Biden’s Cold War Nostalgia Is Dooming His Presidency
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-henry-jackson-cold-war-liberalism/
Former Obama aides sound alarm over ‘frail’ and ‘mumbly’ Biden — warn his age ‘is a very real issue’
https://nypost.com/2024/02/27/us-news/ex-obama-aides-say-mumbly-bidens-age-a-very-real-issue/
Joe Biden confuses Gaza with Ukraine in airdrop announcement - VIDEO
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/02/joe-biden-confuses-gaza-with-ukraine-in-airdrop-announcement
Trump says Biden ‘must take a Cognitive Test’
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4497059-trump-says-biden-must-take-cognitive-test/
Congress hits its lowest approval rating in Gallup since 2015
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4491016-congress-hits-its-lowest-approval-rating-in-gallup-since-2015/
Jayapal Says Biden Must Heed Warnings of 'Uncommitted' Voters in Michigan
https://www.commondreams.org/news/jayapal-biden-uncommitted
https://www.commondreams.org/news/uncommitted-michigan-primary
Organizers Expand 'Uncommitted' Primary Campaigns to Push Biden on Gaza
https://www.commondreams.org/news/uncommitted-states
If Biden loses in November, don’t blame voters who are angry over Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/28/if-biden-loses-in-november-dont-blame-voters-who-are-angry-over-gaza
Biden’s Never Been Driven By Human Rights. This Time, It Might Cost Him.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/27/biden-human-rights-00143379#:~:text=
How the West Provoked an Unprovoked War in Ukraine
https://original.antiwar.com/Ted_Snider/2024/02/29/how-the-west-provoked-an-unprovoked-war-in-ukraine/
New election year means another Russiagate as Biden, Dems try to smear impeachment probe
https://nypost.com/2024/02/25/opinion/new-election-year-means-new-russiagate-as-biden-dems-try-to-smear-impeachment-probe/
Joe Biden got $40K in China funds, brother James admits in bombshell impeachment interview
https://nypost.com/2024/03/01/us-news/joe-biden-got-40k-in-china-funds-brother-james-admits-in-bombshell-impeachment-interview/
Changed Water Cycle In The U.S.A. And Water Scarcity In Mexico City
https://countercurrents.org/2024/02/changed-water-cycle-in-the-u-s-a-and-water-scarcity-in-mexico-city/
Winter heat wave pushes temperatures as high as 100 degrees in Texas
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/dallas-could-hit-95-degrees-as-warm-spell-threatens-hundreds-of-records/ar-BB1iUYnG
Climate-Fueled Extreme Weather Costs US Nearly $100 Billion a Year: Study
https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-change-cost-u-s-yearly
U.S. natural gas expansion would surrender world to fatal warming, experts say
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/u-s-natural-gas-expansion-would-surrender-world-to-fatal-warming-experts-say/
GOP senators introduce bill reversing LNG export pause
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4498207-barrasso-cassidy-liquefied-natural-gas-export-pause/#:~:text=
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Air Force member who set himself on fire in chilling protest video dies
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-israeli-embassy-dies/
Aaron Bushnell Wife And Family: Was He Married? Kids Details
https://theibtaurisblog.com/aaron-bushnell-wife-and-family-was-he-married-kids-details/
Aaron Burned Himself To Make Us Look At Gaza
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/aaron-burned-himself-to-make-us-look-at-gaza.html#more
LOOKING BACK: A protester self-immolates outside the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta.
https://archive.is/2023.12.02-012306/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/protester-fire-israeli-consulate-atlanta.html#selection-527.0-527.68
LOOKING BACK: The Fire of Norman Morrison
https://boundarystones.weta.org/2018/10/25/fire-norman-morrison
LOOKING BACK: From Wikipedia: Thích Quảng Đức
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thích_Quảng_Đức
DAY ONE: Assange Timeline Exposes US Motives
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/02/20/day-one-assange-timeline-exposes-us-motives/
Tears for Navalny. Assange? Not So Much.
https://spoilsofwar.substack.com/p/tears-for-navalny-assange-not-so
LOOKING BACK: The Deceit and Conflict Behind the Leak of the Pentagon Papers
https://www.newyorker.com/news/american-chronicles/the-deceit-and-conflict-behind-the-leak-of-the-pentagon-papers
Refusing To Admit US Foreign Policy Blunders
https://original.antiwar.com/Ted_Galen_Carpenter/2024/02/21/refusing-to-admit-us-foreign-policy-blunders/
Why Putin Went to War
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/02/24/why-putin-went-to-war/
The US must support refugees or end policies perpetuating their misery
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/4484869-the-us-must-support-refugees-or-end-policies-perpetuating-their-misery/
Wars and Conflicts are Pushing Cooperation Off the Radar Screen
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/23/wars-and-conflicts-are-pushing-cooperation-off-the-radar-screen/
Death of Navalny Being Exploited to Try and Sustain U.S. Military Aid to Ukraine
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/20/death-of-navalny-being-exploited-to-try-and-sustain-u-s-military-aid-to-ukraine/
LOOKING BACK: “Navalny,” documentary nominated for March 12 Oscar, is crude disinformation
https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2023/02/navalny-documentary-nominated-for-march-12-oscar-is-crude-disinformation/
What Happened to Alexei Navalny This Time
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/20/what-happened-to-alexei-navalny-this-time/
Biden Calls Putin a ‘Crazy SOB’
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/22/biden-calls-putin-a-crazy-sob/
Biden wants to put the US on permanent war footing
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/biden-war-strategy/
The Pentagon’s new recruitment policy is a disaster
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4486451-the-pentagons-new-recruitment-policy-is-a-disaster/
After Gaza Cease-Fire Veto, Biden to Attend Fundraiser at Home of Pro-Israel Billionaire
https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-fundraiser-israel
The war on Gaza is also an Israeli drive to seize Palestinian gas reserves
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-israel-brutal-drive-seize-palestinian-gas-reserves
War Is More Than What You Think It Is
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/war-climate-emergency
LOOKING BACK: At Earth's hottest spots, heat is testing the limits of human survival
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/18/extreme-heat-record-limits-human-survival/
Disasters Displaced Nearly 2.5 Million People In US In 2023
https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2024-02-22-disasters-displaced-millions-in-2023?cm_ven=hp-slot-1
This may be the final nail in the coffin for a winter like no other
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/23/weather/warm-weather-winter-climate/index.html
Biden faces growing pressure to back Gaza cease-fire
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4481525-biden-pressure-gaza-cease-fire/
Biden's Job Approval Edges Down to
https://news.gallup.com/poll/610988/biden-job-approval-edges-down.aspx
Air Force member who set himself on fire in chilling protest video dies
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-israeli-embassy-dies/
Man in Air Force uniform set himself on fire in front of Israeli embassy
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/man-sets-self-fire-israeli-embassy-air-force/
Trump makes series of worrying blunders at weekend rally - VIDEO
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/trump-makes-series-worrying-blunders-200119721.html
The Axis of Asymmetry takes on the 'rules-based order’
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/23577
Will Netanyahu Bring Down Biden?
https://www.unz.com/article/will-netanyahu-bring-down-biden/
US Plays Defense for Israeli Occupation at International Court of Justice
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-israel-international-court-of-justice
'I Think We Should Kill 'Em All,' GOP Rep. Andy Ogles Says of Palestinians in Gaza - VIDEO
https://www.commondreams.org/news/andy-ogles-gaza
Senate Vote to Cut UNRWA Funding Is Cruel and Unusual Punishment
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/senate-unrwa-funding-cruel
Jordan brushes aside indictment of FBI informant in Biden impeachment inquiry
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4480810-jordan-informants-indictment-doesnt-change-fundamental-facts-of-gop-case-against-biden/
Trump vs. an emerging Republican climate strategy
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/21/trump-republicans-climate-action-00142313
Disasters Displaced Nearly 2.5 Million People In US In 2023
https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2024-02-22-disasters-displaced-millions-in-2023?cm_ven=hp-slot-1
Big US investors prop up the nuclear weapons industry
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/nuclear-weapons-budget/
The Collapse of the American Empire, Part I: Demographics
https://www.unz.com/estriker/the-collapse-of-the-american-empire-part-i-demographics/
In reversal, Nebraska governor accepts federal dollars to feed low-income kids
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/20/food-kids-summer-ebt-nebraska-governor#
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Russia’s war in Ukraine is undermining global efforts to tackle the climate crisis, new report finds
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/07/europe/ukraine-war-climate-change-impact-intl/index.html
With $280 Billion in Profits, Oil Giants Are 'Main Winners of the War in Ukraine’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/oil-majors-winners-ukraine-war
Adam Schiff steps out on climate
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/15/schiff-steps-out-on-climate-00141599
Biden vs. Trump: Do young climate voters care?
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/18/joe-biden-climate-activists-00142037
Nearly 15% of Americans don’t believe climate change is real, study find
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/14/americans-believe-climate-change-study
Climate Chaos: The Public is Fed Up!
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/16/climate-chaos-the-public-is-fed-up/
Netanyahu and Israel in Decline and May Take Biden Down With the Them
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/19/netanyahu-and-israel-in-decline-and-may-take-biden-down-with-the-them/
US Finally Backs UN Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution—But Only When ‘Practical'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-cease-fire-2667317129
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand PMs Do What Biden Won't: Demand Gaza Cease-Fire
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ceasefire-in-gaza
China demands Israel halt military operations in Rafah
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/23013
200+ Unions Launch Network to Push for Gaza Cease-Fire
https://www.commondreams.org/news/labor-unions-cease-fire
$95 Billion More for War, But No to $1 Billion to Feed 2 Million Families?
https://www.commondreams.org/news/wic-funding-israel
Biden & Blinken – Rule of Illegal Power Over Rule of Law
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/19/biden-blinken-rule-of-illegal-power-over-rule-of-law/
The Unrepentant West Embraces Israeli Genocide in Gaza
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/western-nations-back-israeli-genocide-gaza
Biden’s Israel Politics Are Alienating a Critical Group: Young People Who Power Campaigns
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/02/bidens-israel-politics-are-alienating-young-campaign-volunteers/
Shots Fired (and Keep Firing): Gun Violence Epidemic in the United States
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gun-violence-in-the-us
Coverage of Julian Assange Hearing - VIDEO
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/02/18/coverage-of-julian-assange-hearing/
Uncle Sam's Nazi Warriors
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/uncle-sams-nazi-warriors/
Russia: Why Navalny, and What’s Next?
https://original.antiwar.com/thomas-knapp/2024/02/19/russia-why-navalny-and-whats-next/
They Finally Killed Navalny …
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/they-finally-killed-navalny-.html#more
LOOKING BACK: Has Alexey Navalny moved on from his nationalist past?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/25/navalny-has-the-kremlin-foe-moved-on-from-his-nationalist-past
LOOKING BACK: Opinion | We need to have a talk about Alexei Navalny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/01/we-need-have-talk-about-alexei-navalny/
LOOKING BACK: What Putin nemesis Alexei Navalny is, and what he is not
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/02/02/what-putin-nemesis-alexei-navalny-is-and-what-he-is-not/
LOOKING BACK: Is Aleksei Navalny a Liberal or a Nationalist?
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/is-aleksei-navalny-a-liberal-or-a-nationalist/278186/
LOOKING BACK: Alexei Navalny: Why is Biden supporting a Russian fascist?
https://www.workers.org/2021/02/54546/
The Collapse of US Media Is Accelerating Our Political Crisis
https://www.unz.com/article/the-collapse-of-us-media-is-accelerating-our-political-crisis/
Local Papers Across the US Are Refusing to Cover the Movement for Ceasefire
https://truthout.org/articles/local-papers-across-the-us-are-refusing-to-cover-the-movement-for-ceasefire/
Beyond the Noise: NATO Debates, Past and Present
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-nato/
Pelosi, Biden, and the Spectacular Solipsism of Our Nation's Political Leaders
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/pelosi-biden-gaza-war
Nearly half of voters think it’s likely Biden will be replaced as nominee, a new poll shows
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/15/poll-biden-trump-nominees-00141732
Trump’s finances take massive hit from ‘double whammy’ of legal blows
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4473793-trumps-finances-take-massive-hit-legal-blows/
Judge: Trump Org defendants’ ‘complete’ lack of contrition ‘borders on pathological’
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4473251-engoron-trump-org-defendants-lack-of-contrition-pathological/
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US Rejects Putin’s Latest Offer for Negotiations on Ukraine
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/11/us-rejects-putins-latest-offer-for-negotiations-over-ukraine/
Putin’s 15 Major Points in Tucker Carlson Interview
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/12/putins-15-major-points-in-tucker-carlson-interview/
Biden Not Reconsidering ‘Unequivocal’ Support for Israel’s Gaza Slaughter
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/12/biden-not-reconsidering-unequivocal-support-for-israels-gaza-slaughter/
Only 3 Senate Dem Caucus Members Vote No on $10 Billion in Israeli Military Aid
https://www.commondreams.org/news/senate-israel-military-aid
Dem Senator Calls Israeli Leadership “War Criminals,” Votes to Send Them $14 Billion Anyway
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/13/gaza-israel-congress-aid-hind-rajab/
US Foreign Policy Has an Extinction Agenda - As the world loses time to act, US elites are working to dominate the remains of a ruined planet.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-change-foreign-policy/
As IDF Rafah Invasion Looms, Progressives Urge Biden to 'End the Complicity' in Gaza Genocide
https://www.commondreams.org/news/rafah-invasion
For The First Time In History, Humanity Has A Single Common Foe - It’s no longer about nation versus nation, ruler versus ruler, group versus group, person versus person. It’s about humankind versus extinction. It’s a fight that can only have one winner, and it’s a fight we can only win together.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/08/24/for-the-first-time-in-history-humanity-has-a-single-common-foe/
Unprecedented Times Call For Unprecedented Measures
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/09/27/unprecedented-times-call-for-unprecedented-measures/comment-page-1/#comments
Enya - May It Be - VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt3Ggo1CE3g
By propping up Biden, Dems are committing elder abuse — and abusing the nation
https://nypost.com/2024/02/09/news/by-propping-up-biden-dems-are-committing-elder-abuse/
Overwhelming majority of Americans think Biden is too old for another term: POLL
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/poll-americans-on-biden-age/story?id=107126589
NYT editorial board: Biden must ‘do better’ to address age concerns, stakes ‘too high’
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4460681-nyt-editorial-board-biden-must-do-better-to-address-age-concerns/#:~:text=Media-,NYT
Biden's sixth sense: ALL the times Joe, 81, has claimed to have seen or met dead people including late Rep. Jackie Walorksi, Margaret Thatcher and the inventors of insulin
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13063081/joe-biden-misspoke-deceased-leaders.html
A Dementia Patient Is President Because It Doesn’t Matter Who The President Is
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/a-dementia-patient-is-president-because-it-doesnt-matter-who-the-president-is-a77abf930448
LOOKING BACK - Biden again calls Xi a ‘dictator’ after critical summit
https://thehill.com/homenews/4312210-biden-again-calls-xi-a-dictator-after-critical-summit/
LOOKING BACK - Antony Blinken Winces After Joe Biden Calls Xi Jinping A “Dictator” - VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbY3z_l9Dzw
LOOKING BACK - China ‘strongly opposes’ Biden’s dictator remark
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/16/biden-xi-dictator-00127548
LOOKING BACK - Biden defends calling Chinese leader Xi a ‘dictator’ and says he still expects to meet with him
https://apnews.com/article/yellen-biden-china-xi-jinping-dictator-8e3cda8258cac3e9a2ec197a06cffa67
LOOKING BACK - China responds to Biden calling Xi Jinping a 'dictator' – video
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2023/nov/16/china-responds-to-biden-calling-xi-jinping-a-dictator-video
LOOKING BACK - ‘If it’s a genocide, declare it a genocide’: Inside the Biden administration’s vexing Myanmar debate
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/09/genocide-biden-myanmar-uyghurs-rohingya-502783
LOOKING BACK - ‘The US ‘Genocide’ Accusation Against China
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/02/22/the-us-genocide-accusation-against-china/
LOOKING BACK: Biden Calls Putin A ‘Dictator’ Who ‘Commits Genocide’ - VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ZdRczEN6Q
LOOKING BACK: Biden calls Putin a ‘murderous dictator’ and ‘pure thug’ - VIDEO
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/17/politics/biden-putin-pure-thug/index.html
LOOKING BACK: Biden on Putin: ‘I think he is a war criminal’ - VIDEO
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/16/politics/biden-calls-putin-a-war-criminal/index.html
LOOKING BACK: Biden in Warsaw: ‘Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3867912-biden-in-warsaw-ukraine-will-never-be-a-victory-for-russia/
LOOKING BACK: Biden takes aim at Russian president in Warsaw speech: ‘Putin chose this war’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3867922-biden-takes-aim-at-russian-president-in-warsaw-speech-putin-chose-this-war/
LOOKING BACK: Biden says he was expressing moral outrage when saying Putin shouldn't stay in power
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1089300515/biden-putin-remarks-regime-change
LOOKING BACK: Biden's Gaffe-Filled Speech Sparks Criticism - 2022
https://www.newsweek.com/bidens-gaffe-filled-speech-sparks-criticism-1756156
LOOKING BACK: Biden officials scrambled to revise his unscripted call for Putin to be removed from power in his Warsaw speech, report says
https://www.businessinsider.com/officials-scrambled-to-undo-biden-call-to-remove-putin-wapo-2022-4
LOOKING BACK: Why Biden's off-script remarks about Putin are so dangerous
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60895392
LOOKING BACK: Russia Erupts in Fury Over Biden’s Calling Putin a Killer
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/world/europe/russia-biden-putin-killer.html
LOOKING BACK: Kremlin calls Biden’s Putin statement ‘alarming’
https://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/599994-kremlin-calls-biden-putin-statement-alarming/
LOOKING BACK: Biden remark on Putin pushes U.S.-Russia relations closer to the brink -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/27/biden-putin-regime-change/
Democrats Might Need a Plan B. Here’s What It Looks Like.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/12/joe-biden-democrat-plan-b-nominee-00140790
All 4 of Trump’s criminal cases reach inflection points this week
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/13/trumps-criminal-cases-reach-inflection-points-this-week-00141079
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It’s the 2024 Election Season. Where’s the Climate Story?
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-crisis-election-media/
Tucker Carlson confirms interview with Putin (VIDEO)
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4451355-tucker-carlson-vladimir-putin-interview/
The Vladimir Putin Interview (VIDEO)
https://tuckercarlson.com/the-vladimir-putin-interview/
https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-could-prosecuted-putin-interview-lawyer-warns-1868148
Scott Ritter: Tucker Madness Is Good for America
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/02/08/scott-ritter-tucker-madness-is-good-for-america/
Where’s Biden? A bit off stage from the main attraction.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/05/biden-2024-south-carolina-iran-00139747
Defiant Biden mixes up the presidents of Egypt and Mexico in furious response to Special Counsel Robert Hur's bombshell report targeting his 'hazy' memory, proclaiming 'I know what the hell I'm doing!’ (VIDEO)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13063725/joe-biden-address-nation-news.html
Biden angrily defends memory, age in contentious press conference (VIDEO)
https://thehill.com/homenews/4457489-biden-memory-age-contentious-press-conference/
Biden faces his ‘Comey moment’
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/09/biden-comey-moment-00140655
Biden's own DOJ said he has 'diminished faculties and a faulty memory': Classified docs probe reveals he left Afghan files next to dog bed in garage, forgot when his son Beau died AND couldn't remember when he was vice president
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13062835/joe-biden-classified-documents-garage-private-office-investigation-not-charged.html
Alarming footage appears to show President Biden forgetting Hamas’ name when asked about hostages held in Gaza
https://nypost.com/2024/02/07/news/biden-appears-to-forget-hamas-name/
Biden appears to mix up Macron with Mitterrand, French president who died in 1996
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4449805-biden-appears-to-mix-up-macron-with-french-president-mitterrand-who-died-in-1996/
Biden's age continues to linger as a campaign issue amid slip-ups
https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/president-joe-bidens-age-continues-to-linger-as-a-campaign-issue-amid-slip-ups-2024-election-politics-former-president-donald-trump-republican-primary-nikki-haley-dean-phillips
President Kamala Harris? The embattled vice president with only a 28% approval rating is now 'squarely an issue' in the 2024 race after blundering Biden's stumbles and gaffes trigger 25th Amendment chatter
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13065689/president-kamala-harris-25th-amendment-joe-biden-press-conference.html
Trump Slurs His Way Through Chunk of Speech — Biden Team Pounces VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO_57iSfaJo
Many Jews and Jewish Organizations Recognized the Dangers of Zionism. They Were Right
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/jewish-organizations-against-zionism
‘Overshadow Gaza crimes’: World reacts to US attacks on Iraq and Syria
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/3/overshadow-gaza-crimes-world-reacts-to-us-attacks-on-iraq-and-syria
Western Officials Warn of War-Crimes Complicity
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/02/02/western-officials-warn-of-war-crimes-complicity/
Israel’s Claims Against UN Relief Agency Lack Evidence
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/02/06/israels-claims-against-un-relief-agency-lack-evidence/
Israel Aid Bill Fails in House as Progressives Slam 'Blank Check for Netanyahu’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-aid-house
The Dangers of Complicity: The US Courts, Gaza and Genocide
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/08/the-dangers-of-complicity-the-us-courts-gaza-and-genocide/
Instead of Diplomacy and Peace, US Chooses to Back Genocide and War
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/genocide-ceasefire-war-middle-east
For God’s Sake Joe, What the Hell Are You Doing?
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/joe-biden-middle-east-policy-gaza
Denting Reelection Hopes, 60% of US Voters Disapprove of Biden's Israel Policy
https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-2024-israel
In The Middle East The U.S. Has Reached The End Of Its Abilities
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/in-the-middle-east-the-us-has-reached-the-end-of-its-abilities.html
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/ending-us-presence-in-middle-east.html#more
Deal With Iran Politically and Diplomatically, Not Militarily
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/07/deal-with-iran-politically-and-diplomatically-not-militarily/
Ending The U.S. Presence In Middle East
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/ending-us-presence-in-middle-east.html#more
To Bomb or Not to Bomb Iran: That Is the Question
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/to-bomb-or-not-to-bomb-iran-that-is-the-question/
Pro-Israel Perspectives Dominate Gaza Debate at Major US Papers
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israeli-perspectives-dominate-gaza-debate
CNN staff say network’s pro-Israel slant amounts to ‘journalistic malpractice’
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/04/cnn-staff-pro-israel-bias#:~:text=CNN is facing a backlash,of the war in Gaza.
America is exporting more arms than ever. Here’s why.
https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2024/2/4/24059340/us-arms-exports-2023-ukraine-war-russia-gaza
The Unconscionable Nazi Legacies of Executions by Gas and Lethal Injection
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/08/the-unconscionable-nazi-legacies-of-executions-by-gas-and-lethal-injection/
15 GOP Governors Are Refusing Free Summer Meals for School Kids
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2024/02/summer-ebt-subsidies-kids-pandemic-nutrition-kim-reynolds/
Forget No Labels. Biden’s Third-Party Peril is on the Left.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/04/biden-third-party-peril-00139380
Biden's team bracing for special counsel's report on classified docs
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/04/biden-special-counsel-classified-docs-trump
Dr. Cornel West Is Running to Become President of the United States. What Are His Views on Climate Change and the Environment?
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05022024/rev-cornel-west-is-running-for-president-what-are-his-climate-change-views/
‘In a word, horrific’: Trump’s extreme anti-environment blueprint
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/06/trump-climate-change-fossil-fuels-second-term#:~:text=
'Citizen Trump': Appeals Court Says No Immunity in Jan. 6 Case
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-loses-presidential-immunity-appeal-against-jan-6-lawsuits
The Only Way Trump Stays on the Ballot Is if the Supreme Court Rejects the Constitution
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/supreme-court-trump-14th-amendment-hearing-preview/
Thomas Refusal to Recuse From Trump Case Called a 'Giant Middle Finger' to Democracy
https://www.commondreams.org/news/thomas-recuse-trump-eligibility
IRS Could Collect $561 Billion From Rich Tax Cheats—Unless GOP Guts Funding
https://www.commondreams.org/news/irs-could-collect-561-billion-from-rich-tax-cheats-unless-gop-guts-funding
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Three soldiers killed in Jordan drone attack identified as reservists from Georgia
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/three-killed-identified-jordan/
Biden again suggests son Beau died from Iraq War during call with family of solider killed in Jordan drone strike
https://nypost.com/2024/02/01/news/biden-again-wrongly-suggests-son-beau-died-from-iraq-war-in-call-with-grieving-soldiers-family/
Dodging and deferring: Trump wasn’t the only POTUS to avoid the draft
https://www.armytimes.com/opinion/commentary/2021/01/21/dodging-and-deferring-trump-wasnt-the-only-potus-to-avoid-the-draft/
Pentagon Admits It Has No Evidence Iran Was Behind Drone Attack That Killed 3 US Troops in Jordan
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/01/29/pentagon-admits-it-has-no-evidence-iran-was-behind-drone-attack-that-killed-3-us-troops-in-jordan/
First lethal blows, but still no unified call for war in Congress
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/congress-war-with-iran/
US Troops Put on Standby for Potential US Ground Involvement in Gaza
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/01/31/us-troops-put-on-standby-for-potential-us-ground-involvement-in-gaza/
National Guardsmen were the majority of troops hurt in Jordan attack
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2024/02/01/national-guardsmen-were-the-majority-of-troops-hurt-in-jordan-attack/
As Biden Bombs Syria and Iraq, 80 Groups Push Gaza Cease-Fire to Avert Wider War
https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-syria-iraq
Lloyd Austin: ‘We Don’t Know’ If Iran Was Involved in Jordan Drone Attack
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/01/lloyd-austin-we-dont-know-if-iran-was-involved-in-jordan-drone-attack/
The Urgent Need to Attack Iran Has Been Falsely Advertised for 20 Years
https://www.globalresearch.ca/urgent-need-attack-iran-falsely-advertised-20-years/5848431
House Progressives Warn Against Escalation in the Middle East
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-troops-in-jordan
Percentage of US Residents Who Think Israel Has 'Gone Too Far' Surges
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-gone-too-far
Why We Also Need a Ceasefire in Ukraine
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/ukraine-needs-ceasefire
Biden White House Says 'We Don't Want a Wider War.' Analysts Say 'Too Late’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-middle-east-war
US troops should have left Syria and Iraq long ago
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-military-iraq-syria/
Drone strike brings renewed attention to US military presence in Jordan
https://www.newarab.com/news/calls-grow-us-military-exit-jordan-after-drone-strike
Bending Biden Towards a Cease-Fire in Gaza
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/pushing-biden-towards-cease-fire
What does Biden’s order against Israeli settlers mean and why did he do it now?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/02/biden-executive-order-israeli-settlers-meaning
Scoop: State Department reviewing options for possible recognition of Palestinian state
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/31/palestine-statehood-biden-israel-gaza-war
Israel Ministers Call for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza at Settler Conference
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israeli-ministers-settler-conference
In Global Appeal, UNRWA Says Gazans Likely Won't Survive If Agency Abandoned
https://www.commondreams.org/news/unrwa-gaza
What is UNRWA and why is it important for Palestinians?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/1/what-is-unrwa-and-why-it-is-important-for-palestinians
Republicans Move to One-Up Biden and Permanently Defund UNRWA
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/02/republicans-defund-unrwa-israel-palestine-refugees/
Inside The Israel Lobby’s New $90 Million War Chest
https://web.archive.org/web/20240201155017/https://www.levernews.com/inside-the-israel-lobbys-new-90-million-war-chest/
US Attacks on the ICJ Are a Declaration of Empire
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-icj-empire
Will the U.S. Block the ICJ on Gaza? It’s Thwarted the Court Before.
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/30/icj-gaza-ruling-nicaragua/
Has International Law Survived, or Has the Western Political Class Killed It?
https://www.unz.com/article/has-international-law-survived-or-has-the-western-political-class-killed-it/
Unreal: White House still denies Mideast turmoil linked to Gaza
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/biden-gaza-houthis-iran/
Exclusive: Group of Jewish leaders defends Israel criticism
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/01/jewish-leaders-harvard-task-force-antisemitism#
Israel, the United States, and the Rhetoric of the War on Terror
https://original.antiwar.com/Maha_Hilal/2024/02/01/israel-the-united-states-and-the-rhetoric-of-the-war-on-terror/
Judge Rejects US Complicity Case, But Urges Biden to Examine 'Unflagging' Support for Israel
https://www.commondreams.org/news/judge-us-complicity-israel
U.S. Lawyers Vow to Keep Fighting Biden Over Complicity in Gaza Genocide
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/01/gaza-biden-genocide-lawsuit-ruling/
Nancy Pelosi Smears Humanitarians Calling for a Gaza Cease-Fire
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/nancy-pelosi-gaza-cease-fire-putin
Israel Has Killed 874+ Palestinians Since ICJ Order to Prevent Acts of Genocide
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/02/israel-gaza-icj-palestinian-deaths/
Federal Workers Plan Daylong Fast in Solidarity With Gaza
https://www.commondreams.org/news/feds-united-for-peace
American Federation of Teachers Joins Call for Gaza Cease-Fire
https://www.commondreams.org/news/union-ceasefire-2667126890
'Uniting for Peace': Chicago Now Biggest US City to Demand Gaza Cease-Fire
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ceasefire-chicago
Boycott, Divestment And Sanctions
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/boycott-divestment-and-sanctions.html
Why are major progressive orgs silent on Biden's lurch toward war?
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/progressives-biden-middle-east/
First Ecuador, Now Greece: Joe Biden Is Finding More And More Countries To Help Him Arm Ukraine
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/01/31/first-ecuador-now-greece-joe-biden-is-finding-more-and-more-countries-to-help-him-arm-ukraine/?sh=17006b236f18
Joe Biden Is Arming Greece So Greece Can Arm Ukraine—And Pro-Russia Republicans Can’t Stop Him
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/01/30/joe-biden-is-arming-greece-so-greece-can-arm-ukraine-and-pro-russia-republicans-cant-stop-him/?sh=2fb3c779424e
Tone deaf? Admin brags about 55% hike in foreign arms sales
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/biden-weapons-sales-israel-ukraine/
Congress poised to cede more foreign weapons oversight. Why?
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/congress-weapons-sales/
The Real Reason We’re Stuck with Trump v. Biden
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/31/primary-elections-frontloading-voters-00138616
Trump campaign donors footed the bill for more than $50M in legal fees last year
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/01/trump-legal-fees-campaign-donations-2023
A Year Without Presidential Debates? Hell No!
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/how-many-debates-will-biden-and-trump-have
How to Solve Food Insecurity? Treat Healthy Food as a Human Right
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/healthy-food-human-right
'A Mockery': House Passes Tax Bill That Favors Corporations Over Children
https://www.commondreams.org/news/corporations-child-tax-credit
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With the World Stumbling Past 1.5 Degrees of Warming, Scientists Warn Climate Shocks Could Trigger Unrest and Authoritarian Backlash
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28012024/with-world-warming-scientists-warn-of-unrest-and-authoritarian-backlash/
Biden struggling on nuclear arms control
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/biden-arms-control-russia-china/
The unconscionable rejection of food aid for hungry kids is all about politics
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4431228-the-unconscionable-rejection-of-food-aid-for-hungry-kids-is-all-about-politics/#:~:text=In
Cheese sandwich and milk: How this school district wanted to combat lunch debt - VIDEO
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/01/27/georgia-school-lunch-debt-cheese-sandwich-milk-foa-vpx.cnn
South Dakota Lawmakers Vote Down Free School Lunches Bill
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/south-dakota-bill-that-would-have-expanded-free-lunch-for-school-kids-fails-committee-by-1-vote_n_65b534e5e4b0d407294f50f3
The New Do-Nothing Congress
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/do-nothing-congress/
AMERICAN OLIGARCHY
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/american-oligarchy/
How Free Market Mythology Denies Us Freedom
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/free-market-mythology-inequality
Reports Expose Deep Harms of Corporate Tax Cuts and 'Trickle Down' Ideology
https://www.commondreams.org/news/corporate-tax-cuts-children
Alabama condemned for nitrogen gas execution: ‘They intended to torture him’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/26/alabama-nitrogen-gas-execution-torture#:~:text=Capital
What we know about the case of death row inmate Richard Glossip, who says he’s innocent, and the Supreme Court
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/27/us/richard-glossip-oklahoma-supreme-court/index.html
‘Every noise makes you jumpy’: US election workers confront threats and abuse with resilience training
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/27/election-worker-training-abuse
Jury finds Trump must pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll - VIDEO
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-trial-e-jean-carroll-01-26-24/index.html
LOOKING BACK - Trump defends crude language from 2005 as "locker room" talk - VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o21fXqguD7U
The Pollster Getting Under Democrats’ Skin
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/27/clinton-pollster-2024-00138163#:~:text=Longtime
Haley targeted in December swatting incident
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/27/haley-targeted-in-december-swatting-incident-00138216
Biden's Third-Year Job Approval Average of 39.8% Second Worst
https://news.gallup.com/poll/609188/biden-third-year-job-approval-average-second-worst.aspx
Poll: Majority wouldn't vote for candidate over 80 or person charged with crime
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/26/voters-age-biden-trump-crime-poll#
UAW’s Biden Endorsement Sparks Internal Dissent Over Gaza
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/24/uaw-biden-endorsement-gaza/
One of the Largest Unions in the United States Just Called for a Ceasefire in Gaza
https://www.globalresearch.ca/one-largest-unions-united-states-just-called-ceasefire-gaza/5847766
Backed by AIPAC, 62 Dems Join GOP in Condemning Genocide Case Against Israel
https://www.commondreams.org/news/aipac-south-africa-israel
Arab and Muslim American Leaders in Michigan Just Canceled a Meeting With the Biden Campaign
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/arab-and-muslim-american-leaders-in-michigan-just-canceled-a-meeting-with-the-biden-campaign/
Palestinians Testify in Federal Court That Biden Is Complicit in Genocide
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/26/palestinians-biden-genocide-lawsuit-ccr/
Biden hit from all sides in Congress on Middle East strikes
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/27/biden-houthi-rebels-strike-congress#
Bumbling Joe Biden says Donald Trump is the 'SITTING President' as confused 81-year-old stumbles through economic speech in South Carolina trying to shore up support for another term - VIDEOS
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13015939/joe-biden-donald-trump-speech-president-south-carolina.html
'Dangerous': Pelosi Calls for FBI to Investigate Cease-Fire Supporters
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ceasefire-2667108639
The end of the Anglosphere age in the Middle East
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4417836-the-end-of-the-anglosphere-age-in-the-middle-east/
Americans Are Paying a Massive Price To Maintain the Empire
https://original.antiwar.com/Matthew_Hoh/2024/01/24/americans-pay-a-massive-price-to-maintain-the-empire/
Three American Troops Killed in Drone Attack in Jordan
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/01/28/three-american-troops-killed-in-drone-attack-in-jordan/
US Hawks Demand War With Iran After Attack on American Troops in Jordan
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-war-iran
Bring US troops home from Iraq and Syria now
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-troops-iraq-syria-jordan/
The US must act to end the Gaza disaster - Senator Sanders
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/27/the-us-must-act-to-end-the-gaza-disaster
Navy again lowers requirements as it struggles to meet recruitment goals
https://nypost.com/2024/01/28/news/us-navy-to-allow-new-recruits-join-who-didnt-graduate-from-high-school-or-get-a-ged/
Strike warfare: An American fetish and a global scourge
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/are-us-airstrikes-houthis-working/
US Launches More Airstrikes in Iraq as Tensions Soar
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/01/23/us-launches-more-airstrikes-in-iraq-as-tensions-soar/
US Launches Airstrikes in Southern Somalia, Says Three al-Shabaab Killed
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/01/23/us-launches-airstrikes-in-southern-somalia-says-three-al-shabaab-killed/
Blinken Visits Nigeria as Questions Swirl About Civilian Deaths and U.S. Security Ties
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/23/nigeria-civilian-deaths-anthony-blinken/
US, UK Bomb Yemeni Capital as Part of 'Sustained' Attack on Houthis
https://www.commondreams.org/news/u-s-bombing-yemen-2667052470
US Escalates Two-front War on Serbia
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-escalates-two-front-war-serbia/5845990
U.S. launches airstrike on site in Syria in response to attacks by Iranian-backed militias
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/u-s-launches-airstrike-on-site-in-syria-in-response-to-attacks-by-iranian-backed-militias
Who Is the Antiwar Candidate?
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/who-is-the-antiwar-candidate/
ICJ Ruling on Israel Crimes "Poses the Greatest Political Dilemma for the Biden Presidency”
https://inthesetimes.com/article/icj-ruling-poses-the-greatest-political-dilemma-for-the-biden-presidency
Court Hears Case Alleging Biden Complicit in Genocide
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/26/court-hears-case-alleging-biden-complicit-in-genocide/
War on Gaza: White House staffers spurn 'morale-booster' party and call for ceasefire
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-white-house-staffers-spurn-morale-booster-party-protest-ceasefire
Senate Democrats call on Pentagon to halt aid to human rights abusers and coup governments
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4431570-senate-democrats-call-pentagon-halt-aid-human-rights-coups/
Netanyahu Pushes Most pro-Israel U.S. Democrats to Take Previously Unimaginable Measures
https://archive.is/CjjkF#selection-457.0-457.88
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2 Million Children, Parents Set to Lose Food Aid Unless Congress Acts Now
https://www.commondreams.org/news/wic-program
SENATE KILLS MEASURE TO SCRUTINIZE ISRAELI HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD AS CONDITION FOR AID
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/16/senate-israel-human-rights-condition-aid/
The Shame of the Senate
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/senate-gaza-vote-bernie-sanders/
Why Israel’s Violence Gets So Much Notice (It’s Not Antisemitism)
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/20/israel-colonialism-europe/
Patrick Lawrence: The End of Global Leadership
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/18/patrick-lawrence-the-end-of-global-leadership/
JOE BIDEN WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE HE IS OPPOSED TO GENOCIDE IN GAZA
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/17/biden-gaza-genocide-israel-aid/
Biden Exceeds Worst Fears About Trump
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/18/biden-exceeds-worst-fears-about-trump/
The American Way of Life in its Foulest Manifestation
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/12/the-american-way-of-life-in-its-foulest-manifestation/
The US Is Still Not Beyond Getting 'Beyond Vietnam’
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-us-is-still-not-beyond-getting-beyond-vietnam
The world weeps while the military industrial complex keeps winning
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/defense-industry-war-pentagon/
War on Yemen? Don't Expect A Cakewalk
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/war-on-yemen-dont-expect-a-cakewalk/
Lawmakers push for more money for missiles amid Red Sea clash
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/19/tomahawk-missiles-funding-red-sea-houthi-strikes-00136648#:~:text=As
Biden Admin Signals Arms Will Keep Flowing as Netanyahu Rejects Palestinian State
https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-israel-weapons
Saudi ambassador calls for ceasefire, warns escalation could take region back to the Stone Age - VIDEO
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2024/01/19/exp-saudi-princess-reema-intv-0119010aseg1-cnni-world.cnn
LOOKING BACK: How People Are Fighting the World’s Reliance on the War Economy
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/18/how-people-are-fighting-the-worlds-reliance-on-the-war-economy/
LOOKING BACK: Endless Enemies and the Permanent War Economy
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/15/endless-enemies-and-the-permanent-war-economy/
LOOKING BACK: War Is Good for the Economy – Isn’t It?
https://original.antiwar.com/henderson/2006/03/06/war-is-good-for-the-economy-isnt-it/
LOOKING BACK: Chris Hedges: No Way Out But War
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/05/24/chris-hedges-no-way-out-but-war/
LOOKING BACK: Chris Hedges: The Enemy from Within
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/01/chris-hedges-the-enemy-from-within/
Biden Admits Bombing Yemen Isn't Working, But Says US Will Continue Anyway
https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-yemen-bombing
The Need for a New US Foreign Policy
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/04/18/the-need-for-a-new-us-foreign-policy/
NH Voters to Pressure Biden With 'Cease-Fire' Write-In on Primary Ballots
https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-ceasefire
The Dangerous Myth of the “Indispensable Nation”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/19/the-dangerous-myth-of-the-indispensable-nation/
Five reasons American decline appears irreversible
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4414582-five-reasons-american-decline-appears-irreversible/
Is America like the Soviet Union in 1990? It sometimes feels that way
https://www.salon.com/2024/01/21/is-america-like-the-soviet-union-in-1990-it-sometimes-feels-that-way/
Populism Keeps Rattling the Globe. Elites Have No Idea What to Do.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/20/davos-populism-political-extremism-column-00136618
What Is the History of Fascism in the United States?
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/fascism-comes-to-america-bruce-kuklick/
Never mind Hitler: "Late Fascism" is here, and it doesn't need Hugo Boss uniforms
https://www.salon.com/2024/01/21/never-mind-hitler-late-fascism-is-here-and-it-doesnt-need-hugo-boss-uniforms/
Across Germany, anti-far right protests draw hundreds of thousands - in Munich, too many for safety
https://apnews.com/article/germany-afd-far-right-protests-extremism-munich-f8298e02a03d74e4dd1576bdb74ef113
Nikki Haley Questions Trump’s Mental Competence
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/nikki-haley-donald-trump-mental/
A calendar of Trump’s upcoming court dates — and how they could overshadow the GOP primary
https://www.vox.com/trump-investigations/2024/1/17/24041580/trump-court-dates-2024-election-republican-primary
The Case for Capping Wealth at $10 Million
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/wealth-cap-limitarianism-davos/
Progressive Lawmakers Unveil Bill to Attack 'Disease' of Corporate Greed
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-corporate-tax
An ‘Execute-Them-At-Any-Cost Mentality’: The Supreme Court’s New, Bloodthirsty Era
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/21/supreme-court-death-penalty-executions-00136646#:~:text=An
‘I’m not ready, brother’: US man to be put to death months after botched execution attempt
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/21/kenneth-smith-alabama-execution-nitrogen-gas
How Many National Civic Leaders Do You Know in the US Today?
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/civic-leaders-undervalued-united-states
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Take Your Pick: The Omnicides That Threaten Us All If We Don't Act
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/omnicides-that-threaten-humanity
Climate Change and Wars Are Breaking Down the Foundations of Civilization
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/15/climate-change-and-wars-are-breaking-down-the-foundations-of-civilization/
Trump as the Terminator of All Mankind
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-foreign-policy-terminator
Biden’s approval rating drops to new low: Poll
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4408318-bidens-approval-rating-drops-to-new-low-poll/
Trump, DeSantis, Haley all leading Biden in new poll
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4409117-trump-desantis-haley-leading-biden-poll/
Joe Biden Called David Axelrod a ‘Prick.’ It Won’t Shut Him Up.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/12/david-axelrod-obama-biden-2024-00135194
Axelrod says Trump a ‘formidable’ candidate, Biden and campaign ‘need to get into gear’
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4411503-axelrod-trump-formidable-candidate/
Independent Party ID Tied for High; Democratic ID at New Low
https://news.gallup.com/poll/548459/independent-party-tied-high-democratic-new-low.aspx
US Will Be 'Weimar Republic' If Biden Doesn't Lift Up Working Class and Defeat Trump: Sanders
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-advice-for-joe-biden-2024
Florida Man Facing 91 Criminal Counts Wins Iowa Caucuses
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/trump-wins-iowa-caucuses/
Fears grow that Trump will use the military in ‘dictatorial ways’ if he returns to the White House
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna129159
No more going wobbly in climate fight, Trump supporters vow
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/12/trump-second-term-climate-science-2024-00132289
Is the Heart and Soul of Trump’s MAGA Base Really the White Working Class?
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/donald-trump-white-working-class-voters
Donald Trump's Right Leg in Videos Raises Questions - VIDEO
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-health-viral-videos-1860737
Biden, like Trump, sidesteps Congress to get things done
https://theconversation.com/biden-like-trump-sidesteps-congress-to-get-things-done-218010
Dem, GOP Lawmakers say Biden had no authority to launch Yemen strikes
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/houthi-missile-strikes-congress/
Why Joe Biden Is a Foreign Policy Failure
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/biden-foreign-policy-failure
The US Doesn’t Need a Trillion-Dollar Military Budget
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-trillion-dollar-military-budget
Jayapal: US-led strikes on Yemen ‘an unacceptable violation’ of Constitution
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4404709-jayapal-strikes-yemen-violation-constitution/
Greene denounces Yemen strikes, pointing to Biden’s past criticism of Trump
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4404869-greene-yemen-strikes-biden-trump/
Federal Employees to Stage Walk Out Over Biden’s Support for Gaza Slaughter
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/01/14/federal-employees-to-stage-walk-out-over-bidens-support-for-gaza-slaughter/
Staff From US Agencies, Congress Join 'Day of Mourning' for Gaza
https://www.commondreams.org/news/joe-biden-gaza
Iowa GOP Caucus: Where are the candidates on Ukraine, Israel?
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iowa-gop-caucus-foreign-policy/
Sanders to Force Senate Vote on Probing Israeli War Crimes
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-israel
Senate Votes Down Bernie Sanders Resolution to Probe Israel’s Gaza Slaughter
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/01/16/senate-votes-down-bernie-sanders-resolution-to-probe-israels-gaza-slaughter/
The War on Yemen Is Illegal. “Only Congress has Power to Declare war,” Both Dem, GOP Lawmakers Say Biden Had “No Authority” to Launch Yemen Strikes
https://www.globalresearch.ca/dem-gop-lawmakers-say-biden-had-no-authority-launch-yemen-strikes-dem-gop-lawmakers-say-biden-had-no-authority-to-launch-yemen-strikes/5846583
Lawmakers Reach Deal to Expand Child Tax Credit—In Exchange for Corporate Tax Cuts
https://www.commondreams.org/news/lawmakers-reach-deal-to-expand-child-tax-credit-in-exchange-for-corporate-tax-cuts
How to Restore Trust in the US? Tax the Rich
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/tax-rich-to-restore-trust
The Debt Explosion: How Neoliberalism Fuels Debt Crises
https://www.unz.com/mhudson/the-debt-explosion-how-neoliberalism-fuels-debt-crises/
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U.S. Democracy Hangs on Two Men’s Egos
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/07/democracy-trump-biden-egos/
US Supreme Court decision on Trump-Colorado ballot case ‘monumental’ for democracy itself, not just 2024 presidential election
https://theconversation.com/us-supreme-court-decision-on-trump-colorado-ballot-case-monumental-for-democracy-itself-not-just-2024-presidential-election-220643
A Political Class With the Same Geopolitical Aims
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/07/a-political-class-with-the-same-geopolitical-aims/
Record Low in U.S. Satisfied With Way Democracy Is Working
https://news.gallup.com/poll/548120/record-low-satisfied-democracy-working.aspx
No top U.S. government official has an approval rating over 50%
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/04/federal-government-officials-approval-ratings-gallup-poll
Why America fell out of love with its Army
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-army-recruitment/
New Hampshire: we won't send our soldiers to unauthorized wars
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/new-hampshire-defend-the-guard/
Defense Secretary Austin hospitalized, Pentagon reveals days later [Updated]
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/defense-secretary-austin-hospitalized-pentagon/
The Lloyd Austin fallout is growing: ‘Someone’s head has to roll’
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/07/biden-stands-by-austin-as-befuddled-white-house-handles-secret-hospitalization-fallout-00134182
Jan. 6 was an example of networked incitement − a media and disinformation expert explains the danger of political violence orchestrated over social media
https://theconversation.com/jan-6-was-an-example-of-networked-incitement-a-media-and-disinformation-expert-explains-the-danger-of-political-violence-orchestrated-over-social-media-220501
In 41 US States, Richest 1% Pay Lower Tax Rates Than Everyone Else
https://www.commondreams.org/news/in-41-us-states-richest-1-pay-lower-tax-rates-than-everyone-else
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Mainstream media wasn't good for US foreign policy in 2023
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/media-foreign-policy-2023/
Opinion: The Supreme Court could make a Trump victory virtually impossible
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/31/opinions/supreme-court-trump-2024-election-states-remove-ballot-mark/index.html
US national debt surpasses $34T for first time
https://thehill.com/business/4387040-us-national-debt-surpasses-34t-for-first-time/
Fake Intellectuals Working For Think Tanks Funded By the Arms Industry Are Driving Support For War After War After War
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/01/02/fake-intellectuals-working-for-think-tanks-funded-by-the-arms-industry-are-driving-support-for-war-after-war-after-war/
Fresh Calls for Stock Trading Ban After US Lawmakers Beat Market in 2023
https://www.commondreams.org/news/congress-stock-trading-ban
The Billionaires Got Organized. The People Didn't. The Rest Is History
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/who-controls-the-us-political-system
California’s minimum wage woes are a cautionary tale for the nation
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4389027-californias-minimum-wage-woes-are-a-cautionary-tale-for-the-nation/
John Dean: ‘Trump’s in trouble’ after Maine ruling
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4381399-john-dean-trump-main-ruling-in-trouble/
Everything you need to know about Trump and the 14th Amendment
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/29/trump-14-amendment-ballot-troubles-00133318
Mainstream media wasn't good for US foreign policy in 2023
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/media-foreign-policy-2023/
Michigan Supreme Court declines to hear appeal in lawsuit seeking to bar Trump from primary ballot
https://www.metrotimes.com/news/michigan-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-appeal-in-lawsuit-seeking-to-bar-trump-from-primary-ballot-35008574
Biden's 2023 foreign policy was a bust
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/biden-foreign-policy-2023/
Biden’s approval rating at record low in new poll
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4365748-bidens-approval-rating-record-low-poll/
The elephant in the Giuliani defamation courtroom
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4374655-the-elephant-in-the-giuliani-defamation-courtroom/
Citing 14th Amendment, Michigan Voters File Suit to Bar Trump From 2024 Ballot
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-14th-amendment
Trump pressured Michigan election officers not to certify 2020 vote – report
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/22/trump-michigan-pressured-election-officers-not-to-certify-2020-vote
IMPEACHMENT: Biden Under Formal Investigation
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/17/impeachment-biden-under-formal-investigation/
Pols loaded with industry cash vote up military budget
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/congress-ndaa-vote/
UPDATED: 10/13/23
Investigations are exposing the Bidens’ influence-peddling dynasty
https://thehill.com/opinion/4243157-investigations-are-exposing-the-bidens-influence-peddling-dynasty/
New York Times prematurely cleared Gov. Ron DeSantis of abusing Guantanamo detainees when he was a Naval officer
https://www.floridabulldog.org/2023/10/new-york-times-prematurely-cleared-desantis-abusing-guantanamo-detainees/
This Isn’t the First Time Bernie Sanders Has Arrested Antiwar Protesters
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2023/10/08/this-isnt-the-first-time-bernie-sanders-has-arrested-antiwar-protesters/
Robert F Kennedy Jr announces independent run for 2024 US election
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/09/robert-f-kennedy-jr-independent-run-2024-us-election
Supreme court to review whether South Carolina map discriminated against Black voters
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/11/supreme-court-south-carolina-congressional-map-case
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UPDATED: 10/7/23
Eleven Activists Arrested in Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Office Demanding Diplomacy Instead of Funding More War in Ukraine
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2023/10/04/eleven-activists-arrested-in-sen-bernie-sanders-office-demanding-diplomacy-instead-of-funding-more-war-in-ukraine/
An American Lack of Introspection on Failed U.S. Foreign Policy
https://archive.ph/FpNow#selection-561.0-561.63
The Trump collapse is coming — and he’s taking Biden down with him
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4235818-the-trump-collapse-is-coming-and-hes-taking-biden-down-with-him/
Neither Party Well-Liked, but GOP Holds Advantage on Issues
https://news.gallup.com/poll/511979/neither-party-liked-gop-holds-advantage-issues.aspx
Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63%
https://news.gallup.com/poll/512135/support-third-political-party.aspx
Americans' Weak Economic Ratings Slip Further in September
https://news.gallup.com/poll/511868/americans-weak-economic-ratings-slip-further-september.aspx
Low Job Ratings of Congress and Biden Persist
https://news.gallup.com/poll/511640/low-job-ratings-congress-biden-persist.aspx
American Apocalypse? 71% Don’t Trust U.S. Government To Prevent Doomsday
https://studyfinds.org/dont-trust-us-government-doomsday/
Fewer Americans support arming Ukraine: Poll
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4240664-fewer-americans-support-arming-ukraine-poll/
First Hearing on Biden Impeachment Inquiry, Part 2
https://www.c-span.org/video/?530616-6/hearing-biden-impeachment-inquiry-part-2
‘God Help Us’: John Kelly Confirms Trump Mocked Veterans during Arlington Memorial Service
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/god-help-us-john-kelly-confirms-trump-mocked-veterans-during-arlington-memorial-service/
Cornel West leaves the Green Party in favor of an independent bid
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/05/cornel-west-independent-bid-00120132
Jail Blair, Bush & Cheney First - VIDEO
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/03/jail-blair-bush-cheney-first/
Majority Backs Expanded SCOTUS Amid 'Extreme Decisions and Flagrant Ethical Abuses': Poll
https://www.commondreams.org/news/judiciary-act-2665803848
Next Stop for Most Retired US 4-Star Military Officers? Arms Industry C-Suites
https://www.commondreams.org/news/four-star-generals-revolving-door
Indictment Against Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Offers Window Into Corruption Underlying U.S. Foreign Policy
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/05/indictment-against-senate-foreign-relations-committee-chair-offers-window-into-corruption-underlying-u-s-foreign-policy/
America’s nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don’t like organized religion
https://apnews.com/article/nonreligious-united-states-nones-spirituality-humanist-91bb8430280c88fd88530a7ad64b03f8
First Amendment advocates fight growing number of U.S. book bans
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2023/10/04/first-amendment-advocates-fight-growing-number-of-u-s-book-bans/
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UPDATED: 10/2/23
Shutdown averted but Ukraine aid left behind
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-aid-government-shutdown-2665775252/
As conservatives ramp up opposition to Ukraine war, Dems dodge The Grayzone - VIDEO
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/09/29/conservatives-ukraine-war-dems-grayzone/
IMPEACHMENT: Innuendo and Evidence - Consortium News‘ Patrick Lawrence will be daily covering the U.S. House inquiry into the impeachment of President Joe Biden. This is his first report.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/09/29/impeachment-innuendo-and-evidence/
IMPEACHMENT: ‘Cognitive Warfare’ on Capitol Hill
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/01/impeachment-cognitive-warfare-on-capitol-hill/
Hunter Biden’s business dealings draw more scrutiny as Republicans release trove of private documents
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/27/hunter-biden-private-documents-released-00118483
House Oversight Republicans say new bank subpoena shows Hunter Biden listed father’s Wilmington house in wires with China
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/politics/house-oversight-republicans-hunter-biden-bank-subpoena/index.html
EXCLUSIVE: Biden, 80, should 'ride off into the sunset': Despairing Democrat insiders call for president to retire or allow a wide-open primary in 2024 - with him 'one trip' away from disaster
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12562727/Biden-80-ride-sunset-Despairing-Democrat-insiders-call-president-retire-allow-wide-open-primary-2024-one-trip-away-disaster.html
Hearing Wrap Up: Evidence Warrants Impeachment Inquiry of President Biden’s Conduct
https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-evidence-warrants-impeachment-inquiry-of-president-bidens-conduct/
First Hearing on Biden Impeachment Inquiry, Part 1
https://www.c-span.org/video/?530616-1/hearing-biden-impeachment-inquiry-part-1
Elected Democrats are enabling Joe Biden — it's time for the party to face reality - Every poll shows Biden weakening, but party leaders keep claiming that everything's fine. Donald Trump is delighted
https://www.salon.com/2023/09/26/elected-democrats-are-enabling-joe-biden--its-time-for-the-party-to-face-reality/
"How you lose your democracy": Shocking new research shows Americans lack basic civic knowledge - Do you know what the three branches of government are? Do you understand their roles? Many Americans do not
https://www.salon.com/2023/09/26/how-you-lose-your-democracy-shocking-new-research-shows-americans-lack-basic-civic-knowledge/
Judge rules Donald Trump defrauded banks and insurers while building real estate empire
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-letitia-james-fraud-lawsuit-1569245a9284427117b8d3ba5da74249
Trump fraud ruling that cancels his business licenses is a ‘devastating’ blow for ex-president, experts say
https://nypost.com/2023/09/26/trump-fraud-ruling-a-devastating-blow-for-ex-president-experts/
As Menendez’s Star Rose, Fears of Corruption Cast a Persistent Shadow
https://dnyuz.com/2023/09/27/as-menendezs-star-rose-fears-of-corruption-cast-a-persistent-shadow/
'Unbelievably Cruel': GOP Pushes Astronomical Cuts to Education, Housing, and Food Aid
https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-gop-aid-cuts
Biden brushes off threat from Cornel West despite left’s warnings
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4224246-biden-brushes-off-threat-from-cornel-west-despite-lefts-warnings/
EXCLUSIVE: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Planning to Announce Independent Run
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/exclusive-robert-f-kennedy-jr-planning-to-announce-independent-run/
New Poll: 79% of Republicans in Iowa Considering Candidates Other Than Trump
https://www.mediaite.com/news/new-poll-79-of-republicans-in-iowa-considering-candidates-other-than-trump/
Nikki Haley crushes Joe Biden by 19 points with independent voters in 2024 matchup as she enters second Republican debate with momentum
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12562137/Nikki-Haley-crushes-Joe-Biden-19-points-independent-voters-2024-matchup-enters-second-Republican-debate-momentum.html
RFK Jr. expresses doubts about 9/11 - VIDEO
https://www.ae911truth.org/news/953-rfk-jr-expresses-doubts-about-911
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UPDATED: 9/26/23
We’ve Been on the Burisma Story Since 2014 - As the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden ramps up, “Burisma Holdings” might well become a U.S. household name. Consortium News has been on the story for nine years. - VIDEO
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/09/24/weve-been-on-the-burisma-story-since-2014/
Trump Floats the Idea of Executing Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley - The former president is inciting violence against the nation’s top general. America’s response is distracted and numb.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/trump-milley-execution-incitement-violence/675435/
US general says Trump was angered by invite to wounded soldier: “Nobody
https://www.salon.com/2023/09/21/us-general-says-was-angered-by-invite-to-wounded-soldier-nobody-wants-to-see-that/
Biden repeats same story word-for-word just minutes apart, raising fresh concerns about age, fitness for office
https://nypost.com/2023/09/21/biden-repeats-same-story-word-for-word-and-minutes-apart-raising-fresh-concerns-about-age-fitness-for-office/
If the Facts Come Out, it Could Spell the End for Joe Biden - Four years ago today, Ray McGovern wrote that the Establishment media was in a frenzy about what they hoped would be the downfall of Trump, but if the facts came out, it could be the downfall of Joe Biden instead. The facts are now coming out.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/09/21/if-the-facts-come-out-it-could-spell-the-end-for-joe-biden-2/
Thomas secretly attended Koch donor events: ProPublica
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4218011-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-donor-events-propublica/
Democratic Senators Sound Alarm Over Koch-Backed Plot to 'Eviscerate' Regulatory State
https://www.commondreams.org/news/koch-regulatory-state
A Hill to die on: Map reveals how old every state's elected officials are compared to their constituents amid calls for term limits... so use our interactive tool to see what age YOUR representatives are
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12550247/A-Hill-die-Map-reveals-old-states-elected-officials-compared-constituents-amid-calls-term-limits-use-interactive-tool-age-representatives-are.html
Egypt get weapons: Prosecutors - The lawmaker, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, denied the wide-ranging allegations in a statement Friday.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/menendez-egypt/
Biden's disaster week: Ailing president's litany of embarrassing gaffes and errors this week culminates in devastating poll by liberal WaPo that has him TEN POINTS behind Trump
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12555159/Joe-Biden-disaster-litany-embarrassing-gaffes-Trump.html
Biden disapproval rating hits highest mark of presidency: poll
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4220548-biden-disapproval-rating-hits-highest-mark-of-presidency-poll/
Move over Dark Brandon, this group wants to make Joe Cool a new meme - ProgressNow is betting that improving Biden’s online presence — through memes, videos and other social media images — will help win over voters.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/24/biden-progress-now-memes-00117768
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UPDATED: 9/20/23
Two-thirds of Americans have little to no confidence in political system: poll
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4212596-new-poll-pew-americans-views-politics/
We Must Never Let Ourselves Become Desensitized To This - We must never lose our sense of wonder at the birds in the air, and we must never lose our sense of horror at the fact that there are people who profit from war and militarism and lobby for more of it at every opportunity.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/09/17/we-must-never-let-ourselves-become-desensitized-to-this/
War Profiteers Are A Sign Of A Profoundly Sick Society
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/09/20/war-profiteers-are-a-sign-of-a-profoundly-sick-society/
Threats mount against prosecutors and FBI agents working on Hunter Biden probe - The FBI has created a stand-alone unit to investigate threats from members of the public who think agents and prosecutors haven't been tough enough on the president's son.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/prosecutors-fbi-agents-hunter-biden-investigation-threatened-rcna104932
Colorado Lawsuit’s Strategy for Keeping Trump Off Ballot Is Starting to Spread - The lawsuits cite the 14th Amendment, which says former officials who engage in insurrection may not serve as president.
https://truthout.org/articles/colorado-lawsuits-strategy-for-keeping-trump-off-ballot-is-starting-to-spread/
Special counsel warned Trump could ‘precipitate violence’ if told of Twitter search warrant
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4206811-special-counsel-warned-trump-could-precipitate-violence-if-told-of-twitter-search-warrant/
Trump says cognitively impaired Biden will lead us into WORLD WAR TWO - during gaffe-laden speech in which he appeared to say he was leading OBAMA in the polls
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12525957/Trump-cognitively-impaired-Biden-WORLD-WAR-TWO-gaffe.html
Trump says 'it was my decision' to attempt to overturn the 2020 election and insists he wasn't acting based on lawyer advice
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12528565/Trump-says-decision-attempt-overturn-2020-election-insists-wasnt-acting-based-lawyer-advice.html
Americans sharply divided over whether Biden acted wrongly in son’s businesses, AP-NORC poll shows
https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-doj-2024-election-39a0268a3e2d4a0df1bed285d769b74a
Biden faces litany of challenges heading to United Nations
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4210793-biden-faces-litany-of-challenges-heading-to-united-nations/
Joe Biden, MSNBC and 2024: Is liberal propaganda distorting our perception? - MSNBC viewers are told that Biden is the greatest president since FDR. Why don't the American public agree?
https://www.salon.com/2023/09/17/joe-biden-msnbc-and-2024-is-liberal-propaganda-distorting-our-perception/
Opinion | Democrats are crazy to insist only Biden can beat Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/14/biden-trump-election-democrats-delusion/
PENTAGON-FUNDED STUDY WARNS DEMENTIA AMONG U.S. OFFICIALS POSES NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT - Sens. Mitch McConnell and Dianne Feinstein, who have access to top-secret information, recently had public health episodes.
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/12/national-security-dementia-mcconnell-feinstein/
It’s Hard To Find Fulfillment In A Civilization That Revolves Around Corporate Profits - Corporate profits are our life. Corporate profits are our religion. Most of us pour more of our energy into generating corporate profits throughout our lives than the most pious monk pours into worshipping any deity.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/09/18/its-hard-to-find-fulfillment-in-a-civilization-that-revolves-around-corporate-profits/
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UPDATED: 9/14/23
Pay Attention To The Everyday Horrors - They make up fictional horrors because they don’t want you looking at the real ones.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/09/10/pay-attention-to-the-everyday-horrors/
Bad Biden polls stoke third-party angst for Democrats
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4194581-bad-biden-polls-stoke-third-party-angst-for-democrats/
Trump, Biden both tumble in Iowa: poll
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4199352-trump-biden-both-tumble-in-iowa-poll/
Democrats express frustration with Biden’s moribund poll numbers
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4195015-democrats-express-frustration-with-bidens-moribund-poll-numbers/
More Voices Call On Biden To Withdraw From The 2024 Race
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/09/more-voices-call-on-biden-to-withdraw-from-the-2024-race.html
Globe-trotting Biden's trip to Vietnam is his first ever after getting five student deferments during the Vietnam War era; President calls for cooperating on 'painful issues' in meeting with Party head
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12503903/Globe-trotting-Bidens-trip-Vietnam-getting-five-student-deferments-Vietnam-War-era-President-calls-cooperating-painful-issues-meeting-Party-head.html
Fact check: Biden, like Trump, received multiple draft deferments from Vietnam
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/16/fact-check-biden-received-multiple-draft-deferments-vietnam/5809482002/
Biden Announces ‘I’m Going to Bed’ Before Being Cut Off Mid-Sentence After Several Weird Outbursts at Troubling Vietnam Presser
https://www.mediaite.com/news/biden-announces-im-going-to-bed-before-being-cut-off-mid-sentence-after-several-weird-outbursts-at-troubling-vietnam-presser/
Minnesota Voters File 14th Amendment Suit to Keep Trump Off Ballot - “Donald Trump engaged in an insurrection in an effort to overthrow our democracy," said one of the petitioners. "We must enforce the Constitution to make sure he never has the opportunity to do so again."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-14th-amendment-minnesota
Florida insurance crisis threatens DeSantis’ 2024 bid as hurricane season intensifies
https://news.yahoo.com/florida-insurance-crisis-threatens-desantis-195107864.html
JFK assassination witness questions whether shooter acted alone
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/11/jfk-assasination-multiple-shooters-paul-landis
J.F.K. Assassination Witness Breaks His Silence and Raises New Questions. NYT - The account of Paul Landis, one of the Secret Service agents just feet away from John F. Kennedy when he was struck down, could change the understanding of what happened in Dallas in 1963.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/j-f-k-assassination-witness-breaks-silence-raises-new-questions/5832072
Trump Survived Impeachment. Biden May Not be So Lucky. Joe and Hunter’s “5000 Secret Emails” - The president is desperate to hide his secret emails to Hunter Biden. Why?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-survived-impeachment-biden-not-lucky/5832078
McCarthy directs House committees to open formal impeachment inquiry into Biden’s alleged involvement with Hunter business dealings
https://nypost.com/2023/09/12/mccarthy-greenlights-impeachment-probe-into-bidens-alleged-involvement-with-hunter-business-dealings/
White House to send letter urging news outlets to ‘ramp up scrutiny’ of Biden impeachment inquiry
https://nypost.com/2023/09/13/biden-impeachment-white-house-to-send-letter-urging-news-outlets-to-scrutinize-inquiry/
Evidence of Joe Biden’s Involvement in His Family’s Influence Peddling Schemes
https://oversight.house.gov/blog/evidence-of-joe-bidens-involvement-in-his-familys-influence-peddling-schemes/
Comer Presses State Department for Information on then-Vice President Joe Biden’s Sudden Shift on Ukraine Policy
https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-presses-state-department-for-information-on-then-vice-president-joe-bidens-sudden-shift-on-ukraine-policy/
Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf
Biden's impeachment war room: White House hires DOZENS of lawyers and communications experts to battle Republican investigation into Hunter's business deals they say is based on 'no evidence whatsoever'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12471061/Bidens-impeachment-war-room-White-House-hires-DOZENS-lawyers-communications-experts-battle-Republican-investigation-Hunter.html
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UPDATED: 9/8/23
US Foreign Policy Has an Extinction Agenda - As the world loses time to act, US elites are working to dominate the remains of a ruined planet.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-change-foreign-policy/
Thanks to Biden, the War Party is back - The president's policies reflect his appointments: ideologues who should have retired after previous foreign policy debacles.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/neoconservative-ukraine/
We’re experiencing a post-inflation, AI and climate-driven labor revolution
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/4183441-were-experiencing-a-post-inflation-ai-and-climate-driven-labor-revolution/
Biden faces uphill battle with voters on economy: poll
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4186101-biden-faces-uphill-battle-economy-poll/
Biden’s unpopularity could give Trump his shot at reclaiming power
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/joe-biden-2024-reelection-donald-trump
CNN Poll: Biden faces negative job ratings and concerns about his age as he gears up for 2024
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/cnn-poll-joe-biden-headwinds/index.html
Democratic donors are doubling down on Biden despite concerns about age
https://nypost.com/2023/09/07/democratic-donors-are-doubling-down-on-biden-despite-concerns-about-age/
Biden trails Haley, polling neck-and-neck with other Republicans
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4191620-biden-trails-haley-polling-neck-and-neck-with-other-republicans/
Almost half in new poll say any Republican would be better than Biden
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4191547-almost-half-in-new-poll-say-any-republican-would-be-better-than-biden/
Biden’s use of fake names in email could cost him
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4182940-bidens-use-of-fake-names-in-email-could-cost-him/
Nonstop media bias from Russiagate to the Biden-crime-family coverup
https://nypost.com/2023/09/03/nonstop-media-bias-from-russiagate-to-the-biden-crime-family-coverup/
Too old to govern? The age problem neither US party wants to talk about - The top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell, 81, has suffered high-profile lapses but Democrats are reluctant to question his age when Joe Biden, 80, is America’s oldest president
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/03/old-age-mcconnell-biden-trump-politics
Vivek Ramaswamy Is Teaching the GOP to Weaponize Climate - The candidate is demonstrating a new way of Republican campaigning: with climate change front and center.
https://newrepublic.com/post/175308/ramaswamy-republicans-weaponize-climate-change
'Jews won't replace us': Neo-Nazis rally in Disney World, across Florida - The neo-Nazis hurled insults and abuse at a female Jewish journalist present at the rally.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-757450
Joe Biden is slammed for having a 'lack of respect' after walking out of Medal of Honor ceremony EARLY and leaving Vietnam War hero awkwardly listening to the closing benediction on his own
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12485543/Joe-Biden-slammed-having-lack-respect-walking-Medal-Honor-ceremony-EARLY-leaving-Vietnam-War-hero-awkwardly-listening-closing-benediction-own.html
Gold Star Dad Says 'There Couldn’t Be Anything More Disgusting’ Than Biden's Afghan Pullout Stance - VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71zuh9I1K7w
Gold Star Father Who Lost Son During Afghanistan Pullout Shreds Biden: 'I Say To You, Mr. President’ - VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWLkIr5Zptc
New book reveals who is really in charge of the White House (hint: it’s not Joe Biden)
https://nypost.com/2023/09/06/new-book-reveals-who-is-really-in-charge-of-the-white-house-hint-its-not-joe-biden/
The Memo: Questions over Biden’s age are getting sharper
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4188496-the-memo-questions-over-bidens-age-are-getting-sharper/
Health concerns plague ageing Congress members returning to Capitol Hill
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/06/health-concerns-congress-mcconnell-scalise
Chris Hedges: Trauma in the USA - American society spawns trauma and this trauma expresses itself in a variety of self-destructive pathologies, including the erosion of democracy and rise of neo-fascism.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/09/06/chris-hedges-trauma-in-the-usa/
Which Nation Has Taxed the Rich the Most?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/09/07/which-nation-has-taxed-the-rich-the-most/
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UPDATED: 9/2/23
Biden's Job Approval 42%; Higher on Ukraine, Race Relations
https://news.gallup.com/poll/510185/biden-job-approval-higher-ukraine-race-relations.aspx
Majority in U.S. Say Biden Administration Ethics Are Subpar
https://news.gallup.com/poll/509279/majority-say-biden-administration-ethics-subpar.aspx
Supreme Court Approval Holds at Record Low
https://news.gallup.com/poll/509234/supreme-court-approval-holds-record-low.aspx
When He Was Vice-President, Joe Biden Acted Like Ukraine Was His ‘Own Backyard’: Fired Ukraine Prosecutor - “Biden was personally engaged in corruption in Ukraine”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/fired-ukrainian-prosecutor-says-joe-biden-acted-ukraine-own-backyard/5830468
Hunter Biden’s firm, Joe’s VP office exchanged more than 1,000 emails: records
https://nypost.com/2023/08/30/1000-emails-exchanged-between-hunter-bidens-firm-and-vp-office/
Americans are getting wise to Joe Biden’s corruption — despite his media gatekeepers
https://nypost.com/2023/08/30/americans-are-getting-wise-to-joe-bidens-corruption-despite-his-media-gatekeepers/
White House ramps up war room to battle expected GOP impeachment inquiry - President Biden’s aides studied the Clinton White House’s 1998 response to impeachment as a model for a vigorous defense and making Republicans pay a political price.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/white-house-war-room-gop-impeachment-inquiry-joe-biden-rcna102766
Pennsylvania is key for Biden. Democrats there say the party is in shambles.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/01/pennsylvania-democratic-party-trouble-00113705
When Will Trump Be in Court? These Are the Dates to Watch
https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-faces-six-trials-163704429.html
Trump tells Glenn Beck he’d ‘lock up’ political opponents if reelected
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4178537-trump-tells-glenn-beck-hed-lock-up-political-opponents-if-reelected/
Mitch McConnell appears to freeze again for more than 30 seconds - Republican Senate minority leader, 81, had a similar but shorter incident several weeks ago
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/30/mcconnell-freezes-again-kentucky-press-conference
McConnell’s frozen moment renews questions about America’s aged leaders
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/31/politics/mitch-mcconnell-aging-us-leaders/index.html
Democrat demands term limits after Mitch McConnell, 81, freezes again and following 90-year-old Dianne Feinstein's string of health scares: Rep. Dean Phillips slams their FAMILIES and friends for allowing them to carry on
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12462935/Democrat-demands-term-limits-Mitch-McConnell-81-freezes-following-90-year-old-Dianne-Feinsteins-string-health-scares-Rep-Dean-Phillips-slams-FAMILIES-friends-allowing-carry-on.html
Mitch McConnell’s Brief Flash Of Humanity
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/08/31/mitch-mcconnells-brief-flash-of-humanity/
Governors may make good presidents − unless they become ‘imperial governors’ like DeSantis
https://theconversation.com/governors-may-make-good-presidents-unless-they-become-imperial-governors-like-desantis-210044
Fallujah Is Not a Presidential Victory Lap. “Governor Ron DeSantis touted his time in Iraq”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/fallujah-not-presidential-victory-lap/5830877
Why Is the Reputation of the U.S. Military Going South So Fast?
https://dnyuz.com/2023/08/29/why-is-the-reputation-of-the-u-s-military-going-south-so-fast/
Democrat introduces bill to limit defense contractor, foreign government influence on Pentagon
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4176819-democrat-introduces-bill-to-limit-defense-contractor-foreign-government-influence-on-pentagon/
Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America - Momentous week of GOP debate, Trump's arrest gets "horse race" coverage when the story's not about an election, but authoritarianism.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/media-2020-election-trump-authoritarianism-20230827.html
Special counsels, like the one leading the Justice Department’s investigation of Hunter Biden, are intended to be independent − but they aren’t entirely
https://theconversation.com/special-counsels-like-the-one-leading-the-justice-departments-investigation-of-hunter-biden-are-intended-to-be-independent-but-they-arent-entirely-212188
Clarence Thomas discloses multiple trips accepted from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4180796-clarence-thomas-discloses-multiple-trips-accepted-from-harlan-crow/
Thomas, Alito go on the attack over Supreme Court ethics
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4181847-thomas-alito-go-on-the-attack-over-supreme-court-ethics/
Marx and the Present Crises of Capitalism
https://countercurrents.org/2023/09/marx-and-the-present-crises-of-capitalism/
A good week for the rule of law: With democracy in crisis, courts are doing their job - Rudy’s smackdown was more than symbolic: America's courts are holding the line as the place where truth matters
https://www.salon.com/2023/09/02/a-good-week-for-the-rule-of-law-with-democracy-in-crisis-courts-are-doing-their-job/
Don’t Ignore Politics, Just Ignore The Fake Kind - The answer isn’t to ignore politics, it’s to pay rigorous attention to the real kind while aggressively attacking the fake kind.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/09/02/dont-ignore-politics-just-ignore-the-fake-kind/
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UPDATED: 8/28/23
8 GOP candidates debate funding to Ukraine, Trump’s future and – covertly, with dog whistles – race
https://theconversation.com/8-gop-candidates-debate-funding-to-ukraine-trumps-future-and-covertly-with-dog-whistles-race-211866
Republican Debate Shows Candidates Stuck in Denial on Climate Emergency
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/republican-debate-climate-denial
Republican activist says party ‘deserves to lose’ if it fails to address climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/24/republicans-climate-crisis-debate
‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ singer blasts ‘aggravating’ conservatives
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4171922-rich-men-north-of-richmond-singer-blasts-aggravating-conservatives/
The Democrats Biden Problem
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/08/the-democrats-biden-problem.html
Joe Biden’s Ukraine defense falls apart
https://nypost.com/2023/08/22/joe-bidens-ukraine-defense-falls-apart/
Opinion Biden’s involvement in his son’s dealings deserves a serious investigation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/22/hunter-biden-business-dealings-investigation/
Fired Ukrainian prosecutor Shokin says Joe and Hunter Biden DID take BRIBES - and were behind his ousting: 'Isn't that corruption alone?' he says in preview of bombshell interview
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12445811/Fired-Ukrainian-prosecutor-Shokin-says-Joe-Hunter-Biden-DID-BRIBES-ousting-Isnt-corruption-says-preview-bombshell-interview.html
Viktor Shokin says Hunter Biden was recruited by Burisma to ‘provide protection’ while company engaged in ‘illegal activities’
https://nypost.com/2023/08/26/viktor-shokin-says-hunter-biden-recruited-by-burisma-provide-protection-for-ceo/
Team Obama loved Victor Shokin, so why did Joe Biden get him fired?
https://nypost.com/2023/08/23/team-obama-loved-victor-shokin-why-did-biden-get-him-fired/
Joe Biden Lied At Least 16 Times About His Family’s Business Schemes
https://oversight.house.gov/blog/joe-biden-lied-at-least-15-times-about-his-familys-business-schemes/
Hunter Biden investigation: David Weiss worked with Beau Biden when he was state attorney general
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/hunter-biden-investigation-david-weiss-beau-biden-state-attorney-general
Poll: Americans more concerned with Trump charges than Hunter Biden allegations
https://news.yahoo.com/poll-americans-more-concerned-with-trump-charges-than-hunter-biden-allegations-183908444.html
Biden official says campaign won’t focus on Trump or Hunter Biden legal problems
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4173462-biden-official-says-campaign-wont-focus-on-trump-or-hunter-biden-legal-problems/
Trump calls his enemies 'savage animals' and says Georgia DA Fani Willis is 'getting killed' for indicting him as he rails against 'cheating' in the 2020 election
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12441349/Trump-call-enemies-savage-animals-says-Georgia-DA-Fani-Willis-getting-killed-indicting-rails-against.html
Presidential Approval Ratings -- Donald Trump
https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ratings-donald-trump.aspx#
Presidential Approval Ratings -- Joe Biden
https://news.gallup.com/poll/329384/presidential-approval-ratings-joe-biden.aspx
Gen Z has made it loud and clear: They don’t want Biden for 2024
https://nypost.com/2023/08/26/gen-z-has-made-it-clear-they-dont-want-biden-for-2024/
How the War on Terror Helped Cause Us to Turn on Each Other
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/war-on-terror-made-american-violent
CEOs of top 100 ‘low-wage’ US firms earn $601 for every $1 by worker, report finds - The companies paid their employees a median wage of $31,672 in 2022, while their CEOs took home an average $15.3m
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/24/ceos-100-low-wage-companies-income
America’s ‘forgotten middle’ class faces much worse health and wealth in retirement
https://studyfinds.org/forgotten-middle-health-wealth/
Trapped in the Democratic Party
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/25/trapped-in-the-democratic-party/
On the Trail: Why Bernie Sanders is back in NH on Saturday
https://www.concordmonitor.com/
WATCH: Bernie Sanders Travels to New Hampshire to Deliver 'The Agenda America Needs’ - ‘Why Democrats must ignore the corporate wing of the party and instead put forward a bold agenda’ - (The audio improves after the first few minutes}
https://www.commondreams.org/news/watch-bernie-sanders-travels-to-new-hampshire-to-deliver-the-agenda-america-needs
DIANA JOHNSTONE: A Voice Heard in the Land - Planned obsolescence has been the dominant policy of the Western elite toward the working class since the neoliberal power seizure of the 1980s, a message that comes through in a new song suddenly sweeping the world.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/08/25/diana-johnstone-a-voice-heard-in-the-land/
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UPDATED: 8/22/23
Tracking America’s freefall down the rabbit hole of mad politics
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4162222-tracking-americas-freefall-down-the-rabbit-hole-of-toxic-politics/
Many U.S. Presidents Start a War to Get Reelected
https://www.globalresearch.ca/many-us-presidents-start-war-get-reelected/5829738
How the US Supreme Court Became an Arm of the Republican Party - The court is making decisions based on the GOP platform, not the Constitution, says legal scholar Khiara M. Bridges.
https://truthout.org/articles/how-the-us-supreme-court-became-an-arm-of-the-republican-party/
YouTube, Censorship, and the American Way of Life. Scott Ritter - A Personal Journey
https://www.globalresearch.ca/youtube-censorship-american-way-life-scott-ritter/5829604
Majority of Americans say they ‘definitely’ won’t vote for Trump in 2024: poll
https://nypost.com/2023/08/17/majority-of-americans-say-they-definitely-wont-vote-for-trump-in-2024-poll/
Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/names-addresses-grand-jurors-georgia-trump-indictment-posted-online-rcna100239
The Constitution bars Trump from holding public office ever again
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4155537-the-constitution-bars-trump-from-holding-public-office-ever-again/
John Dean on Giuliani in Georgia indictment: ‘Rudy is going to get destroyed by this’
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4156688-john-dean-on-giuliani-in-georgia-indictment-rudy-is-going-to-get-destroyed-by-this/
Biden goes west for his second vacation of the month - President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrived in Nevada late Friday for more rest and relaxation
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/biden-west-vacation-month-102380044
Then-VP Joe Biden used pseudonym in emails with Hunter regarding Ukraine dealings: Republicans accelerate Biden family corruption probe and demand National Archives records
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12416949/National-Archives-hand-records-VP-Joe-Bidens-Ukraine-activities-overlapped-Hunters.html
Democrats aren’t laughing about the Hunter Biden debacle anymore
https://nypost.com/2023/08/21/democrats-arent-laughing-about-the-hunter-biden-debacle-anymore/
GOP Book Bans and Democratic Divestment Both Created Crisis for Public Libraries - The current battle over libraries doesn’t tell the larger truth about decades of disinvestment from both parties.
https://truthout.org/articles/gop-book-bans-and-democratic-divestment-both-created-crisis-for-public-libraries/
This little-known country song became a chart-topping anthem for conservatives almost overnight
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/17/entertainment/oliver-anthony-rich-men-north-of-richmond-cec/index.html
Oliver Anthony - Rich Men North of Richmond - VIDEO - with Lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oEU2KWApjQ
The protest song that’s taken America by storm hits too many false notes
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/20/rich-men-north-of-richmond-oliver-anthony-protest-song-america
Progressives Aren’t Winning Headlines, But They Are Winning Legislation - Despite frustrations at the federal level, progressive officials and activists are winning in states and municipalities.
https://truthout.org/articles/progressives-arent-winning-headlines-but-they-are-winning-legislation/
Bucks County power struggle could hint at shifting suburban politics for 2024
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/20/bucks-county-pennsylvania-2024-00111933
Vivek Ramaswamy condemned for 9/11 and Jan 6 conspiracy theory remarks - Republican presidential contender hints at government involvement in deadly September 11 attacks
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/21/vivek-ramaswamy-conspiracy-theories-9-11-jan-6-republican-presidential-candidate
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UPDATED: 8/16/23
Report Warns State Voter Purges Are a Growing Threat to Democracy - “We are facing an unprecedented assault on voting rights in this country, and purges that erroneously target eligible voters for removal are part of the problem," said one campaigner.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/voter-purges
Is the US a Failed State? - Why the U.S. Economy cannot Re-Industrialize - VIDEO
https://www.unz.com/mhudson/is-the-us-a-failed-state/
THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF ALL TIME
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/08/14/the-most-important-election-of-all-time-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix/
Police raid on Kansas newspaper called ‘authoritarian’ as furor intensifies
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/growing-furor-over-authoritarian-police-raid-on-kansas-newspaper-f282bc17
'So Thoroughly Corrupt': Clarence Thomas Has Taken Dozens of Trips Funded by Ultrarich Friends - “Clarence Thomas should resign, or be impeached," said one court accountability advocate.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/clarence-thomas-luxury-trips
The Memo: Legal chaos engulfs Biden and Trump
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4149796-legal-chaos-engulfs-biden-trump/
How Will Trump's Fourth Indictment - And RFK Jr. - Influence The Election Season?
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/08/how-will-trumps-fourth-indictment-and-rfk-jr-influence-the-election-season.html
Tracking Trump’s tangled web of legal troubles
https://thehill.com/homenews/4149089-tracking-trumps-tangled-web-of-legal-troubles/
Conservative Legal Scholars Argue Trump Is Disqualified for Office Under 14th Amendment - “Donald Trump cannot be president—cannot run for president, cannot become president, cannot hold office—unless two-thirds of Congress decides to grant him amnesty for his conduct on January 6.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/conservative-scholars-trump-disqualified
'Criminal Enterprise': Trump and 18 Co-Conspirators Indicted in Georgia Election Case
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-indicted-georgia
Here are the 91 counts Trump is facing in four different cases
https://nypost.com/2023/08/15/here-are-the-91-counts-trump-is-facing-in-4-different-cases/
Who likes Donald Trump? Lots of Republicans, but especially Hispanic voters, plus very rural and very conservative people
https://theconversation.com/who-likes-donald-trump-lots-of-republicans-but-especially-hispanic-voters-plus-very-rural-and-very-conservative-people-211166
Attorney General Merrick Garland appoints a special counsel in the Hunter Biden probe
https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-investigation-justice-garland-ad1034e274570d65032f8e4f47c0c8f6
Special counsel named in Hunter Biden case: Four things to know
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4149686-special-counsel-hunter-biden-four-things-to-know/
The Bidens' Case Will Keep On Giving
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/08/the-bidens-case-will-keep-on-giving.html
Republicans Wanted a Special Counsel Investigation of Hunter Biden. Now Many Oppose It.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/12/us/politics/republicans-hunter-biden-special-counsel.html
Evidence of Biden corruption is becoming overwhelming — even as the left pooh-poohs it
https://nypost.com/2023/08/09/hunter-biden-corruption-evidence-overwhelms-even-as-left-ignores-it/
‘Shoeless Joe’ Weiss and the fixing of the Hunter Biden game
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4149641-shoeless-joe-weiss-and-the-fixing-of-the-hunter-biden-game/
Biden’s reelection bid faces vulnerabilities in wake of special counsel appointment
https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-special-counsel-democrats-president-2024-trump-aa7a608719c0fbcb281408420e4235ea
How Joe DINED with Russian oligarch with links to Putin and the MAFIA - who gave Hunter's shell company $3.5 MILLION and was one of the few Kremlin allies who avoided US sanctions
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12394291/How-Joe-DINED-Russian-oligarch-links-Putin-MAFIA-gave-Hunters-shell-company-3-5-MILLION-one-Kremlin-allies-avoided-sanctions.html
House GOP will subpoena Biden family, says Republican chairman
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4147617-house-gop-will-subpoena-biden-family-says-republican-chairman/
As Hunter Biden Saga Endures, Democrats Avert Eyes and Dismiss Worries
https://dnyuz.com/2023/08/12/as-hunter-biden-saga-endures-democrats-avert-eyes-and-dismiss-worries/
Rising political threats take US into uncharted territory as 2024 election looms
https://apnews.com/article/political-violence-extremism-trump-social-media-utah-9d37a5226dfc16bbf9ec910cebdaaca6
ANDY PUZDER: Inflation's up... credit card debt tops $1 TRILLION ... and Americans drain 401(K)s to make ends meet... Yet Joe dares demand our thanks for 'Bidenomics'? His fiscal insanity plunged us into this crisis
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12393665/ANDY-PUZDER-Inflation-credit-card-debt-401K-Bidenomics.html
‘People just want change’: political circus at Iowa state fair can’t dispel civic discontent
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/13/iowa-state-fair-political-circus-trump-desantis-pence-ramaswamy-kennedy
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UPDATED: 8/10/23
Contacting your legislator? Cite your sources – if you want them to listen to you
https://theconversation.com/contacting-your-legislator-cite-your-sources-if-you-want-them-to-listen-to-you-207179
A Donor Based Election System Can Not Be Fair
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/08/a-donor-based-election-system-can-not-be-fair.html
Re-imagining democracy for the 21st century, possibly without the trappings of the 18th century
https://theconversation.com/re-imagining-democracy-for-the-21st-century-possibly-without-the-trappings-of-the-18th-century-210586
Do scandals matter anymore? Study finds major controversies barely impact today’s politicians
https://studyfinds.org/scandals-barely-impact-politicians/
The Obscenely Wealthy Have Recently Experienced Obscene Increases in Their Wealth
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/08/the-obscenely-wealthy-have-recently-experienced-obscene-increases-in-their-wealth/
America’s white majority is aging out
https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/4138228-americas-white-majority-is-aging-out/
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Dialectic of the Draft - Americans will understand themselves less fantastically if they consider the extent to which the end of the Selective Service System a half century ago gave them permission to put their public selves to sleep.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/08/08/patrick-lawrence-the-dialectic-of-the-draft/
Tell It to the Marine: No Draft, ‘Limited’ or Otherwise
https://original.antiwar.com/thomas-knapp/2023/08/08/tell-it-to-the-marine-no-draft-limited-or-otherwise/
Why falling confidence in America’s military is creating ‘a real crisis’
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4136573-why-falling-confidence-in-americas-military-is-creating-a-real-crisis/
What’s So Exceptional About the US Military? - Are we truly getting what we pay so dearly for—the bestest, finest, most exceptional military ever? And even if we are, should a self-proclaimed democracy really want such a thing?
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/u-s-military-exceptional
The past isn't dead: Teaching the truth about America's racial history is critical - Most Americans believe we're a long way from Birmingham in 1963. But that history still fuels today's conflicts
https://www.salon.com/2023/08/06/the-past-isnt-dead-teaching-the-truth-about-americas-racial-history-is-critical/
Republicans Diminishing the Cruelty of Black Slavery is a Loser’s Play
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/07/republicans-diminishing-the-cruelty-of-black-slavery-is-a-losers-play/
DAVID MARCUS: Here's your step-by-step guide to Biden family influence peddling, as revealed by Hunter's business partner... and even Democrats can't deny it happened
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12370963/DAVID-MARCUS-Heres-step-step-guide-Biden-family-influence-peddling-revealed-Hunters-business-partner-Democrats-deny-happened.html
Hunter Biden-linked foreign haul at $20M with Russia, Ukraine, Kazakh bank transfers, Comer says
https://nypost.com/2023/08/09/hunter-biden-linked-foreign-haul-at-20m-with-russia-ukraine-kazak-transfers-comer/
Vivek Ramaswamy suggests U.S. may be aiding Ukraine because of Hunter Biden - Ramaswamy, who’s crisscrossing Iowa in a bid to win the Republican presidential nomination, has been highly critical of U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine on the trail.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/vivek-ramaswamy-suggests-us-may-aiding-ukraine-hunter-biden-deal-rcna98359
Opinion Why the Hunter Biden plea fiasco will be a drag on Democrats
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/31/hunter-biden-plea-deal-democrats/
Democrats worry young people souring on party
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4138154-democrats-worry-young-people-souring-on-party/
Patrick Lawrence: Reading the Mess the Democrats Have Made
https://scheerpost.com/2023/08/02/patrick-lawrence-reading-the-mess-the-democrats-have-made/
It’s not just America — Political animosity is boiling over all around the world
https://studyfinds.org/political-animosity-around-world/
Outrage after DeSantis says he’d ‘start slitting throats’ if elected president
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/04/ron-desantis-slitting-throats-federal-jobs-president-campaign
Caitlin Johnstone: Mainstream Journalists - It’s not just the obscenely wealthy owners of the mass media who are protecting their class interests — it’s the reporters, editors and pundits as well.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/08/04/caitlin-johnstone-mainstream-journalists/
Indict Trump for Insurrection, Too - The January 6 indictment is solid as granite, but leaves out the sole criminal prohibition that would disqualify former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/indict-trump-for-insurrection
'There's No First Amendment Right to Threaten': DOJ Asks for Protection Order in Trump Election Case - The request came after Trump posted on Truth Social, "If you go after me, I'm coming after you!”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/doj-protection-order-trump
Trump Is Being Treated Unlike Other Criminal Defendants—Better - Those looking for fairness in the criminal justice system may wish to see Trump treated like an ordinary criminal defendant. But instead, what if everyone else accused of a crime were treated more like Trump?
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-treated-better-than-other-defendants
'Retire!' McConnell Loudly Booed and Heckled at Event in His Home State
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mitch-mcconnell-retire
Alito Urged to Recuse From Case That Could Preemptively Ban Federal Wealth Tax - “First he accepted lavish gifts from billionaires and failed to disclose them. Then he gave a buddy-buddy interview to one of the case's anti-wealth tax lawyers. Enough.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/alito-wealth-tax
Staggering Ohio loss ignites an identity crisis within the anti-abortion movement - This soul-searching on the right shows how fractured the anti-abortion movement remains on both tactics and messaging more than a year after they achieved their decades-long goal of toppling Roe v. Wade.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/10/anti-abortion-movement-defeat-ohio-00110543
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UPDATED: 8/4/23
America's aging leaders on display
https://www.axios.com/2023/07/28/congress-gerontocracy-age-mcconnell-feinstein#
The Memo: McConnell and Feinstein’s stumbles raise awkward questions on age
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4125796-the-memo-mcconnell-and-feinsteins-stumbles-raise-awkward-questions-on-age/
Biden has spent nearly 40% of presidency on vacation, report says
https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/biden-has-spent-40-of-presidency-on-vacation-continues-to-outpace-predecessors-reports-say-trump-obama-delaware-beach-rehoboth-wilmington-white-house-politics
Has Congress Really Earned its Summer Recess? - If you bump into your Senators and Representatives on their handshaking tours and fund-raisers in August, ask them why they don’t work full-time in Congress in the interest of the people.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/congress-recess
Old men helped cause the Soviet Union's collapse. Historians say it's a warning sign for the United States.
https://www.businessinsider.com/soviet-gerontocracy-collapse-cautionary-tale-united-states-2022-9
The Soviet Union’s Aging Leadership in the 1980s and Fall in 1991
https://brewminate.com/the-soviet-unions-aging-leadership-in-the-1980s-and-fall-in-1991/
Let’s stop revising history: Reagan didn’t win the Cold War
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/478941-lets-stop-revising-history-reagan-didnt-win-the-cold-war/
The feds timing reeks of bias for Hunter Biden’s case
https://nypost.com/2023/07/30/the-feds-timing-reeks-of-bias-for-hunter-bidens-case/
Biden's DOJ backs down and says it did NOT call for Devon Archer to be jailed BEFORE testimony today which could implicate Joe in son Hunter's shady business deals - after 'odd' letter on Saturday
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12355343/Bidens-DOJ-does-11th-hour-U-turn-forced-clarify-does-NOT-want-jail-Hunters-business-partner-Devon-Archer-implicate-Joe-closed-door-hearing-TODAY-sending-letter-saying-did.html
Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's business partner, gives testimony to Congress that then-VP Joe Biden was on more than 20 business calls with his son
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12356923/Hunter-Bidens-business-partner-Devon-Archer-arrives-bombshell-testimony-Joes-involvement-shady-business-deals-DOJ-accused-trying-jail-talk.html
Ex-Hunter Biden partner Devon Archer testifies Joe Biden was on calls with foreign patrons ‘for the brand’
https://nypost.com/2023/07/31/ex-hunter-biden-partner-devon-archer-arrives-for-house-deposition/
Hunter got a PORSCHE after bringing Joe to dinner with a Kazakh oligarch: Devon Archer's FULL testimony on how Biden 'brand' was used as INTIMIDATION by Burisma - and the then-VP's 20 meetings with son's business partners - is released
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12369121/Hunter-got-PORSCHE-bringing-Joe-dinner-Kazakh-oligarch-Devon-Archers-testimony-Biden-brand-used-INTIMIDATION-Burisma-VPs-20-meetings-sons-business-partners-released.html
Joe Biden’s deep involvement in Hunter’s biz with Chinese, Russians and Ukrainians revealed in Devon Archer’s full damning testimony
https://nypost.com/2023/08/03/devon-archer-burisma-hired-hunter-biden-so-people-would-be-intimidated-to-mess-with-them/
Rep. Dan Goldman mocked for claim Joe Biden ‘talked about the weather’ with Hunter’s business partners
https://nypost.com/2023/07/31/democrat-claims-joe-biden-never-discussed-business-with-hunters-partners/
Hunter Biden ‘broke the law,’ Democrat Rep. Jim Himes says
https://nypost.com/2023/07/30/hunter-biden-broke-the-law-democrat-rep-jim-himes-says/
House Republicans launch probe into botched Hunter Biden plea deal
https://nypost.com/2023/07/31/house-launches-inquiry-into-hunter-bidens-botched-plea-deal/
READING RECOMMENDATION: Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide (2021)
https://www.amazon.com/Laptop-Hell-Hunter-Secrets-President/dp/163758105X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BGDUEIB8LWZR&keywords=laptop+from+hell+miranda+devine&qid=1678313954&s=books&sprefix=laptop+from+hell,stripbooks,321&sr=1-1
Patrick Lawrence: The Bidens’ Burisma Bribery - Seven years ago, the DNC email leak set Russiagate in motion. Now comes FD–1023, an F.B.I. document exposing Biden making fully corrupt use of Washington’s leverage in post-coup Ukraine.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/07/31/patrick-lawrence-the-bidens-burisma-bribery/
Joe Biden shores up Democratic support, but faces tight race against Donald Trump, New York Times/Siena poll shows
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-nyt-biden-trump-poll-20230801-ajujfnji75ggxgimlkylibugaq-story.html
Trump indicted on four counts, accused of making ‘knowingly false’ claims in bid to overturn 2020 election results
https://nypost.com/2023/08/01/trump-says-hell-soon-be-indicted-by-special-counsel-jack-smith-over-bid-to-overturn-2020-election/
'Most Significant Charges Yet': Trump Indicted for Trying to Overturn 2020 Election - “Holding Trump accountable for his crimes pulls our democracy back from the precipice and prevents his criminal attempt to overturn an election from being forgotten or normalized," said one watchdog leader.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-indictment-2020-election
5 takeaways from Trump’s indictment for trying to overturn the 2020 election
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4132503-five-takeaways-from-trumps-indictment-for-trying-to-overturn-the-2020-election/
Who are the Trump co-conspirators in the 2020 election interference indictment?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/01/politics/co-conspirators-trump-indictment/index.html
Donald Trump case tracker: where does each investigation stand? - The ex-president faces serious charges in New York, Florida and Washington DC – and more criminal charges could be on the way in Georgia
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/28/donald-trump-investigations-criminal-charges-tracker
A Second Trump Presidency Would Push the Country—and the Planet!—to New Extremes - Donald Trump is intent on winning the power to create, at best, a Hungarian version of “democracy” here in America and that would help add more than three feet of sea-level rise to the area of Florida near Mar-a-Lago.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/second-trump-presidency-extreme
Election 2024 - Two Legal Cases And One Winner
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/08/election-2024-two-legal-cases-and-one-winner.html#more
Ron DeSantis vows to "start slitting throats on day one" while discussing federal workers - The biggest fed worker union condemned the remarks as "dangerous, disgusting, disgraceful, and disqualifying”
https://www.salon.com/2023/08/03/ron-desantis-vows-to-start-slitting-throats-on-day-one-while-discussing-workers/
‘Everything has fallen off a cliff': Battleground state GOPs nosedive in Trump era - State Republican parties across the country are struggling. Can they recover? Does it matter?
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/02/broke-state-gop-parties-across-the-country-00109387
Sweeping ballot proposal would force California lawmakers to reveal lobbyist ties - An initiative aiming for the fall 2024 ballot would dramatically expand the state’s public records law.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/02/california-lawmakers-lobbyist-meetings-ballot-proposal-00109316
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UPDATED: 7/29/23
Poll: Youth sour on America - Share of young adults who say they are "extremely proud" to be American
https://www.axios.com/2023/07/25/millennials-gen-z-american-pride-decline-patriotism
The Failed State Effort Of Indicting Trump
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/the-failed-state-effort-of-indicting-trump.html
Craig Murray: Democracy’s Demise - What we had from roughly 1920 to 1990, when voting really could make a difference, is not what we have now. - We live instead in a post-democratic society.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/07/24/craig-murray-democracys-demise/
Donald Trump May Face 4 Indictments by Election Day. Here’s the Breakdown. - A federal indictment stemming from the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is expected this week
https://truthout.org/articles/donald-trump-may-face-4-indictments-by-election-day-heres-the-breakdown/
Journalists cannot ignore the question of capability for public figures
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4123677-journalists-cannot-ignore-the-question-of-capability-for-public-figures/#
McConnell, Biden lapses highlight advanced age of US leaders
https://news.yahoo.com/mcconnell-biden-lapses-highlight-advanced-050238075.html
Dianne Feinstein misstep in key Senate committee raises more questions on lawmakers’ ages
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dianne-feinstein-misstep-key-senate-215126002.html
US Congress is a cozy club of multimillionaire boomer lawmakers hoarding power - There’s a word for this sort of oligarchical rule by the elderly, of course: gerontocracy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/29/us-congress-age-lawmakers-millionaire-boomer
Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal bid ripped up as judge questions scope — opening him up to further charges
https://nypost.com/2023/07/26/hunter-biden-arrives-at-court-accompanied-by-sugar-brother-kevin-morris/
Judge Rejects Hunter Biden's Dirty Plea Deal
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/judge-rejects-hunter-bidens-dirty-plea-deal.html#more
Hunter Biden’s plea implosion a nail in coffin of Joe’s campaign
https://nypost.com/2023/07/26/hunter-bidens-plea-implosion-a-nail-in-coffin-to-joes-campaign/
How DOJ, Hunter Biden lawyers tried to force judge’s hand in plea hearing
https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/how-doj-hunter-lawyers-tried-to-sweet-talk-judge-into-accepting-sweeping-plea-deal/
White House forced to vow Hunter Biden won’t get pardon from dad after first son’s sweetheart plea deal falls apart
https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/hunter-biden-wont-get-pardon-from-father-white-house-insists/
EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden's full plea deal TRANSCRIPT - and how his sneaky lawyers and prosecution team tried to hide clause giving him 'blanket immunity' in 'crazy, unprecedented' tactic until Judge Maryellen Noreika 'smelled a rat’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/us-exclusive/article-12345263/Hunter-Bidens-plea-deal-TRANSCRIPT-sneaky-lawyers-prosecution-team-tried-hide-clause-giving-blanket-immunity-crazy-unprecedented-tactic-Judge-Maryellen-Noreika-smelled-rat.html
Hunter Biden plea deal wording proves it: DOJ sought to protect JOE
https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/hunter-biden-plea-deal-wording-doj-sought-to-protect-joe/
Hunter Biden’s laptop full of secret agreements and contracts with foreign business partners
https://nypost.com/2023/07/29/hunter-bidens-laptop-full-of-secret-agreements-and-contracts/
Facing Widespread Precarity, Young US Voters Are Becoming Even More Progressive - “This generation has never felt secure—personally, physically, financially," said one pollster.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/young-voters-more-progressive
Progressives Unveil OLIGARCH Act to Combat 'Existential Threat' of Extreme Wealth Inequality - “American oligarchs have used their wealth to accumulate an unprecedented level of political power, which they've used to amass even greater wealth. We must stop this cycle.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/progressives-oligarch-act
Alito says Congress has ‘no authority’ to regulate Supreme Court
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4125436-samuel-alito-on-congress-authority-to-regulate-supreme-court/
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UPDATED: 7/24/23
With No GOP Support, Senate Panel Passes Bill Requiring Supreme Court to Adopt Ethics Code - “Republicans are making clear they will defend their corrupt allies on the Supreme Court no matter what," said one campaigner.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/supreme-court-code-of-ethics
Biden $10M bribe file released: Burisma chief said he was ‘coerced’ to pay Joe, ‘stupid’ Hunter in bombshell allegations
https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/biden-bribe-file-released-burisma-chief-said-both-joe-and-hunter-involved/
Joe Biden Owes The American People Answers - Joe Biden called the allegation “malarkey” when asked about it by a New York Post reporter last month and sarcastically asked, “Where’s the money?”
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/07/joe-biden-owes-the-american-people-answers/
LOOKING BACK: Ukraine gas producer appoints Biden’s son to board
https://www.cnbc.com/2014/05/13/bidens-son-joins-ukraine-gas-companys-board-of-directors.html
LOOKING BACK: Biden's Intervention In Ukraine And Ukraine's 2016 Election Meddling Are Matters of Fact
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/10/bidens-intervention-in-ukraine-and-ukraines-2016-election-meddling-are-matters-of-fact.html
LOOKING BACK: Media Again Falsely Claim That Joe Biden's Intervention In Ukraine Was Innocent
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/10/media-again-falsely-claim-that-joe-bidens-intervention-in-ukraine-was-innocent.html
LOOKING BACK: A Timeline Of Joe Biden's Intervention Against The Prosecutor General Of Ukraine
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/11/a-timeline-of-joe-bidens-intervention-against-the-prosecutor-general-of-ukraine.html
LOOKING BACK: If the Facts Come Out, it Could Spell the End for Joe Biden
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/09/21/if-the-facts-come-out-it-could-spell-the-end-for-joe-biden/
LOOKING BACK: Joe Biden: "I don't know" what Hunter was doing for Burisma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXvmLeIXoBA
LOOKING BACK - Joe Biden Pressures Ukraine to Fire Prosecutor - VIDEO
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?&q=consortium+news+video+-+ukraine+federal+prosecutor+general+biden+had+fired&docid=603537471709977492&mid=8FAF84ABAB93475C44608FAF84ABAB93475C4460&view=detail&FORM=VDQVAP&rvsmid=0038AE180D1F506FE91D0038AE180D1F506FE91D&ajaxhist=0
LOOKING BACK: Biden Should Be Named in Criminal Probe in Ukraine, Judge Rules
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/05/24/biden-should-be-named-in-criminal-probe-in-ukraine-judge-rules/
LOOKING BACK: Why Joe Biden Will Continue the US War on Nord Stream 2 Till the Bitter End
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2021/02/26/why-joe-biden-will-continue-the-us-war-on-nord-stream-2-till-the-bitter-end/
LOOKING BACK: Solomon: These once-secret memos cast doubt on Joe Biden’s Ukraine story
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/463307-solomon-these-once-secret-memos-cast-doubt-on-joe-bidens-ukraine-story/
LOOKING BACK: Joe Biden’s 2020 Ukrainian nightmare: A closed probe is revived
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived/
LOOKING BACK: Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns - U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs - U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Majority Staff Report
https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC - Finance Joint Report 2020.09.23.pdf
LOOKING BACK: Servant of the Corrupt - Pedro Gonzalez details the connections among Zelensky, oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and Washington, D.C.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/07/22/servant-of-the-corrupt/
LOOKING BACK: Biden’s Ukrainegate Problem
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/10/bidens-ukrainegate-problem/
LOOKING BACK: The Ukrainian Influence Peddling Rings – A Microcosm of How Imperial Washington Rolls
https://original.antiwar.com/david_stockman/2019/11/12/the-ukrainian-influence-peddling-rings-a-microcosm-of-how-imperial-washington-rolls/
LOOKING BACK - DC’s Atlantic Council Raked in Funding from Hunter Biden’s Corruption-Stained Ukrainian Employer While Courting His VP Father - Max Blumenthal reports on the think tank’s shady arrangement with Burisma, the gas company at the center of “Ukrainegate.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/10/14/dcs-atlantic-council-raked-in-funding-from-hunter-bidens-corruption-stained-ukrainian-employer-while-courting-his-vp-father/
LOOKING BACK: Establishment Pundits Go Nuts Over New Russian Hacking Conspiracy
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/14/establishment-pundits-go-nuts-over-new-russian-hacking-conspiracy/
LOOKING BACK: Further Evidence Pointing to Biden Family Shady Businesses in Ukraine
https://www.globalresearch.ca/further-evidence-pointing-biden-family-shady-businesses-ukraine-emerge/5822835
LOOKING BACK: PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Damage Russiagate Has Done
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/10/19/patrick-lawrence-the-damage-russiagate-has-done/
LOOKING BACK: Company In Which US Vice President Joe Biden’s Son Is Director Prepares To Drill Shale Gas In East Ukraine
https://www.globalresearch.ca/company-in-which-us-vice-president-joe-bidens-son-is-director-prepares-to-drill-shale-gas-in-east-ukraine/5393403
LOOKING BACK: The Looting of Ukraine and the US Energy War
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-looting-of-ukraine-and-the-us-energy-war/5408626
LOOKING BACK: Kiev Fights in Ukraine’s Southeast for Shale Gas Deposits to Be Controlled by US - The Yuzivska shale gas field is at the border between the Kharkov and Donetsk regions. The resources are estimated at over four trillion cubic metres
https://www.globalresearch.ca/kiev-fights-in-ukraines-southeast-for-shale-gas-deposits-to-be-controlled-by-us/5396407
LOOKING BACK: The Whys Behind the Ukraine Crisis - Given the high stakes of a nuclear confrontation with Russia, some analysts wonder what’s the real motive for taking this extraordinary risk over Ukraine
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/04/whys-behind-ukraine-crisis
LOOKING BACK: Caitlin Johnstone: FBI’s Muting of Hunter Biden Story
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/08/26/caitlin-johnstone-fbis-muting-of-hunter-biden-story/
LOOKING BACK: US Senate Bill 2277: “Green Light” to Wage War on Russia? Isn’t Just about “Russian Aggression”. It’s Also about Oil, Gas and Propaganda
https://www.globalresearch.ca/senate-bill-2277-isnt-just-about-russian-aggression-its-also-about-oil-gas-and-propaganda/5393875
LOOKING BACK: Committee on the Judiciary - Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad
https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/smoking-gun-email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-businessman-to-vp
LOOKING BACK: Russiagate Rolls On, Giving Biden Political Cover
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/03/20/russiagate-rolls-on-giving-biden-political-cover/
LOOKING BACK: Former Kiev Diplomat: Biden’s Corruption Led to Ukraine’s Destruction - Former Ukrainian diplomat and political insider Andrii Telizhenko — now under US sanctions on what he says are false grounds — speaks out. - VIDEO
https://www.globalresearch.ca/former-kiev-diplomat-biden-corruption-led-ukraine-destruction/5825989
LOOKING BACK: New Documentary Sheds Light on Ukraine gate
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/13/new-documentary-sheds-light-on-ukrainegate/
Part Two of ‘UkraineGate – Inconvenient Facts’
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/20/part-two-of-ukrainegate-inconvenient-facts/
Part Three of ‘UkraineGate – Inconvenient Facts’
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/29/part-three-of-ukrainegate-inconvenient-facts/
Part Four of ‘UkraineGate – Inconvenient Facts’
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/02/17/part-four-of-ukrainegate-inconvenient-facts/
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UPDATED: 7/18/23
Americans are widely pessimistic about democracy in the United States, an AP-NORC poll finds
https://apnews.com/article/poll-democracy-partisanship-trump-biden-trust-221f2b4f6cf9805f766c9a8395b9539d
You’re not imagining it: Headlines show U.S. media bias is growing, study says
https://studyfinds.org/headlines-media-bias-growing/
State guard set up by DeSantis is being trained as personal militia, veterans say - Veterans resign from force established as civilian disaster relief, citing concerns over ‘militaristic’ training and ‘abuse’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/15/ron-desantis-florida-state-guard-militia-veterans-quit
Republicans Look to Give Themselves a Pay Raise After Securing Benefit Cuts for the Poor - “This is outrageous," said one critic. "Democrats should raise hell over this.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-republicans-raise
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UPDATED: 7/12/23
When is the optimal time for Biden to drop out of the race?
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4086058-when-is-the-optimal-time-for-biden-to-drop-out-of-the-race/
Biden’s life expectancy — and its implications
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4089739-bidens-life-expectancy-and-its-implications/
Civil rights organizations launch campaign to boot Trump from 2024 ballots - Letters have been penned to the heads of several states, invoking the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause
https://www.salon.com/2023/07/08/civil-rights-organizations-launch-campaign-to-boot-from-2024-ballots/
WATCH: The Death of Journalism - Chris Hedges, Stella Assange and Matt Kennard discuss the implications of the Julian Assange case and the demise of mainstream journalism.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/07/06/watch-the-death-of-journalism/
Left-leaning advocacy coalition calls on Congress to investigate Supreme Court ethics
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4088549-left-leaning-advocacy-coalition-calls-on-congress-to-investigate-supreme-court-ethics/
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UPDATED: 7/6/23
Climate action, as patriotism - Three distinguished military veterans make the case for climate action to better assure national security, help ensure freedom and democracy, and best serve those serving in uniform.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/04/climate-action-as-patriotism/
Why Democrats Should Primary Biden - It would be good for the party — and the president.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/03/biden-needs-a-heavyweight-primary-challenge-00104441
Americans are down on morality, family and country
https://www.axios.com/2023/07/03/americans-down-on-god-family-country-patriotism-polling
In a polarized US, how to define a patriot increasingly depends on who’s being asked
https://apnews.com/article/patriot-patriotism-meaning-independence-day-july-4-844de9b626ac6565cc64b723816080f3
How do you spell ‘independence’? Turns out 1 in 3 Americans have no idea!
https://studyfinds.org/americans-cant-spell-independence/
The Supreme Court’s term of clear corruption and the innocence of influence - Seductions of wealth don’t necessitate a quid pro quo
https://www.salon.com/2023/06/30/the-courts-term-of-clear-corruption-and-the-innocence-of-influence/
As We Celebrate Independence, the US Stifles Freedom Around the Globe - The U.S. has been a major force of violent repression globally that stamps out people’s hopes for freedom and justice.
https://truthout.org/articles/as-we-celebrate-independence-the-us-stifles-freedom-around-the-globe/
US, UK receives lowest confidence scores among G7: Gallup
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4078894-us-uk-receives-lowest-confidence-scores-among-g7-gallup/
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UPDATED: 6/30/23
Extreme Pride in Being American Remains Near Record Low
https://news.gallup.com/poll/507980/extreme-pride-american-remains-near-record-low.aspx
Even cheat sheets couldn't save Biden from a gaffe: President, 80, says Putin is clearly 'losing the war in IRAQ' while clutching notes on Wagner uprising in yet ANOTHER blunder (VIDEO)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12243167/Biden-says-Russia-clearly-losing-war-IRAQ.html
Biden has confused Iraq for Ukraine twice in the last 24 hours
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-confused-iraq-ukraine-twice-170229940.html
The three Democrats (not Biden or Harris) Republicans fear most in ’24
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4064402-the-three-democrats-not-biden-or-harris-republicans-fear-most-in-24/
U.S. reading and math scores drop to lowest level in decades
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183445544/u-s-reading-and-math-scores-drop-to-lowest-level-in-decades
Bill Black and Michael Hudson on Corruption in Finance
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/06/bill-black-and-michael-hudson-on-corruption-in-finance.html
UPDATED: 6/24/23
Joe Biden brags that his foreign policy record is as good as anyone's in history - including Henry Kissinger - at California fundraiser with some of the richest Democrats in Silicon Valley
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12214549/Joe-Biden-brags-foreign-policy-record-good-history.html
Dem convention prime spots: $5M
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2023/06/20/dem-convention-prime-seats-5m-00102625
15 Questions That Are More Useful Than “What Presidential Candidate Should Americans Vote For?”
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/06/21/15-questions-that-are-more-useful-than-what-presidential-candidate-should-americans-vote-for/
'Keeps Getting Worse': Alito Took Undisclosed Private Jet Trip With Billionaire Hedge Fund Titan - Right-wing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito took a fishing trip to Alaska with billionaire Paul Singer, then didn't recuse when a case involving Singer's fund reached the high court.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/alito-private-jet-billionaire
The Carbon Cartel Has Forced Children to Fight for Their Lives in Court - While the Montana youth climate lawsuit is the first of its kind in U.S. history, it must not be the last.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/children-fight-for-their-lives-in-court-against-climate-crisis
Khanna Says He Is 'Proud' of Lone No Vote Against $886 Billion Military Budget - The California Democrat said he opposes a military budget "nearing $1 trillion while we are cutting relief for the poor, for students with loans, and for the working class.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/khanna-no-vote-military-budget
UPDATED: 6/19/23
WHAT DOES THE FBI HAVE ON HUNTER AND JOE BIDEN? - The FBI is allowing members of the House Oversight Committee to review allegations made against the president and his son.
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/13/hunter-biden-fbi/
RFK Jr.’s success leaves progressives pining for competitive primary
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4047980-rfk-jr-s-success-leaves-progressives-pining-for-competitive-primary/
Naomi Klein Rebukes 'Counterfeit Populism' of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - “Progressive populists make tangible economic offers: tax the rich and give poor and working-class people more money and supports," Klein wrote. "Kennedy is not actually proposing any of this.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/naomi-klein-robert-f-kennedy-counterfeit-populism
What to know about Juneteenth and its significance to American history
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/06/15/juneteenth-federal-holiday-history-celebrations/
Thank You For Your Service
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/06/18/thank-you-for-your-service/
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UPDATED: 6/13/23
'About Damn Time': Trump Indicted in Federal Classified Docs Probe - While the front-runner for the 2024 GOP nomination faces various legal issues, it is the first time a former U.S. president has faced federal charges.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-indicted-mar-a-lago-classfied-documents
'This Is Secret... Look': Trump Admits on Tape He Didn't Declassify Documents - “This is as close to a recorded confession as you’ll ever see in a case like this," said a former federal prosecutor.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-admits-declassify-documents
Nuclear weapon secrets in the bathroom: five revelations from Trump’s unsealed indictment - Trump took classified documents including information on nuclear weapons and secret plans to attack a foreign country
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/09/five-revelations-trump-unsealed-indictment
DAVID MARCUS: After THAT indictment, read the full jaw-dropping story of the $10m Biden/Ukraine bribery claims and wonder - why don't the Feds care about scandalous allegations that would have eaten Trump alive?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12178759/DAVID-MARCUS-indictment-read-jaw-dropping-10m-Biden-Ukraine-bribery-claims.html
Trump suggests indictment came as ‘distraction’ to Hunter Biden probe
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4044785-trump-suggests-indictment-came-as-distraction-to-hunter-biden-probe/
Burisma executive 'paid Joe and Hunter Biden $5million EACH to end corruption investigations’: - Republicans reveal contents of FBI document showing first family's alleged criminal scheme
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12176047/Burisma-executive-paid-Joe-Hunter-Biden-5million-end-corruption-investigations.html
LOOKING BACK - If the Facts Come Out, it Could Spell the End for Joe Biden - The Establishment media is in a frenzy about what they hope will be the downfall of Trump, but if the facts come out, it could be the downfall of Joe Biden instead, writes Ray McGovern.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/09/21/if-the-facts-come-out-it-could-spell-the-end-for-joe-biden/
LOOKING BACK - DC’s Atlantic Council Raked in Funding from Hunter Biden’s Corruption-Stained Ukrainian Employer While Courting His VP Father - Max Blumenthal reports on the think tank’s shady arrangement with Burisma, the gas company at the center of “Ukrainegate.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/10/14/dcs-atlantic-council-raked-in-funding-from-hunter-bidens-corruption-stained-ukrainian-employer-while-courting-his-vp-father/
LOOKING BACK - Joe Biden Pressures Ukraine to Fire Prosecutor - VIDEO
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?&q=consortium+news+video+-+ukraine+federal+prosecutor+general+biden+had+fired&docid=603537471709977492&mid=8FAF84ABAB93475C44608FAF84ABAB93475C4460&view=detail&FORM=VDQVAP&rvsmid=0038AE180D1F506FE91D0038AE180D1F506FE91D&ajaxhist=0
LOOKING BACK - New Documentary Sheds Light on Ukrainegate - A new documentary by Olivier Berruyer, editor of the website les-crises.fr, released in conjunction with Consortium News, sorts out the complicated scandal and the role Joe Biden played in it.
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/13/new-documentary-sheds-light-on-ukrainegate/
Democratic fears grow over third-party candidates
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4043274-democratic-fears-grow-over-third-party-candidates/
'Huge Surprise' as US Supreme Court Declines to Further Gut Voting Rights Act - The ACLU of Alabama's legal director said the key takeaway is the "acknowledgment that the Alabama Legislature knowingly continued its legacy of drawing illegal voting districts that disenfranchise Black voters.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/supreme-court-voting-rights-alabama-map
After UK Rejects Appeal, Press Freedom Groups Say Biden Must Drop Assange Extradition Push - “If Biden lets this case proceed," said one advocate, "future administrations will surely use the precedent of the Assange prosecution... to go after journalists they don't like.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/uk-rejects-assange-extradition-appeal
A 2023 Wave of “Election Subversion” Bills Threatens 2024 Results - Legislation in 38 states would set conditions for the kind of “chaos and delay” that Trump exploited in 2020.
https://truthout.org/articles/a-2023-wave-of-election-subversion-bills-threatens-2024-results/
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UPDATED: 6/7/23
'I got sandbagged!': Biden laughs off embarrassing fall at Air Force Academy commencement ceremony - the fourth public tumble of 80-year-old's presidency - as he arrives safely back at White House —- (The Commander-in-Chief)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12149847/Biden-FALLS-stage-handing-diplomas-U-S-Air-Force-Academy-graduation.html#reader-comments
Was the Debt Ceiling Fight a Charade From the Start? Just Follow the (Big) Money - The dominating fact about American politics is its money-driven character. In our world, both major political parties are first of all bank accounts, which have to be filled for anything to happen. Voters can drive politics, but not easily.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/debt-ceiling-charade
Media Coverage Must Stop Equating Congress’s Far Left and Far Right - Whenever lawmakers are debating a high-profile piece of legislation, the media returns to the easy description of pressures exerted by the far right and far left, as if these are similar forces.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/media-must-stop-equating-congress-s-far-left-and-far-right
When 3 Men Richer Than 165 Million People, Sanders Says Working Class Must 'Come Together'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/immoral-inequality-bernie-sanders
15 Reasons Why Mass Media Employees Act Like Propagandists
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/06/04/15-reasons-why-mass-media-employees-act-like-propagandists/
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UPDATED: 6/1/23
A Veteran for Peace
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/01/a-veteran-for-peace/
Progressives Condemn Biden-GOP Debt Ceiling Deal as 'Cruel and Shortsighted’ - “For no real reason at all, hungry people are set to lose food while tax cheats get a free pass.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/progressives-blast-debt-ceiling-deal
The Biden-McCarthy Debt Ceiling Deal: Neoliberal Fiscal Policy Continues
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/31/the-biden-mccarthy-debt-ceiling-deal-neoliberal-fiscal-policy-continues/
The US Could Soon Have Its First Trillionaire. That's No Cause for Celebration - We should be fearing, not cheering, the prospect of an American trillionaire.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-first-trillionaire
You Can’t Vote Your Way Out Of A Mess You Never Voted Yourself Into
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/05/30/you-cant-vote-your-way-out-of-a-mess-you-never-voted-yourself-into/
Here Are the Progressives Who Voted Against the GOP's Debt Ceiling 'Extortion Scheme’ - “We cannot continue to capitulate to a far-right Republican Party and their extreme demands while they inflict policy violence on working-class people, gut our bedrock environmental protections, and decimate our planet," said Rep. Rashida Tlaib.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/progressives-vote-against-debt-deal
Caitlin Johnstone: It Rarely Looks Like This - It is more like water for fish. And when you are swimming in it you can’t see it. Only by stepping way, way back is it possible to get a perspective on the way it surrounds you.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/31/caitlin-johnstone-it-rarely-looks-like-this/
UPDATED: 5/26/23
How Republican states are eroding local democracy - Republican leaders in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Texas are targeting Democratic communities and institutions
https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/20/23731064/republican-states-eroding-local-democracy
Why Someone Should Challenge Biden in the Primary
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/why-someone-should-challenge-biden-in-the-primary/
Record share of Americans say they are worse off financially than one year earlier: survey
https://thehill.com/business/economy/4015801-record-share-of-americans-say-they-are-worse-off-financially-than-one-year-earlier-survey/
70 percent of US voters fear intel agencies will interfere in elections: Harvard poll - As polarization grows unabated among the US population, distrust of law enforcement agencies and news media is also spiking
https://thecradle.co/article-view/25161/70-percent-of-us-voters-fear-intel-agencies-will-interfere-in-elections-harvard-poll
Freedom libraries: Liberating minds for action against oppression and exploitation
https://countercurrents.org/2023/05/freedom-libraries-liberating-minds-for-action-against-oppression-and-exploitation/
7 in 10 independents concerned about Biden’s mental fitness: survey
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4018939-7-in-10-independents-concerned-about-bidens-mental-fitness-survey/
Majority of Californians believe Feinstein isn’t fit to serve, poll finds - The respondents cited the 89-year-old senator’s latest illness as the reason she should resign.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/25/dianne-feinstein-senate-poll-00098763
Florida groups warn America of danger from ‘dictator’ DeSantis - Minority and activist groups say Florida is ‘canary in the coalmine’ and warn rights will be trampled on if governor becomes president
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/25/florida-groups-america-white-house-ron-desantis
DeSantis dismisses climate change, calling it ‘politicisation of weather’ - Florida governor repeats common misconception about climate change and fierce storms
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/desantis-climate-change-fox-news-b2345966.html
CNN Poll: Biden has a lead over Democratic primary challengers, but faces headwinds overall
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/politics/cnn-poll-democrats-2024/index.html
UPDATED: 5/20/23
Billionaires Spent Over $1 Billion on 2022 Elections—More Than Any Year in US History - “Billionaires spending a billion dollars on a shopping spree for democracy should wake us all up to the threat posed by nearly unlimited wealth applied without limits to our elections," said the head of Americans for Tax Fairness.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/billionaires-congress-election-2022-midterms
Is the Democratic Party Interested in Democracy? - DNC-friendly journalists are coming right out and saying it’s okay not to give other contenders a crack at Biden, writes Elizabeth Vos.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/16/is-the-democratic-party-interested-in-democracy/
The USA’s Soviet-Style President - We are in for 19 months of relentless, insultingly transparent spin by way of which a patently incompetent man will be purveyed as commander in chief for another four years.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/16/patrick-lawrence-the-usas-soviet-style-president/
GOP Debt Ceiling Bill Would Strip $1.3 Trillion From States and Local Communities - The bill requires huge, unspecified cuts to the part of the federal budget that Congress appropriates each year, of which aid to states, localities, tribal governments, and territories makes up a significant share.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/debt-ceiling-bill-would-strip-1-3-trillion-from-states
We Need to Treat Wealth Accumulation Like an Addiction - People are willing to destroy lives, both their own and others’, to get wealthy. Why aren’t we treating it like drug or alcohol addiction?
https://medium.com/sugar-and-spite/we-need-to-treat-wealth-accumulation-like-an-addiction-801dd211bb68
1 in 100 people could be a corporate psychopath like Bernie Madoff, study warns
https://studyfinds.org/corporate-psychopath-madoff/
Why We Should Abolish the Super-Rich
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/17/why-we-should-abolish-the-super-rich/
Growing wealth inequality 'dangerous' threat to democracy: experts
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-democracy-wealth-inequality/growing-wealth-inequality-dangerous-threat-to-democracy-experts-idUSKCN0XC1Q2
American Democracy Is Drowning in Money
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/opinion/democracy-drowning-cash.html
The Long History of Debt Cancellation - Moral thinking about debt has fluctuated throughout U.S. history. Today’s calls for cancellation suggest it may be poised for transformation once again.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/olivia-schwob-long-history-debt-cancellation/
How debt cancellation could help poor countries prepare for climate change - A new report calls on rich countries to provide immediate relief.
https://grist.org/equity/debt-cancellation-climate-change-reparations/
U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs
https://news.gallup.com/poll/505745/depression-rates-reach-new-highs.aspx
Young Americans Are Dying at Alarming Rates, Reversing Years of Progress - Car accidents, homicides, suicides and drug overdoses have pushed up death rates for children and teens in the U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/death-rate-children-teens-guns-drugs-54c604f4
A Brief, Concerning Conversation With Dianne Feinstein - The senator seems to not remember being absent from the Capitol.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/dianne-feinstein-health-return-to-senate.html
'I've been here, I've been voting!' Concern grows for ailing Dem Senator Dianne Feinstein, 89, as she FORGETS about two-and-a-half-month shingles absence and insists she's been in Congress throughout
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12091833/Concern-grows-ailing-Dem-Senator-Dianne-Feinstein.html
Feinstein just the latest example of an old problem: Politicians have long been able to evade questions about their ability to serve
https://theconversation.com/feinstein-just-the-latest-example-of-an-old-problem-politicians-have-long-been-able-to-evade-questions-about-their-ability-to-serve-205905
Democrats’ intractable Dianne Feinstein problem - Absent a voluntary resignation, party leaders have few options to get Feinstein to step down.
https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/19/23727398/dianne-feinstein-health-resign-congress-encephalitis-ramsay-hunt-syndrome
The US Supreme Court Corruption Bonanza
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/18/the-us-supreme-court-corruption-bonanza/
Opinion: Millions flowed to Biden family members. Don’t pretend it doesn’t matter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/18/foreign-payments-to-biden-family-members/
Americans' Views of Federal Income Taxes Worsen
https://news.gallup.com/poll/505970/americans-views-federal-income-taxes-worsen.aspx
Legal expert: Trump lawyers "dropping like flies" as he gets "closer and closer to an indictment”
https://www.salon.com/2023/05/19/legal-expert-lawyers-dropping-like-flies-as-he-gets-closer-and-closer-to-an-indictment/
UPDATED: 5/15/23
Americans Lack Confidence in Major Economic Leaders
https://news.gallup.com/poll/505478/americans-lack-confidence-major-economic-leaders.aspx
Chris Hedges: Julian Assange — A Fight We Must Not Lose - “This legal lynching marks the official beginning of corporate totalitarianism” — from a talk the author gave at a rally in New York on World Press Freedom Day.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/09/chris-hedges-julian-assange-a-fight-we-must-not-lose/
Mexico Embraces Assange - Julian Assange’s father and brother ended a 48-day North American tour in Mexico City, getting the president’s support and a letter from Mexican MPs to Joe Biden demanding he drop the charges, reports Joe Lauria from Mexico.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/09/mexico-embraces-assange/
Dianne Feinstein, 89, arrives at Congress in a wheelchair after shingles absence: Ailing Democratic Senator says she is still suffering side effects and will take a lighter schedule as she finally returns to work
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12069705/Dianne-Feinstein-89-arrives-Congress-wheelchair.html
Feinstein’s return fails to unstick controversial judicial nominee - The California Democrat showed up about 90 minutes late to a Judiciary Committee meeting, a further signal she’s still recovering from her shingles diagnosis.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/11/feinsteins-return-fails-to-unstick-judicial-nominee-00096422
Dianne Feinstein Congratulated The Wrong Senator for Raphael Warnock’s 2021 Victory: Report
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dianne-feinstein-congratulated-tim-scott-raphael-warnock-senate_n_645d033ce4b018d846bc4a7a
House GOP Leaders Won’t Call On George Santos To Resign After Explosive Indictment - The New York Republican faces a 13-count federal indictment for fraud and money laundering, but Republicans aren’t eager to push him from the House
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/george-santos-gop-leadership_n_645bcf06e4b0c10612e8fdf6
The Very Specific Ways the GOP Budget Will Deeply Harm Hundreds of Millions of Americans - The Republican Party's proposed economic plan—over which they threaten global economic calamity if not accepted by Biden and the Democrats—is senselessly cruel, wildly irresponsible, and embarrassingly uninformed. But let's talk about the details
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/specific-harms-of-gop-budget-plan-debt-ceiling
'It Was Shameful': CNN Faces Furious Backlash for Giving Trump a Megaphone to Spew Lies - “They put a sexual abuse victim in harm's way for views," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "This was a choice to platform lies about the election and Jan. 6th.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cnn-backlash-trump-town-hall
Trump symbolized powerful men’s impunity for sexual abuse – until now
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/11/donald-trump-liable-e-jean-carroll-sexual-abuse-accountability
Trump rages after sexual abuse verdict but legal woes have only just begun
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/14/trump-sexual-abuse-verdict-e-jean-carroll-legal-troubles
US 8th Graders Don’t Know Much About History - What American kids know – or don’t – about the nation’s history and civics is a reflection of the political and economic circumstances affecting their schools, writes Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/12/us-8th-graders-dont-know-much-about-history/
The Religious Landscape is Undergoing Massive Change. It Could Decide the 2024 Election.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/14/democrats-religion-census-secular-00095858
UPDATED: 5/9/23
The intoxication of war - The public, bombarded with war propaganda, cheers on their self-immolation
https://www.salon.com/2023/05/07/the-intoxication-of/
Brazilian President Lula da Silva Calls For Freedom For Julian Assange - ‘The press, which defends freedom of the press, does nothing to free this citizen.’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/brazilian-president-lula-da-silva-calls-for-freedom-for-julian-assange
US Officials Confronted on Assange Hypocrisy - The Biden administration has no way of squaring its free-press rhetoric with its persecution of the world’s most famous journalist, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/04/us-officials-confronted-on-assange-hypocrisy/
Biden’s approval rating hits new low - The poll shows a dip in the president’s approval, two weeks after he announced his reelection bid.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/07/biden-polling-approval-rating-trump-00095699
How the Hunter Biden investigations could impact 2024
https://www.axios.com/2023/05/05/hunter-biden-impact-2024
'Corruption. Plain and Simple': Ginni Thomas Took Secret Payments Ahead of Landmark Voting Rights Case
https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-mention-of-ginni-thomas-corruption
Senate Republicans stand by Clarence Thomas in the face of growing ethics allegations
https://www.salon.com/2023/05/05/senate-stand-by-clarence-thomas-defend-ethics-allegations/
Call It Trump’s Coup Attempt, Because It Damned Well Was - By failing to remind our audience what Trump did each and every time we mention him, journalists normalize his attempt to end American democracy on that January day.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-coup-media_n_64505256e4b039ec4e867f2d
Trump, in deposition, doubles down on 'Access Hollywood' remarks about grabbing women
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-deposition-doubles-access-hollywood-remarks-grabbing-women/story?id=99107636
The Rising Republican movement to defund public libraries - Libraries bolster democracy. Republicans want to get rid of them.
https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/5/23711417/republicans-want-to-defund-public-libraries-book-bans