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The Same Democrats Who Denounce Trump as a Lawless, Treasonous Authoritarian Just Voted to Give Him Vast Warrantless Spying Powers
Photo: Mark J. Terrill/AP The Same Democrats Who Denounce Trump as a Lawless, Treasonous Authoritarian Just Voted to Give Him Vast Warrantless Spying Powers LEADING CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS have spent the last year relentlessly accusing Donald Trump of being controlled by or treasonously loyal to a hostile foreign power. Over the last several months, they have […]
Coastal States Protest Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan
Coastal States Protest Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plan Less than a week after the Trump Administration proposed to open almost the entire U.S. coast to oil and gas drilling, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke backtracked and took Florida off the table for offshore oil and gas exploration. Now many are wondering why just Florida was […]
House Passes Legislation Renewing Controversial NSA Surveillance Program
House Passes Legislation Renewing Controversial NSA Surveillance Program Update 3: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has been renewed by the House of Representatives. Originally enacted in 1978, the act outlines the lawful procedure for collecting foreign intelligence. FISA Section 702 allows the US government to pull in communications from foreign nationals but does not permit […]
Pesticide Use Threatens Health in California
Pesticide Use Threatens Health in California President Trump boasts about all the regulations that he has eliminated but he never mentions the important good that many of these rules were doing, as Dennis J Bernstein explains. The battle to protect farmworkers and their families from dangerous pesticides has been going on for decades. But it […]
Pakistan Suspends Military And Intelligence Cooperation With US
Pakistan Suspends Military And Intelligence Cooperation With US In the wake of President Trump’s twitter outburst last week, alleging that Pakistan has given the U.S. “nothing but lies and deceit” accompanied by the suspension of US financial aid, Defense Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan declared that military and intelligence cooperation with the United States are suspended, […]
Iran Sanctions Will Help China’s Petro-Yuan
Iran Sanctions Will Help China’s Petro-Yuan In a few days, U.S. President Trump may try to re-impose sanctions on Iran, a dramatic step that could heighten tensions between the two countries. Some analysts believe the move could contribute to a much broader global economic power shift from the U.S. to China. The connection between the […]
Trump’s Offshore Oil Drilling Plans Ignore the Lessons of BP Deepwater Horizon Spill
Trump’s Offshore Oil Drilling Plans Ignore the Lessons of BP Deepwater Horizon Spill The Trump administration is proposing to ease regulations that were adopted to make offshore oil and gas drilling operations safer after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. This event was the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Eleven workers died in the explosion […]
Iran Claims It Has “Hard Evidence” Of Foreign Meddling In Protests
Iran Claims It Has “Hard Evidence” Of Foreign Meddling In Protests Friday’s UN Security Council meeting didn’t disappoint in terms of the anticipated level of inflammatory rhetoric and accusations. Also not unexpected is that the US finds itself isolated after a week of the Trump White House going on the offensive: first by essentially calling […]
The Washington Post Also Misreported CNN’s False WikiLeaks Story
The Washington Post Also Misreported CNN’s False WikiLeaks Story I left on holiday just as the news was breaking about multiple mainstream media outlets independently reporting a spectacularly false story about WikiLeaks, Donald Trump and Russiagate, and I was pleased to return to find they’d received their much-deserved beatdown for it. One fact that doesn’t […]
The WannaCry Cyberattack: What the Evidence Says and Why the Trump Administration Blames North Korea
The WannaCry Cyberattack: What the Evidence Says and Why the Trump Administration Blames North Korea Photo by Blogtrepreneur | CC BY 2.0 On December 19, in a Wall Street Journal editorial that drew much attention, Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert asserted that North Korea was “directly responsible” for the WannaCry cyberattack that struck more […]
Weekly Commentary: A Phenomenal Year
Weekly Commentary: A Phenomenal Year 2017 was phenomenal in so many ways. The year will be remembered for a tumultuous first year of the Trump Presidency, the passage of major tax legislation and seemingly endless stock market records. It was a year of synchronized global growth and stock bull markets, along with record low market […]
2018 – war or no war?
2018 – war or no war? If the first months of 2017 were a time of great hopes following the historical defeat of Hillary Clinton, the year is ending in a sombre, almost menacing manner. Not only has the swamp easily, quickly and totally drowned Trump, but the AngloZionist Empire is reeling from its humiliating […]
How Facebook will infiltrate national elections and rule the world in less than 10 years — unless we stop it
How Facebook will infiltrate national elections and rule the world in less than 10 years — unless we stop it What do NATO, private military contractors, giant arms manufacturers, wine merchants, the NSA, Trump, British property tycoons, Russian oligarchs, and Big Oil have in common? The world’s largest social network Source: Geek.com Published to launch the new beta platform […]
Trump’s Continuation of US Interventionism
Trump’s Continuation of US Interventionism Criticizing his predecessors for misguided foreign wars, President Trump promised a break in that approach, but his National Security Strategy report indicates a shift more in rhetoric than substance, reports Dennis J. Bernstein. President Trump’s recent report on National Security Strategy supposedly reflected his America First “realism” but his approach […]
