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Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Chelsea Manning sentence commuted after seven years of brutal imprisonment The language of the commutation appears to rule out any future legal proceeding against Manning in either civilian or military courts, since it covers all 20 charges for which she was convicted and sentenced. Neither incoming President Donald Trump nor the Republican-controlled Congress has the legal power to overturn the commutation.
Wednesday, January 18, 2017Chelsea Manning sentence commuted after seven years of brutal imprisonment The language of the commutation appears to rule out any future legal proceeding against Manning in either civilian or military courts, since it covers all 20 charges for which she was convicted and sentenced. Neither incoming President Donald Trump nor the Republican-controlled Congress has the legal power to overturn the commutation.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017
US Intel Agencies Try to Strong-Arm Trump into War With Russia The big shots who run the country are trying to strong-arm "the Donald" into carrying their water so the depredations can continue and Central Asia can be transformed into a gigantic Washington-dominated corporate free-trade zone where the Big Money calls the shots and Capital reigns supreme.
Tuesday, January 10, 2017US Intel Agencies Try to Strong-Arm Trump into War With Russia The big shots who run the country are trying to strong-arm "the Donald" into carrying their water so the depredations can continue and Central Asia can be transformed into a gigantic Washington-dominated corporate free-trade zone where the Big Money calls the shots and Capital reigns supreme.
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Saturday, January 7, 2017
The Trump Bubble Trump knows his so called "tax holiday" scam is a bunch of baloney. Why would companies expand their operations, hire more workers, and generate more product when consumer demand is still in the crapper seven years after the Great Recession? They're not going to do that. Trump knows his so called "tax holiday" scam is a bunch of baloney.
Saturday, January 7, 2017The Trump Bubble Trump knows his so called "tax holiday" scam is a bunch of baloney. Why would companies expand their operations, hire more workers, and generate more product when consumer demand is still in the crapper seven years after the Great Recession? They're not going to do that. Trump knows his so called "tax holiday" scam is a bunch of baloney.
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Thursday, December 29, 2016
The Reason the Fed is Raising Rates, and Why It Won't Work The Fed created the incentives for this destructive behavior and they are the primary regulator of the entire financial system. They could stop this nonsense with just one appearance before Congress, but they choose not to. They'd rather keep the real economy in a permanent coma and blow up the financial system than lift a finger to stop Wall Street's reckless and relentless looting spree.
Thursday, December 29, 2016The Reason the Fed is Raising Rates, and Why It Won't Work The Fed created the incentives for this destructive behavior and they are the primary regulator of the entire financial system. They could stop this nonsense with just one appearance before Congress, but they choose not to. They'd rather keep the real economy in a permanent coma and blow up the financial system than lift a finger to stop Wall Street's reckless and relentless looting spree.
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Thursday, December 22, 2016
Trump's Economic Plan is a Betrayal of the People Who Voted for Him That's why Trump's supporters should be so disappointed, because they stood by him through the most vicious campaign in history and helped to shoehorn his sorry posterior into office. And now he has sold them down the river. Thanks a lot, Don.
Thursday, December 22, 2016Trump's Economic Plan is a Betrayal of the People Who Voted for Him That's why Trump's supporters should be so disappointed, because they stood by him through the most vicious campaign in history and helped to shoehorn his sorry posterior into office. And now he has sold them down the river. Thanks a lot, Don.
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Saturday, December 17, 2016
Ah, So Putin Didn't Hack Those Emails After All The 'hacking story' has nothing to do with hacking and nothing to do with Russia. It's just another attempt by establishment elites to distort the facts in order to subvert the democratic process and overturn the election results. Isn't that what this is really all about, regime change in the USA?
Saturday, December 17, 2016Ah, So Putin Didn't Hack Those Emails After All The 'hacking story' has nothing to do with hacking and nothing to do with Russia. It's just another attempt by establishment elites to distort the facts in order to subvert the democratic process and overturn the election results. Isn't that what this is really all about, regime change in the USA?
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Former Texas governor who called for abolition of Energy Department to be Trump's energy secretary Perry is on record as a supporter of the complete elimination of the Department of Energy. It was the third of three federal departments he called for abolishing during a Republican presidential debate in 2011, the one whose name he forgot, leading to the widely ridiculed "Oops" moment that helped torpedo his campaign for the 2012 nomination.
Wednesday, December 14, 2016Former Texas governor who called for abolition of Energy Department to be Trump's energy secretary Perry is on record as a supporter of the complete elimination of the Department of Energy. It was the third of three federal departments he called for abolishing during a Republican presidential debate in 2011, the one whose name he forgot, leading to the widely ridiculed "Oops" moment that helped torpedo his campaign for the 2012 nomination.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016
The Corporate Media's Assault on Free Speech: an Interview with Jeffrey St. Clair Trump embraced almost every third rail in American politics and not only survived but thrived on it, like some super-villain in a Dark Horse comic. It's quite remarkable really. The MSM media has been dying for years and Trump's campaign emphasized just how feeble and politically impotent the Times and the Post, as well as the network and cable news outlets have become, at least for an outlier candidate like Trump.
Tuesday, December 13, 2016The Corporate Media's Assault on Free Speech: an Interview with Jeffrey St. Clair Trump embraced almost every third rail in American politics and not only survived but thrived on it, like some super-villain in a Dark Horse comic. It's quite remarkable really. The MSM media has been dying for years and Trump's campaign emphasized just how feeble and politically impotent the Times and the Post, as well as the network and cable news outlets have become, at least for an outlier candidate like Trump.
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Monday, December 12, 2016
The Democrats "Russia Hacking" Campaign is Political Suicide People are afraid because things are getting worse not better. Their standards of living are slipping, they're worried about their retirement, their jobs, their health care, and the pile of debt their kids have accumulated to go to college. They've lost confidence in the media, the congress, the courts and the president who promised change but never lifted a finger for working people his entire time in office.
Monday, December 12, 2016The Democrats "Russia Hacking" Campaign is Political Suicide People are afraid because things are getting worse not better. Their standards of living are slipping, they're worried about their retirement, their jobs, their health care, and the pile of debt their kids have accumulated to go to college. They've lost confidence in the media, the congress, the courts and the president who promised change but never lifted a finger for working people his entire time in office.
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Thursday, December 8, 2016
Rolling Back the Empire: Washington's Proxy-Army Faces Decisive Defeat in Aleppo This is the end of the line for the US-backed terrorists that have laid to waste much of the battered country and killed more than 400,000 people. And while Aleppo may not be the decisive turning point in the ongoing conflict, it does put all of the main population centers and industrial hubs back under regime control.
Thursday, December 8, 2016Rolling Back the Empire: Washington's Proxy-Army Faces Decisive Defeat in Aleppo This is the end of the line for the US-backed terrorists that have laid to waste much of the battered country and killed more than 400,000 people. And while Aleppo may not be the decisive turning point in the ongoing conflict, it does put all of the main population centers and industrial hubs back under regime control.
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Sunday, November 27, 2016
Trump's Economic Plan: This Isn't Going to Work Had Obama made any attempt to address wage stagnation, shrinking incomes, student debt, or widespread economic insecurity, Hillary Clinton would probably be president today. As it happens, the victory went to the anti-establishment outsider who promised a fundamental change in direction, Donald Trump.
Sunday, November 27, 2016Trump's Economic Plan: This Isn't Going to Work Had Obama made any attempt to address wage stagnation, shrinking incomes, student debt, or widespread economic insecurity, Hillary Clinton would probably be president today. As it happens, the victory went to the anti-establishment outsider who promised a fundamental change in direction, Donald Trump.
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Friday, November 18, 2016
Trump Prepares to Takeover Fed There's a reason why 95 percent of all income gains in the last eight years have gone to the one percent, while working people have struggled just to put food on the table. Just like there's a reason why stocks have tripled in value in the last eight years while wages and incomes have stagnated and the economy has slowed to a crawl. It's the policy, stupid.
Friday, November 18, 2016Trump Prepares to Takeover Fed There's a reason why 95 percent of all income gains in the last eight years have gone to the one percent, while working people have struggled just to put food on the table. Just like there's a reason why stocks have tripled in value in the last eight years while wages and incomes have stagnated and the economy has slowed to a crawl. It's the policy, stupid.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Doomsday Election That's why everyone is so utterly dejected and depressed about the election, because instead of voting for a candidate they really want or admire, most people are simply voting for the candidate that either disgusts or scares the hell out of them the least. What kind of choice is that? The only thing that is certain is that, whoever wins, we lose.
Tuesday, November 8, 2016Doomsday Election That's why everyone is so utterly dejected and depressed about the election, because instead of voting for a candidate they really want or admire, most people are simply voting for the candidate that either disgusts or scares the hell out of them the least. What kind of choice is that? The only thing that is certain is that, whoever wins, we lose.
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Friday, November 4, 2016
Memo to Comey: Keep Your Damn Hands Off Our Elections Comey is a renegade, a lone wolf who arbitrarily decided to abandon normal bureaucratic procedures in order to torpedo Clinton's prospects for election. The widespread belief that Comey is a "good man who made a bad decision" is nonsense. He is an extremely intelligent and competent attorney with a keen grasp of Beltway politics. He knew what he was doing and he did it anyway. It's absurd to make excuses for him.
Friday, November 4, 2016Memo to Comey: Keep Your Damn Hands Off Our Elections Comey is a renegade, a lone wolf who arbitrarily decided to abandon normal bureaucratic procedures in order to torpedo Clinton's prospects for election. The widespread belief that Comey is a "good man who made a bad decision" is nonsense. He is an extremely intelligent and competent attorney with a keen grasp of Beltway politics. He knew what he was doing and he did it anyway. It's absurd to make excuses for him.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016
How Putin Derailed the West The assumption is that eventually, and with enough pressure, Putin will throw in the towel. But this is another miscalculation. Putin is not in Syria because he wants to be nor is he there because he values his friendship with Syrian President Bashar al Assad. That's not it at all. Putin is in Syria because he has no choice. Russia's national security is at stake.
Tuesday, November 1, 2016How Putin Derailed the West The assumption is that eventually, and with enough pressure, Putin will throw in the towel. But this is another miscalculation. Putin is not in Syria because he wants to be nor is he there because he values his friendship with Syrian President Bashar al Assad. That's not it at all. Putin is in Syria because he has no choice. Russia's national security is at stake.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Trump Unchained Do people know that there has never been a war that Hillary didn't support, a job-killing "free trade" bill she didn't back, or a civil liberties-eviscerating piece of legislation (Clinton voted for the original USA PATRIOT Act in 2001, as well as the revised version in 2006.) she wasn't eager to sign?
Wednesday, October 19, 2016Trump Unchained Do people know that there has never been a war that Hillary didn't support, a job-killing "free trade" bill she didn't back, or a civil liberties-eviscerating piece of legislation (Clinton voted for the original USA PATRIOT Act in 2001, as well as the revised version in 2006.) she wasn't eager to sign?
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Obama Stepped Back From Brink, Will Hillary? Washington likes to pick its own leaders, leaders who invariably serve the interests of its wealthy and powerful constituents, particularly Big Oil and Israel. That's how the system works. Everyone knows this already. Washington has toppled or attempted to topple more than 50 governments since the end of WW2. The US is a regime change franchise, Coups-R-Us.
Wednesday, October 12, 2016Obama Stepped Back From Brink, Will Hillary? Washington likes to pick its own leaders, leaders who invariably serve the interests of its wealthy and powerful constituents, particularly Big Oil and Israel. That's how the system works. Everyone knows this already. Washington has toppled or attempted to topple more than 50 governments since the end of WW2. The US is a regime change franchise, Coups-R-Us.
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Friday, October 7, 2016
Pentagon Begins Low-Intensity, Stealth War in Syria Call it stealth warfare, call it poking the bear, call it whatever you'd like. The fact is, the Syrian war has entered a new and more dangerous phase increasing the chances of a catastrophic confrontation between the US and Russia. This is the brainchild of Pentagon warlord, Ash Carter, whose attack on a Syrian outpost killed 62 Syrian regulars putting a swift end to the fragile ceasefire agreement.
Friday, October 7, 2016Pentagon Begins Low-Intensity, Stealth War in Syria Call it stealth warfare, call it poking the bear, call it whatever you'd like. The fact is, the Syrian war has entered a new and more dangerous phase increasing the chances of a catastrophic confrontation between the US and Russia. This is the brainchild of Pentagon warlord, Ash Carter, whose attack on a Syrian outpost killed 62 Syrian regulars putting a swift end to the fragile ceasefire agreement.
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Sunday, October 2, 2016
The Biggest Heist in Human History Not only do the plutocrats own half of everything on planet earth -- their share of the booty is actually increasing every year. Nice, eh? The point is, none of this is accidental. These outcomes are the direct result of policy, the Fed's policies. And the Fed is not alone either. This greatly-accelerated class war is a now global phenom.
Sunday, October 2, 2016The Biggest Heist in Human History Not only do the plutocrats own half of everything on planet earth -- their share of the booty is actually increasing every year. Nice, eh? The point is, none of this is accidental. These outcomes are the direct result of policy, the Fed's policies. And the Fed is not alone either. This greatly-accelerated class war is a now global phenom.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Putin Ups the Ante: Ceasefire Sabotage Triggers Major Offensive in Aleppo Samantha Power dispelled any doubt that either she or anyone else in the Obama administration cared at all about the people who lost their lives in the bombing raid. She also made it clear that she didn't care if the US had violated the terms of the ceasefire just two days before critical parts of the agreement were scheduled to be implemented.
Tuesday, September 27, 2016Putin Ups the Ante: Ceasefire Sabotage Triggers Major Offensive in Aleppo Samantha Power dispelled any doubt that either she or anyone else in the Obama administration cared at all about the people who lost their lives in the bombing raid. She also made it clear that she didn't care if the US had violated the terms of the ceasefire just two days before critical parts of the agreement were scheduled to be implemented.
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