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(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 12, 2014
The criminalization of political opposition in America Severe penalties are being imposed on individuals who are not criminals, but political opponents of the policies of the Obama administration and corporate America, for which they have become victims of police violence and provocation. The cases involve people who took part in peaceful, legal protests in New York City and Chicago, only to be framed up and convicted on felony charges.

SHARE        Thursday, November 14, 2019
Democrats begin impeachment hearings with denunciations of Russia The first day of public, televised hearings on the possible impeachment of President Trump was dominated by denunciations of Russia by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and the first two witnesses, current State Department officials George Kent and William Taylor.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 27, 2018
Conflict in Washington escalates with report Trump sought to fire special prosecutor The main significance of the Times report is that it amounts to a further warning to Trump not to attempt to remove Mueller, under conditions where the White House is currently negotiating the terms under which Trump himself is to give testimony in the Russia investigation.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, February 4, 2020
With Sanders headed to victory, Iowa Democratic Party blocks release of caucus results The Iowa Democratic Party has refused to release results of the caucuses held throughout the state on Monday night to determine the allocation of delegates for the party's presidential nomination. Officials are now saying that they hope to have results "some time Tuesday."

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, August 13, 2011
Once again: Why Obama won't--and can't--be Roosevelt Obama chose to continue the bailout of the banks begun by Geithner, Bernanke and Bush's treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, and then to greatly expand it. Every aspect of the new administration's financial and economic policy was driven by the determination to restore solvency to the investment banks, stock traders and hedge funds, at the expense of the working class.

(5 comments) SHARE        Sunday, March 8, 2015
US orders 7,700 children deported without court hearings The fact that deportations of unaccompanied children take place at all is outrageous. That the numbers are in the thousands, if not higher, demonstrates the brutality of the crackdown on Central American migrants conducted by the US government, in direct contradiction to the public pretense of sympathy adopted by President Obama.

(6 comments) SHARE        Monday, February 15, 2016
Republican debate in South Carolina: Lies, mudslinging and an important truth The ninth Republican presidential debate of an already interminable primary campaign was another two-hour session of reactionary posturing and mutual mudslinging in which the four leading candidates denounced each other as liars -- and were telling the truth when they did so.

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 21, 2017
Big business, military tighten their grip on Washington Trump has increased the grip of the military and corporate America over the government to an extent unprecedented in US history. It is 56 years since President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his 1961 farewell address, warned of the dangers to democracy posed by the rise of the "military-industrial complex."

SHARE        Sunday, June 30, 2019
First Democratic debate: Demagogy on social issues, silence on war Four hours of nationally televised debates Wednesday and Thursday among 20 Democratic presidential candidates demonstrated the gigantic disconnect between the claims of this pro-war, pro-corporate party to be driven by concerns for the well-being of working people and the reality of poverty and oppression in America, for which the Democratic Party is no less responsible than the Republicans.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, December 30, 2012
White House, Congress extend police-state FISA law Unlike the massively publicized deadlock over tax increases and budget cuts slated to take effect New Year's Day (the "fiscal cliff"), the two parties had no difficulty working together to pass legislation to maintain the police-state powers of the American intelligence apparatus.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, February 1, 2014
Obama’s plan for long-term jobless: A teaspoon to bail out the ocean So ludicrous is the contrast between Obama's pompous rhetoric and his minimalist proposals that even the usually compliant corporate-controlled media has been compelled to take note. Typical was a prominent article in the Washington Post, headlined, "Obama Once Disdained Clinton's Small Steps and Now Takes His Own."

SHARE        Monday, October 14, 2019
US impeachment inquiry: State Department official testifies in defiance of Trump ban State Department official Marie L. Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine, testified for 10 hours Friday before the House Intelligence Committee, which is heading up the House impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, December 23, 2016
Trump names billionaire corporate raider Icahn to slash regulations on business In appointing billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn to a high-profile advisory role -- in charge of slashing government regulations on Wall Street, the oil monopolies and other giant corporations -- Donald Trump has once again underscored the radically right-wing character of his administration's domestic economic and social policy.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, March 5, 2018
Ruling class conflicts in the US target inner circle of Trump White House There is mounting concern that Trump is too erratic a figure to be relied on as the "commander-in-chief" of American imperialism, particularly under conditions of a growing movement from below, from the American working class, to oppose the policies of big business and both of the political parties that represent and defend corporate America.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, July 14, 2012
Voting rights in America under attack Texas is only one of the states that have enacted voter ID requirements and other measures aimed at curbing voter registration and reducing the number of people able to vote, in the name of a fight against "vote fraud." There have been virtually no documented reports of voter impersonation, the type of fraud that could be prevented by a photo ID requirement.

(6 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Behind the Flynn resignation and Trump crisis: A bitter conflict over imperialist policy Justice Department officials informed the White House several weeks ago that Flynn had discussed US sanctions on Russia with the ambassador, and that his repeated denials of that fact were false. A transcript of the Flynn-Kislyak conversation is reportedly circulating at the highest levels of official Washington.

SHARE        Thursday, February 27, 2020
Attacks against Sanders intensify ahead of South Carolina primary Bernie Sanders is likely to take an insurmountable lead in convention delegates in the March 3 "Super Tuesday" primaries, held in 14 states, including California, Texas, North Carolina and Virginia. Those contests take place just three days after the February 29 primary in South Carolina.

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Democrats embrace war hawk Bolton in Trump impeachment trial Leaked excerpts from a forthcoming book by former national security advisor John Bolton have staggered the Trump White House and overshadowed the efforts by Trump's lawyers to mount a defense in the Senate impeachment trial,

(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 23, 2020
Democratic Party establishment wages war on Sanders In an extraordinary interview published Tuesday, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, denounced Sanders and refused to commit herself to support Sanders if he wins the Democratic presidential nomination this year.

SHARE        Wednesday, September 7, 2011
US Postal Service demands right to slash jobs Donahoe said he was not seeking a congressional appropriation of funds to bail out the postal service, but rather legislative action to allow USPS to conduct its affairs like a private corporation -- in other words, the right to force postal workers to pay for the financial crisis through cuts in jobs and benefits.

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