Archives for General News
December 2016
Saturday, December 31:
ACLU & CAIR Use Cville Spokesman to Claim War on Iraq Was for Bill of Rights (1 comments)
Trump Is Truly Cheap, and His Charity a "Facade"
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Times' Charles Blow Tells Donald Trump To F*ck Off, In No Uncertain Terms. (3 comments)
Obama to meet lawmakers in attempt to protect health law
Susan Lee Schwartz: Trump's wife posing with gun...Thong and Boots..And they had a problem with Michelle's bare arms. (1 comments)
Kellyanne Conway's Husband Could Become Donald Trump's Top Supreme Court Lawyer
Michael Morrissey: US bombs hospital amid escalating assault on Mosul (3 comments)
DHS FBI Claim of Russian Hacking is Fake News (32 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Coming Assault on Social Security byDave Lindorff (3 comments)
Friday, December 30:
Theresa May's criticism of John Kerry Israel speech sparks blunt US reply
Putin: Russia Won't Expel U.S. Diplomats in Retaliation for Sanctions
These "Sportsmen" Don't Do This for Money or Ecology--They Do It for "Fun" (12 comments)
Obama administration announces measures to punish Russia for 2016 election interference - The Washington Post (1 comments)
Thursday, December 29:
Shady Pastor to Pray With Trump at Inauguration
CIA Interrogator: At Time of U.S. Invasion, Saddam Hussein Was Focused on Writing Novel, Not WMDs (3 comments)
Thanks to Congress, Trump Will Have Nearly Unlimited Power to Wage War (2 comments)
Damning Investigation Finds Trump's Philanthropy Largely a "Facade" (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Carolina Coup and the Fight for Public Education by Jeff Bryant (1 comments)
Interview with Julian Assange: "Donald? It's a Change Anyway" (5 comments)
Rep. Bettyann Sheats, Military Mom: Fighting Toxic Chemicals and Climate Change (2 comments)
Opening salvo: Get Ready for an All-Out Assault on Social Security by Washington in 2017 (4 comments)
Wednesday, December 28:
How Much Danger Is Net Neutrality in Now? [A large amount] (5 comments)
Tuesday, December 27:
Trump Selects His Anti-Peace Bankruptcy Lawyer As Ambassador To Israel
House Republicans Propose Rules to Punish Broadcasting, Photography From Chamber Floor - NBC News (1 comments)
How Journalists Covered the Rise of Mussolini and Hitler
Israel Pressing Ahead With Settlements Despite U.N. Vote
Monday, December 26:
Under Cover of Christmas, Obama Establishes Controversial Anti-Propaganda Agency (3 comments)
"No War - Save Article 9" Sign Waving For President Obama And Japanese Prime Minister Abe's Meeting
Netanyahu seeks to rally Israelis around him in anti-Obama assault (1 comments)
CIA Constinues to Fund Terrorist Groups in Afghanistan (2 comments)
It is Time to Stop Trump's Reckless Policy Meddling (5 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Quiet War on Medicaid -By Gene B. Sperling (1 comments)
Sunday, December 25:
Progressive causes see "unprecedented" upswing in donations after US election
Russian military plane crashes in Black Sea, "killing 92" (2 comments)
That's Not What I Asked For--Christmas Humor Comic
Trump's Conflicts of Interest Could Still Well Be His Achilles Heel (1 comments)
Saturday, December 24:
Dems Break Into Violence as Clinton Fans Repel Sanders Partisans (24 comments)
Trump aide Jason Miller backs out of White House job (1 comments)
Israel to reassess UN ties following UNSC resolution: Netanyahu (1 comments)
Trump says he will dissolve his foundation before assuming office
Julian Assange gives guarded praise of Trump and blasts Clinton in interview (3 comments)
Horrifying, personal John Bolton story (18 comments)
Trump Team Asks State Dept. To Name Those Working On Gender Equality
God Smiled on Palestine at the United Nations (2 comments)
Hard-wired: The brain's circuitry for political belief -- ScienceDaily (4 comments)
Friday, December 23:
We Need the Environmental Protection Agency Now More Than Ever
Why Even Trump-Friendly Artists Won't Perform at His Inauguration (1 comments)
'Let It Be an Arms Race': Trump Clarifies Tweet on Expanding Nuclear Stockpile (1 comments)
China to Trump: Want A Trade War? We'll Start By Targeting Republican States
Trump Wives, Daughters Keep Fur on Fashion Map (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Point of View: North Carolina no longer a democracy; by Dr. Andrew Reynolds; (1 comments)
Offshore Wind Farm in NY planned by Norwegian Oil Company
Seattle to Divest $3 Billion From Wells Fargo Over Standing Rock
Thursday, December 22:
Wednesday, December 21:
How Faith Spotted Eagle became the first Native American to win an electoral vote for president
EU's Top Court Delivers "Major Blow" to Mass Surveillance (1 comments)
Older Americans Pushed Into Poverty as Feds Garnish Social Security for Student Debt (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Mapping the Shadows of New York City: Every Building, Every Block - The New York Times
From Maine to Hawaii, Electoral College votes cast for Bernie Sanders (3 comments)
Tuesday, December 20:
Obama Permanently Blocks Arctic, Atlantic Drilling (7 comments)
Newt Gingrich Thinks Nepotism Laws Shouldn't Apply To Trump Administration (2 comments)
Tomgram: William Astore, All the President's Generals
Monday, December 19:
Donald Trump Completes Final Lap, Electoral College, to White House (3 comments)
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Washington's America-First Commandos in Africa
Military Recruiting in the United States - a new book (3 comments)
Top 10 censored stories of 2015-16: When what you don't know can kill you (1 comments)
Electoral College: What to Know About Monday's Vote
Susan Lee Schwartz: Russia's next election operation: Germany - By Anne Applebaum
Sunday, December 18:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Donald Trump: The Russian Poodle - by Nicholas Kristof (1 comments)
Trump Offers Ambassadorships to Talent Bookers for Big Names at Inauguration
Susan Lee Schwartz: A Pro Bono Dream Team Takes On the N.R.A. By THE EDITORIAL BOARD of The New York Times
Saturday, December 17:
Donald Trump faces impeachment if new conflicts of interest bill passed (9 comments)
Senate Democrats Roll Out New Website Inviting Personal Stories from Americans Hurt by Foreclosure King Steve Mnuchin (1 comments)
Yes, It Was Blood for Oil: Codepink Nails the Truth About George Bush's Wars (8 comments)
Donald Trump accuses China of "unpresidented" act over US navy drone (1 comments)
New Video: Watch Wisconsin Election Officials Reject Hand Counts After Electronic Scanners Make Big Mistake (2 comments)
We Want To Live [messages from Aleppo]
Trump mocks media as he recounts Election Day win
Lawyers for Standing Rock protesters are pleading for more help
Susan Lee Schwartz: Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy? - By Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt (6 comments)
Survey: Did you want Sanders for Pres? (4 comments)
Friday, December 16:
Internet Vote Transmission with the ES&S DS200 Voting Machine (1 comments)
Trump Threatening Electoral College with Retribution? [Sounds like it to me. dg]
A New Poll on the Secret World of Trump Voters
U.S. Demands Return of Drone Seized by Chinese Warship (1 comments)
Detroit poll books still missing
Detroit's voting irregularities spur state audit
Thursday, December 15:
FEMA Field Force manual offers protesters insights into the future of crowd control
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Donald Trump's Energy Nostalgia and the Path to Hell
"I'm with No One": Grayson's 'None of the Above' bill (1 comments)
Tea Partier Joe Walsh Blasts "Treasonous" Trump (6 comments)
Wednesday, December 14:
Electoral College's Job is to Protect U.S. From a Demagogue (74 comments)
Palast Report for Democracy Now!: By Rejecting Recount, Is Michigan Covering up 75,000 Ballots Never Counted? (video) (2 comments)
George Bush's Criminal Wars of Aggression: a Detailed History (2 comments)
One in Six Americans Are Now Taking Psychiatric Medicationss (3 comments)
Creator of Anti-Trump (Change.Org's largest e-Petition ever) Letter to the Electors
Tuesday, December 13:
U.S. Energy Department balks at Trump request for names on climate change
Don't Pursue Rogue Alternatives to Fund Federal Infrastructure Plan (4 comments)
Tomgram: Tim Shorrock, American Military Power in Asia and the Trump Factor
The Voting News for 12/13/2016
North Dakota Oil Pipeline Spills Estimated 176,000 Gallons
Monday, December 12:
Court to Hear Lawsuit Against Bush for Nuremberg War Crimes (4 comments)
Trump postpones announcement on how he will avoid conflicts of interests
Something to counter the hysterical Russian Election- tampering meme (4 comments)
Pipeline spills 176,000 gallons of crude into creek about 150 miles from Dakota Access protest camp
Passing the torch: Mikulski says goodbye to the Senate
As North Pole Melts in November, Wildfires Rage Across US Well Into Winter (2 comments)
Trump Gives The Electoral College Reason To Reject Him During Fox News Interview (1 comments)
Methane Emissions Are Soaring, Report Finds, and Agriculture Is to Blame
This Man's First-Hand Account of the Michigan Recount Is Disturbing
Rick Perry summoned to Trump Tower to discuss energy secretary position (2 comments)
China warns Trump against ignoring its Taiwan interests
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Yet Another Undeclared U.S. War (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Don't Let The Government Take Away Your Public School- by Arthur Camins (2 comments)
Israel Intensifies Illegal Settlements in East Jerusalem...Evicts Palestinians
Sunday, December 11:
The Daily Beast: How Do We Know Our Elections Are Fair?
We the People Demand a New Vote (32 comments)
Slovenia Amends Constitution, Declares Water a Human Right
Washington State Electors File Lawsuit To Stop Trump From Becoming President (7 comments)
Boeing, Iran Air Clinch $16 Billion Deal for 80 Planes (4 comments)
Many Predict Trump Will Hate Being President (2 comments)
Looks Like Trump May Have Committed a Major Electoral Felony. (3 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Rigging of DC Scores to Claim "Improvement" That Didn't Happen: Diane Ravitch & Mercedes Schneider (1 comments)
Saturday, December 10:
Edward Snowden backers beam calls for pardon on Washington news museum (3 comments)
Rex Tillerson of ExxonMobil Expected to Be Named Trump's Secretary of State
The Truth About Syria - press conference at the Syrian Mission of the UN
Guns, Drugs, & Suicide lower life expectency over previous year
Friday, December 9:
Trump's cabinet picks: here are all of the appointments so far
Court Battle Over The Dakota Access Pipeline Continues Into the New Year
Climate change is already causing widespread local extinction in plant and animal species -- ScienceDaily (1 comments)
US Military Admits: We Deliberately Bombed a Hospital in Iraq
'Fox, Meet Henhouse': Trump Offers Goldman Sachs President Top Economic Post (1 comments)
Senator John Glenn Passes at Age 95, the First American to Orbit the Earth (1 comments)
Saudis Bankroll Taliban, Even as King Officially Supports Afghan Government
Rather than Exposing Propaganda, Washington Post Shows How It's Done (1 comments)
Hillary Clinton Does Have a Viable Legal Challenge to the Electoral College System
Pants On Fire for Trump's claim about 'serious voter fraud' in California (1 comments)
Thursday, December 8:
U.S. 2016 Unadjusted Exit Poll Discrepancies Fit Chronic Republican Vote-Count Rigging, not Random Statistical Patterns (12 comments)
Fate of Dakota Access Pipeline Remains in Limbo Over Missing Documents (4 comments)
Federal judge halts Michigan presidential election recount
Tomgram: Nomi Prins, The March of the Billionaires
Detroit Free Press: What democracy looks like, looked like
Wednesday, December 7:
Trump to name Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma attorney general suing EPA on climate change, to head the EPA
Pope warns media over 'sin' of spreading fake news, smearing politicians (6 comments)
WikiLeaks Cables Link U.S. Government To The Creation Of ISIL (16 comments)
Has the battle for Aleppo birthed Foreign Legions preparing a Sunni-Shia endgame? (11 comments)
Donald Trump Picks Scott Pruitt, Ally of Fossil Fuel Industry, to Lead E.P.A. (2 comments)
De'tente Now: A New Call for Peace, Security, and Cooperation Between Russia & the West (1 comments)
Will Trump Give Pharma a Pass on Overseas Jobs? (6 comments)
Tar Heel Heist: How the Charter School Industry is Hijacking Public Education (2 comments)
Trump Fires Adviser's Son From Transition for Spreading Fake News (3 comments)
Half of America Is in or Damn Near Close to Living in Poverty (1 comments)
Julian Assange releases full testimony to Swedish prosecutors six years after rape allegation (1 comments)
A Tribal Chairman Talks Trump, Pipelines and Poverty on the Plains (13 comments)
Tuesday, December 6:
BradBlog: Failed Paper Ballot Scanners in Detroit Put MI 'Recount' at Risk (4 comments)
Petition DEMANDING The Electoral College Take Action To Stop Trump Has Just Made History (2 comments)
Elections that Went to Pot: It's a Good Thing!
Trump Threatens to Cancel Air Force One Order, Boeing Stock Slips (1 comments)
BREAKING: Blizzard in North Dakota and Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Calls for Water Protectors To Return Home (5 comments)
Republican Electoral College Elector Makes A Devastating Argument That Trump Could Be Impeached (3 comments)
Alec Baldwin's Knock-Out SNL Skits as Trump Are Making the President-Elect's Head Explode More Than Anything Else (1 comments)
Ivanka Trump Aims to Use the First Lady's Lectern to Champion Liberal Causes (2 comments)
"After Fire" -- The Challenges Facing Women Veterans (1 comments)
Site Smeared as 'Russian Propaganda' Demands Washington Post Retraction (1 comments)
Urgent Message from RecountNow.org re: the Ongoing Recount
Florida voters sue for recount
Paul DeRienzo: Flynn flam: Neocon Ex-General to Be Trump's National Security Advisor
Tomgram: John Feffer, The Deconstruction of America, 2016-2050
The Guardian: US elections: broken machines could throw Michigan recount into chaos
Recount Update for Wisconsin, Michigan and Florida (9 comments)
Monday, December 5:
Susan Lee Schwartz: GOOD NEWS in Nevada: Supreme Court Strikes Down Funding of Vouchers; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Environmentalists Are Being Murdered at a Frightening Rate: What Can Be Done?
Trump names Ben Carson as housing secretary
Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Obama's Last Chance (2 comments)
Has Assange been Abducted by CIA? (16 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: All the Fake News That Was Fit to Print - Kenan Malik
Susan Lee Schwartz: Trump's Threat to the Constitution -by evan McMullin (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Privacy experts fear Donald Trump running global surveillance network, by Spencer Ackerman & Ewen MacAskil -The Guardian
Sunday, December 4:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Trump's Business Empire Isn't Just an Ethical Disaster - The New York Times (1 comments)
Sanders sings Obama's praises for stopping Dakota pipeline
Philadelphia Launches Voluntary Recount After Finding Major Vote Total Discrepancies (1 comments)
Why Is Donald Trump So Afraid Of A Recount In Michigan? (1 comments)
These Wisconsin Counties Sided With Machine Recounts (1 comments)
What It Would Take To Repair The Voting System (and Why Isn't Anybody Doing It?) (4 comments)
Kerry says would be valuable for Trump to seek advice before calls
Trump Expands Search for His Secretary of State
President Obama Halts The Dakota Access Pipeline, Which Must Reroute
BREAKING: Army Corps Denies Easement for Dakota Access Pipeline (8 comments)
Recount Rally at Trump Tower, NYC, Monday, December 5th
Edward Snowden: David Petraeus Disclosed "Far More Highly Classified" Secrets Than I Did
Act Now if You Care About Your Future (1 comments)
Hawaii's Tulsi Gabbard Joins Water Protectors at Standing Rock (12 comments)
Saturday, December 3:
Wisconsin recount observers discover five vote counting machines with tampered seals (25 comments)
Stein adopts county level strategy to force automatic statewide PA recount (4 comments)
Bowe Bergdahl, Facing Desertion Trial, Asks Obama for Pardon (1 comments)
Tribes Ask International Human Rights Commission to Stop Violence Against Water Protectors at Standing Rock (4 comments)
Trump's Defense Pick Accused of Delaying Aid to Wounded Soldiers
Trump stands with Big Oil, backs the Dakota Access pipeline
Congratulations - Rob Kall & Op_Ed News Just Made an Orwellian Blacklist! (7 comments)
Finally NBC News Covers Standing Rock as Thousands of Veterans Arrive (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: The letter from Carrier to its employees that Donald Trump doesn't want you to read (1 comments)
Friday, December 2:
Veterans Deploy to Standing Rock: Twitter Updates
Military Vets, US Politicians Joining Standing Rock Protest
Winter & Vets come to Standing Rock: News and Video Updates (2 comments)
Carrier Sends Employees Letter, Acknowledges More Jobs Will go to Mexico Than Remain in US
Trump supporters aggressively challenge Stein recount efforts in three states (1 comments)
Dean drops out of DNC chairmanship race
Trump speaks with Taiwanese president, a major break with decades of U.S. policy on China (4 comments)
Too busy getting rich for war crimes?: Is Trump's Idea To Fix the 'Rigged System' by Hiring Crooks Who've Played It? (2 comments)
2016 Recount Update: Republicans Freaking out in Wisconsin, and Greens File for Hand Counts in Michigan (1 comments)
Mike Pence's New Neighbors Welcome Him With Gay Pride Flags (1 comments)
Why Is Trump Fighting So Hard to Stop the Recount in Michigan? (1 comments)
Goodbye Grasslands. Goodbye Birds. Goodbye Carbon Sink. (2 comments)
Climate Change and the Coming 'Humanitarian Crisis of Epic Proportions'
Petraeus would need to notify probation officer if he is selected as secretary of state
Bob Koehler Weighs in on the Recount (2 comments)
Thursday, December 1:
Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. James Mattis for secretary of defense (3 comments)
Elizabeth Warren supports former rival Scott Brown for VA secretary (4 comments)
Teen becomes seventh 'faithless elector' to protest Trump as president-elect (2 comments)
Michigan Trump staffer convicted on ten counts of felony election fraud (22 comments)
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Most Dangerous Country on Earth (3 comments)
Putin's Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly of Russia (1 comments)
Betsy DeVos May Complete The Big Money Takeover Of Our Nation's Schools (1 comments)
Jill Stein on Democracy Now: Voting Invites Tampering, Hacking, Human Error
Susan Lee Schwartz: The conservative group behind efforts to intimidate professors (2 comments)
The No-BS Inside Guide to the Recount (2 comments)
What Has Happened to Ukraine in the Last 3 Years? (3 comments)