Archives for General News
January 2017
Tuesday, January 31:
Sanders to Headline Sister Giant Conference in DC, Feb 2-4 (7 comments)
Obamacare Approval Skyrockets Since Trump Took Office As Repeal Backfires On GOP (6 comments)
In Case It Wasn't Clear Yet, Steve Bannon Is Our President (2 comments)
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Donald Trump, Colin Kaepernick, and Me on Super Bowl Sunday
It Took Donald Trump 8 Days To Bring The U.S. To The Brink Of A Constitutional Crisis (2 comments)
Monday, January 30:
Trump's Disapproval Rating Breaks Record Even Before Muslim Ban
Tomgram: Nomi Prins, Goldmanizing Donald Trump
Sunday, January 29:
War and Warming: Can We Save the Planet Without Taking on the Pentagon? (3 comments)
Trump gives National Security Council seat to ex-Breitbart chief Steve Bannon (4 comments)
Court Temporarily Blocks Parts Of Trump's Syrian Refugee And Travel Ban
Saturday, January 28:
Trump order halting some Muslim immigrants hits roadblock
Women's March: Seattle (1 comments)
What President Trump's Executive Orders Could Actually Do
Democrats Slam Trump's Immigration Ban As Callous And Cruel
Behind closed doors, Republican lawmakers fret about how to repeal Obamacare - The Washington Post
Even Trump's Own Voters Don't Support His Policies
Friday, January 27:
Cartoon comic humor--Dogs Discuss "A DOG'S PURPOSE" (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Trump Strategist Stephen Bannon Says Media Should 'Keep Its Mouth Shut' - by MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM (3 comments)
Bernie Sanders' digital team reveal loophole for people to phone Donald Trump's White House
CIA Pompeo Poised To Punish Whistleblowers If Torture Program Restored (6 comments)
David Swanson: Imagine Impeachment! (7 comments)
#StopSessions and #RejectRex Activists Head to Trial
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Democrats' flawed Donald Trump strategy won't protect us by Daniel Jose' Camacho, The Guardian
Manufactured Dissent or "Being a Good German Song" (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: What taxpayers should know about the cost of school choice - By Valerie Strauss (1 comments)
Thursday, January 26:
The Standing Rock protesters are caught between Trump, law enforcement, and saving their water
Remember the 25th Amendment: America's best hope may be Section 4 (1 comments)
The State Department's entire senior administrative team just resigned (6 comments)
Mexico Cancels Meeting: Trump Shreds US-Mexico Relations in Less Than a Week
Thanks, Trump. Doomsday Clock Now Two and a Half Minutes to Midnight. (1 comments)
Exodus de Re'sistance? Entire Senior Staff at Trump's State Dept. 'Unexpectedly' Resign (6 comments)
Mexico's President to Trump: "I Will Not Attend" Scheduled Meeting (4 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Trump's Impulses Now Carry the Force of the Presidency - Peter Baker, NY Times (1 comments)
Tomgram: William Astore, A Violent Cesspool of Our Own Making (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: The President's House Is Empty (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Trump's Voter Fraud Example? A Troubled Tale With Bernhard Langer - (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Trump's effort to profit off the presidency gets underway in earnest (3 comments)
Wednesday, January 25:
A Guy's View from Inside the Chicago Women's March (8 comments)
Trump's 'Voter-Fraud' Investigation Targets States That Opposed Him - The Atlantic (1 comments)
War on Facts Sparks Momentum for Scientists' March on Washington (4 comments)
EPA Freezes Grants, Tells Employees Not To Talk About It, Sources Say
Keith Olbermann: Donald Trump Is Not Of Sound Mind And Must Resign (1 comments)
The Syrian People Desperately Want Peace (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Trump's mentally ill says Paul Krugman this morning (24 comments)
Information lockdown hits Trump's federal agencies
Trump Aides Can't Stop Blabbing About How He's a Madman (1 comments)
Tuesday, January 24:
Donald Trump Warned Of A 'Rigged' Election, Was He Right? (4 comments)
Women's March: Whidbey Island, WA (7 comments)
"Meeting" with Senator Hatch and Lee: Salt Lake, Tuesday, Jan 24, 2017 (3 comments)
CNN Refuses to Air White House Press Conference Live (2 comments)
Trump signs executive orders to advance Keystone XL, Dakota Access pipelines
Federal Workers Told To Halt External Communication In First Week Under Trump (1 comments)
Trump seeks to revive Dakota Access, Keystone XL oil pipelines
Canada oil pipeline spills 200,000 liters on aboriginal land (2 comments)
Israel Approves Large Settlement Expansion in West Bank
Tomgram: John Feffer, A Globalism of the 1%
Trump Appoints Anti-Regulation Net Neutrality Enemy to Head FCC
U.S. Senate confirms Pompeo to be Trump's CIA director
Anti-Trump Marches And Rallies Planned For April 15
Monday, January 23:
Signs of Sisterhood: Inside the Women's March in Chicago (2 comments)
Crazyanne Conway Starts Presidency With 5th Grade Arguments (4 comments)
Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Living Nightmare of Intelligence Groupthink (1 comments)
Women's March: How to Join in the Next Step (5 comments)
Michael Morrissey: 58% of Americans Don't Think Russian "Hacking" Changed Election
Sunday, January 22:
Peace, Positivity as Massive Women's March Makes Voices Heard in D.C.
Kellyanne Conway says Donald Trump's team has "alternative facts." Which pretty much says it all.
Cyber-Security Expert Weighs in on Recount, Anonymous Threats and More
HERstory was made: Sister March in Norfolk, VA (6 comments)
World Erupts in Revulsion as Trump Becomes 45th US President
Rob Kall Debates Post Inauguration Protests on Press TV (3 comments)
Saturday, January 21:
Heavy Protests Mark Start Of Trump Presidency
Can Donald Trump Read? (1 comments)
WORLDWIDE PROTESTS 'We're Not Going Away': Huge Crowds for Women's Marches Against Trump (2 comments)
Obama denies pardon request for former Alabama governor (5 comments)
Jackson Thoreau: A Deeper Look at the Black Bloc: Did Trump's People Fund these Anarchists? (13 comments)
Women's Marches Rally Thousands In Cities Around The World
Republican Lawmakers in Five States Propose Bills to Criminalize Peaceful Protest
Friday, January 20:
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Real Meaning of Vladimir Putin's Kremlin Press Conference BY JULIA IOFFE- The Atlantic (5 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Today's Non-Inauguration News: Jan. 20, 2017 - The Atlantic
John F. Kelly confirmed as homeland security secretary
Senate confirms retired Gen. James Mattis as defense secretary, breaking with decades of precedent
Intercepted Russian Communications Part of Inquiry Into Trump Associates (4 comments)
Thursday, January 19:
Why Isn't Pharma Paying for the Opioid Addiction Epidemic It Caused? (3 comments)
Using JFK and 9/11 Research To Decode Fake News (27 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Study Finds School Improvement Grant Program Had No Impact on Student Achievement (2 comments)
Xi Jinping: China can be global leader as Trump era looms
Tomgram: William deBuys, How to Hijack an Election
Time's running out: As his Last Act in Office, Obama Should Right a Terrible Wrong and Free Leonard Peltier (2 comments)
Wednesday, January 18:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Trump will Make America Great Again by Aaron Rupar (1 comments)
George H.W. Bush and Wife Barbara Hospitalized as "Precaution" for Separate Health Issues (3 comments)
Gnosticism: knowing from the inside. (1 comments)
Sister Marches: Saturday Across the US & Around the World (16 comments)
The CIA's Secret History Is Now Online
Tuesday, January 17:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Will States Take Up the Mantle of Worker Protection? - The Atlantic (1 comments)
Everything we don't know about Betsy DeVos
Computer fraud in the 2015 election in Israel? Shin-Bet Head Nadav Argaman is asked to clarify (1 comments)
Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence
Trump Sexual Assault Accuser Going Ahead With Lawsuit
Eight Men Who Have as Much Money as Half of the World (2 comments)
ISRAEL: [Video] Arrested for singing in the rain...
Poll: Trump's Favorable Ratings Pre-Inauguration are Historically Low (1 comments)
Venzuelan President Says Trump "Won't Be Worse than Obama"
psst---New York Times now competing with WikiLeaks (6 comments)
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Twenty-First-Century Armageddons
Susan Lee Schwartz: Workers Say Trump's Labor Secretary Nominee Is a Habitual Violator of Labor Law; by Liza Featherstone "In These Times" (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Trump's America and the New World Order: A Conversation With Noam Chomsky (3 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: House Arms Itself for Witch Hunts - NY Times editorial (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Other Kushner Brother's Big Bet -
Michael Morrissey: From Selma to the CIA
Why Ridiculous Official Propaganda Still Works (2 comments)
Monday, January 16:
The Roots of Trump's Trade Rage - POLITICO Magazine
Meet the Trumps: America's new first family
Susan Lee Schwartz: Tax Refund Loans Are Revamped and Resurrected - by By Stacy Cowley (1 comments)
Here are all the lawmakers boycotting Trump's inauguration (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: With All Due Disrespect, by Paul Krugman (1 comments)
Weak labor market: President Obama hides behind automation
Sunday, January 15:
Yes, It Was Blood for Oil (Part Three): Codepink Nails the Truth About George Bush's Wars (10 comments)
Sanders: "Would Not Be Bad Thing for the American People" if FBI Director Comey Steps Down (1 comments)
'Most Damaging and Embarrassing Answer We Could Receive,' - Putin Shocks Experts (7 comments)
Humor--Are Overeating and Over-drinking the Same? (1 comments)
Saturday, January 14:
�zili Dantò: Colonialism in Haiti - Guy Philippe and Jovenel Moise (6 comments)
Life, housing and business are following the high speed rail lines in China (1 comments)
Friday, January 13:
Assange agrees to be extradited if Obama grants clemency for Manning (4 comments)
Assange Offers Obama Prisoner Exchange to Free Chelsia Manning
Susan Lee Schwartz: Why Americans Care About Trump's Tax Returns - Ron Wyden (1 comments)
Guglielmo Tell: Venezuela: Opposition Deputy Found with Explosives, Arrested (5 comments)
Barbara Lee D-CA to Lead Boycott of Inauguration (1 comments)
Seven arrested while serving food to homeless in Tampa without a permit (3 comments)
Guglielmo Tell: Obama Announces End to Cuban 'Wet Foot, Dry Foot' Policy (7 comments)
Thursday, January 12:
Trump says he has "nothing to do with Russia." The past 30 years show otherwise.
Senate Republicans Take The First Big Step Toward Repealing Obamacare
Holder on Redistricting: Chair of the Newly Formed National Democratic Redistricting Committee (4 comments)
Trump taps well of protest with calls for more drilling in national parks
Tomgram: Rajan Menon, The Iranian Connection in the Age of Trump
Is THIS What Is Wrong With Trump? (13 comments)
Fox News Defends Rival CNN Against Trump (3 comments)
Here's How To Understand The Bombshell New Report On Trump And Russia
Wednesday, January 11:
Manning on Obama's 'Short List' for Commutation (3 comments)
The FBI Is Investigating Allegations That Russia Has Compromising Information on Trump (video) (1 comments)
Tuesday, January 10:
Russian Operatives Claim to Have Compromising Personal and Financial Information About President-Elect Trump (1 comments)
Trump/Obama Receive Intel Regarding Trump in Alleged Sex Tape (2 comments)
Guardian Stoops to Double Standard on Fake News About Trump (2 comments)
Trump Daughter, Son-In-Law Will Remain Connected To Businesses While Working In D.C.
New York Times Says "Putingate" Worse Than Watergate (3 comments)
Trump's Approval Rating Sinks to 37 Percent Ahead of Inauguration Day
Senate postpones confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, Trump's education pick
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, The Best Defense
'Not Just Dumb--Dangerous': Trump to Force Exit of Nuke Safety Officials (2 comments)
Monday, January 9:
Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama (1 comments)
What Exactly Would It Mean to Have Trump's Finger on the Nuclear Button? - POLITICO Magazine (2 comments)
Jeff Sessions Wanted to "Drop the Case" Against KKK Lynching, Attorney Testified (1 comments)
Boris Johnson's US task would challenge even an experienced minister
Jeff Sessions, the Grim Reaper of Alabama
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, How We Got Here
First 2 House Dems to boycott inauguration (4 comments)
More evidence of early US involvement in Indian demonetisation
Sunday, January 8:
Colin Kaepernick Donates $50,000 to Standing Rock Health Clinic (1 comments)
California and New York Emerge as Centers of the Democratic Resistance (1 comments)
Ethics official warns against confirmations before reviews are complete
Tried to Strangle His Girlfriend, Heard Voices--Gun Cheerfully Returned to Him (2 comments)
Michael Morrissey: Russians Mock, Ridicule Charge They Helped Trump Win (3 comments)
Trump dumps inaugural parade announcer of past 60 years (2 comments)
Saturday, January 7:
One Evening in '88 on a Flight to Phoenix
It Was Not Terrorism, Just Another Mass Murder (4 comments)
The GOP's "Healthcare Plan" was decided 20 years ago in the 90s by- the Clinton Administration (2 comments)
The Fight to Save D.C. McMillan Park Isn't Over
Susan Lee Schwartz: Kochs, House, and Trump gut voting rights, internet freedom, and clean air with a single bill
Susan Lee Schwartz: Arms and the Trump - by Gail Collins
GOP jitters grow over dumping Obamacare (1 comments)
Friday, January 6:
Trump and Julian Assange, an Unlikely Pair, Unite to Sow Hacking Doubts - The New York Times (2 comments)
Vicente Fox calls Trump's proposed border wall a "racist monument"
Trump says hacking had "no effect" on election outcome
More Clapp-trap: Senate Hearing on Russian Election Mischief Again Fails to Prove Anything (102 comments)
Incarceration: US Dominates the World
How Many Bombs Did the United States Drop in 2016?
FBI Says Democrats Refused Access to Hacked E-Mail Servers - Bloomberg
Thursday, January 5:
Assange: Podesta's Password was (wait for it...): "Password" (4 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Winter is Coming: Prospects for the American Press Under Trump -BY JAY ROSEN (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: House Republicans revive obscure rule that allows them to slash the pay of individual federal workers to $1 - The Washin (2 comments)
Federal Judge Orders Pennsylvania to Provide Anti-Viral Hep-C Treatment to Mumia Abu-Jamal (2 comments)
Legal battle: Trump to face sworn deposition in coming days (1 comments)
Greta Van Susteren Joins MSNBC (3 comments)
Skeletons in Keith Ellison's Display Case - David Swanson (1 comments)
Five things that got broken at the oldest hacking event in the world (2 comments)
Israeli Judges Face Death Threats over Killer Soldier Verdict
Thousands Take Out Full-Page in NY Times to Resist Trump's "Fascism" (1 comments)
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Special Ops, Shadow Wars, and the Golden Age of the Gray Zone
Tomgram: Engelhardt, It Can Happen Here (In Fact, It Did!) (1 comments)
Wednesday, January 4:
Netanyahu Calls for Pardon of Israeli Convicted of Palestinian's Execution
At Least 50 Trump Electors Were Illegitimately Seated as Electoral College Members (7 comments)
Unexpected Candidacy Upends VA Dems' Plans for Gov Race (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: A Threat to U.S. Democracy: Political Dysfunction - by Eduardo Porter (2 comments)
Guglielmo Tell: Trump and Revenge of the 'Realists' (1 comments)
New Year's Resolutions for the NRA for 2017 (16 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Former Aspira principal alleged misuse of federal funds (2 comments)
Yes, It Was Blood for Oil (Part Two): Codepink Nails the Truth About George Bush's Wars (2 comments)
Megyn Kelly's Jump to NBC From Fox News Will Test Her, and the Networks (1 comments)
Sean Hannity After Interviewing Julian Assange: "I Believe Every Word He Says" (3 comments)
California Hires Eric Holder as Legal Bulwark Against Donald Trump (4 comments)
Tuesday, January 3:
Grasping The Opportunity Within This Crisis (11 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: No Test Left Behind: How Pearson Made a Killing on the US Testing Craze, BY Owen Davis
House Republicans To Gut Ethics Watchdog
Big Legal Win for Climate Scientist May Impact all Bloggers (1 comments)
Monday, January 2:
Time To Recess Appoint Some Federal Judges (2 comments)
Israeli police question Benjamin Netanyahu in corruption inquiry
Christmas, Election and 2016 Remorse
Susan Lee Schwartz: Education Lingo and How It is Used to Mislead the Public (1 comments)
WaPo retracts story about Russian hack job (4 comments)
Sunday, January 1:
Texas judge strikes down statute protecting transgender people from healthcare discrimination
Study shows Sanders 'America' ad made viewers happiest (6 comments)
Turkey nightclub shooting: Istanbul on alert after gunman kills dozens