Archives for General News
April 2017
Saturday, April 29:
Day 12, Protests Around the World in Support of Palestinian Hunger Strikers (1 comments)
US Pirate Party Looking for Candidates
Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern on the CIA's History of Disseminating Faulty Intelligence
The Fading American Dream: Declining Mobility and Increasing Inequality
The People's Climate Change March in Our Nation's Capitol
Day 11, Palestinian Prisoners Hunger Strike
Friday, April 28:
Day 10, Palestinian Hunger Strikers Refuse Water
Court suspends case over Obama climate rule (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Trumpcare 2.0: It's Even Worse Than the Original (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: What Trump's Tax Proposal Will Cost (3 comments)
Chinese scientists propose 2,000km/h submarine maglev (4 comments)
10 Gun Victims Killed on the day of JFK Assassination--Book Review
Thursday, April 27:
CA single-payer healthcare bill passes first committee test
Susan Lee Schwartz: Here's What Trump Has Done For Women In His First 100 Days (1 comments)
Wednesday, April 26:
The Toxins Found in Pepsi (1 comments)
Tuesday, April 25:
Trump's Latest Plan to Undo Obama's Legacy May Be Illegal
Where Is the Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders of Foreign Policy? (7 comments)
Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, The Criminalization of Immigrants From Clinton to Trump
NOLA Removes White Supremacist Monument
Monday, April 24:
Elizabeth Warren endorses VA's Progressive Tom Perriello (10 comments)
Trump's AP Interview: Unhinged, Bombastic, and "[Unintelligible]" (2 comments)
Science in Defiance: Marches go Global on Earth Day (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: WSJ: Congress Is Going After Your Pension, Not Theirs (3 comments)
Sunday, April 23:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Syria Changed the World (5 comments)
Trump Removes Surgeon General (1 comments)
Sanders Live on Facebook 04.24.17., 2 pm ET at People's Action Conference (3 comments)
March For Science Open Thread (4 comments)
Experts Offer SOS Immediate GA6 Verifiable Election Help
Saturday, April 22:
Sanders' Stumping for Anti-Choice Mayoral Candidate Draws Ire (5 comments)
Friday, April 21:
March set a remarkable new record for global warming, NOAA reports (3 comments)
Donald Trump has 'dangerous mental illness', say psychiatry experts at Yale conference (35 comments)
George Will predicts Obamacare to become single-payer because of this inconvenient fact (6 comments)
Thursday, April 20:
Experts: "In a nuclear war between the US and Russia, everybody in the world would die." (7 comments)
"We're Not Leaving": US Weighs Helping Saudis Bomb Yemen Even More (2 comments)
Trump Administration Putting US Back on Path to War With Iran, Warn Experts (1 comments)
The Ministry of Silly Threats (21 comments)
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Do African Famines Presage Global Climate-Change Catastrophe?
White supremacist blames Trump for inspiring him to violence
Susan Lee Schwartz: House GOP releases Dodd-Frank replacement bill, sets hearing
Susan Lee Schwartz: Donald Trump Threatens to Sabotage Obamacare (2 comments)
Wednesday, April 19:
Chaffetz will not seek re-election -- or any other office -- in 2018 (1 comments)
Trump's Complacency on Currency Manipulation Reinforces his Populist in Name Only (PINO) Status (3 comments)
Tuesday, April 18:
Israel Cracks the Whip on Hunger-Striking Palestinian Prisoners
Justice Neil Gorsuch takes the bench, hears a federal worker's "mixed-case" complaint.
With Jon Ossoff, Democrats Abandon Rural America for Wealthy Suburbs (3 comments)
Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Remind Us How This Ends... (2 comments)
Monday, April 17:
Vaughan Famularo: Russia is not our Enemy (116 comments)
BRICS Issues Joint Statement: Illegal Military Intervention in Syria Is Unacceptable
A Trump district co-chair just called me: 'I am off the train. We were trumped.' (VIDEO) (1 comments)
USA Drops 21,000 bomb. Meaning of it, by Debbie Lusignan, aka The Sane Progressive (5 comments)
Afghan Tunnels We Bombed Were Built by the CIA (1 comments)
Tomgram: Ira Chernus, Love Trumps Domination (Without the Combover)
Republicans Ready to Sell Your Internet Privacy at a Level That Boggles the Mind (1 comments)
Crucifixion by Drone: Justice Action at NY Drone Base; Nine Arrested by Agents of the Roman American Empire (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Inside Story of the Kushner-Bannon Civil War (1 comments)
Sunday, April 16:
Tax March Houston buoyed by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's strong Trump admonition
�zili Dantò: Haiti Reacts to Extension of UN Force and Petitions the UN Security Council On UN and UN Sex Rings (6 comments)
Guardian's new low of journalistic abdication (1 comments)
Saturday, April 15:
"Show Your Taxes, Trump!" Tax March, Washington, DC (4 comments)
Friday, April 14:
Susan Lee Schwartz: North Korea and the Risks of Miscalculation by Kathy Gilsinan (3 comments)
San Bernardino Murders--Latest Example of Gendercide (2 comments)
Emerging Trend: Local Illinois Dems Unseat Long Entrenched GOP Incumbents and Candidates
Thursday, April 13:
US drops largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan on Maundy Thursday (2 comments)
Let's stop calling North Korea 'crazy' and understand their motives (1 comments)
Trump Threatens to Withhold Insurer Payments if Dems Shun Bargaining Table (15 comments)
Tomgram: William Astore, From Deterrence to Doomsday?
Cost of Military Spending (3 comments)
Wednesday, April 12:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Virtual Schools Report 2017by Nat'l Education Policy Center (3 comments)
Kentucky Coal Museum Goes Solar
Susan Lee Schwartz: Don't Politicize the Federal Reserve (5 comments)
Tuesday, April 11:
Crowd chants 'you lie' at Joe Wilson's town hall (Karma strikes)
Tomgram: Mattea Kramer, Road Rules, or Rediscovering My Country from Cuban Soil (1 comments)
Monday, April 10:
It's Not Me, It's You: EPA Staffer Quits With Candid Letter to Pruitt
Trump to Axe Amtrak for 220 Cities
Tomgram: Dahr Jamail, Alaska in the Crosshairs (1 comments)
Michael Savage Turns on Trump, Says Syrian Gas Attack Was False Flag Operation (2 comments)
Sunday, April 9:
Five Top Papers Run 18 Opinion Pieces Praising Syria Strikes--Zero Are Critical (3 comments)
Pope Prays for Victims of Palm Sunday Bombings in Egypt, 43 Dead
"Democrats are acting like a bunch of cowards": Trump's Syria strike opens a rift on the left (50 comments)
Saturday, April 8:
5 Prominent Trump Critics Who Were Positively Gushing About His Syrian Airstrike (5 comments)
Friday, April 7:
Closer to Nuclear War Now than Ever Before (10 comments)
Video Footage from Al-Shayrat Airbase, Syria (4 comments)
Big Lies and World War 3 (1 comments)
Russia Suspends Syria "Air Safety" Agreement with US
Susan Lee Schwartz: C.I.A. Had Evidence of Russian Effort to Help Trump Earlier Than Believed (3 comments)
Putin believes US attack on Syria violates international law (10 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Like Middle East Wars? You're Gonna Love President Trump -
The government is demanding to know who this Trump critic is. Twitter is suing to keep it a secret
Thursday, April 6:
Dozens of U.S. Missiles Hit Air Base in Syria - The New York Times (7 comments)
What do Tony Romo and Stephen Bannon Have in Common? Comic cartoon humor (1 comments)
Ossoff Georgia Campaign Update: He's Crushing It (4 comments)
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Believe the Autocrat (1 comments)
U.S. Releases Detailed Intelligence on Syrian Chemical Attack - NYT Fake News 2013 (10 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Rising Risks for Retirement Savers (1 comments)
Wednesday, April 5:
Poorly Executed Chemical Attack False Flag Hits Syria Again (9 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: How Trump Can Solve His Chinese Puzzle
Susan Lee Schwartz: Jared Kushner, Man of Steel by Frank Bruni
Israeli minister presented Trump envoy with plan to build Gaza island port
The global dangers of industrial meat (6 comments)
The Quiet Death of an Anti-Apartheid Hero
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Supreme Court as Partisan Tool (4 comments)
Tuesday, April 4:
BREAKING: Sen. Merkley Filibustering Gorsuch - Live Stream (10 comments)
Sanders endorses VA Guberatorial Candidate Perriello (1 comments)
Dozens reported killed in alleged gas attack in Syria (9 comments)
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Teflon Wars
Monday, April 3:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Arizona: Legislators Want to Expand Vouchers, Despite Audit Showing Misspent Funds; by Diane Ravitch
Standing Rock Update: ING Bank Divests Its DAPL Financing
Fracking Ban About to Become Law in Maryland
Susan Lee Schwartz: ALERT! Beware the SAT and ACT: They Sell Confidential Student Data; by Diane Ravitch
Judge rules Trump may have incited violence
Be not White, Be not Black, Have all The Colors in your Heart.
Interview with the Author of the Pharma Thriller Not Safe As Prescribed (4 comments)
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Would-Be Strongmen Worldwide
Interview with David Cobb, Part 2: Greener on the Other Side
Susan Lee Schwartz: Here's How Every Senate Democrat Plans To Vote On Neil Gorsuch (4 comments)
Sunday, April 2:
The Mosul Massacres: the Banality of Evil revisited. (1 comments)
FBI probing whether Trump aides helped Russian intel in early 2016
UN: Americans' Right to Protest is in Grave Danger Under Trump (1 comments)
Saturday, April 1:
Vaccines Are Pharma's New Profit Center but They Aren't as Safe as Pharma Wants You To Think (11 comments)