Archives for General News
March 2018
Saturday, March 31:
RT silenced in Washington DC, proving FARA crackdown not just formality -- RT US News (4 comments)
Friday, March 30:
White House chaos jeopardizes war on ISIS, U.S. commanders warn (1 comments)
Here's What's in the Budget Bill Nobody's Bothered to Read - POLITICO Magazine (1 comments)
The Conservative Plot to Oust an Able Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2 comments)
Thursday, March 29:
Russian spy: Yulia Skripal "conscious and talking" (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Privatizing the V.A. Will Hurt Veterans (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Florida Pro: Florida Offering Big $$$$ Inducements and Freedom from State Laws to Woo Corporate Charter Chains (2 comments)
NHS Doctor: "No Patients Have Experienced Symptoms Of Nerve Agent Poisoning In Salisbury" (20 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Leaked Memo: EPA Shows Workers How To Downplay Climate Change
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Making Atrocities Great Again
Susan Lee Schwartz: Sorry to Say, the Common Core is Not Dead Yet says Nicholas Tampio; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Two Koreas to hold summit April 27 (2 comments)
Wednesday, March 28:
Ecuador cuts WikiLeaks founder Assange's internet at embassy (1 comments)
Trump replaces embattled Veterans Affairs secretary with White House physician
John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment (11 comments)
Kim Jong-un Offers Conditional Denuclearization (16 comments)
Tuesday, March 27:
Susan Lee Schwartz: A once thriving coal town has turned toxic, and citizens are desperate for help by Mark Hand (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Why is the NYC Department of Education Closing a Successful School in Bed-Stuy? by Diane Ravitch blog. (2 comments)
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The White Ford Bronco Presidency
Monday, March 26:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Scott Pruitt's Dirty Politics: How the EPA became the best friend of the fossil-fuel industry (1 comments)
Tomgram: John Feffer, Springtime for Despots
An Israeli and a Palestinian slap a soldier. Guess who's still in prison? (2 comments)
Sunday, March 25:
March for Our Lives: Selected Tweets (2 comments)
US, South Korea push forward with annual military drills
Trump plans to oust Shulkin as VA secretary (1 comments)
Conservative makes her views known on NRA at DC March For Our Lives rally (VIDEO) (2 comments)
Trump's truly awful pick for national security advisor: Warmonger John Bolton to be Trump's National Security Advisor (3 comments)
"You have it in you to shout," Pope tells youth on Palm Sunday (1 comments)
Emma Gonzalez Is Responsible for the Loudest Silence in the History of US Social Protest (2 comments)
Saturday, March 24:
March for Our Lives, Lancaster PA: A Photo Essay (2 comments)
March for Our Lives: The Next Children's Crusade (31 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: House OKs bill linking charter, public schools on ballots (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: 'A grand illusion': seven days that shattered Facebook's facade (3 comments)
Why did Ahed Tamimi accept a plea deal? (2 comments)
Friday, March 23:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Voices Of School Shooting Survivors (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Phoenix Starshine Academy charter school under fraud investigation (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: 'Dark Money' Gets Protection in Congressional Spending Bill, Yet Again by Josh Keefe (2 comments)
Bolton: Most reckless person in American Public Life (1 comments)
Thursday, March 22:
Ben & Jerry's Not as Green As Many Think (2 comments)
H.R. McMaster out as national security adviser, replaced with John Bolton (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Trees older than America: a primeval Alaskan forest is at risk in the Trump era (1 comments)
Teen Ahed Tamimi to serve 8 months in prison for slapping soldier in occupied village
Susan Lee Schwartz: Trump's Talk Worries Me, Like the Talk Before the Iraq War ; By Nicholas Kristof (3 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Center for American Progress: The Highly Negative Effects of Vouchers,by Diane Ravitch (2 comments)
Wednesday, March 21:
Guglielmo Tell: Disgraced Peru President Kuczynski Resigns After Vote-Buying Scandal (3 comments)
Trump Is About to Get a Dose of Due Process From Summer Zervos
Jailed Palestinian Teen Activist Ahed Tamimi Accepts Plea Deal (9 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Why Trump's school safety commission omits students and teachers - POLITICO (2 comments)
Invasion of Iraq, 15 years after, Trauma, Destruction & Violence (2 comments)
Kucinich: OH Atty General facilitated permit for pro-gun group
Tuesday, March 20:
US Planning a Terrorist False Flag Chemical Attack in Syria: Russia Says It Will Respond by Federico Pieraccini (14 comments)
An "Ashamed" Fox News Commentator Just Quit The "Propaganda Machine" (4 comments)
Father visits Ahed Tamimi in jail for first time, says she's in good spirits (2 comments)
Monday, March 19:
3 Months Later: Teen Ahed Tamimi Still in Israeli Military Prison (2 comments)
London, NATO step up war threats against Russia over Skripal poisoning (6 comments)
UK Scientists Refused Government Pressure To Say Nerve Agent Was Made (4 comments)
Sunday, March 18:
Putin decisively wins fourth term as Russia's president (2 comments)
Saturday, March 17:
Official UN Int'l Day of Happiness: March 20 (6 comments)
Acceptable Bigotry and Scapegoating of Russia -- Consortiumnews (1 comments)
Arkansas students receive corporal punishment for protesting gun violence
Louise Slaughter, 88, 16-Term Liberal Congresswoman, Is Dead
Susan Lee Schwartz: Why is accountability always about teachers? BY Mark Dynarski--Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center on Ch (9 comments)
50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Trump Aiding Cambridge Analytica in major data breach, With Russian Connectio (61 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Ohio: Why the State Wants to Take Over the State Board of Education; by Diane Ravitch (2 comments)
Friday, March 16:
Sessions fires McCabe before he can retire (2 comments)
Beware These Health Myths (4 comments)
Are 'Novichok' Poisons Real? - May's Claims Fall Apart (5 comments)
Julian Assange May be Dying Before our Eyes (13 comments)
On Track for Extinction: Can Humanity Survive? (1 comments)
Women Whistleblowers Stand For Truth (2 comments)
Trump's presidency is unravelling. But he won't fall without a push (5 comments)
Local TV News Anchors Required to Read Scripted Pro-Trump Propaganda (1 comments)
Finally, Trump Has Something Bad to Say About Russia - NYT Editorial Board (19 comments)
Thursday, March 15:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Fact Sheet: The Senate's Bipartisan Dodd-Frank Rollback Bill (1 comments)
Health Insurers Profit from Co-Pays (2 comments)
Wednesday, March 14:
Climate Change IS Upon Us (2 comments)
Sessions may fire top FBI official Andrew McCabe before pension eligibility
Susan Lee Schwartz: NPE Action Warns: Stop This New Federal Voucher Program Now (1 comments)
D.C.-area forecast: Staying cold and breezy as winter holds on tight
March for Our Lives - Sat. March 24, in DC and near you (2 comments)
Stephen Hawking, explorer of the universe, dead at 76 (1 comments)
Dem Conor Lamb is apparent winner of PA special election in Trump country (3 comments)
Stephen Hawking, modern cosmology's brightest star, dies aged 76
Tuesday, March 13:
Ahed Tamimi Updates and Tweets
Israel jails Palestinian activist who protested over Ahed Tamimi's arrest
Trump CIA Pick Haspel to Face Questions Over Interrogation Role (1 comments)
Republicans Want to Look at Gun Violence in Movies? OK, Let's Look
ICE spokesman resigns over Sessions' 'misleading' raid comments - NBC News (1 comments)
Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, The Fight Over the Criminalization of Immigrants
Susan Lee Schwartz: Congress Quashed Research Into Gun Violence. Since Then, 600,000 People Have Been Shot. (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Trump Ousts Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson (3 comments)
Monday, March 12:
Susan Lee Schwartz: El Chapo's Gem State Money Laundering School Voucher Bill;By Levi Cavener (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: LAUSD'S Latest SCAM! False Assertions of Overpayment of Salary to Teachers. (3 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: More For The Few, Less For The Many: How Little Known Laws Allow CEO Pay To Skyrocket (3 comments)
Qataris opted not to give info on Kushner, secret meetings to Mueller
Winston Churchill, the barbaric monster with the blood of millions on his hands (25 comments)
Guglielmo Tell: Cuba: Millions Head to Polls to Elect New National Assembly (2 comments)
Bassem Tamimi Interview: His Hope for Peace
Bassem Tamimi Interview: Ahed's Father's Hope for Peace (2 comments)
Sunday, March 11:
The bank deregulation bill in the Senate, explained - Vox (1 comments)
Slap heard 'round the world: Ahed Tamimi becomes symbol of Palestinian resistance
Peru's Palestinian Communities Demand Ahed Tamimi's Release
Jailed Israeli blogger Lori Shem-Tov, Freedom of Speech, and judicial fraud
Saturday, March 10:
Ahed & Bassem Tamimi interviewed by Empire Files' Abby Martin (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: 'Hollowed out' White House: Trump is on a dangerous path toward no advisers (2 comments)
'Pharma bro' Martin Shkreli gets 7 years in prison (2 comments)
Friday, March 9:
How Israel Renders a 50-Year Illegal Occupation Invisible (11 comments)
Michael Cohen used Trump company email in Stormy Daniels arrangements
Susan Lee Schwartz: Huge MIT Study of 'Fake News': Falsehoods Win on Twitter - "Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it," (6 comments)
"Fake news" gets a quantum jump; unreality looking terribly real (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: IMPORTANT ! Network for Public Education Releases a Parents' Guide to Online Learning;by Diane Ravitch (2 comments)
Why Ahed Tamimi needs to be freed (video) (3 comments)
Croatian MP: Get Ahed Tamimi out of prison and put Netanyahu in (3 comments)
Thursday, March 8:
The Real Danger of Trump's Steel and Aluminum Tariffs (1 comments)
Trump agrees to meet with Kim Jong-un "by May"
CodePink calls for Open Courtroom in Ahed Tamimi Trial: Sign Petition (1 comments)
Ahed Tamimi Billboards Posted on Interstate-95
Brazil's Socialism and Liberty Party Supports Boycott of Israel
Sunoco pipeline shut down after sinkholes expose bare pipe
Susan Lee Schwartz: : Relay + TFA, Partners in Deprofessionalizing Education" by Diane Ravitch (2 comments)
Wednesday, March 7:
Susan Lee Schwartz: IMPORTANT story: A good man, In Battle Over Future of Veterans' Care, Moderation Wins, for Now ! (1 comments)
Kucinich in Live Debate, Online 5pm EST March 7 (3 comments)
Jimmy Carter Creates Solar Farm To Power Half Of His City (1 comments)
Tuesday, March 6:
Dick's Sporting Goods took a stand on gun sales -- and made a big statement - The Washington Post (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) Back-Stabs Public Education (3 comments)
Senator Thad Cochran Announces Retirement, Opening Another G.O.P. Seat (1 comments)
Monday, March 5:
CO House Ousts Lawmaker Accused of Sexual Harassment
Sam Nunberg, former Trump campaign aide, subpoenaed in Robert Mueller probe, won't testify
Trump praises Chinese president extending tenure "for life"
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Age of Unintended Consequences
Susan Lee Schwartz: Arizona: No Cap on Corporate Tax Subsidy for Nonpublic Schools, by Diane Ravitch (4 comments)
Sunday, March 4:
Susan Lee Schwartz: Florida: Senate Approves Bill to Punish Teachers' Union (5 comments)
Saturday, March 3:
Norway to ban assault weapons starting in 2021 (3 comments)
Corporate America throws weight behind gun controls
Tamimi family and IDF battle over truth in teen's skull injury
Ahed Tamimi's Father to Uruguayan Singer Natalia Oreiro: Cancel Show in Tel Aviv (1 comments)
Parkland Shooting Survivors Denied Permit to Hold Gun Control Rally on DC Mall (2 comments)
Putin's message: The West needs to stop provoking a war we don't want & no one can win (2 comments)
Dreamers must be protected -- as Indigenous Peoples were not (1 comments)
The JFK Historical Group Presents "The Big Event" - New Revelations in the JFK Assassination (1 comments)
Friday, March 2:
US senators in bid to end support for Saudi in Yemen war (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Must Read: A Horrifying Path to America for Hotel Workers (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Mitch McConnell: Senate to skip gun debate for bank bill (1 comments)
Tammy Duckworth May Have to Breastfeed in a Bathroom off the Senate Floor (4 comments)
Thursday, March 1:
Susan Lee Schwartz: NYC Educator: Chancellor Chickens Out, I Step Up by Arthur Goldberg (1 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: The Last 2 Weeks Have Convinced Americans Gun Reform Could Happen; By Ariel Edwards-Levy (3 comments)
South Korea to send special envoy to North Korea: Cheong Wa Dae (2 comments)
Susan Lee Schwartz: Putin threatens US arms race with new missiles declaration (2 comments)
New Leadership for Philadelphia's Green Party