Category Trump presidency
Matt Taibbi: Bailing Out the Bailout
“The Trump administration just bought this undead economy at retail prices and committed the Fed and the Treasury to sustaining it.”
Democracy Now! April 2 Coronavirus Global News Roundup
“A report in The New England Journal of Medicine published in late January warned asymptomatic people can spread the coronavirus, and the finding has informed public policy worldwide for weeks.”
Chris Hedges – Trump’s Israel/Palestine ‘Peace Plan’
“The plan essentially formalizes the Israeli apartheid state it is the natural denouement of the Zionists project.]
Joseph Stiglitz: Trump’s “Trickle-Down” Economic Plans Are Not Enough to Meet Coronavirus Challenge
“Trump’s package will only benefit 20 percent of workers.”
“Coronavirus Capitalism”: Naomi Klein’s Case for Transformative Change Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
“Klein argues it’s vital for people to fight for the kind of transformative change that can not only curb the worst effects of the current crisis but also set society on a more just path.”
Chris Hedges: The One-Choice Election
“Playing politics in a system that is not democratic is about being complicit in the charade.”
Noam Chomsky: Democrats Abandoned the Working Class Decades Ago: Chomsky
“40% of the population say it can’t be a problem because of the Second Coming. Now that’s a deep cultural problem in the United States. People who know something about US history should all… we should all understand it.”
Chris Hedges, Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget
“The Democratic Party elites will use any mechanism, no matter how nefarious and undemocratic, to prevent Sanders from obtaining the nomination.”
Chris Hedges: America: Land of Make-Believe
“The rhetoric we use to describe ourselves is so disconnected from reality that it has induced collective schizophrenia. America, as it is discussed in public forums by politicians, academics and the media, is a fantasy, a Disneyfied world of make-believe.
Defender Europe 20: US to practice invasion of Europe, by Kate Hudson
“Defender Europe 20, NATO’s biggest wargames for over 25 years, is getting under way this month. 20,000 US troops are participating in the US’s largest deployment to Europe in over quarter of a century.”
Flowers and Zeese: Mistrial Is Another Blow to US Coup in Venezuela; Our Work Continues
Venezuela Continues to Resist US Regime Change as a mistrial is declared for Venezuelan Embassy protectors. However, Trump prosecutors are considering a second attempt at prosecution.
To Stop the Next War Before It Starts, We Need to Confront Militarism Itself, by Michael Galant
“The imminent threat of war with Iran seems to have passed. We’re still not out of the woods — not by a long shot.”
Ralph Nader: “Democratic Socialism” – Bring it on Corporate Socialists!
What is democratic socialism, anyway? Ralph Nader explains.
America: Land of Make-Believe, by Chris Hedges
“The rhetoric we use to describe ourselves is so disconnected from reality that it has induced collective schizophrenia.”
PBS NewsHour Coverage of Suleimani Assassination, by Mike Madden
On January 25, 2020 Mike Madden gave the following speech at a protest of Trump’s actions in the assassination of Suleimani, inciting a possible war with Iran. American bias in US media coverage* has been obvious for a long time: America has interests, Iran has ambitions. America has allies, Iran has proxies. America has a […]
Peace on Earth. And in Colombia? by Meredith Aby Keirstead
The following is the writer’s interview with James Jordan about the situation on the ground in Colombia. Jordan leads human rights delegations to Colombia regularly and organizes the Alliance for Global Justice’s labor solidarity campaigns. This is an intro updating info and preceding Meredith’s intro and interview. As Latin American countries struggle to maintain their […]
Chris Hedges: Democrats Have No Moral Authority on Impeachment
“Democrats are…living in an alternative reality.”
How Democracies Die, by Chris Hedges
“The U.S. Republican Party, replicating the fascist parties of the 1930s, is a personality cult. Those who do not bow obsequiously before the leader and carry out the leader’s demands are banished.”
The Battle to Impeach Trump Is Part of a Global Struggle for Democracy, by Henry Giroux
“Trump’s impeachment battle is part of the wider historical and global struggle taking place over democracy.”
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