Politics - Part 28
Washington D.C. was rocked by violence as members of the House and Senate gathered for a joint session of Congress to certify President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory, and violent clashes were reporterd as pro-Trump demonstrators entered the ...[Read more]
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Trump's pardon of four former Blackwater contractors convicted for their role in a massacre in Baghdad has sparked outrage in Iraq. The Blackwater guards include Nicholas Slatten, who was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of first-degree m ...[Read more]
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Twenty-five years ago, when the high-tech Second Industrial Revolution had just begun, I made a bet with an editor from Wired magazine that global society led by the United States would collapse in the year 2020 from a confluence of causes created by mode ...[Read more]
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A deal was found on Christmas eve and while both sides, Britain and the European Union, may have lost, the British loss seems bigger.
The 1256 pages of the deal are mostly about trade in goods, not about trade in services. While there will be no tariffs a ...[Read more]
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In 2016, BoJo Johnson travelled into the future and arrived at a post-Brexit Britain. The vista he faced pleased BoJo immensely. Writing in The Telegraph, the charlatan fantasist and future prime minister said of the panorama in front of him: “The marke ...[Read more]
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House Oversight Committee chair Rep. Carolyn Maloney expressed "grave concerns" Monday that the outgoing Trump administration "may be disposing" of presidential records in violation of federal law.Maloney (D-N.Y.) voiced her concerns in a letter to Archiv ...[Read more]
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Fox News viewers lashed out at the network over the weekend after several shows aired a segment undermining President Donald Trump's claims of election fraud.According to reports, at least one Fox Business host and as many as three Fox News hosts aired a ...[Read more]
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Forty-five years ago, under a cloak of secrecy, Operation Condor was officially launched: a global campaign of violent repression against the Latin American left by the region’s quasi-fascist military dictatorships. The US government not only knew about ...[Read more]
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The pressure is building for President-elect Joe Biden to cancel federal student debt. The latest: a resolution led by prominent House Democrats urging Biden to act.
On Thursday, Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Alma Adams (D-NC), and Maxi ...[Read more]
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Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist, a potential problem for the presidential candidate. A Cold War campaign to link American-ness and capitalism helped create popular distrust of socialism. ...[Read more]
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Senator Bernie Sanders has threatened to shut down the US government next week and keep lawmakers in Washington through Christmas unless they submit to his demand for another round of $1,200 stimulus checks for most Americans.
“We're not going to go hom ...[Read more]
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