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‘You’re saying we’re all liars!’ Rand Paul melts down on ABC when confronted with election ‘lies’
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) became annoyed with an ABC host on Sunday over the suggestion that former President Donald Trump's defenders are all "liars" about the results of the 2020 election."This election was not stolen," ABC host Georgia Stephanopoulos began ...[Read more]
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The Real Winston Churchill
Churchill, as a liberal Tory, ought perhaps to have been alarmed by the rise of fascism in Europe. Yet he was overwhelmingly sanguine. He believed Mussolini to be a good ruler for Italy, and fascism a useful bulwark against Communism. His nationalism, mil ...[Read more]
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Treaty Banning the Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction Enters into Force – CounterPunch.org
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) takes effect Friday, January 22, 2021. After decades of campaigns of every kind to “ban the bomb,” to prevent the nuclear arms race, to freeze the arms race, humankind finally has a global treaty ...[Read more]
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‘The People Are Demanding Action’: Incoming Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders Lays Out Visionary First 100 Days for Biden
With President Joe Biden sworn in and Democrats set to officially take control of the U.S. Senate Wednesday afternoon, incoming Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders argued that the majority party must waste no time pushing ahead with an ambitious ...[Read more]
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Here are 7 actions Joe Biden has already taken as president
President Joe Biden was sworn into office around noon on Wednesday, and by the end of the day, the course of the U.S. federal government had dramatically shifted. Here are 7 things which Biden already has done. ...[Read more]
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Republican says ‘classified briefings’ revealed that the Capitol riot was ‘much worse than people realized’
Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.), the first Republican lawmaker to publicly support efforts to impeach former President Donald Trump, is speaking out about the deadly Capitol riots that erupted on Jan. 6 as lawmakers worked to complete the Electoral College certi ...[Read more]
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The Business Class Has Never Liked Democracy
Today, on Inauguration Day, we shouldn’t forget that the business class has long stoked fears of democracy — and bankrolled the conservative movement that gave us the events of January 6. Elites can never safeguard our freedom. ...[Read more]
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‘A Fitting End’: Hours Before Leaving Office, Trump Quietly Revokes Order Restricting Lobbying by Former Federal Officials
Making one final mockery of his 2016 campaign promise to "drain the swamp," President Donald Trump early Wednesday quietly revoked his own executive order barring administration officials from lobbying the agencies for which they worked for five years aft ...[Read more]
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Trump spent his final moments in the White House raging at Republican leaders on Capitol Hill: report
With no one else to blame for his own election defeat, President Trump has zeroed in on one of his earliest Congressional backers, House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-CA.According to the New York Times' Maggie Haberman, Trump is spending his fina ...[Read more]
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‘I’m the laughing stock of my family’: QAnon believers implode as they watch Biden getting sworn in
President Joe Biden was sworn into office on Wednesday, and some believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory have apparently realized that they have wasted years of their lives believing in a complete fabrication. As flagged by Jared Holt of Right Wing Watc ...[Read more]
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Trump Has Discussed Starting a New Political Party
President Trump has talked in recent days with associates about forming a new political party, according to people familiar with the matter, an effort to exert continued influence after he leaves the White House. Mr. Trump discussed the matter with severa ...[Read more]
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