Politics - Part 2
Nine months have passed since the January 6 insurrection, and new reporting continues to emerge about that event. According to NBC News reporters Julie Tsirkin and Teaganne Finn, a Capitol Police whistleblower recently sent a letter to members of Congress ...[Read more]
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U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction blocking a Texas law that bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, insisting the restraining order is necessary to "prevent irreparable harm to the United States' interest ...[Read more]
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Advisers warned Trump that an announcement before the midterms could hurt Republicans' chances of winning Congress. ...[Read more]
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It's do-or-die time for the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. So Bernie Sanders is rightly insisting that House progressives reject the bipartisan infrastructure bill until it's linked to the reconciliation bill's passage. ...[Read more]
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Criticism of the leader is forbidden, while thousands of members have been expelled or left in disgust, says film director Ken Loach ...[Read more]
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There’s no natural law that says the Democrats have to lose next year’s midterm elections. But if Democrats can’t fundamentally improve the quality of life for working-class voters, there’s good reason to think they will lose. ...[Read more]
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"The climate crisis is the leading issue of the next government, and that is for us the basis for any talks," said Annalena Baerbock, leader of the Greens. ...[Read more]
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By now, it should be abundantly clear that the insurrection of January 6, 2021, was not a spontaneous uprising perpetrated by an angry horde of amped-up Trump supporters. To the contrary, the insurrection was the culmination of an attempted coup designed ...[Read more]
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Today’s German elections mark the effective end of Angela Merkel’s 16-year rule. Yanis Varoufakis writes for Jacobin about how she became Europe’s most dominant peacetime leader — at the expense of Europe itself. ...[Read more]
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Unfortunately Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan is substantially less meaningful when analyzed in light of his administration’s pledge to mount “over-the-horizon” attacks in that country from afar even though we won’t have troop ...[Read more]
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The first Cold War made trillions for the war industry. Profiteers know a new Cold War with China would make many more. ...[Read more]
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