Cenk Uygur, Brett Erlich, and Mark Thompson | (The Young Turks Video) | – – Pete Hoekstra is either a great bad liar or a really great one. Cenk Uygur, Brett Erlich, and Mark Thompson, the hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. “The US ambassador to the Netherlands faced an excruciating moment on […]
To stop Global Heating, we need Green Electricity, but also Electric Trucks & Ships
By Adair Turner | (Euractiv.com) | – – With renewable electricity costs going through the floor, the EU should increase its 2030 targets and aim for close to zero carbon electricity by 2040. But while power decarbonisation is crucially important, it will not be sufficient to deliver a truly zero carbon economy, writes Adair Turner. […]
Ahed Tamimi: Girl who symbolizes new defiant Palestinian generation
By Hossam Shaker | (Middle East Monitor) | – – A girl has defied the occupation with unrivalled courage. Over the past years, the media has broadcasted videos of her daringly confronting the heavily armed occupation soldiers, face to face, and demanding that they leave the territories they are forcibly occupying, indifferent to their threats […]
Palestine’s Abbas washes hands of US, as ‘Dishonest Mediator’
TeleSur | – – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called the U.S. government “dishonest” and said he will “no longer accept any (peace) plan” from them. One day after the United Nations voted to revoke the U.S. government’s inflammatory decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he no longer views […]
Will Americans finally start fighting back against tax cuts for the rich?
Stephanie Leiser | (The Conversation) | – – The 60 percent of Americans who believe that the GOP tax package will mostly help the wealthiest among us are right, according to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center. But will widespread disapproval translate into political costs or electoral losses for Republicans? Will Americans decide they […]
The Most Dangerous Man in the World
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Let’s start with the universe and work our way in. Who cares? Not them because as far as we know they aren’t there. As far as we know, no one exists in our galaxy or perhaps anywhere else but us (and the other creatures on […]
Congressional Efforts to Expand NSA Spying on Americans are still a Danger
By David Ruiz | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – The debate over how to reauthorize certain NSA surveillance authorities has seen a whirlwind of activity, culminating in the major news that the House Rules Committee postponed a vote today to potentially expand NSA spying powers. As we wrote yesterday: “According to reports published Tuesday […]
GOP tax plan doubles down on policies that are crushing the middle class
Steven Pressman | (The Conversation) | – – The U.S. middle class has always had a special mystique. It is the heart of the American dream. A decent income and home, doing better than one’s parents, and retiring in comfort are all hallmarks of a middle-class lifestyle. Contrary to what some may think, however, the […]
1,000 Days of War Bringing ‘Apocalypse’ on Yemen: Oxfam
TeleSur | – – The U.K.-based group said more than 5,000 people have died since the beginning of the war in March 2015. Yemen is on the brink of total collapse and an “apocalypse,” aid agency Oxfam said in a report Wednesday marking 1,000 days since Saudi Arabia and its regional allies began a military […]