Washington (AFP) – America’s former top spy has alleged he was stripped of his security clearance in a bid by President Donald Trump to scare critics and stymie an investigation into ties with Russia. In a searing opinion article published in the New York Times on Thursday, ex-CIA director John Brennan said Trump’s decision to […]
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US politics
Aretha Franklin’s Reminder to Trump Era: Women, Minorities, Humans owed R E S P E C T (Video)
The Guardian: “Aretha Franklin, who has died at the age of 76, reflects on her 1967 cover hit Respect in a collection of archive clips. The queen of soul discusses how she and her sister injected Otis Redding’s song with their own twist and its subsequent use as a ‘battle cry’ and ‘women’s anthem’ 1. […]
#NottheEnemy: Ben Franklin warned that attack on Free Press Turns Liberty to Tyranny
“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government: When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.”
Is the US-Turkish Military Alliance Doomed?
by Thomas WATKINS | – Washington (AFP) – The crisis in US-Turkish relations, which already has put Turkey’s economy under massive strain, also risks souring military ties between the two NATO allies, unleashing unknown geopolitical consequences. US President Donald Trump last week announced new tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminum, causing the country’s currency to […]
Sharice Davids, Native American and Gay, Aiming for US Congress
In a political arena dominated by White, mostly straight men, Davids – a former Mixed Martial Arts fighter – is aiming high. Sharice Davids, who won the Democratic nomination for a House seat in Kansas on Tuesday, is poised to become one of the first Native American women in the U.S. Congress and the first […]
Trump’s “Space Force”: More ‘Whitey on the Moon’
Repurposed. If they can keep proposing the same brain dead policies, I can keep writing the same article. Trump and Pence want to spend $8 bn to establish a new branch of the US armed forces, the Space Force. I have enormous respect of the US military. My father was a 20-year man. Two of […]
Busting the Myth of Immigrant Crime
San Francisco (Yes! Magazine) – Trump’s White supporters—not immigrants—are bringing lethal drugs, violence, and crime. President Donald Trump’s core supporters consist of 60 million to 80 million American adults, 90 percent of them White and four-fifths age 40 and older. They score high on unofficial measures of “racial resentment,” anger at perceived “loss of status” […]
US Editorials called the Polish immigrant Grandparents of Laura Ingraham ‘Undesirables’
Professional bigot Laura Ingraham, ensconced in the primo 10 pm slot at Fox Cable News, has delivered herself of one of her typical Know-Nothing pronouncements on immigration to the US. Laura Ingraham: "The America we know and love doesn't exist anymore. Massive demographic changes have been foisted on the American people, and they are changes […]
First Palestinian-American Socialist Woman to Enter Congress: Rashida Tlaib
The strong number of female candidates comes midway through the term of Trump. Rashida Tlaib is set to become the first Muslim and Palestinian-American woman to enter the U.S. Congress following Tuesday’s primary election in Michigan. Tlaib received the endorsement of the Justice Democrats, People for Bernie, and the Greater Detroit Democratic Socialists of America […]
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