Economist Jeffrey Sachs: US sanctions have devastated Venezuela & killed over 40,000 since 2017
“American sanctions are deliberately aiming to wreck Venezuela’s economy and thereby lead to regime change. It’s a fruitless, heartless, illegal, and failed policy, causing grave harm to the Venezuelan people.”
House Democrats allocate $50 million to study gun violence
While funding for this type of study hasn't been allocated in more than two decades, gun violence prevention organizations and doctors' groups have sought this money to address gun violence.
Liar, ripoff, criminal or ‘king’ – presidential exile is mission impossible
Insurmountable obstacles to removal entomb our most discredited election, another knife in the heart of democracy.
With US support, Venezuelan opposition launch a coup in latest attempt to oust Maduro
"There are many in Venezuela who would hope for change in their country, but they don’t want a U.S.-backed regime in place."
The secret saga of Trump’s tax cuts
Flip-flops, falsehoods, fantasies – and a 10-minute meeting that locked in trillions of debt.
How the Pentagon took ownership of Donald Trump
The Pentagon will never be forced to make significant reforms until Americans stop believing in (and consenting to) its comforting lies.
Congress should be ready to arrest Attorney General Barr if he defies subpoena
If Congress cannot question the people who are making policy, or obtain critical documents, Congress cannot function as a coequal branch of government.
US and China push global military spending to record high
U.S. military expenditure along accounted for 36 percent of total global military spending, as much as the next eight biggest-spending countries combined.
EPA weakens guidelines for clean-up of toxic groundwater pollution by military contaminating millions of...
"We urgently need action to protect clean water not more deregulation."
Trump’s lament: ‘And now, the end is near, and so I face the final...
It’s even more evidence that America badly needs a president who can keep his head on straight.