Thursday, March 19, 2026

Tag: Russia

In Syria, endgame or war without end?

"...the administration has redefined its goals to include the exit of all Iranian military and proxy forces from Syria, and establishment of a stable, nonthreatening government acceptable to all Syrians and the international community."

UK accuses Russian spies of implementing nerve agent attack

"...I can today tell the House that, based on a body of intelligence, the Government has concluded that the two individuals named by the police and CPS are officers from the Russian military intelligence service..."

Will Trump survive?

We’ll be lucky if he loses in 2020.

With sixteen ‘guilty’ verdicts all in a row, hundreds of thousands...

"Manafort could spend the rest of his life in jail, and Cohen could be headed there too. This raises the threat that Trump will try to pardon his way to obstruction of justice. If he does, we will take to the streets."

Critically important for Mueller to present ‘a’ report by Sept. 1

Here is why there is such a great need for Mueller to publish some kind of report well before the November elections.

Why Putin hates us

Can we analyze the situation objectively and understand why the U.S.-Russia relations soured?

Progressive Briefing for Monday, August 6, 2018

The NRA faces a financial crisis, all the Trump Tower meeting drama, federal judge issues game-changing decision on dark money, and more.

Bipartisan dysfunctionality puts the world at risk

It is an imperative for U.S. foreign policy to seek cooperation between Russia and the U.S. to make a more safe, healthy and secure world.

Is President Trump right about Russia?

Can Russia and America ever peacefully coexist?

Did plans to export US ethane help fund accused Russian spy...

“I think the gravity of what we were doing in big picture stuff is not lost on any of us.”

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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure

On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.

The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things

Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death. 

‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...

More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.

Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.

Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.

Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!

So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.