Tag: Congress
Why Senator Cardin is a fitting opponent for Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning confirmed on Sunday that she is challenging Senator Cardin’s re-election effort in the Democratic primary this June.
Elizabeth Warren condemns Trump’s plan to expand offshore drilling
"This handout to Big Oil executives puts short-term corporate profits ahead of the long-term health and livelihood of America’s coastal families and ignores the growing threat posed by climate change."
Children’s Health Insurance Program in trouble – funding to end in January
"We are unable to say with certainty whether there is enough funding for every state to continue its CHIP program through March 31, 2018.”
Threshold met – senators force vote on net neutrality
While this is a "major milestone" achieved, it's the first step in the fight to save net neutrality.
The GOP’s 100-year war is bigger than taxes or Trump
What do we want the history books to say about our time, 100 years from now?
NSA’s spying power could soon be extended
People all over the nation are joining together to pressure Congress to uphold the Fourth Amendment.
Senators vow to ‘fight’ FCC’s decisions regarding net neutrality
“We will fight the FCC’s decisions in the courts, and we will fight it in the halls of Congress.”
While America focuses on tax bill, Congress quietly tries to open...
“The oil industry and its allies in Congress may think they can sneak this past the American people...”
RT America torched in witch hunt ’17
The ruling elites are desperately trying to shift the focus away from the cause of the political insurgencies on the left and the right: extreme social inequality.
Congress works with Big Oil on letter suggesting anti-pipeline activists face...
“Corporations and their governmental enablers are desperate to silence dissent every way they can.”
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Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
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.
Speeding up the ‘kill chain’: Pentagon bombs thousands of targets in Iran using Palantir...
The system, known as Project Maven, relies on technology by Palantir and also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic. Israel has used similar AI targeting programs in Iran, as well as in Gaza and Lebanon.
Searching for solace in a nuclearized world
The nightmare of Fukushima 15 years later.
Big Oil profits surge as Democrats push windfall tax tied to Iran war
Lawmakers and advocacy groups propose taxing fossil fuel windfalls as war-driven price spikes hit American households and deepen inequality.