Thursday, March 28, 2024

Tag: Trump administration

Attorney linked to Trump campaign pleads guilty to lying to investigators

The same day that Mueller’s office indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies for interfering in the 2016 presidential election, Alex Van Der Zwaan was criminally charged with lying to federal investigators.

Trump’s National Defense Strategy

The battle between “guns and butter” is still raging in the United States and, if the new NDS is any indicator, the guns are winning.

War preparations against Venezuela as election nears

Is the path to war through border disputes?

Sanders to join grassroots opposition of Republican-backed tax law in Iowa,...

Sanders, who called the tax law "one of the worst pieces of legislation in the modern history of our country," along with many other Democrats, are calling for a repeal.

The 3 choices when it comes to Trump

Democracy is fragile, it requires all of us to protect it.

For the EPA, ‘reform’ means giving industry what it wants

A small-town explosion shows what's at stake in the deregulatory debate.

Trump’s ‘Harvest Box’ delivers an empty promise

The administration and its GOP allies are threatening these Americans with even greater hunger and privation.

The Trump budget’s crushing cruelty

Trump's budget would slash or completely eliminate core anti-poverty programs that form the heart of the U.S. social safety net.

Elizabeth Warren derides Trump while addressing his Pocahontas slurs

“But now we have a president who can’t make it through a ceremony honoring Native American war heroes without reducing Native history, Native culture, Native people to the butt of a joke."

The deadly rule of the oligarchs

Oligarchs use power and ruling structures solely for personal advancement – they will stop at nothing to maintain the sophistry of their rule.

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Desperation and danger: Gaza’s aid crisis turns tragic with 12 Palestinians drowned in airdrop...

Amidst a blockade and escalating starvation in Gaza, a misguided attempt to deliver aid results in unforeseen tragedy, spotlighting the dire need for secure and dignified humanitarian access.

Cori Bush calls for repeal of antiquated Comstock law amid rising anti-abortion tactics

With the U.S. Supreme Court's current review of mifepristone access—a drug fundamental to over 60% of abortions in the U.S.—the urgency of Bush's demand is palpable.

Inside the historic suit that the gun industry and Republicans are on the verge...

Gunmakers have repeatedly tried to end one city’s lawsuit over illegal gun sales. Meanwhile, illicit purchases of firearms continued at an unrelenting and hazardous pace.

The vexing Biden-Trump rematch could purge an era of broken, bipartisan dynamics—or not

That a shameless, dimwit outlaw like Trump can humiliate both state and federal justice confirms its own devastating “conviction" as failed legal systems.

What’s so green about burning trees? The false promise of biomass energy

Bioenergy companies are clear-cutting American forests to heat and electrify Europe. This broken system harms public health, the environment, and the climate.