Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Tag: Trump

Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to...

A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.

The US has struck a deal to control Venezuela’s oil reserves....

As more details emerge about this controversial deal, big questions remain about what it could mean – both for oil markets and Venezuela’s national sovereignty.

Hormuzing It Up

Or "Bombing the Shit" Out of Them (Whoever They Might Be)

Networks Were Ordered to Stop Filming Trump—and They Didn’t Protest the...

"Cameras off the president now": The command was an astonishing call for press censorship on behalf of Trump and a direct violation of the First Amendment.

The single, greatest MAGA Trump threat: Constitutional nullification

The horror of MAGA Trumpism is both the speed and ease by which corruption reigns PLUS the dearth of popular resistance.

Is Donald Trump Good for the Korean Peninsula?

North Korea ultimately prefers the predictability of Russia and China to the unreliability of the United States.

U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Slams U.S. “Complicity” as Trump Meets Netanyahu...

We speak to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, about Israel’s continued impunity from international law.

Punishing Trump: New War on Saudi Refineries by Iran Allies

The Trump administration's 13 nights of strikes on Iran, including on bridges and energy infrastructure, have been followed by three nights of calm. The Iranians, ho...

When War with Iran Is No Longer a Washington Consensus

The Iran debate is increasingly about the limits and costs of war—and the relationship between Washington’s interests and Israel’s priorities.

Meeting with Trump signals Netanyahu’s Clout Is Waning

By Christian Emery, UCL (The Conversation) - A...

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A community hospital emergency entrance in Hillsboro, Oregon. Photo: M.O. Stevens / CC BY-SA 3.0

Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds

Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
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F is for Failure and Fascism

On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
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Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam

The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
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Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful

The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.
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Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to building

A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.