Tag: Vladimir Putin
President Trump goes to Hel(sinki)
Trump, a rule bender throughout his life, will likely find that those that he has crossed will not forgive or forget and will have their metaphorical knives at ready the moment he slips up.
Meet the reporter dragged from Trump-Putin press conference for trying to...
“It wasn’t a protest,” he says. “It was just an attempt to do serious, aggressive journalism, which I think is what we need.”
Mass protests meet Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki over human rights, free...
As the two leaders drove from the airport to their summit, they were met by 300 billboards in English and Russian that were posted by the country’s leading newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Americans explode after Trump's summit with Putin, Justice Department arrests Russia national with ties to Trump and the NRA, all the people convicted of treason in the US, and more.
Peace is a good thing, whoever manages to achieve it
When two leaders, each with the ability to destroy the world, agree to get along, that's a good thing. Period.
Democracy in crisis: Cold War(s) in the cyber age
The Cyber Age has raised the potential for destabilizing democracies through dissemination of fake news and disinformation to new levels.
Stop saying, “Putin invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea”
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
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A successful general strike requires trauma-informed mutual aid
To strike at scale and over the long-term, we need to build real trust so that we can lean on each other when the paychecks stop.
This is what accountability looks like
Whether it's the refusal to release all the Epstein files, the failure to punish Trump for his anti-democratic actions, or the launching of the war in Iran, the United States is becoming as unaccountable as Russia under Putin.
Documents reveal a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they...
ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.
Trump economy loses 92,000 jobs in February as economists warn labor market weakness is...
New Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows unemployment rising and hiring slowing across major industries as economists warn that policy uncertainty, tariffs, and economic shocks are weighing on the labor market.
Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”