On his first full working day in the White House, President Trump issued an executive order implementing a hiring freeze until such time that his Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director, a position now filled by Mick Mulvaney, could recommend a “long-term plan” to reduce the federal workforce. While the initial EO allowed 90 […]
The DNC and DCCC Confirm They Won’t Support Progressive Candidates…
Obama Justice Department Obtained Secret Order to Monitor Trump Campaign Adviser in June 2016…
The secret order allowed the government under the Obama administration to monitor the communications of the adviser, Carter Page, as part of an investigation into potential links between Russia and the Trump administration. Trump tweeted on March 4 that he had his “wires tapped in Trump Tower” during the campaign, for which critics bashed Trump, […]
Family-Run Newspaper Wins Pulitzer for Exposing Big Ag Corruption…
The prize shed light on a small family-run paper in Iowa that tenaciously challenged large agricultural corporations over water pollution. The Storm Lake Times forced documents to be released that showed powerful agricultural interests were funding a local county’s attempt to quell a lawsuit over nitrogen runoff from farms contaminating drinking water…
Melania Trump Accepts Damages from Daily Mail…
Melania Trump has accepted damages and an apology over allegations about her work as a professional model. The action was against Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Daily Mail, after it ran an article headlined “Racy photos and troubling questions about his wife’s past that could derail Trump”. The amount of damages was not disclosed in […]
Trump Withholds Syria-Sarin Evidence by Robert Parry….
After making the provocative and dangerous charge that Russia is covering up Syria’s use of chemical weapons, the Trump administration withheld key evidence to support its core charge that a Syrian warplane dropped sarin on a northern Syrian town on April 4. A four-page white paper, prepared by President Trump’s National Security Council staff and […]
Trump Should Rethink Syria Escalation by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity…
Syria: Where the Rubber Meets the Road by Mike Whitney…
MIT National Security Expert Challenges White House White Paper on Alleged Syrian Chemical Attack (WHITE PAPER)…
My understanding from your note is that this White House intelligence summary was released to you sometime on April 11, 2017. I have reviewed the document carefully, and I believe it can be shown, without doubt, that the document does not provide any evidence whatsoever that the US government has concrete knowledge that the government […]
Neocons Have Trump on His Knees by Robert Parry…
After slapping Donald Trump around for several months to make him surrender his hopes for a more cooperative relationship with Russia, the neocons and their liberal-interventionist allies are now telling the battered President what he must do next: escalate war in the Middle East and ratchet up tensions with nuclear-armed Russia…
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