FBI Director James Comey was on a recruiting trip in Los Angeles yesterday when he learned that he’d been fired by President Trump and that his deputy, Andrew Mc Cabe, temporarily will head the bureau.
Black Agenda Radio – 05.08.17
This is Black Agenda Radio, a weekly hour of African American political thought and action. A judge has ordered Harris County Texas, which includes the city of Houston, to stop keeping low level offenders in jail because they are unable to pay bail. The case was brought by the Washington-based Civil Rights Corp. Executive director Alec Karakatsanis says his firm …
Leid Stories—Students’, Activists’ Protests Won’t Stop Black College Presidents’ Plans to Desecrate Founders’ Legacies; City Ratchets Up Flint’s Water Woes—05.08.17
On May 10, when Bethune-Cookman University—a historically Black university in Daytona Beach, Fla.—holds its spring commencement, the sendoff message to graduates will be delivered by Betsy DeVos, the vacuous secretary of education whose top priority is to dismantle and destroy public education. B-CU President Edison O. Jackson totally rejects the argument that inviting DeVos to speak is an insult to …
The Conspiracy Guy – 05.03.17
The Conspiracy Guy #23: Senate hearings involving questioning James Comey, Director of the FBI, about his reopening and then closing of the investigation of Hillary’s email server combing with ongoing demonization of Russia for non-existent “hacking” of our election makes a farce of the Congress. As the new book, SHATTERED, has revealed, the “Russian hacking” meme was concocted by John Podesta and …
Focus On The Facts – 04.10.17
Guest George Webb. Discussed his investigation into the Ratlines set up by Hillary Clinton, the CIA and Dyncorp for child sex trafficking, drug and arms running and the human organ harvesting operation in Syria, Iraq, Haiti and many other countries including in the United States.
Leid Stories—Cloak and Swagger: What Will Be Missing in the Russia-Trump Election/Obama Wiretap Probe (Part 2)—03.21.17
Leid Stories returns to yesterday’s discussion about many elements of the intelligence committee’s probe that won’t see the light of day.
Leid Stories—Cloak and Swagger: What Will Be Missing in the Russia-Trump Election/Obama Wiretap Probe—03.20.17
The House Intelligence Committee today opens its much-anticipated probe into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election to produce a win for then-candidate Donald Trump and, more broadly, the extent of Moscow’s alleged influence in the Trump administration.
Alice Salles – We Finally Know Why Americans Spend More On Prescription Drugs Than Other Nations
Last week, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Edith Ramirez, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), requesting that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FTC look into some makers of prescription drugs and how they price insulin. Sanders and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) wrote that though the original insulin patent expired …
Gilbert Doctorow – The Establishment Strikes Back
The immediate impact of Donald Trump’s victory among those of us who favored his candidacy over Hillary Clinton’s was triumphalism on the day after. This euphoric mood was very well captured on a special edition of the Russia Today’s “Cross Talk” show, which registered an audience of more than 110,000 on-line viewers, a number which is rare if not unprecedented. …
Naomi Klein – It was the Democrats’ embrace of neoliberalism that won it for Trump
They will blame James Comey and the FBI. They will blame voter suppression and racism. They will blame Bernie or bust and misogyny. They will blame third parties and independent candidates. They will blame the corporate media for giving him the platform, social media for being a bullhorn, and WikiLeaks for airing the laundry. But this leaves out the force …