China couldn’t have invented global warming as a hoax to harm U.S. competitiveness because it was Donald Trump’s Republican predecessors who started climate negotiations in the 1980s, China’s Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin said. U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush supported the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in initiating global warming talks even before China knew that negotiations …
Robert Parry – Trump’s Slim Chance for Greatness
Donald Trump must decide – and decide quickly – whether he wants to be a great U.S. President or a robo-signature machine affixing his name to whatever legislation comes from congressional Republicans and a nodding figurehead acquiescing to more neoconservative foreign policy adventures. Or, to put it in a vernacular that Trump might use, does he want to be “Paul …
PAUL STREET – The Long Death March of the Dismal Dollar Democrats
Listening to the reigning corporate media’s political reporting and commentary leading up the 2016 elections, you might have thought that the Republican Party was on the verge of collapse thanks to its internecine war over the outrageous Donald Trump. Hello? Look now: the GOP has won the White House, retained both wings of Congress, and will soon enough hold down …
Meria Heller – The Best Democracy Money Can Buy- Greg Palast & Zach Roberts – 11.06.16
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy- Greg Palast & Zach Roberts
STEVE EARLY – Greens Need a Plan B: Going Local? Becoming More Ecumenical?
As Kermit the Frog, America’s most famous Muppet, says: “it’s not easy being green.” Preliminary results of the Green Party’s latest national campaign confirm the reality of his observation. The Party’s much-touted goal was getting 5% of the vote on Nov. 8, so it could qualify for $10 million in federal funds for 2020 campaigning and maintain broad nationwide ballot …
Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour – 11.10.16
ANOTHER STRIPPED & FLIPPED ELECTION? We’re joined by my election theft co-author BOB FITRAKIS to sort through the rubble of the 2016 election.
The Gary Null Show – 11.07.16
Gary speaks with Ralph Nadar while giving commentaries from Chris Hedges
Eric Zuesse – Increased Poverty in 96% of U.S. House Districts, During Obama’s Presidency
On November 3rd, Morning Consult’s Jon Reid bannered, “Poverty on the Rise in Nearly All House Districts” and he reported that, “A Brookings Institution study, released less than a week before the election, shows that the number of people living in poverty has increased in 96 percent of congressional districts between 2000 and 2010-2014.” That finding fits along with others, such as that the …
The Last Gasp of the American Dream
Just at the moment, many of my readers—and of course a great many others as well—are paying close attention to which of the two most detested people in American public life will put a hand on a Bible in January, and preside thereafter over the next four years of this nation’s accelerating decline and fall. That focus is understandable, and …
George Lakey – Why Campaigns, Not Protests, Get The Goods
After the election there will be many things to protest, no matter who wins. This is the time to figure out how to amplify our power and maximize the chance of winning victories. To do that, we can start by freeing up the energy devoted to one-off protests, rallies and demonstrations. When I look back on the one-off protests I’ve …