Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan on Wednesday told House impeachment investigators that the "most chilling" evidence that President Donald Trump was pursuing his own political gain in Ukraine came from the November 20 testimony of Gordon Sondland, the U.S....
Month: December 2019
How McKinsey Helped the Trump Administration Detain and Deport Immigrants
Just days after he took office in 2017, President Donald Trump set out to make good on his campaign pledge to halt illegal immigration. In a pair of executive orders, he ordered “all legally available resources” to be shifted to border detention facilities and called...
The Supreme Court Is Tackling an Important Superfund Case and It’s—Messy
For decades, Anaconda Company Smelter operated an enormous copper smelting factory in Opportunity, Montana. And for more than seven decades, that factory spewed tons of toxic waste, mostly arsenic, into the community’s soil and water supply. In 1983, the EPA made...
From EPA regulations to leaking pipelines
The Trump administration has consistently flouted environmental regulations. The courts have attempted to block them but it has not deterred the government. The most recent example was reported by The Nation, which talks about the EPA...
How Money from Big Oil and Pipeline Developers Spills into the Democratic Party
The Ghion Journal Let’s get right down to business: the Democratic Party has a pipeline problem. After deciding to stop taking Big Oil money in 2018, then promptly reversing course, the DNC has all but proven that they value money over anything else — and they...
Hong Kong’s opposition unites with Washington hardliners to ‘preserve the US’s own political and economic interests’
The Grayzone The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on November 19, without any opposition. Despite loudly proclaiming to protect “human rights” and “democracy,” a closer look at this legislation reveals the imperial agenda...
The War on Terror Cost $6.4 Trillion and 800,000 Lives
The Real News Network GREG WILPERT: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Greg Wilpert in Arlington, Virginia. Martin Luther King once famously called the United States “the world’s greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” Two recently published studies seem...
Silencing the Beast of Bolivian Populism
CounterPunch The risible tension between the tailored elitism of the Bolivian bourgeoisie and the restive pueblo of indigenous peasants was memorably captured in the 2005 film Our Brand Is Crisis. The documentary colorfully exposes the sleazy...
Hundreds of Thousands Join National Strike in Colombia in Rebuke to Right-Wing President Iván Duque
Democracy Now! In Colombia, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets Thursday in the largest national strike the country has seen in years. Labor unions, students, teachers, indigenous and Afro-Colombian activists joined in peaceful marches across urban and...
The Stain on America’s Soul That Will Not Wash Away
Truthdig Guantanamo Bay has become a name synonymous with torture and lawlessness. Years after the so-called “War on Terror” began, information about operations in this U.S.-controlled section of Cuba have slowly leaked out. In an astounding new book titled “A Place...