We live in a world where North Korea presents the possibility of retaliatory strikes on the US main land and our Republican administration is throwing around wildly bellicose and recklessly threatening words that risk all of us having to pay the price of a nuclear exchange. It is time for congress to fulfill their constitutional responsibility (Article I, Section 8, Clause 11) to be the only body in the US that may start a war. Congress now allows the President an emergency exemption to take action
Focus: The FBI, Clinton and the Russian Uranium Deal – Oct 18, 2017
Senate Judiciary opens probe into Obama-era Russian nuclear bribery case – TheHill
Grassley probes Clinton ‘conflicts of interest’ amid new questions in Russia uranium deal – Fox News
Grassley statement at Justice Dept. Oversight Hearing – Chuck Grassley
Grassley releases a series of letters he fired off to 10 federal agencies, addressing the uranium deal – United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
VIDEO: Senate Judiciary’s Grassley questions AG Sessions on Uranium One – YouTube
Sessions says Justice to review Russian uranium deal – TheHill
WTH? Attorney General Sessions says Rosenstein can investigate HIMSELF in Uranium One criminal probe (VIDEO) – thegatewaypundit.com
Obama’s DOJ slow-walked probe of Russia uranium deal despite national security concerns – TheHill
AG Sessions could lift gag order on informant in Clinton-Russia-uranium probe – cnsnews.com
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Nixon’s Children
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“Tell Me How This Ends?”
David Petraeus Finally Answers His Own Question
By Tom Engelhardt
It took 14 years, but now we have an answer.
It was March 2003, the invasion of Iraq was underway, and Major General David Petraeus was in command of the 101st Airborne Division heading for the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Rick Atkinson, Washington Post journalist and military
Focus: Tax Reform – Oct 16, 2017
Report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers says corporate tax cuts will lift workers’ wages, it draws on several economic studies that find similar results – The New York Times
Press release: CEA report: Corporate tax reform and wages: Theory and evidence – whitehouse.gov
CEA report (Full text): Corporate tax reform and wages: Theory and evidence – whitehouse.gov
VIDEO: White House chief economist Kevin Hassett: Corporate tax cuts will boost wages – CNBC
Schumer slams WH report on corporate tax cuts, says it is using ‘fake math’ – newsmax.com
Detractors pile on a White House study that foresees incomes getting a boost of $4,000 a year if the corporate tax rate is cut to 20% from 35% – MarketWatch
I got issues with the new CEA report – Jared Bernstein
Press release: Report: Corporate tax cuts boost CEO pay, not jobs – Institute for Policy Studies
Summers says Trump officials are making things up about their tax plan – Bloomberg
VIDEO: Ex-Treasury Secretary Summers: White House tax plan ‘indefensible’ – CNBC
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Gitmo’s Living Legacy in the Trump Era
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Karen Greenberg first arrived at TomDispatch in January 2005 in tandem with defense attorney Joshua Dratel. Their book The Torture Papers was just being published and they were asking
Wrongful Rhetoric and Trump’s Strategy on Iran
October 14, 2017
Mordechai Vanunu was imprisoned in Israel for eighteen years because he blew the whistle on Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program. He felt he had “an obligation to tell the people of Israel what was going on behind their backs” at a supposed nuclear research facility which was actually producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. His punishment for breaking the silence about Israel’s capacity to manufacture nuclear weapons included eleven years of solitary confinement.
Yesterday,
My letter to Larry Flynt on Trump Impeachment
Larry Flynt,
Your grounds for impeachment #s 2 through 6 (plus that of the paragraph that follows them) are already documented by overwhelming, incontrovertible evidence. What is required is to recognize that and to remove from the list the impediment of the ground you have placed as #1 which helps create the illusion of requiring more information, which risks increased militarism, and which could derail this entire impeachment project due to the lack of evidence for any of its central claims.
That’s
The Secure, the Dispossessed, and the Mentally Deranged Dotards
In The Secure and the Dispossessed, Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes have collected an unflinching survey of a species gone mad. The book’s subtitle is “How the Military and Corporations Are Shaping a Climate-Changed World.” In short, the Authoritarian Exceptionalist Military Corporate Complex is flamboyantly recognizing the hole it is in, and exponentially increasing the rate of digging, while hiring PR firms to redefine “digging” as “robust engagement in advanced resilient green
What About Weinstein’s Public Offenses?
Harvey Weinstein, I’ve just read, is “the disgraced Pulp Fiction producer.” But isn’t someone who encourages millions of people to think of murder and torture as super cool and fun already pre-disgraced? Doesn’t he arrive in the locked office with the actress cowering in the corner already publicly disgraced and intent on disgracing himself in private?
This is a man whom we have to thank for Reservoir Dogs, Gangs of New York, Kill Bill, Rambo, Inglorious Basterds, Django
Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Embracing Our Inner Empire
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“Bring the war home”: once, a long, lost time ago — in October 1969, to be exact — that slogan represented a promise made by the most radical wing of the vast movement against the war in Vietnam. Wearing football helmets and wielding lead pipes, that tiny crew of extreme leftists carried out what they