Trump’s Articles of Impeachment: A Greatest Hits Collection
By David Swanson, FireDonaldTrump.org
Several years back, I led a team of authors drafting articles of impeachment against then-President George W. Bush for then-Congressman Dennis Kucinich. We drafted over 60 and settled on the best 35. Had Congress moved forward, it would not have passed all 35 or convicted on them. But we felt it was important to establish the record and present the options. In fact, I would have preferred to go with more
Tomgram: John Feffer, Avoiding War with Pyongyang
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If you happen to be a dystopian novelist, as TomDispatch regular John Feffer is, then you’re in business these days. Back in 2015, when Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency was just heating up and Feffer was writing Splinterlands,
Focus: Russia and Syria – Aug 21, 2017
Russia boosts air campaign to help recapture key Syrian city Deir el-Zour – ABC News
During the past five days Russian planes made 316 sorties and carried out 819 strikes, ISIS terrorists pulling strongest units to Deir ez-Zor for last stand: Russian MoD – RT News
Central Syria almost liberated from terrorists, while Aleppo Province is already free from them: Russian General Staff – Sputnik International
Syria war: Russian jets ‘destroy IS convoy near Deir al-Zour’, Russia’s defence ministry said at least 200 jihadists died – BBC News
VIDEO (English subtitles and transcript): Syria briefing by Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Colonel General Sergei Rudskoy – Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
VIDEO: Russian air force destroys 200+ ISIS terrorists heading for Deir ez-Zor, Syria: Russia’s MoD – YouTube
Syrian Army secures strategic town Hamimah near Deir Ezzor from ISIS (VIDEO) – almasdarnews.com
Rebel spies exterminate ISIS gathering in Deir Ezzor, 8 jihadists killed – almasdarnews.com
ISIS’s Baghdadi is believed to have moved to eastern Deir Ezzor: source – almasdarnews.com
Syrian Army takes ISIS-held town Huwaysis near strategic gas field in central Syria – almasdarnews.com
Talk Nation Radio: Ed Kinane on Stopping Killer Drones
Ed Kinane is based in Syracuse, New York, and has been a big part of efforts to oppose drone piloting at Hancock Air Base for the past 10 years. His amazing array of work over the past decades has included teaching math and biology in a one-room Quaker school in rural Kenya, hitchiking Africa and North America, providing protective accompaniment to targeted activists in Guatemala, El Salvador, Haiti, and Sri Lanka, serving as chair of Peace Brigades International’s Sri Lanka
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Welcome to the Post-American World
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Pardon Me!
High Crimes and Demeanors in the Age of Trump
By Tom Engelhardt
Let me try to get this straight: from the moment the Soviet Union imploded in 1991 until recently just about every politician and mainstream pundit in America assured us that we were the planet’s indispensable nation, the only truly exceptional one on this small orb of ours.
We were the sole superpower,
Creative Anti-Nazism
The people of Durham , N.C., have the right idea. Not only have they taken down a Confederate war statue themselves, but they’ve lined up en masse to turn themselves in for that crime, overwhelming the so-called justice system.
The people of Wunsiedel, German, have the right idea. They’ve responded to Nazi marches by funding anti-Nazi groups for every Nazi marcher, and cheering on and thanking the marchers.
The people of Richardson, Texas, have the right idea. Members of a mosque intervened
Focus: North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) – Aug 16, 2017
U.S. takes tough lines as NAFTA negotiations begin: ‘We feel that NAFTA has fundamentally failed many, many Americans and needs major improvement’ – Yahoo News
VIDEO: NAFTA 2.0 press conference with US, Canada and Mexico representatives – United States Trade Representative
TRANSCRIPT: Opening statement of USTR Robert Lighthizer at the first round of NAFTA renegotiations – United States Trade Representative
Full text of the Trump administration’s Summary of Objectives for NAFTA Renegotiation – ustr.gov
Canada and Mexico rebuke Trump at tense start of NAFTA talks – FT.com
What the U.S., Canada and Mexico want from a new NAFTA – US News
Address by Canada Foreign Affairs Minister Freeland on the modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) – Canada.ca
U.S. trade vets say Canada’s NAFTA demands a ‘long shot’ – torontosun.com
The A team across the table: The top US, Canada and Mexico negotiators – Bloomberg
Will Koreans Count This Time?
William S. Geimer
Author: Canada: The Case for Staying Out of Other People’s Wars
Blog: DearVirtualEditor.com
A number of important matters are being ignored in the latest furor of North Korea. One is the fact that the U.S. created North Korea and South Korea, and then rejected the only democratic option for unification. The U.S. made these moves with little or no regard for the wishes of the Korean people, and at the cost of millions of their lives. To date, it has been clear that Korea is no