What the Jan. 6 Committee Might Have Been
Congress should investigate fully the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol—and similar recent riots at iconic federal sites. Unfortunately, it will never happen. Why not? The current committee does not have bipartisan members. Nancy Pelosi, D.Calif., House Speaker, forbade Republican nominees previously selected by the House Minority Leader to serve on this committee. No speaker […]
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Democrats’ Selective Outrage Over ‘Insurrections’
To listen to House Democrats’—and Liz Cheney’s and Adam Kinzinger’s, but I repeat myself—shrieks of hysteria from the opening nights of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee dais is to hearken back to the Soviet-era show trials of yesteryear. Vladimir Lenin, as the veteran conservative commentator Roger Kimball reminds us, referred to them as “model […]
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Former Liberal Congressman Is Now a Top Lobbyist Defending a Tax Scam
For the past six years, government officials have tried ever harder to kill a type of tax avoidance scheme that the Internal Revenue Service has branded “abusive” among “the worst of the worst tax scams.” The IRS has pursued tens of thousands of audits and warned of hefty penalties facing anyone who exploits it. The […]
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Trump Can’t Defend Himself by Saying He Believed Fraud Lies, Legal Minds Say
Two highly respected legal experts stated that former President Donald Trump can’t be acquitted from any possible indictment in connection to the attack on Capitol. They argue that he believed his false claims of election corruption and were genuinely believing them. Laurence Tribe is a Harvard Law School professor emeritus, while Dennis Aftergut is a […]
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Activists Say WTO Deal on Vaccine Patents Is “Sham” Dictated by Rich Nations
The World Trade Organization’s 12th Ministerial Conference ended Friday with an agreement on patent rights that campaigners said would do virtually nothing to address vast global inequities in coronavirus vaccine and treatment access, a failure they attributed to relentless obstruction by rich countries and the pharmaceutical industry. After marathon negotiations, the narrow deal clarifies governments’ […]
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Tomorrow’s March on Washington Will Target Poverty, Voter Suppression, Climate
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Facebook: www.anewppc We speak with Bishop William Barber and Reverend Liz Theoharis, co-chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign, about plans for Saturday’s Moral March on Washington and to the Polls to demand the government address key issues facing poor and low-income communities. The march will bring together thousands of people from […]
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Pence and Trump Aides Are Trying to Project Righteousness. Don’t Be Fooled.
Thursday’s 1/6 hearing was The Mike Pence Show: A detailed examination of the pressures brought to bear on the former vice president by Donald Trump and others, along with revelations that most everyone applying that pressure knew full well what they were doing was illegal. Bearing the day’s testimony in mind, I’d like you to […]
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UK Approves Assange Extradition to US
Friday’s formal approval by the U.K. government of extradition of WikiLeaksJulian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, traveled to the United States to face espionage accusations. This decision was condemned by human rights groups as a serious threat to journalism all over the world. Assange, who has been detained in a high-security London prison since 2019, […]
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Medicare for All Could Have Prevented 338,000 COVID Deaths in the US
According to a study, a universal healthcare system could have saved 338,000 lives by preventing nearly one third of deaths due to COVID-19 infection through March 2022. A single-payer health care system would also have saved the nation an estimated $105.6 billion in health care costs associated with COVID treatments and hospitalizations, leading the study’s […]
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To Win Midterms, Sanders Tells Democrats to Take Fight Directly to GOP
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) believes Democrats in Congress need to be more aggressive between now and November if they hope to retain the House and the Senate in this year’s midterm elections. In an op-ed for The GuardianSanders acknowledged that there are numerous polls that show that Republicans have a greater chance of winning control […]
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