US Is Playing With the Future of Civilization in Order to Weaken Russia
David Barsamian: Let’s head into the most obvious nightmare of this moment, the war in Ukraine and its effects globally. Let’s start with some background. Let’s start with President George H.W. Bush’s assurance to then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not move “one inch to the east” — and that pledge has been verified. […]
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Progressive Economists Say Interest Rate Hikes Are Wrong Approach to Inflation
The Federal Reserve’s decision Wednesday to hike interest rates by 75 basis points — the largest increase since 1994 — heightened fears among economists that the central bank’s attempt to tame inflation risks plunging the U.S. economy into recession and inflicting more pain on vulnerable workers. The Fed’s move came on the heels of worse-than-expected […]
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Almost Every Square Inch of the US Is Being Battered by Climate Change Today
Probably, you’re hot right now. Or soaked. Or in the darkness. Or frightened. Or all of the above. Phrases like “ring of fire” have entered the weather lexicon beside “heat dome,” “polar vortex,” “atmospheric river” and “bombogenesis” (also known as a “bomb cyclone,” because that isn’t terrifying or anything) to try and explain the bedlam […]
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Photo Shows Pence and His Family Hiding From Trump Mob on January 6
A new photo taken by ABC NewsPhotograph of Mike Pence, ex-Vice President, and his family during the attack on Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. Pence, along with his daughter, his brother Rep. Greg Pence (R-Indiana) and his wife Karen Pence, are shown in the vice president’s ceremonial office inside the Capitol. The photo was […]
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Biden Falsely Accuses Trump of His Own Greatest Offense
As President Joe Biden was about to wrap up his address at Tuesday’s AFL-CIO Convention, he made an inadvertently ironic observation. “We’re the most unique country in the world,” he said. “We’re organized on one notion. Every other country is organized on the basis of geography, ethnicity, religion, and geography. But the United States is […]
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Abortion Funds Are Preparing For a Storm. To Help, “Get in Where You Fit in.”
Abortion rights demonstrators march into downtown following a rally in Union Park on Might 14, 2022, in Chicago, Illinois.Scott Olson / Getty Photographs “We’ve to be considering and dreaming and planning actually expansively … as a result of when Roe falls, band-aid options usually are not going to be sufficient,” says Meghan Daniel, a assist […]
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The 1922 committee—could they bring Boris Johnson down?
Earlier this month Boris Johnson scraped to victory in a vote of no confidence, following months of hypothesis concerning his backing amongst his personal MPs. 211 (virtually 59 per cent) MPs voted in favour of holding him in No 10, whereas 148 (round 41 per cent) voted to oust him. Whereas Johnson in the end […]
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Hughes announces fairer private rented sector white paper
In a statement to the House of Commons, housing under-secretary Eddie Hughes announced to MPs the government’s intended white paper to introduce a fairer private rented sector. Hughes lorded the plans as “the biggest set of reforms in a generation”. Labour welcomed the move, but shadow minister Matthew Pennycook was cautious given that the government […]
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New Mexico Is Suing Trumpist County Officials Over Refusal to Certify Primaries
New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver (D) has filed a lawsuit directly with the state Supreme Court over the refusal to certify election results from last week’s primary races by one county’s Republican-controlled board of commissioners. Three members of the Otero County Commission, which includes the person who stormed and seized the U.S. […]
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No 10 succumb to calls to publish Geidt resignation letter
No 10 have succumbed to calls from Labour and other to publish Lord Geidt’s resignation letter in which he accuses Boris Johnson of risking a “mockery” of ministerial code in trade policy changes. Labour’s shadow international trade secretary, Nick Thomas-Symonds, urged the letter’s release earlier today. Fleur Anderson, Labour MP, asked today an urgent question […]
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