Former Trump Chief of Staff Being Investigated for Using False Address to Vote
Officials in North Carolina are looking into Mark Meadows’ claims that he may have committed voter-fraud. Meadows was an ardent proponent of the erroneous election fraud claims peddled by Trump and other administration officials following the former president’s loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. He was among several Trump loyalists that pressed […]
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Government says it cannot intervene in P&O ‘jobs massacre’
A minister has said the government cannot stop the impromptu sacking of 800 staff at UK-based ferry firm P&O. Armed forces minister James Heappey descried the company’s behaviour as “disgraceful” but said the state had little ability to intervene. “I think that is the reality,” he explained in an interview with BBC Breakfast. “The Government […]
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Political Agenda – Sir Robert Buckland MP
Robert Buckland’s enthusiasm for his time as justice secretary shines through when he talks about it. “Without the Ministry of Justice, what values do we have as a country?” The former barrister, Swindon South’s MP since in 2010, held the post of solicitor general between 2014-2019 before becoming secretary of state for justice under Boris […]
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Robert Buckland ‘very frustrated’ by sacking as justice secretary
Robert Buckland says he feels “very frustrated” at being sacked from his role at the justice department, stating the decision to move him on was not performance-related. In an exclusive interview with Politics.co.uk, the former justice secretary said he wasn’t given a reason for being moved on in Boris Johnson’s Cabinet reshuffle last September, claiming […]
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Years Late, Millions Short on Hunter Biden’s Laptop at NY Times
Michael Isikoff was once Newsweek’s top investigative reporter. He tweeted something unintentionally funny about a New York Times article. “In the category of — didn’t see this coming,” he wrote, “The @nytimes confirms the authenticity of Hunter Biden emails derived from his laptop that had been previously dismissed as Russian disinformation.” The obvious joke about […]
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On Counterterrorism, Is Biden ‘Over the Horizon’ or in Over His Head?
President Joe Biden announced on April 14, 2021 that he would withdraw all U.S. military personnel from Afghanistan, in accordance with an agreement he had made with Donald Trump. “We went to Afghanistan in 2001 to root out al Qaeda, to prevent future terrorist attacks against the United States planned from Afghanistan,” Biden said. “Our […]
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Occupy-Style Protest in Boise Highlights Brutal Conditions Faced by the Unhoused
The injustice of homelessness — a human rights disaster of immense proportions in the US — is on stark show in Idaho’s modestly sized capital of Boise, simply as it’s throughout the nation. Whereas town won’t come to thoughts when one envisions the sprawling atrocity of homelessness, it’s a 2018 court docket battle originating in […]
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Dean Spade Is Asking Activists, “How Much Bolder Could You Be?”
Companies Not Sweeps coalition members encompass a tent to cease metropolis staff from eradicating it throughout a homeless encampment sweep on Cherokee Avenue on August 26, 2020, in Los Angeles, California. Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Instances through Getty Photographs “None of us know the place that is going,” says writer and activist Dean Spade. […]
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Calling Ukraine “Relatively Civilized” Invokes a Racist Ranking of Europeanness
CBS senior foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata’s contrast of Ukraine, which he described as “relatively civilized, relatively European,” with Iraq and Afghanistan, where “conflict has been raging for decades,” went viral and offended millions around the globe. This dangerous comment was a stark reminder about the pervasive racism, Islamophobia and colonial mentalities being propagated today by […]
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We Need to Build a Labor Movement That’s Willing to Break the Law
The United States has the lowest level of unionization of all developed countries. Less than 11 percent of workers are members of a union. The unionization rate in Sweden is higher than that in Belgium. close to 50 percent; and in Iceland, almost the entire labor force (almost 92 percent) is unionized. The U.S. also […]
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