“Covert Coup” Revealed in Anonymous NYT Op-Ed Is a Threat, Much Like Trump

“Trump may be a threat,” notes journalist Glenn Greenwald, “but so is this covert coup” that seeks to impose its “own ideology with zero democratic accountability, mandate or transparency.”

Jon Queally
بواسطة Jon Queally
sanctions on iran

What's more troubling: That the grotesque liar and right-wing narcissist Donald Trump was elected by the American people to be President of the United States in 2016? Or that there is now apparently a secret cabal of unelected right-wing officials inside his White House—at least according to a New York Times op-ed published Wednesday afternoon—that

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Trump Administration Opens Door for Corporate Attack on Vulnerable Wildlife

If Interior Department’s proposals are approved, “Zinke will go down in history as the extinction secretary.”

Julia Conley
بواسطة Julia Conley
The rusty-patched Bumble bee (Bombus affinis) has become the first bee species to be officially placed on the endangered species list (Photo: Photo: Dan Mullen/Flickr)

Gutting the law that has protected the bald eagle, the American crocodile, the gray wolf, and countless other animals from extinction over the past four decades, the Trump administration gave its latest handout to corporate interests on Thursday when it unveiled sweeping changes to the Endangered Species Act (ESA). "These regulations are the

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U.S. Opposition to Breastfeeding Resolution Stuns the World

Trump took to Twitter on Monday to call the New York Times report “fake news.”

Emma Fiala
بواسطة Emma Fiala
Breastfeeding resolution

Decades of research has revealed time and again that breastfeeding is the healthiest way to feed babies. Years of misleading marketing by formula companies has caused undue harm the world over by providing free samples in-hospital after birth, driving the unintended use of dirty water to mix formula where clean water is scarce and miseducating

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The Trump Administration was Just Ordered to End Indefinite Detention of Asylum Seekers

The Trump administration’s indefinite detention of people exercising their legal right to seek asylum violated not only U.S. law but also the 1967 Protocol to the United Nations’ 1951 Convention on the Treatment of Refugees.

Julia Conley
بواسطة Julia Conley
Indefinite Detention of Asylum Seekers

Immigrant rights advocates on Tuesday applauded a federal judge's ruling that the Trump administration cannot detain asylum seekers who are awaiting immigration hearings—a practice that breaks the government's own policies as well as international law. https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1013909726319513600 The ACLU filed a lawsuit earlier this

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Trump’s Military Drops a Bomb Every 12 Minutes and No One Is Talking About It

We are a rogue nation with a rogue military and a completely unaccountable ruling elite.

Lee Camp
بواسطة Lee Camp
An anti-war protester wears a mask showing US President Donald Trump in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017 during a demonstration against nuclear weapons near the Brandenburg Gate. (AP/Michael Sohn)

This article originally appeared on Truth Dig. We live in a state of perpetual war, and we never feel it. While you get your gelato at the hip place where they put those cute little mint leaves on the side, someone is being bombed in your name. While you argue with the 17-year-old at the movie theater who gave you a small popcorn when you paid

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6 Democrats Just Voted With GOP to Confirm Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State

With the help of six Democrats and Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), the Senate on Thursday helped President Donald Trump move one step closer to completing his war cabinet by confirming the ultra-hawkish torture supporter Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State

Jake Johnson
بواسطة Jake Johnson
Mike Pompeo, now CIA director, speaking at the 2012 CPAC in Washington, D.C. February 2012. (Flickr Gage Skidmore)

With the help of six Democrats and Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), the Senate on Thursday helped President Donald Trump move one step closer to completing his war cabinet by confirming the ultra-hawkish torture supporter Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State by a vote of 57-42. "The Senate has made a mistake of historic proportions by rubber-stamping

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