ALL ARTICLES, Democrats December 31, 2018

Missing The Mark: ‘Not the Leadership This Moment Calls For’: Progressives Slam Pelosi For Pushing ‘Weak’ Climate Panel Over Bold Green New Deal Committee

“The party of the resistance is recklessly taking the path of least resistance on climate and inequality.” By Jake Johnson Common Dreams (12/28/18) Following presumptive House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) official announcementon Friday that Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) will chair the new Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, progressives accused the Democratic leadership of moving ahead with a “weak” congressional panel instead of listening to grassroots demands for a more bold and visionary Green New Deal Select Committee. Justice Democrats—an advocacy group that helped organize recent mobilizations in support of a Green New Deal—declared in a statement that the Democratic leadership appears dead-set…

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats, FEATURE, Health Care December 31, 2018

Democratic Establishment & Corporations Look To Crush Progressive Push On Medicare For All

Progressives say they’re more concerned about courting voters than winning over big business. By Adan Cancryn Politico (12/10/18) The united front that helped Democrats save Obamacare just a year ago is falling apart over single-payer health care. Deep-pocketed hospital, insurance and other lobbies are plotting to crush progressives’ hopes of expanding the government’s role in health care once they take control of the House. The private-sector interests, backed in some cases by key Obama administration and Hillary Clinton campaign alumni, are now focused on beating back another prospective health care overhaul, including plans that would allow people under 65 to…

ALL ARTICLES December 31, 2018

Bernie’s New Year’s Messsage: If I Run Expect The Corporate ‘Kitchen Sink’ Again

  Ours is not a radical agenda. It’s the agenda the American people want. [Editor’s Note: Rep. Ron Kind’s Wall Street corporate cronies at ‘Third Way’ are already gearing up to stop Bernie. — Mark L. Taylor] By Bernie Sanders Reader Supported News (12/29/18) Let me take this opportunity to wish you a very happy holiday season and a wonderful new year. Whenever I am asked about running for president in 2020, I answer that if I am the best candidate to beat Donald Trump, then I will probably run. That is the truth. Their agenda, paid for by wealthy campaign…

ALL ARTICLES December 31, 2018

Why Some Bernie Sanders Fans Are Warning About Beto

In many important ways, Beto’s record is in line with the GOP. Yet, the dem establishment calls him progressive. But Beto is more corporate-friendly than Obama.  By Daniel Marans HuffPost (12/29/18) The progressive commentariat has been buzzing in recent weeks about the barrage of unflattering reporting and criticism directed at retiring Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D) by left-leaning journalists and activists. Although Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ team insists he has had nothing to do with the criticism and there is no evidence to suggest he has, many of his supporters have indeed been peeved by the boomlet of hype around…

ALL ARTICLES, History They Don't Want You To Know, War State America December 31, 2018

Search For Missing $21 Trillion Comes Up Empty As Pentagon Fails First Audit In 71-Year History

The War Dept can’t account for trillions. Yet we are told there isn’t enough money to care for citizens. We have the resources, they are just in the wrong hands.   [Editor’s Note: This story barely made nary a ripple in the mainstream corporate press, which — of course — gobbles down multiple billions in war industry advertising dollars. This scandal is a real opportunity for the democrats in the House, but will they hold meaningful hearings? — Mark L. Taylor] By Randi Nord Mint Press News (12/21/18) WASHINGTON — Despite being legally required to conduct audits since the early 90s…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Police State America December 31, 2018

He Drew His School Mascot — And ICE Labeled Him A Gang Member Then Deported Him

  “That scarlet letter sits on these kids’ files forever. When that happens at the immigration level, it’s fatal.”  By Hannah Dreier ProPblica/New York Times Magazine (12/27/18) WHEN ALEX WALKED INTO SCHOOL on June 14, 2017, it felt as if summer had already started. He didn’t have regular classes, just a standardized math test in the late morning. The other immigrant students in the bilingual program at Huntington High were crowded in a hallway comparing their plans for the break — most already had jobs lined up — and promising to stay in touch. Classmates came up to greet him. At 19,…

ALL ARTICLES, Putin & Donnie December 31, 2018

Putin Must Be Sooo Happy: Trump & His Teeny, Tiny Twitter Thumbs Exposed Location, Faces Of Navy Seals Team In Iraq Tweet

  [Editor’s Note: Imagine the conniption fits the Rethuglicans would have had if Obama had done this. They would have moved for impeachment. When Trump does it? Uh, whatever… — Mark L. Taylor] By Mary Papenfuss HuffPost (12/28/18) President Donald Trump posed with members of a Navy Seals special ops team in Iraq this week, then reportedly exposed information about them on Twitter that’s usually classified. The location of such a deployment, as well as the identities or identifiable faces of service members, are usually classified, Defense Department sources told Newsweek magazine. “The fact is they are a special operations…

ALL ARTICLES, Russia Monitor December 31, 2018

Russia Monitor: Brick By Brick … Trump Walled In

  To the extent that Trumpism is a thing, I propose the following definition: “Trumpism (noun): Bad people doing hateful things ineptly.” — Tweet by Riley Roberts (3/6/17)   ***** BREAKING: A caravan of Democrats was spotted heading for the House of Representative’s and will arrive on January 3, 2019. — Tweet by Hear Me Roar‏ @Stop_Trump20 (12/29/18) By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (12/28/18) Dear Fellow Readers, If want to skip to what might be the single best concise summary to date of Trump-Russia corruption as offered by Daily Kos, near the end. Or… Are you tired of all the winning? We’ll…

ALL ARTICLES, Economic Injustice, FEATURE December 31, 2018

Trapping Students & Society In A System Of Debt & The Corporate ‘Discipline Culture’

“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, the can’t afford time to think. Tuition fee increases are a ‘disciplinary technique,’ and, by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the “discipline culture. This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.” — Quote from a 2011 news report in the Ottawa Citizen, which paraphrased statements Chomsky made during a lecture at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. ***** The Crushing Burden Of Long-Term Student Debt…

ALL ARTICLES, FEATURE, History They Don't Want You To Know December 31, 2018

“The War At Home”: 1979 Film On Anti-Vietnam War Protests In Madison, WI Hits Theaters With Timely Relevance

“This is Hometown. America in revolt … not to be missed.” — Variety Democracy Now! (12/28/18) The War at Home, a landmark documentary about antiwar protests in the 1960s and ’70s in Madison, Wisconsin, has just been re-released nationwide. In an extended interview, we revisit the film with co-director Glenn Silber, two-time Academy Award nominee, and discuss why he argues now is an important time to revisit the responsibility to stand up and say no to war. “I think the Dow demonstration, at least in Madison, and probably elsewhere, is one of the most important demonstrations ever, because what was it?…

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ALL ARTICLES, History They Don't Want You To Know December 31, 2018

Book Review — ‘Marx’s Inferno’: The Political Theory Of Capital

    William Clare Roberts Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2017. 304pp. By Seth Ledwith Marx & Philosophy Review of Books (12/5/17) This year’s 150th anniversary of the publication of Volume One of Marx’s Capital has created renewed interest in that unrivalled magnum opus of radical political economy. The undimmed relevance of the book has only been enhanced by recent economic and political developments in this decade of the 21st century. 2017 also marks the tenth anniversary of the onset of the great recession that continues to act as a drag-weight on the Western capitalist economies. The transparent…

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats, FEATURE December 27, 2018

Corporate Joe Biden: Okay, Cross Him Off The List. Next…

  “I don’t think 500 billionaires are the reason why we’re in trouble. But we have not seen this huge concentration of wealth. And the folks at the top aren’t bad guys. I get in trouble in my party when I say wealthy Americans are just as patriotic as poor folks, I’ve found no distinction. I really haven’t. But this gap is yawning. It’s gaping and it’s having the effect of pulling us apart.” (And, oh yeah, and according to Corporate Joe Biden, Social Security and Medicare earned benefits “need adjustment”, too.) — Joe Biden, Brookings Institution talk “about 8…

ALL ARTICLES, CIA, Police State America December 27, 2018

Ex-Spies Are Harvesting Facebook Photos For A Massive Facial Recognition Database

If Terrogence isn’t solely focused on terrorism, but has a political side to its business too, its facial recognition work could sweep up a vast number of people.  [Editor’s Note: Do you really want to continue putting up photos of your family on Facebook? be careful, folks. — Mark L. Taylor] By Thomas Brewster Forbes (4/16/18) When Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, he tried to describe the difference between “surveillance and what we do.” “The difference is extremely clear,” a nervous-looking Zuckerberg said. “On Facebook, you have control over…

ALL ARTICLES, Rethuglicans December 27, 2018

Trump’s Community Of Casual Cruelty

“For them, cruelty is the point.” The Atlantic Argument (12/13/18) The binding agent between Donald Trump and his backers is the president’s consistent demonstration of cruelty, argues writer Adam Serwer in the latest Atlantic Argument. From the president’s mockery of the disabled New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, to his denigration of Christine Blasey Ford, to his villainizing of undocumented immigrants, it has become clear that Trump galvanizes his base with invectives that target those who are suffering. “Trump’s fiercest backers enjoy his cruelty towards people they have decided deserve it,” Serwer says in the video. “For them, the cruelty is the point.”…

ALL ARTICLES, Police State America December 27, 2018

‘This Must End. Now.’: 8-Year-Old Boy Dies In US Border Patrol Custody On Christmas Day

“A reminder that, yes, this is who the U.S. is. The U.S. is a country that murders children both directly and indirectly in a myriad of ways.” By Common Dreams Staff Common Dreams (12/25/18) An eight-year-old Guatemalan boy died in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shortly after midnight on Christmas Day, the second death of a migrant child detained by the agency this month alone. According to the Associated Press: “The boy showed “signs of potential illness” Monday and was taken with his father to a hospital in Alamogordo, New Mexico, the agency said. There, he was diagnosed with a cold…

ALL ARTICLES December 27, 2018

Documentary: They Rescued Abused Pigs & Turkeys From Chinese-owned Factory Farms & Now Face Decades In Prison For ‘Terrorism’

Charges could bring 60-year sentences. By Leighton Akio Woodhouse, Pedro Armando Aparicio & David Zlutnick The Intercept IN THE FALL of 2017, Glenn Greenwald reported on a nationwide FBI manhunt for two pigs named Lily and Lizzie. The pigs had been removed from a factory farm in Utah by animal rights activists from a group called Direct Action Everywhere. From the perspective of the activists, the pigs were rescued. From the perspective of Smithfield Farms, the Chinese-owned multinational corporation that owns the factory farm, they were stolen. An alarming example of the power of the animal agriculture industry, the confluence of interests between industry and…

ALL ARTICLES, Bomb Trains December 27, 2018

Growing Divestment Movement Is Beginning To Hit The Fossil Fuel Industry Where It Hurts The Most

  By Bill McKibben The Guardian (12/16/18) I remember well the first institution to announce it was divesting from fossil fuel. It was 2012 and I was on the second week of a gruelling tour across the US trying to spark a movement. Our roadshow had been playing to packed houses down the west coast, and we’d crossed the continent to Portland, Maine. As a raucous crowd jammed the biggest theatre in town, a physicist named Stephen Mulkey took the mic. He was at the time president of the tiny Unity College in the state’s rural interior, and he announced…

ALL ARTICLES December 27, 2018

Beto Bumped From ‘No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge’ Following Sludge Report

  By Alex Kotch Sludge (12/18/18) Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke has been removed from a pledge he signed to reject large donations from fossil fuel PACs and executives, following a recent Sludge investigation of federal campaign finance records. Sludge reported on Dec. 10 that the congressman had accepted dozens of contributions of over $200 from oil and gas executives and had not reported refunding them. Oil Change USA, which led a coalition of environmental and democracy organizations to create the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge, attempted to reach O’Rourke’s campaign and congressional office but did not hear back. Nor did Sludge. David…

ALL ARTICLES, History They Don't Want You To Know, Mike McCabe for Gov December 27, 2018

Filmmaker Frank Capra Warned Us: Facing Down The Challenge To Our ‘Wonderful Life’

  America feels more and more like Pottersville. By Mike McCabe Blue Jean Nation (12/21/18) I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve watched Frank Capra’s beloved 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life. Must be north of 40 anyway. Yet it has a way of hitting closer to home with passing year. The movie’s battle of wills between public-spirited George Bailey and greedy Mr. Potter has always symbolized conspicuous social and economic tensions between America’s privileged rich and struggling working class. But with the gap between the rich and the rest widening and the country’s middle class losing ground, and with hate on the…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Right Wing Religion December 24, 2018

Silent Night In ‘Christian’ America: In Immigrant Childrens Shelters, Sexual Assault Cases Are Quietly Open & Shut

  By Michael Grabell, Topher Sanders & Silvina Sterin Pensel ProPublica (12/21/18) A World Cup soccer match was playing on the shelter’s TV when the two older teenagers tackled Alex on July 1 and dragged him into the empty bedroom. Wrestling him onto his stomach, one of them, a tattoo on his forearm, got on top. As Alex struggled to move, he said he could feel the teen’s penis grinding against his butt. “Take off his shorts!” he heard the other teen, who’d bragged he’d been a gang member in Honduras, shout. “Let’s get him naked!” Just 10 days earlier, Alex, 13, had…

ALL ARTICLES December 24, 2018

‘Iron Stache’ Gets A New Job To Encourage More Working-class Folks To Run For Office

By Dominc Rushe The Guardian (12/21/18) Randy Bryce, the former ironworker who helped push Republican House speaker Paul Ryan out of politics, is launching a campaign to attract more working-class candidates to run for office. In November’s midterm elections Bryce, nicknamed “Iron Stache”, narrowly lost a bid for Ryan’s old House seat in Wisconsin to Republican Bryan Steil. The often bitterly fought campaign drew national attention in a battleground state that swung for Trump in the last election but saw Democrats win key seats. Bryce’s forceful opposition to Ryan was seen as a key factor in Ryan’s decision to not seek re-election….

ALL ARTICLES, Climate Change December 24, 2018

Depressed & Then Diagnosed With Autism, 15 Year-old Greta Thunberg Explains Why Hope Cannot Save Planet But Bold Climate Action Still Can

“Yes, we do need hope—of course, we do. But the one thing we need more than hope is action. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere.” By Jon Queally Common Dreams (12/19/18) As youth climate campaigners in the U.S. city of Brooklyn on Wednesday plan to continue a climate strike at least partly inspired by the ongoing vigil begun by 15-year-old Greta Thunberg in Sweden earlier this year, a new TEDx Talk released this week reveals that what inspired the Swedish teenager to take action was as simple as it was profound: she fell into sadness as she saw the leaders of…

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ALL ARTICLES December 24, 2018

‘I Am the Woman Trump Hates’: Meet Connie Schultz, Sherrod Brown’s Louder Half

“Can I tell you just how proud I am to be that woman? I never measure myself against what Donald Trump would think of me. But if I am exactly what he hates, and I think I am, it makes me feel all the more necessary.” By Michael Kruse Politico (12/21/18) CLEVELAND—Connie Schultz stood at her stove this week and stirred a big pot of thick vegetarian chili. On the long brown table set and waiting for lunch was a copy of that day’s New York Times, folded and opened to a page with a column with a headline I couldn’t help but notice,…

ALL ARTICLES, Right Wing Religion, Trumpenstan December 24, 2018

Trump’s Fake ‘Merry Christmas’ Pledge Doesn’t Show Up At His Own Businesses

‘ Tis The Season To Be …Hypocritical! By Adam Gabbat The Guardian (12/23/18) During Donald Trump’s presidential campaign he talked often about his determination to win one particular war. A war that had been raging for years, he said. Specifically: the war on Christmas. But despite Trump’s repeated claims that “people are saying Merry Christmas again” instead of the more inclusive “happy holidays”, there are several places where the Christmas greeting is absent: Trump’s own businesses. This week a visit to Trump Tower, Trump’s signature New York City erection, revealed that Christmas is not mentioned anywhere in the building’s public space….

ALL ARTICLES, FEATURE December 24, 2018

Beware Beto Bunk: Can We Really Afford A Corporate-Friendly Obama Clone Progressive Pretender?

  By Norman Solomon Reader Supported News (12/19/18) News media tell us that Beto O’Rourke has reached the top tier of potential contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. CNN polls now rank him in third place — behind only Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders — among likely Iowa caucus-goers as well as among Democrats nationwide. Progressives are apt to be enthusiastic about O’Rourke — if they don’t know much about his record. Inclinations to hop on the Beto bandwagon are understandable. O’Rourke was inspiring this year as he fought to unseat the despicable U.S. senator Ted Cruz with a campaign that built…

ALL ARTICLES, Russia Monitor December 24, 2018

Russia Monitor: Another Week In The Oval Office — Upheaval, Chaos, Resignation & Betrayal

  “I alone can fix it.” — Trump from Republican National Convention, “Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.” June 2016. By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (12/24/18) Dear Fellow Readers, Did anyone imagine that in 2018 this would mean that in one year we’d be experiencing Trump’s third shutdown of the government? Did anyone imagine Trump would head a government managed by an acting Secretary of Defense, an acting Chief of Staff and an acting Attorney General? It’s not only the chaos he’s brought to government, he’s also “sent markets tumbling with…

ALL ARTICLES, Media Hits & Misses, Your Brain On Politics December 24, 2018

Emergency! In Our Time Of Bullying Authoritarians It’s Time For The Press To Evolve

By George Lakoff George Lakoff’s Facebook Page (12/18/18) Attacks on the free press, and constant lying by political leaders, aren’t just happening here in the United States. These tactics are also being used by authoritarian leaders in other countries who are taking power using the same tactics as Trump. These leaders understand how the press works, and they use its own tendencies against it in their efforts to erode democracy and freedom. They lie, knowing the press will repeat the lies. They create distractions because they know the press will chase the distractions. They release bad news when they think…

ALL ARTICLES December 24, 2018

BBC Newsnight: A ‘new wave of far-right extremism’ In The United Kingdom

  Exploiting and manipulating fear in local community stresses and problems. Newsnight / BBC (12/18/18) Sara Khan, lead commissioner for Countering Extremism in England and Wales tells Newsnight that the country is at the “beginning of a new wave of far-right extremism.” Newsnight also speaks to Sarah Champion MP and Matthew Collins from anti-racism campaign Hope Not Hate. Newsnight approached members of Justice for Women and Children about our story. Natasha Allan and Tommy Allan chose not to respond. Sharon Binks told us: “I would like to ask why the BBC believe that to protest against rape is wrong. Rape…

ALL ARTICLES December 24, 2018

VIDEO — Sen. Elizabeth Warren Gives An Incredibly ‘Woke’ Commencement Speech

  “Sure, life is about grit — hard work matters. But the rules matter too.” By Keka Araujo DiversityInc (12/17/18) In a moment of honesty, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) served a huge spoon of truth to the graduates at Morgan State University, a historically Black institution as the keynote speaker at the winter commencement. The outspoken senator told nearly 500 graduating students at MSU on Friday that their future success wasn’t just dependent on hard work — they would have to fight to “change the rules.” Warren painted a picture of what life was like when she was a child while…

'Just-Us' System, ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Police State America December 20, 2018

U.S Law Enforcement Coddling Of Far Right Fascist Gangs & Nazis Places Nation At Risk

And now they have no idea how to stop it. [Editor’s Note: This is a stunning piece of reporting on not just the ignoring of fascist organizing and violence but a deadly fostering through neglect. As Timothy Snyder notes in his book “Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century”, when the police and military begin to align with the fascist paramilitaries the game is over. — Mark L. Taylor] By Janet Reitman The New York Times (11/3/18) The first indication to Lt. Dan Stout that law enforcement’s handling of white supremacy was broken came in September 2017, as he was sitting…

ALL ARTICLES, Paul Ryan December 20, 2018

Progressives Say ‘Good Riddance’ To Paul Ryan: ‘Coward Who Sold Our Economy to Highest Bidders’

  “The charade’s up. Good riddance.” By Jake Johnson Common Dreams (12/19/18) As House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) delivered his farewell address on Wednesday after 20 years of relentlessly working to gut social programs for the poor and successfully ramming through “one of the biggest transfers of wealth to the richest one percent in U.S. history,” progressives made sure to let the outgoing congressman know what they think of his legacy. With the hashtag #GoodRiddanceRyan, progressive advocacy groups and commentators denounced Ryan for spending his 10-term tenure in the House pushing an agenda that rewards wealthy corporate donors at the expense of the American working class. “He’s…

ALL ARTICLES December 20, 2018

Trump’s War Against Poor & Persecuted Refugees A Growing Human Rights Disgrace

Justice For Jakelin: Lawmakers Demand Answers In Death Of 7-Year-Old Girl In Border Patrol Custody Democracy Now! (12/19/18) Outrage is mounting over the death of a 7-year-old indigenous Guatemalan girl in Border Patrol custody, as lawmakers demand answers for the conditions that led Jakelin Caal Maquín to die after being detained at the U.S.-Mexico border. Maquin died on December 8, two days after she and her father presented themselves at the border alongside 161 other Central American asylum seekers. She had been held in detention for more than eight hours when she began to have seizures. Border Patrol agents brought…

ALL ARTICLES, History They Don't Want You To Know December 20, 2018

Who Killed 7 Year-old Jakelin Caal Maquín At The US Border? Decades Of Brutal US Military & Corporate Policy

If it takes a village to raise a child, sometimes it takes a nation to kill one. By Greg Grandin The Nation (12/17/18) Her full name was Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquín, and she was from Guatemala. She turned 7 days before her death on December 8 from septic shock and cardiac arrest in the custody of the US Border Patrol. As public outrage mounts over reports of negligence on the part of the Border Patrol in delaying medical care for the child, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen blamed Jakelin’s family for their choice to “cross illegally.” Jakelin was Q’eqchi’-Maya, from the Guatemalan town of Raxruhá, in…

ALL ARTICLES December 20, 2018

A Raped Migrant 16 Year-old Teen Asked Trump Officials For An Abortion & Got Bible Counseling Instead

By Carter Sherman VICE News (12/17/18) Officials working for the Trump administration took a 16-year-old immigrant who wanted an abortion to a religiously affiliated anti-abortion facility for counseling about her pregnancy. There, she was provided with “appropriate drawings to color and with Bible verses,” according to a government email reviewed by VICE News. The teen had become pregnant after being raped by a group of men in her home country, according to the email, which was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the government watchdog group the Campaign for Accountability. After arriving in the United States, the…

ALL ARTICLES, History They Don't Want You To Know December 20, 2018

History Matters: The Bloody U.S. Dirty Wars In Central America Set The Stage For Today’s Refugee Crisis

“The U.S. set a house on fire.” By Jeremy Scahill The Intercept (12/2/18) The world watched in horror as U.S. Border Patrol agents opened fire with tear gas on a group of refugees seeking asylum in the United States. Among the targets of this assault by U.S. forces were women and children, many of whom who fled Honduras. Across the news media, these refugees are simply referred to as “migrants,” or “the caravan.” Rarely do we get any context of why they are risking their lives and the lives of their children to flee Honduras. And part of why we…

ALL ARTICLES, History They Don't Want You To Know December 20, 2018

A Short History Of Often Brutal U.S. Meddling In Foreign Elections

By Mehdi Hasan The Intercept (10/1/18) Meddling in foreign elections is bad. I think we can all agree on that. And almost everyone — bar Donald Trump – seems to believe that the Russian government meddled in the 2016 election. So that should be condemned. Here’s the problem, though: U.S. politicians and pundits cannot credibly object to Russian interference in U.S. elections without also acknowledging that the United States doesn’t exactly have clean hands. Or are we expected to believe that Russian hackers were the first people in human history to try and undermine a foreign democracy? In this video,…

ALL ARTICLES, Russia Monitor December 20, 2018

Russia Monitor: As The Drawbridge Is Drawn Up, Bodies And Truth Are Left Beyond The Castle Walls

  “Arguably you sold your country out” — U.S. District Judge Emmett Sullivan (12/18/18)   By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (12/20/18) Fellow Readers, How Trump-Russia has changed. It feels like only yesterday the refrain was a mixed chorus, “Russia, Russia, Russia, too much about Russia – give Trump a chance, Hillary lost because she never visited Wisconsin, liberals need to own their responsibility for bringing about Trump”. It’s like a scene change and the chorus now sings, “Russia, Russia, Russia, ‘you’ need to see the big picture, we need to broaden our view, it was never all about Russia,…