Trump Says the Military Industrial Complex is Pressuring him Into a War With Iran
With a thirty year Boeing veteran at the Pentagon, Patrick Shanahan as Acting Secretary of Defense, and with John Bolton and Mike Pompeo at the helm, war with Iran is likely says the former chief of staff to Secretary of State, Col. Larry Wilkerson
In 1990 Trump reorganized his finances and no bank would lend him money except for Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank has already paid $600 million in…
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Laura Flanders Show: Dance as World-Changing Movement
This week, two artists who expand our ideas about beauty, risk, mobility, and inclusion. Wheelchair dancer and esteemed choreographer Alice Sheppard, and MacArthur Genius Award-winning…
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Vijay Prashad says the very dangerous statements, economic sanctions and military aggression unleashed by Washington this week against Iran was countered by cool headed diplomacy…
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If all the hidden parts are added together, the true military budget would be close to $1.25 trillion, says William Hartung of the Center for…
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Trump Appointees Refuse to Say They Support Brown v. Board of Education
65 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to end school segregation. Now Trump’s appointees to the federal bench and Department of Justice refuse to say they support it. What does the future hold?
New Abortion Laws ‘Go Against Common Sense’
Conservatives have launched a new attack on abortion rights, which go against both medical science and common sense, says Anoa Changa, but the point is to bring the issue to the new conservative Supreme Court majority
Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Is Being Pushed By ‘Islamophobia Industry’
Civil rights lawyer and activist Arjun Singh Sethi says, “Even the CIA actually came out and said it would be a mistake, because in many ways the Muslim Brotherhood more recently has been a force of moderation and democratization in the Middle East.”
Climate Change Hits Southern Mexico Hard; Farmers Develop New Ways of Coping
The town of Yukuyoko, in the Mixteca region of Southern Mexico, is developing innovative ways of confronting drought. Laura Carlsen reports from Yukuyoko for TRNN
Trump’s Huawei Ban Confirms ‘Telecommunications Are Geopolitical Weapons’
As Trump warns of the surveillance danger of Huawei, the real concern of consumers should be the fact they are being surveilled by the U.S. government and all tech companies, says Yasha Levine
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May 17, 2019
The US Labor Market Is Deteriorating for Black Men
May 16, 2019
History Repeats Itself as Corporations Join Big Green to Craft Market-Based Climate Plan
May 15, 2019
Climate Emergency Manifesto
May 14, 2019
Privatization Solution Worse than Problem
May 14, 2019
Why Ecuador?
May 9, 2019
An Open Letter to Extinction Rebellion
May 6, 2019
Fallujah Forgotten
May 6, 2019
Can House Special Committees Fight the Climate Crisis?
April 29, 2019
If War Is an Industry, How Can There Be Peace in a Capitalist World? The Seventeenth Newsletter (2019).
April 25, 2019
Labour Protest in Mexico 2019: The SITUAM Strike
April 25, 2019
Joe Biden: Puffery vs. Reality
April 24, 2019
The Baltimore Uprising: Four Years Later
April 19, 2019
World Bank Dispossessing Rural Poor
April 16, 2019
Brazil Under Bolsonaro: Social Base, Agenda and Perspectives
April 15, 2019
The Toxic Lure of “Guns and Butter”
April 15, 2019
Medicare for All 64-Year-Olds
April 15, 2019
Assange Arrest Sparks Interest in Gore Vidal Book
April 12, 2019
David Bernhardt Confirmed as Interior Secretary
April 11, 2019
Defence of European Empires was Original NATO Goal
April 3, 2019
Scandal-Plagued Baltimore Mayor Takes Leave of Absence
April 1, 2019
Maryland Becomes Sixth State to Adopt $15 Minimum Wage
March 29, 2019
City Settles, Agrees to Reforms with Fired Black Police Chief who Claimed Discrimination
March 28, 2019
Maryland Advances Bill For a $15 Minimum Wage in Six Years
March 21, 2019
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TRNN Documentary: Trump, The Koch Brothers and Their War on Climate Science
Narrated by Danny Glover, A documentary special reveals how climate change science has been under systematic attack; the multi-million dollar campaign allowed a climate change denier to be elected president (a new version with updated content and music)
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Is the Oil Industry Canada’s ‘Deep State’?
Justin Trudeau and Canada’s political elite are fighting for the Tar Sands and oil industry’s interests, even if it means that Canada misses its climate targets. We speak to Kevin Taft, ex-Liberal Party politician and author of ‘Oil’s Deep State.’
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