While it’s always refreshing to see the lives of working people centered in our media, the docuseries Working: What We Do All Day is hampered by the limitations of its host and narrator, former president Barack Obama.
Trump's bellicose statements about North Korea and the recent false missile alert in Hawaii have raised global alarm over nuclear war. Now, in an unprecedented step, a draft of the new U.S. Nuclear Posture calls for authorizing nuclear weapons use even in response to a non-military attack
"Contrary to what is stated here, nuclear weapons do not bring peace. They have, if anything, made the planet "safe" for US and proxy wars, while we all remain under the general threat of annihilation. Their effect on our culture and character, and on our social contract, has been profoundly damaging. As Simone Weil put it in her famous essay on the Iliad, 'Thus it is that those to whom destiny lends might, perish for having relied too much upon it.'"
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John Cassidy writes about President Obama’s impassioned [post-Orlando] speech about immigration, terrorism, and Donald Trump.
Robert Fisk, Independent 204.2016, according to the New York Times, the Saudis have even threatened to sell billions of dollars of their US assets if Congress passes a bill allowing the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for the crimes against humanity of 9/11.
Established firms in Chicago and both coasts are asked to submit qualifications to design Obama library
The foundation tasked with building the Barack Obama Presidential Center is asking designers from the U.S. and overseas to compete for the Chicago project. President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will choose the finalists later this year. Aug. 26, 2015.
by Vijay Prashad
The war on Libya in 2010 was Hillary Clinton’s most powerful experience. When the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi was killed on the outskirts of Sirte, she said: “We came, we saw, he died.” It was a callous display of U.S. power. It is a window to how Hillary Clinton would govern as President: with an iron fist against any challenge to U.S. power.
China and Russia, for Rubio and Hillary Clinton, are living threats. “A gangster in Moscow is not just threatening Europe,” Rubio said colourfully last year, but “he’s threatening to destroy and divide NATO.” Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, had compared Vladimir Putin to Adolph Hitler. The establishment is pledged to push back against Russia. There is wide consensus on that.
"The Federal Communications Commission is expected on Thursday to
approve regulating Internet service like a public utility....".
"The F.C.C. plan would let the agency regulate Internet access as if
it is a public good."
The $400 billion, 40 year oil and gas deal between China and Russia is a response to the new cold war pressure and sanctions on Russia, says economist Michael Hudson
On Obama's initiative, it has been decided that leaders of the United Nations Security Council member countries will meet on Sept. 24 to discuss nuclear issues.
"We are hopeful that your country would support the Arab draft resolution," says the June 29 letter to Bildt. "Unfortunately," Sweden was among the EU nations voting to block action on the document last year, Moussa wrote. In Stockholm, Swedish foreign mi
The statement on October 26, 2004, from which the name of Van Jones has now (Sept 2009) been removed. "Van Jones, the Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, [was] Number 46 of the petitioners from the so-called
Om sjukförsäkringsreformen nu går igenom, även i dess svaga form[....], kan republikanerna hamna(r) i långvarig politisk maktlöshet och deras aktivister förvandlas till partiets extremistproblem. "Sjukförsäkring är nyckeln till USA:s politiska framtid", P
Murray: CIA used Uzbek torture to create false intelligence; support for regime continues Craig Murray is a British political activist, former ambassador to Uzbekistan and current Rector of the University of Dundee. The Real News Network