WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY INFLUENCES FBI INVESTIGATION The Trump administration has enlisted senior members of the intelligence community and Congress in efforts to counter news stories about Trump associates’ ties to Russia, a politically charged issue that has been under investigation by the FBI as well as lawmakers now defending the White House. Acting at…
THIS IS AN EMERGENCY! In following the news this week, there’s no doubt you’ve read/heard about the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon made a dangerous and odious threat against the media. This was followed by Donald Trump echoing the same message while barring some reputable, truth-seeking news groups including The New York Times from a White…
RE: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator and Wrecker Scott Pruitt. Two years before Scott Pruitt was chosen to lead the Environmental Protection Agency that he wants to wreck, Fox 25, the Oklahoma City Fox affiliate, began seeking documents through the Freedom of Information Act relating to his term as Oklahoma attorney general. In the process, the station learned…
It’s time for the real American majority to demonstrate its unity and mobilize. BY STEVEN HARPER | JANUARY 23, 2017 It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies…— THOMAS PAINE, COMMON SENSE (1776) Americans acting in good faith are destined to disagree on many issues of public concern. Colonists fighting the Revolutionary War couldn’t…
Trump’s Seven Techniques to Control the Media Tyrants always try to suppress a free press; here’s Trump’s playbook. BY ROBERT REICH | DECEMBER 1, 2016 Trump’s Seven Techniques to Control […] This post originally appeared at RobertReich.org. Democracy depends on a free and independent press, which is why all tyrants try to squelch it. They use seven techniques…
The Dangerous Normalization of Donald Trump There’s a way to keep our short attention spans and Trump’s norm-shattering behavior from damaging the republic: “Expose and Oppose.” BY STEVEN HARPER | JANUARY 5, 2017 Nationwide Attention Deficit Disorder When leaders fail to respect the underlying behavioral norms of a democratically elected government, its days become numbered. Donald Trump…
Meyer, a lonely widower, was walking home along Delancy Street one day, wishing something wonderful would happen into his life, when he passed a Pet Store, and heard a squawking voice, shouting out in Yiddish: “Quawwwwk… vus macht du… Yeah, du…outside, standing like a putzel… eh?” Meyer rubbed his eyes and ears. Couldn’t…
1) Trump owes Blackstone/ Bayrock group $560 million dollars (one of his largest debtors and the primary reason he won’t reveal his tax returns) 2) Correction: Blackstone is NOT owned by Russia. 3) Other companies that have borrowed from Blackstone have claimed that owing money to them is like owing to the…
Robert Reich posted on Facebook Feb. 19, 2017 A week before Michael Flynn resigned as national security adviser, a sealed proposal was hand-delivered to his office, outlining a way for President Trump to lift sanctions against Russia. It came from Michael D. Cohen, Felix H. Sater, and Andrii V. Artemenko. Who are these…
