Sen. Mitt Romney’s remarks on the impeachment vote on Wednesday are below. He voted to convict Trump and remove him from office, and was the only Republican senator to so vote. It was a profile in courage. “Sen. Mitt Romney’s full speech announcing he will vote to convict Trump” The Constitution is at the foundation […]
Lev Parnas’s Letter to Mitch McConnell Alleging he has Information for Trump’s Impeachment Trial
Mirrored from Cloudfront: THE LAW OFFICES OF JOSEPH A. BONDY JOSEPH A. BONDY 1776 BROADWAY SUITE 2000 STEPHANIE R. SCHUMAN NEW YORK NY 10019 (OF COUNSEL) TEL 212.219.3572 FAX 212.219.8456 JOSEPHBONDY@MAC.COM January 31, 2020 (By e-mail: Phil Maxson@rnconnell.senate.gov) Senator Mitch McConnell Senate Majority Leader 317 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC20510 Statement. Regarding Lev Parnas’s […]
‘Art-ivist’ Omaid Sharifi: “There is so much more the world should know about Afghanistan”
By Lin Xin and Luzie Mayer | Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung: The Green Political Foundation | – Interview: Omaid Sharifi is a pioneer Afghan activist and one of the co-founders of ArtLords, an artist association which has been attracting widespread international attention in recent years. How did you start your career as a painter and artist? I am […]
Has the Climate Crisis in Afghanistan Displaced more People than the War?
By Fariba Housaini | – ( TheThirdPole.net ) – It has been two years since severe drought forced twenty nine-year old Amena and her four children to leave their village Petaw Qol in Waras. Now, they reside in Bamyan city. “My husband is blind and I was responsible for the farming. Wells gradually dried up […]
Breathing Room: Trump v. Dingell
By Bonnie Honig | – ( Politics/Letters ) – Watching Trump in Michigan this week talking about Debbie and John Dingell, I was struck by how he spoke the words as well as by what he said. Commentators noted the offenses against Dingell, the universally liked, longest serving Congressman from Michigan, who is recently deceased […]
An Afghan Perspective on 18 Years of Washington’s Lies about the War and our Suffering
By Basit Muhammadi | – (Special to Informed Comment) – On December 9, The Washington Post revealed interviews with American officials in Afghanistan who intentionally falsified facts regarding the 18-year conflict. In one of the interviews, Bob Crowley, a counterinsurgency adviser to U.S. military commanders in 2003, remarked that data “was altered to present the […]
Trump as Jim Jones? How America drank the Kool-Aid
By James A. Haught Cults usually are one-man religions. A magnetic, dictatorial, dogmatic, demagogue draws throngs of followers and leads them into lala-land, sometimes dangerously. Jim Jones took 900 gullible adherents to cyanide suicide. David Koresh brought seventy Branch Davidians to fiery death. Shoko Asahara sent his Supreme Truth believers to plant nerve gas in […]
Australia Climate Crisis: Out-of-Control Mega-Fire raging across 740K Acres Smothers Sydney in Smoke
“We cannot stop these fires; they will just keep burning.”
Trump’s Anti-Climate Agenda Bolsters his Ambitions for “Freedom Gas”
By John Foster | – (Monitor) – When Washington dubbed American gas exports “Freedom Gas” this year, it signalled a new salvo in U.S. competition with Russia. The target behind the branding is Europe, the largest gas market outside North America. With a bonanza of gas from fracking, the U.S. aims to become the world’s […]
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