Section: US & Canada
Trump loyalist put in top Pentagon post after purge 2 weeks ago now leads transition to incoming Biden administration
Kashyap “Kash” Pramod Patel listens as U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement. Alex Wong/Getty Images The Pentagon has officially started the transition process, but there are questions about the man in charge. The senior defense official leading the Pentagon transition is Kash Patel, a man widely seen as a Trump loyalist who...
Glenn SNAPS Over Dem Corruption: ‘It’s Not OVER!’
Glenn has had enough of exposing scandal after scandal, just for everyone to look the other way: Benghazi, Hillary Clinton’s emails, Joe and Hunter Biden’s dealings in Ukraine and China…the list goes on, but no consequences are ever paid. So while the mainstream media has called the election for Joe Biden, and insists no one can...
Trump’s delusional supporters will rage and scream no matter what. Democrats should stop trying to make peace
Even after the landslide defeat of Donald Trump, Republicans across the board continue to be terrified by Trump’s disciples. Fear of the Red Hats has always been one of the primary reasons why the rest of Trump’s party has refused to speak out against his ongoing horror show. It’s not the only reason, but it’s one of the...
Trudeau duped by Russian pranksters pretending to be Greta Thunberg
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the latest leader to be pranked by Russian YouTubers Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov, who are also known as Vovan and Lexus. Earlier today, the prankster tandem released an animated video on Youtube of a telephone conversation they had with Trudeau last January, days after Ukraine International Airlines...
U.S. Withdraws From Open Skies Treaty
Washington on Sunday officially withdrew from the Open Skies Treaty, an international agreement setting rules for aerial surveillance that the United States has accused Russia of violating. The Trump administration gave advance notice in May that it would withdraw from the 1992 treaty, waiting six months before officially exiting the agreement....
Belarus pensioners march demanding leader’s resignation
KYIV, Ukraine — Large crowds of retirees staged a protest in the Belarusian capital on Monday to demand the resignation of the country’s authoritarian leader who won his sixth terms in office in a disputed election. Over 2,000 pensioners marched down a central avenue in Minsk in what has turned into a regular Monday rally, carrying red and...
Belarus pensioners march demanding leader’s resignation
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Large crowds of retirees staged a protest in the Belarusian capital on Monday to demand the resignation of the country’s authoritarian leader who won his sixth terms in office in a disputed election. Over 2,000 pensioners marched down a central avenue in Minsk in what has turned into a regular Monday rally, carrying red...
House and Senate Republicans are failing the test of moral integrity: Robert Reich
Financial regulators subject banks to stress tests to see if they have enough capital to withstand sharp downturns. Now America is being subject to a stress test to see if it has enough strength to withstand Trump’s treacherous campaign to discredit the 2020 presidential election.Trump will lose because there’s no evidence of fraud....
The Biden Popular Front Is Doomed to Unravel
It’s lucky that votes usually don’t get counted till late at night. Victorious presidential candidates have two audiences to speak to. Their zealous volunteers generally get little reward other than the sense, inculcated over months of battle, that they are fighting to vanquish the forces of evil. On election night, they expect...
More than 140 detained by police in Belarus protests
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Belarusian human rights group Viasna says that more than 140 people were arrested and many of them beaten by police during protests calling for the country’s authoritarian president to resign. The demonstrations that attracted thousands were the 16th consecutive Sunday of large protests against President Alexander...
