Section: AlterNet (USA)
Want to Bring Down Donald Trump? Follow the People Who Follow the Money
If Donald Trump is taken down, it may well be the bean counters who ultimately do it. They call people like us “bean counters” — the soulless ones beavering away in some windowless accounting department, the living calculators who don’t care about desperation or aspirations, who just want you to turn in your expense report on time and...
Jeff Sessions Repeatedly Refused to Tell Senators If He’ll Sit Out Cohen Case
The attorney general evaded the questions by saying he wouldn’t even confirm the investigation existed. For the second time in as many days, Attorney General Jefferson Sessions has equivocated when asked about his position with regards to the Michael Cohen investigation.Attorney General Jeff Sessions evaded lawmakers’ questions on...
Paul Manafort Was Under FBI Scrutiny Before He Joined the Trump Campaign, Documents Show
The revelation shows that the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s connections with Russia is not a political operation. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort was interviewed by the FBI long before the 2016 presidential race, new court documents show. This revelation shows that the FBI’s interests in...
‘The Evidence Suggests Trump Is a Traitor’: Pulitzer-winning Reporter David Cay Johnston
An investigative reporter who has covered Trump for 30 years dares to imagine impeachment — and President Nancy Pelosi The saga of President Donald Trump consists of several parallel and intersecting stories.There is the structural dimension. Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton was not entirely unpredictable or shocking. America’s...
A Former Director for Sean Hannity Left Fox News to Build a Pro-Kremlin Propaganda Network in Russia
This story keeps getting darker. One of Sean Hannity’s former directors — who claims an instrumental role in developing Fox News — moved to Russia to help a sanctioned oligarch start up a right-wing TV network.Jack Hanick, whose now-deleted LinkedIn profile shows he began working for Fox News three months before its first broadcast aired in...
16 Tweets Where Trump Attacked Obama for Doing Exactly What Trump is Doing in Syria Now
Hypocrisy alert Tonight the inevitable happened. After reports of possibly heinous war crimes being committed by the Syrian government, after weeks and weeks of hostile propaganda coming from the United States and a completely incompetent government in perpetual disarray, Donald Trump announced that the United States would be bombing Syria....
Vladimir Putin’s — and Donald Trump’s — Great Success In Exploiting the Rise of Nationalist Christianity
Making Christianity great again. Russia has re-elected its self-styled leader and saviour, whatever his weaknesses – even his sins. The revelation that the Russian government may have ordered a former spy’s poisoning should provoke international outrage from Vladimir Putin’s fellow Christians, particularly as the holiest Christian...
Watch Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ Painful Attempt to Answer Question About Trump Blaming Mueller for Russia Relations
There was no way to defend the president’s ludicrous claim. A combative Sarah Huckabee Sanders appeared at the daily White House briefing today to tackle questions about the raid on Michael Cohen’s office and the president’s tweeted threats to fire missiles at Syria despite protestations of Russia, which has been protecting...
Trump Knows He’s the Real Target of the FBI Raid on Michael Cohen
The lawyer is being investigated on various charges, but everything he did was for the president. President Trump made a statement on Monday that many people in American never thought they’d hear from him. He said, “It’s an attack on our country, in a true sense. It’s an attack on what we all stand...
How China and the U.S. Are Spawning a Global Rivalry Over the Seas
The last thing we need is an arms race in the oceans. Amid the intense coverage of Russian cyber-maneuvering and North Korean missile threats, another kind of great-power rivalry has been playing out quietly in the Indian and Pacific oceans. The U.S. and Chinese navies have been repositioning warships and establishing naval bases as if they were...
