Section: AlterNet (USA)
Is America Past the Point of No Return?
Click here for reuse options! Oligarchs representing monopolistic Big Pharma, Big Banks, and Big Retail/Fast Food are devastating us. Have corporate/billionaire control of our republic reached such a point that it’s no longer reversible? Have we passed the tipping point where democracy dies?A few years back, on my radio show, President...
Is Trump’s Attraction to Russia About Shaping the U.S. Version of Putin’s 21st-Century, Postmodern, Authoritarian, Kleptocratic Regime?
Yale historian Timothy Snyder asserts that Trump’s ties to Russia are far deeper and more dangerous than campaign collusion. The links between President Trump and Russia will prove to be deeper and darker than many Americans now believe. This is according to Timothy Snyder, a noted historian of the 20th century’s tyrannical regimes in...
The Major Development in the Russia Collusion Story Trump Desperately Wants You to Ignore
New reports link Michael Flynn to hacking and expose the president’s business ties to the former USSR. Well, Thursday was a lot of fun, wasn’t it? We got to spend the day wallowing in presidential misogyny, a treat we haven’t been able to savor since we heard Donald Trump brag about getting away with random crotch grabbing...
So Much for the Idea of a Trump-Putin ‘Bromance’
National interests have a way of prevailing over personal friendships. Can Donald Trump relight the fire with his Russian brother Vladimir Putin?Once upon a time they were a mutual admiration society. In 2013, Trump expressed hope that Putin would attend his Miss Universe contest in Moscow and wondered if he would become “my new best...
BUSTED: Trump Treasury Pick Took 4-Week Course on Dartmouth Campus and Called It a Degree
Yet another Trump appointee blunder. Another of President Donald Trump’s nominees has been caught fudging their academic and professional bonafides, according to The Hill.Joseph Otting — Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency — reportedly lied when he said on his resume that he holds a...
Robert Reich: 5 Ways Trump Could Be Doing Putin’s Bidding
If they struck a backroom deal, here’s what the president might have agreed to. Say you’re Vladimir Putin, and you did a deal with Trump last year. I’m not suggesting there was any such deal, mind you. But if you are Putin and you did do a deal, what did Trump agree to do?1. Repudiate NATO. NATO is the biggest thorn in your side...
Why Is Donald Trump Reopening Russian Compounds Obama Closed as Punishment for Hacking?
An intelligence official calls the decision a “really bad idea.” President Donald Trump is seriously considering returning U.S.-based compounds that were taken away from Russians by President Barack Obama as punishment for Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election.The Trump administration was initially...
Does Vladimir Putin Really Own Donald Trump? It’s More Likely than You Think
Kompromat is the name of the Russian game—and to win the White House, Trump may have unwittingly been played. Imagine the moment when Vladimir Putin first learned that his Russian hackers had struck gold by obtaining the emails of John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.Shots of vodka all around, singing,...
Donald Trump’s White House Is the Kremlin on the Potomac: Former FBI Double Agent Offers Explanations
Former counterespionage agent Naveed Jamali says Trump’s not a “Manchurian candidate”—but could be a stooge. Donald Trump’s White House is the Kremlin on the Potomac. It is a place of intrigue, confusion, scandal and incompetence. Trump is the first American president ever to become the subject of an active investigation...
Paul Ryan Tries to Deflect on Leak that Implicates Him in a Russia Cover-Up
A slip of the tongue from Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy mentions Donald Trump being on Vladimir Putin’s payroll. Speaker Paul Ryan is trying out the Trump regime’s favorite defense against damning news—focus on the leaker rather than on the content. In this case, it’s the release of a transcript with a slip of the tongue from...
