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    Volker Felt ‘Pushed Out’ By Pompeo. Now He’s Telling His Story To Congress
    Oct03

    Volker Felt ‘Pushed Out’ By Pompeo. Now He’s Telling His Story To Congress

    Former U.S. Representative to Ukraine Kurt Volker clearly has some beef with the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Last week, Pompeo unceremoniously forced him out after revelations surfaced about Rudy Giuliani’s contacts with State Department officials who helped him get meetings with Ukrainians to better spread his smear campaign against...

    Putin: Russia Ready To Prolong Gas Deal With Ukraine If Needed
    Oct03

    Putin: Russia Ready To Prolong Gas Deal With Ukraine If Needed

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has indicated he is ready to offer Ukraine a temporary contract for the transit of gas if talks fail before the current one with Moscow expires on January 1. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Former Ukraine president: Biden never asked to close cases
    Oct03

    Former Ukraine president: Biden never asked to close cases

    Ukraine’s former President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday said that former Vice President Joe Biden never asked him to open or close any criminal cases as President Trump continues to rail against what he calls misconduct.Poroshenko refuted… …read more Source:: The...

    Trump Calls It a ‘Scandal’ That Democrat Foe Helped Shape Whistleblower Complaint
    Oct03

    Trump Calls It a ‘Scandal’ That Democrat Foe Helped Shape Whistleblower Complaint

    President Donald Trump called the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee a “fraud” while offering rare praise of The New York Times in a contentious White House press conference in which he assailed the news media for dishonesty as Democrats’ impeachment inquiry advances. Minutes before the president spoke Wednesday, the Times...

    Impeachment inquiry: Lawmakers to collect testimony, records over next 2 weeks
    Oct03

    Impeachment inquiry: Lawmakers to collect testimony, records over next 2 weeks

    Democrats will interview five U.S. officials named in a complaint that says President Donald Trump attempted to pressure Ukraine to investigate the son of former Vice President Joe Biden by threatening to withhold aid. …read more Source:: United Press...

    The Republican Party’s Deafening Silence
    Oct03

    The Republican Party’s Deafening Silence

    The Republican Party is speechless. A week after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced the beginning of an impeachment investigation, Trump’s usual allies in the administration, in Congress, in the media—have no defense for his actions. Instead, as Politico reported on Wednesday morning, “GOP lawmakers and operatives are concerned at...

    Russians Praise Trump, Taunt Zelensky, as Ukraine Signs On to Peace-Plan Proposal
    Oct03

    Russians Praise Trump, Taunt Zelensky, as Ukraine Signs On to Peace-Plan Proposal

    VIA REUTERSExistential dread washed over the face of the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, as he sat next to the American president during their joint press conference on the sidelines of the UN. Donald Trump, as the face of Ukraine’s most powerful ally in its struggle against Russian aggression, was telling him: “I really hope you...

    A reformist prosecutor in Ukraine comes up against Trump-Biden fight
    Oct03

    A reformist prosecutor in Ukraine comes up against Trump-Biden fight

    The dedicated anticorruption campaigner meets his test as Ukraine tries to avoid entanglement in U.S. politics. …read more Source:: The Washington...

    Democrats Must Act Now to Deter Foreign Interference in the 2020 Election
    Oct03

    Democrats Must Act Now to Deter Foreign Interference in the 2020 Election

    Democrats face a national-security problem without parallel in the annals of American democracy. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has made clear not only that he will remain passive in the face of foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. election—a threat his current and former directors of national intelligence have called the most...

    How the NRA Sold Out America
    Oct03

    How the NRA Sold Out America

    Last Friday, the Senate Finance Committee dropped what would have been—in any other timeline—a bombshell that might have dominated headlines and talking heads for days: A 77-page report, issued by Senator Ron Wyden, detailing the means and machinations with which a number of Russian figures cozied up to the National Rifle Association (NRA) since...