Section: Salon (USA)
Ransomware attack spreads across Europe, Russia and U.S.
This Wednesday, May 20, 2015 photo shows server banks inside a data center at AEP headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. Like most big utilities, AEP’s power plants, substations and other vital equipment are managed by a network that is separated from the company’s business software with layers of authentication, and is not accessible via...
Meet the horsemen of our environmental apocalypse
Scott Pruitt; Rex Tillerson; Ryan Zinke (Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Carolyn Kaster) Consolidation of power by the oil and coal barons began immediately after the election; president-elect Trump’s transition advisors emerged as an oil industry dream team. Despite the initial antipathy between Trump and the Koch brothers, once he secured...
Who in the hell is Michael Cohen?! Everything you were afraid to ask about this suddenly important person
Michael Cohen (Credit: Salon/Flora Thevoux) (In this brand new, hastily conceived premise, Salon will use the otherwise unlimited space of the site to profile a person in the news who has until recently lived largely under the radar. And by under the radar, we mean above gratuitous satire.) FULL NAME: Michael D – What you, a cop? TWITTER:...
The case for not courting conflict with Russia
Vladimir Putin; Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Alexei Nikolsky/Susan Walsh) We now face some of the greatest crises that humanity and the earth have ever seen—global warming, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, mass poverty and constant wars. To ally with a country like Russia to confront such challenges makes all the sense in the world. Obama himself...
Who is Felix Sater? Meet the shady Russian investor who may be a centerpiece of the investigation
Felix Sater; Donald Trump (Credit: Youtube/Felix Sater/Getty/Molly Riley) This is what happens when candidates aren’t fully vetted during their campaigns. We end up with a president like Donald Trump, who admittedly might have won the election anyway, even if he’d spilled the beans about the myriad skeletons in his closet. Trump was...
Power in the absence of money
(Credit: Getty/Chip Somodevilla/uschools) It was 6 a.m. on an icy November morning at Fort Carson, Colorado, when I learned the one thing that West Point had been trying to teach me for four years. It was getting light, and we had just gone through reveille formation, that ridiculous Army ritual whereby the whole company stands in formation at...
Is Trump launching a new New World Order?
(Credit: AP/Evan Vucci) That Donald Trump is a grand disruptor when it comes to international affairs is now a commonplace observation in the establishment media. By snubbing NATO and withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, we’ve been told, President Trump is dismantling the liberal world order created by Franklin D. Roosevelt at the...
Oliver Stone’s Putin puzzle: An evil genius who made history, or a shrewd, small-minded nonentity?
Vladimir Putin in “The Putin Interviews” (Credit: Courtesy Of Showtime/Komandir) Oliver Stone seems to have two goals in mind in his four-part documentary “The Putin Interviews,” which premiered over the past week on Showtime. They are distinct but closely connected; one of them is subtle and complicated, while the other is a great...
Is Mike Pence pulling a Gerald Ford or a Spiro Agnew?
Mike Pence; Gerald Ford (Credit: AP/Michael Conroy/Photo montage by Salon) Vice President Mike Pence’s decision to hire his own lawyer for the special counsel investigation into alleged ties between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Russian government can mean one of two things — or perhaps even both things at the same...
Enabling a dangerous president: The Jared Kushner timeline
Jared Kushner (Credit: AP/Evan Vucci) Jared Kushner (J.D./M.B.A., New York University, ’07) has a law degree from one of the finest universities in the country. He understands the threat that Trump’s words and deeds pose to democracy and the rule of law, but he has been in close proximity to Trump scandals that threaten both. He is a...
