Section: Salon (USA)
There’s proof that ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort lied about not being paid by Russia proxies: report
(Credit: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Paul Manafort and Carter Page, two advisers of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, are officially in the thick of the Russia investigation. The Washington Post confirmed late Tuesday that the FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of Page, while the Associated Press...
U.S., Mexico, Canada join forces for 2026 World Cup bid
The World Cup might be coming to North America. President Donald Trump’s border wall has been dominating all conversation about the United States and Mexico, but North American soccer organizations want to change that. The United States, Mexico and Canada are joining forces to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The three nations made the...
Talking tough: Trump administration says that Russia should stop backing Assad. But will Russia listen?
(Credit: AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Trump administration officials on Sunday made it clear that Russia must end their support for the Syrian government or its relationship with the United States will continue to dwindle, according to the Washington Post, providing a basis for what talks between Moscow and Washington will resemble this week when...
All the Presidents’ Spies: Blackwater-founder Erik Prince is the latest Trump cut-out to parlay with Putin’s men
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., right, and the Committee’s Vice Chairman Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., stand up to leave on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 30, 2017, following the committee’s hearing on Russian intelligence activities. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (Credit: AP) I’ve been reading...
Trump loves despots: He couldn’t shake Angela Merkel’s hand, but falls hard for Egypt’s strongman. Sense a pattern?
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Evan Vucci) Whenever I hear someone on the cable gabfests say that President Trump is an isolationist I have to wonder if they’ve ever actually listened to anything the man says. It’s true he claimed to have been against military action in Iraq and Libya, against all evidence to the...
Another Donald Trump-Russia contact: Eric Prince met with Russian sources just before inauguration
(Credit: AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File) Two more individuals connected to Donald Trump have been revealed to have connections to Russia. Erik Prince, the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and founder of the private security firm Blackwater (whose project manager once threatened to kill a government investigator), is reported to have...
Noam Chomsky: Why Donald Trump is pushing the doomsday clock to the brink of midnight
(Credit: AP/Nader Daoud) The following is an transcript of a recent public interview at the University of Arizona with linguist and political commentator Noam Chomsky by Dr. David N. Gibbs. David Gibbs: The main issue on everyone’s minds is the inauguration of Donald Trump as president. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has emphasized...
Dictator vs. democrat? Not quite: Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is no progressive hero
Vladimir Putin; Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (Credit: Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin/AP) Anti-corruption protests swept across nearly 100 Russian towns and cities last week, from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad in the West to Vladivostok in the Far East. They were the biggest demonstrations in Russia since the 2011-12 protests against...
Trump’s White House is blaming leaks on an Obama staffer who left in 2015
(Credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) In the aftermath of the embarrassing revelation that Republican Rep. Devin Nunes of California — who as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee leaked information supposedly proving the White House’s unsubstantiated claim to have been spied upon by President Barack Obama that was provided by,...
Woosh-wishing through life with Jared Kushner
(Credit: Getty/Drew Angerer) You hear that sound? That whoosh-wish, whoosh-wish, whoosh-wish happy, joyful sound? You know what it is? It’s the sound International Man of Mystery Jared Kushner makes as he skips along the corridors of power. Kushner’s Happy Feet have been whoosh-wooshing ever since his mommy took him to buy his first...
