(2023-05-12). The Debt Ceiling Debate Is A Massive Deception Against The Public. popularresistance.org Future historians will likely look back at the debt ceiling rituals being reenacted these days with a frustrated shaking of their heads. That otherwise reasonable people would be so readily deceived raises the question that will provoke those historians: How could this happen? | The U.S. Congress has imposed successive ceilings on the national debt, each one higher than the last. Ceilings were intended to limit the amount of federal borrowing. But the same U.S. Congress so managed its taxing and spending that it created ever more excesses of spending over tax revenues (deficits). Those excesses required borrowing…
(2023-05-12). Harriet Tubman and the battle for America's symbols. therealnews.com 
The debate over America's symbols and monuments has sharpened with the growing mass movement for racial justice in the past decade. The lionization of slave-owners and genocidaires has been pointed out by many as in contradiction to the ideals of democracy and racial justice so often touted as national core values. In the midst of this debate, the decision by the US Treasury to place Harriet Tubman alongside Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill starting in 2030 has incited controversy. Howard University professor of political science Clarence Lusane joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the Harriet Tubman doll…
(2023-05-11). Georgia: NATO's land bridge to Eurasia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Spelling of the NATO official's name is that provided by the Georgian Defense Ministry. ==== Georgian Ministry of DefenseMay 11, 2023 A farewell meeting was held with the deputy head of the NATO-Georgia essential package A farewell meeting was held with the Deputy Head of the NATO Core Team, Sarah Wolff, at the Ministry of …
(2023-05-12). Saturday 5/13: Climate Chaos: An Existential Crisis. indybay.org The Starry Plough Pub | 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 | also by ZOOM Please register in advance at | bit.ly/ClimateChaos-230506 | to receive your personal link to participate in this event online…
(2023-05-12). G7 meeting clouded by debt crisis. ecns.cn A standoff in Washington over raising the U.S. debt ceiling overshadowed a meeting of Group of Seven finance leaders starting on Thursday, heightening U.S. recession fears as central banks seek a soft landing for the global economy.
(2023-05-11). Poll Suggests Black American Support For Biden Has Crashed, Nearly 30% Could Vote Trump. moguldom.com Depending on which poll you look at, approval for President Joe Biden among Black Americans, a core Democratic group, is slim to none. Biden's approval rating among Black people is 52 percent, down from 82 percent when he took office, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted April 28-May 3, 2023. The ABC poll …
(2023-05-11). Calls Grow for Rep. George Santos to Resign as Legal Troubles Continue to Mount. truthout.org Scandal-plagued New York Republican Congressmember George Santos pleaded not guilty to 13 federal charges at a courthouse on Long Island Wednesday. He is charged with wire fraud, money laundering, lying on federal disclosure forms, and fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits while earning a $120,000 salary. Santos has been under investigation since his election to Congress last year exposed… |
(2023-05-12). Asciende a 29 cifra de muertos en la Franja de Gaza por bombardeos de Israel. telesurtv.net En el último ataque aéreo con drones contra la ciudad de Gaza, murió un palestino en la aldea de Ezbet Abd Rabo.
(2023-05-12). Senate Report: Nearly 700 Former High-Ranking Pentagon and Other Government Officials Now Work at the Top 20 Defense Contractors. covertactionmagazine.com Ideally, Warren's report would precipitate a much larger congressional investigation of the military-industrial complex modeled after the 1934 Nye Committee hearings. At the end of April, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, released an investigative report: "Pentagon Alchemy: How Defense Officials Pass Through the Revolving Door and Peddle …
(2023-05-11). Matt Taibbi: Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know. scheerpost.com 
(2023-05-12). Canada: Green Party Co-Leaders Succumb to Moral Cowardice in a Time of War. libya360.wordpress.com Dimitri Lascaris Green Party of Canada co-leaders Jonathan Pedneault and Elizabeth May walking down a street. On January 31, 2023, Green Party leader Elizabeth May gave a press conference in which she revealed that the Green Party under her leadership now supports the transfer of weapons to Ukraine. As I explained in a post I…
(2023-05-12). Why Is the DOJ Lying About Jack Teixeira? sonar21.com 
When CBS reporter Catherine Herridge posted the story about the DOJ claim that the alleged leaker of classified intelligence documents had a "cache of weapons and tactical gear surrounding his…
(2023-05-12). Biden Sold Weapons To A Majority Of Authoritarian Countries In 2022. progressivehub.net STEPHEN SEMLER | THE INTERCEPT…
(2023-05-12). Korea Nuclear Escalation Risks Intensify. thealtworld.com The Korean Peninsula has become ground zero for nuclear weapons proliferation. The North Korean government of Kim Jung-un has precipitously moved to expand his nation's nuclear capability, testing and deploying a wide-range of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles. This includes some capable of reaching targets in the Continental US. South Korea has made noises about developing its own nuclear capability, prompting the US to increase its own nuclear posture in the region. The result is a dangerous game of nuclear escalation between the US and North Korea, which leaves the region, and the world, facing elevated risk…
(2023-05-12). Belligerent UK's long-range missile delivery cranks up Ukraine war. thecanary.co British Storm Shadow missiles have arrived in Ukraine. The delivery of long-range weapons has angered Russian leaders and caused concern among allies. The UK's belligerence in regard to Ukraine has caused tensions before. Of course, a stockpile of weapons which could penetrate deeply into Russian territory risks a wider escalation of the war. Defence minister …
(2023-05-11). US Ambassador Accuses South Africa of Supplying Russia With Weapons. news.antiwar.com The US ambassador to South Africa has accused the nation of secretly supplying Russia with weapons, a claim that drew a rebuke from Pretoria. US Ambassador Reuben Brigety said he knew that a Russian ship that docked in South Africa in December was loaded with weapons but did not provide evidence for the claim. "We …
(2023-05-12). Biden Sold Weapons To A Majority Of Authoritarian Countries In 2022. progressivehub.net STEPHEN SEMLER | THE INTERCEPT…
(2023-05-12). Korea Nuclear Escalation Risks Intensify. thealtworld.com The Korean Peninsula has become ground zero for nuclear weapons proliferation. The North Korean government of Kim Jung-un has precipitously moved to expand his nation's nuclear capability, testing and deploying a wide-range of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles. This includes some capable of reaching targets in the Continental US. South Korea has made noises about developing its own nuclear capability, prompting the US to increase its own nuclear posture in the region. The result is a dangerous game of nuclear escalation between the US and North Korea, which leaves the region, and the world, facing elevated risk…
(2023-05-12). Belligerent UK's long-range missile delivery cranks up Ukraine war. thecanary.co British Storm Shadow missiles have arrived in Ukraine. The delivery of long-range weapons has angered Russian leaders and caused concern among allies. The UK's belligerence in regard to Ukraine has caused tensions before. Of course, a stockpile of weapons which could penetrate deeply into Russian territory risks a wider escalation of the war. Defence minister …
(2023-05-11). US Ambassador Accuses South Africa of Supplying Russia With Weapons. news.antiwar.com The US ambassador to South Africa has accused the nation of secretly supplying Russia with weapons, a claim that drew a rebuke from Pretoria. US Ambassador Reuben Brigety said he knew that a Russian ship that docked in South Africa in December was loaded with weapons but did not provide evidence for the claim. "We …