“917 Hate Groups are currently operating in the US. Track them using this map.” More …
Month: August 2017
White Nationalist Richard Spencer Gets His Money From Louisiana Cotton Fields—and the US Government
“White people built America, insists Spencer, who has benefited from $2 million in U.S. government farm subsidies.” More …
History of White Supremacy in America
“Although the Charlottesville marchers may seem a bizarre throwback to brown-shirted, goose-stepping stormtroopers of 1930s Germany, these men – and they were nearly all men – have roots that go deep in American history and America’s present. They are also some of Trump’s biggest fans.” More …
Bannon Plots Fox News Competitor, Global Expansion
“…Bannon has told friends he sees a massive opening to the right of Fox News, raising the possibility that he’s going to start a network.” More …
Trump’s Business of Corruption
“What secrets will Mueller find when he investigates the President’s foreign deals?” More …
US Workforce in Danger of Losing Protections
“The U.S. government has tried for decades — and with considerable success — to make workplaces safer; to provide free access to research, information and guidelines to inform best practices for businesses of all sizes; and to enforce the law when unscrupulous companies put workers at risk. In a flurry of recent activity aimed at cutting the budget and rolling back protections, the Trump administration is compromising worker safety. If you work, or know someone who does, you need to pay attention — people’s lives are literally at stake.” More …
How to Deal With North Korea
“There are no good options. But some are worse than others… Right now the best hope for keeping the country from becoming an operational nuclear power rests, as it long has, with China, which may or may not have enough economic leverage to influence Kim’s policy making—and which also may not particularly want to do so, since having a friendly neighbor making trouble for Washington and Seoul serves Beijing’s interests nicely at times.” More …
The Republican War on the CBO, Explained
“The Trump administration is not fond of the Congressional Budget Office. The independent, highly respected agency that analyzes the impact of legislative proposals has said the numbers in President’s Trump’s budget don’t add up and that Republican health care proposals would cause huge insurance coverage losses. And it will hold immense sway over the fate of Republicans’ next legislative priority: tax reform.” More …
Surveillance without Borders: The “Traffic Shaping” Loophole and Why It Matters
“Since the disclosures of Edward Snowden in 2013, the U.S. government has assured its citizens that the National Security Agency (NSA) cannot spy on their electronic communications without the approval of a special surveillance judge. Domestic communications, the government says, are protected by statute and the Fourth Amendment. In practice, however, this is no longer strictly true. These protections are real, but they no longer cover as much ground as they did in the past.” More …
Trump’s Team Overseeing Wall Street Brings In More Goldman Sachs Alumni
“After using Goldman Sachs as a punching bag for his campaign, sharply criticizing his political opponents for ties to the investment bank, Donald Trump has taken unprecedented steps to appoint former Goldman Sachs attorneys and executives to the upper echelons of government. It goes far beyond what’s been reported.” More …