Less than a week into a dangerous, highly sensitive new frontier of relations with Iran, the Trump administration is already showing its ass. The day after the Iraqi government voted to expel all U.S. troops in response to last week’s drone-strike assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani at the Baghdad …
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In this week’s episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper talk with guest Max Blumenthal on his recent arrest following his involvement in a protest around the Venezuelan embassy. The Grayzone founder and best-selling author’s arrest went unreported by mainstream media. “What I can say …
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President Trump’s relationship with reality is such that he is psychologically incapable of acknowledging defeat of any kind. This applies to feuds with celebrities, denuclearization negotiations, and, as we’re seeing Wednesday, even elections, in which defeat is quantifiable and, one would think, inarguable. Following the 2016 election, Trump famously and …
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WASHINGTON — The Trump-owned Republican Party showed no hesitation in attacking the integrity and credibility of Special Counsel Robert Mueller despite his being a Vietnam War veteran and Purple Heart winner. In the cult of Trump, defending the president outweighed any other concerns, including the GOP’s allegiance to anything involving …
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Half a million pro-independence protestors marched in the streets of Barcelona during a general strike on Friday, still angry over sentences handed down Monday to the leaders of Catalan separatist movement. According to the Associated Press, more than 200 people have been reported injured over the five days of demonstrations …
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Joshua Brown, a key witness in the shooting of Botham Jean by off-duty police officer Amber Guyger, was shot and killed outside his own apartment on Saturday evening. Guyger was recently sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Jean in his own apartment when she mistook it for her …
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Democratic House committee chairs from the Intelligence, Oversight, and Foreign Affairs Committees on Thursday night released a cache of texts they’ve received concerning the Trump administration’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate the president’s political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. The texts, shared by the former special envoy to …
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President Trump publicly called for Ukraine and China to investigate Joe Biden while speaking to reporters before boarding Marine One on Thursday morning, adding fuel to the impeachment inquiry launched last week by House Democrats. “[Ukraine] should investigate the Bidens,” Trump yelled over the whir of the nearby presidential helicopter …
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The first member of the House Republican caucus to come out in favor of an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is four-term Nevada congressman Mark Amodei. Despite reporting that under a “secret” impeachment inquiry vote, 30-35 Republicans would vote in favor of it, Amodei is the only member to …
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This story originally appeared in Grist. It is republished here as part of Rolling Stone’s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. It was early in the morning last Thursday, and Jonathan Butler was standing on …
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