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Rand Paul’s bill to stop US govt paying stimulus checks to dead people ‘watered down’ with new 3-year deadline

Posted on December 8, 2020December 8, 2020By Editor

Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is raging against changes made to a bill he introduced this summer to prevent Covid-19 stimulus checks being sent in error to deceased citizens, as well as to non-citizens beyond US borders. … Read More >Rand Paul’s bill to stop US govt paying stimulus checks to dead people ‘watered down’ with new 3-year deadline

USA

Barr ‘so deep in the swamp’ he can’t ‘see his fellow reptiles’: Fox’s Pirro turns on AG for denying voter fraud

Posted on December 7, 2020December 7, 2020By Editor

Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro, one of President Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters, has turned on Attorney General Bill Barr, calling him a “reptile” for daring to weigh in on election voter fraud. … Read More >Barr ‘so deep in the swamp’ he can’t ‘see his fellow reptiles’: Fox’s Pirro turns on AG for denying voter fraud

Shows

Crosstalk Bullhorns, QUARANTINE EDITION: Dual power?

Posted on December 7, 2020December 7, 2020By Editor

Joe Biden may indeed be inaugurated in January of next year. However, will he have a legitimate mandate? Will the next campaign start when the next president takes office? Also, the neoliberal order is headed back into power. What will their agenda be? … Read More >Crosstalk Bullhorns, QUARANTINE EDITION: Dual power?

World

‘Get on your knees’ before Putin: Ex-Ukrainian leader Poroshenko says Zelensky will humiliate country to end Donbass conflict

Posted on December 6, 2020December 6, 2020By Editor

Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has sarcastically told his successor Volodymyr Zelensky to kneel before Russia’s Vladimir Putin, believing it is the only way to achieve peace in the country’s eastern Donbass region. … Read More >‘Get on your knees’ before Putin: Ex-Ukrainian leader Poroshenko says Zelensky will humiliate country to end Donbass conflict

USA

It’s ‘OK now…we have a new president’: Pelosi willing to make smaller Covid-19 relief deal, is accused of having played politics

Posted on December 5, 2020December 5, 2020By Editor

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is being accused of having spent months blocking Covid-19 relief to help Joe Biden and hurt Donald Trump, after she said a smaller bill is now possible thanks to a lack of “other considerations.” … Read More >It’s ‘OK now…we have a new president’: Pelosi willing to make smaller Covid-19 relief deal, is accused of having played politics

Orban lashes out at Hungarian MEP’s ‘gay gang bang’ in Brussels, calling it ‘indefensible’ & ‘incompatible with values’

Posted on December 2, 2020December 2, 2020By Editor

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has described the conduct of MEP Jozsef Szajer – caught in an apparent gay orgy in Brussels – as “incompatible with our values,” after Szajer resigned from Orban’s conservative Fidesz party. … Read More >Orban lashes out at Hungarian MEP’s ‘gay gang bang’ in Brussels, calling it ‘indefensible’ & ‘incompatible with values’

Shows

Neil deGrasse Tyson on coronavirus, climate change, war & space exploration

Posted on November 29, 2020November 29, 2020By Editor

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to world-renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. He discusses what the United States and many European countries have gotten wrong in their coronavirus response, the politicization of science and the damage it has done to effectively fight Covid-19 … Read More >Neil deGrasse Tyson on coronavirus, climate change, war & space exploration

USA

Why Democrats Will Try to Revive ‘Russia Collusion’ Story & Imprison Trump Once He Steps Down

Posted on November 28, 2020November 28, 2020By Editor

Donald Trump’s executive grant of clemency for General Michael Flynn provoked rage among the Democrats, as they continue to stick to the groundless “Trump-Russia” collusion story and will try to imprison the President once he vacates the Oval Office, according to former Ronald Reagan administration official, Dr Paul Craig Roberts. … Read More >Why Democrats Will Try to Revive ‘Russia Collusion’ Story & Imprison Trump Once He Steps Down

Shows

CrossTalk, QUARANTINE EDITION: Parties divided

Posted on November 25, 2020November 25, 2020By Editor

Now for a postmortem. How have the two major political parties in the US changed through this election cycle? Can Joe Biden maintain an already weakened and divided Democratic coalition? Is there such a thing as Trumpism? Did he change the GOP or did the GOP change him? … Read More >CrossTalk, QUARANTINE EDITION: Parties divided

Mayors of Budapest & Warsaw revolt against Hungarian & Polish govts, ask EU to send money directly to them

Posted on November 25, 2020November 25, 2020By Editor

The governments of Hungary and Poland have been blasted for derailing the EU budget and Covid-19 recovery fund by the mayors of Budapest and Warsaw, who wrote to Brussels urging it to work directly with regional authorities. … Read More >Mayors of Budapest & Warsaw revolt against Hungarian & Polish govts, ask EU to send money directly to them

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