by Libero Della Piana | Jul 14, 2016 | Blog, Democracy
President Obama gave yet another historic speech Wednesday at the mass memorial service for the five Dallas police officers gunned down during a protest of the police killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile in St. Paul, Minn. In a way few...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision
More than 400,000 Americans signed a petition calling on Donald Trump to release his tax returns. On Tuesday, progressive activists delivered those signatures to Trump Tower. Progressive activists showed up at Donald Trump’s doorstep on Tuesday with a simple demand...
by Bill Scher | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog
Directly lifting from Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign, Donald Trump has declared himself the "law and order" candidate. At a Virginia rally Monday he said, "American police and law enforcement are all that separate civilization from total chaos and the destruction of...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
Eric Holder certainly has changed since his days at Columbia University. According to the New York Times, "as a boyish-looking freshman" he "was recruited by upperclassmen to help take over the R.O.T.C. office," which they claimed as "a student center named for...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Even as Bernie Sanders was endorsing Hillary Clinton Tuesday in New Hampshire, expressions of dismay and outrage from his supporters flooded social media. Naturally, Donald Trump piled on, tweeting that Bernie Sanders “has totally sold out to corrupt Hillary Clinton,”...
by Burning Issues Video | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog, Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/swfAHGk8mWk[/fve] The shift in foreign aid spending from the State Department to the Defense Department since 9/11 has created significant problems for U.S. diplomacy and peacemaking, says Colby Goodman of the Center for International Policy in...
