The Pentagon said it would never deploy Predator or Reaper drones in the United States. Now USA Today reveals that they do, and have for years. But not to worry: now the Pentagon says they won’t be used to kill Americans the way they’re used in Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan.
After Bernie Sanders pulled off an upset win in the Michigan Democratic primary, going from a 23 point deficit to a two-point win in 48 hours, analysts began paying attention to the devastating effects of “free trade” agreements like NAFTA, TPP and the WTO in the industrial Midwest. The pundit class may have accepted globalization as inevitable, but the people living in affected areas can’t not remember.
This election season, the presidential candidates won’t show their tax returns, their foreign policy plans, or transcripts of their speeches. But they’re happy to show their long-forms.
Donald Trump is a dangerous threat to the republic, Only Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio can stop him. But they’re so awful that you have to ask: is the republic worth saving?
Thoughtful people fear that Donald Trump will become not just the Republican nominee, but president of the United States. He could be stopped if his opponents were able to unite, but they’re too selfish to put the interests of the nation ahead of their own. And so disaster looms. Where have we seen this before?
Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill collected $153 million in speaking fees since 2001. She knew she was running for president this year. So why did she accept $675,000 for three speeches to Goldman Sachs as recently as 2013?
Congressional Republicans say it’s too dangerous to transfer Gitmo detainees to the United States. But what are they worried about? No one has ever escaped from one of the federal Supermax prisons where they’d be sent…not that any has ever attempted to escape in the past.
The Republican Party establishment has dithered for months, hoping against hope that they could stop the insurgent candidacy of real estate magnate Donald J. Trump. Now Trump appears headed for a sweep of Super Tuesday, which wouid all but assure him the nomination. Yet his GOP opponents can’t seem to unite forces against him.
Hillary Clinton is running a campaign based on incrementalism. Unlike Bernie Sanders, who proposes full throated solutions to major problems, Clinton argues that Republican control of Congress makes it unrealistic to attempt anything more than defending the status quo or perhaps, at best, fighting for minor reforms.
