If the filibuster can’t be done away with or turned into a “Jimmy Stewart filibuster,” then Congress has the obligation to Act on the “Nuclear Option” By Thom Hartmann Reprinted by permission of the author The US Senate is back in session this week, as Texas Republicans prepare to pass another massive voter suppression bill….
Editor’s Note: I’ve been searching through old articles published here a decade ago, about our struggle to prevent Emgold Corporation from re-opening the Idaho-Maryland Mine. Many of the articles are too dated to reprint now, for instance ones that discussed Emgold’s plan to build a ceramics factory to repurpose old mine tailings. Rise has…
In the latest Atlantic Monthly, Adam Serwer explains: Republicans are not blocking a bipartisan January 6 commission because they fear Trump, or because they want to “move on” from 2020. They are blocking a January 6 commission because they agree with the underlying ideological claim of the rioters, which is that Democratic electoral victories…
By Don Pelton In the following brief (9+ min) excerpt that I extracted from Jared Ball’s one and a half hour podcast interview with investigative journalist Aaron Maté, Maté not only explains why Princeton Professor Stephen Cohen called Russiagate the “most fraudulent scandal in American history,” but also gives some interesting background on the…
Editor’s Note: This is the third or fourth time I’ve reprinted this article on Memorial Day since I first wrote it in about 2009. I keep reprinting it because I still haven’t found a better way to express my revulsion for war and at the same time my admiration for warriors. The best way…