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Politics and Reality Radio: United Isn't Alone; A Stealthier Assault on the ACA; Trump v. Kim Jong Un Won't End Well We kick off this week's show with Helaine Olen, who wrote in The New York Times this week that United's decision to bloody a paying customer for refusing to "voluntarily" give up his seat is a microcosm of some larger, and genuinely troubling trends in our society.
It's been more than a week since the Trump administration abruptly switched out of "America first" mode and into intervention mode by dropping 59 Tomahawk missiles on a Syrian airfield. As Chris Hedges and Alternet journalists Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton argue in this episode of "On Contact With Chris Hedges," the American public has been lacking something very important ever since.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Sebastian Gorka, a deputy assistant to President Trump, really, really likes to be called "Dr. Gorka" - a hang-up for which he was mocked last week by comedian Samantha Bee. On Twitter , Gorka goes by "Sebastian Gorka DrG."
The hiring of dozens of lobbyists represents a reversal from Trump's statements during the campaign, when he said he would have "no problem" banning lobbyists from his administration. President Trump has stocked his administration with a small army of former lobbyists and corporate consultants who are now in the vanguard of the effort to roll back government regulations at the agencies they once sought to influence, according to an analysis of government records by the New York Times in collaboration with ProPublica.
Someone detonated a car bomb in the Rashideen district of Aleppo Province Friday night, killing over 100 and wounding over 500. It targeted lead buses that had brought in evacuees from two Shiite villages being evacuated because their sectarian complexion makes them sitting ducks in the civil war.
For the first time, on the day of March 23, 40 percent of Californian grid power between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. was generated by utility-scale solar plants. This proportion was a seasonal effect but not a fluke, and it certainly points to what will be routine in the very near future.
Robert Reich: [President] Trump's business has 157 trademark applications pending in 36 countries, according to the New York Times. Registered trademarks are huge financial assets for a business like Trump's, which is now focused on marketing his name rather than building or making anything.
Donald Trump's true believers are losing the faith. As Trump struggles to keep his campaign promises and flirts with political moderation, his most steadfast supporters -- from veteran advisers to anti-immigration activists to the volunteers who dropped their jobs to help elect him -- are increasingly dismayed by the direction of his presidency.
United Airlines just made another policy change aimed at preventing a fiasco like the one it endured this week. The company said late Friday that it will now require commuting staff and crew members to check into flights 60 minutes prior to departure.
First off, there's two things that set her way apart from the standard soul singer in the 1960's in that she could play guitar really well and she had a hand in writing a lot of her own songs. Not to mention she has a voice that could melt an arctic zone after just a few words.
In an interview with the New York Post 's Michael Goodwin, Donald Trump makes clear that Steve Bannon is a dead man walking: When I asked the president Tuesday afternoon if he still has confidence in Bannon, who took over the campaign in mid-August, I did not get a definitive yes. "I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late," Trump said.
Last week, a chemical weapons attack in a Syrian town killed more than 70 men, women, and children. As a result, the Trump administration took action against Syria, launching 59 cruise missiles from two Navy destroyers in the Mediterranean targeting a Syrian military airfield.
The fact that people will read his book, and assume that all Appalachian people are trying to actively run away from their culture, and that if they are smart, they will understand it to be less than and the people they came from to be crazy lunatics is, to me, one of the more personal attacks that Vance hurls at Appalachian people in his 261-page simultaneous fetishization and admonishment of my culture. "Elegy" has no class, no heart, and no warmth.
President Trump listens as he and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg participate in a news conference in the East Room of the White House on April 12. Addressing the United Nations last fall, President Obama took a moment to highlight for fellow world leaders what he called "the most important fact" about the state of the global affairs: human existence on planet Earth is good - and getting better. War is down, he said, while life expectancy is up.
President Donald Trump hasn't been in the White House for 100 days, yet he's already reversed himself on many of his key campaign promises. In several interviews this week, the president has forged new positions on topics ranging from NATO to Chinese currency manipulation.
I'm guilty of my daily schradenfreude as I fire up Twitter every morning before my coffee for tweets like this: Last 72 hrs: 1 Russian hacker arrested in Spain. 2 Page had FISA warrant on him.
For more than 80 years, the federal government has supported mortgage lending through a variety of policies, programs, and institutions. This support has helped enable millions of middle-class and aspiring middle-class families to buy homes.
If you grew up in Michigan and listened to the rock-n-roll stations in the 70's and 80's, it would not be out of the ordinary to think that Boston based J. Geils Band were from the Mitten state. Detroit audiences embraced the band immediately in the early years of their recording career.
Multiple outlets are incorrectly calling deceptive articles aimed to drive up stock prices for certain companies "fake news" in yet another misappropriation of the term. Although such fraud is indeed problematic, conflating it with fake news -- truly fabricated content meant to drive traffic or push a political message -- detracts from awareness efforts to combat the threat actual fake news continues to present.