Trump’s D.C. hotel fights to unionize as his Las Vegas workers win their first contract

More than a year after winning a union election, about 500 workers at Donald Trump's Las Vegas hotel announced Wednesday that they have successfully bargained their first contract. While specific details are not yet available, the Culinary Workers Union says the four-year agreement "will provide the employees with annual wage increases, a pension, family health care, and job security."

National Enquirer morphs into propaganda rag for President-elect Trump

More than a month after the election, the news industry is still at a loss for how to cover Donald Trump as he transitions into power. Fact checks have proven ineffective, press conferences have virtually gone extinct, and Trump's supporters couldn't care in the slightest about what reporters are uncovering.

A Practical Plan on the Israeli-Palestinian Front The next U.S….

Palestinians walk under show umbrellas used to decorate a street in the Old City of the West Bank town of Nablus, Saturday, June 4, 2016. The incoming U.S. administration has an opportunity to increase stability and advance U.S. security interests in the Middle East by outlining a framework for Israelis and Palestinians to make independent, coordinated, and constructive steps toward a two-state solution.

Priorities USA positions itself as center of gravity for the left in the Trump era

The super PAC that poured nearly $200 million into trying to elect Hillary Clinton president is remaking itself as a permanent center of opposition to the impending Trump administration, with the long-term aim of helping the Democratic Party claw back voters it lost in the November election. Priorities USA Action is merging with a nonprofit voting rights group called Every Citizen Counts to form an expanded organization with an ambitious agenda, according to veteran Democratic strategist Guy Cecil, who ran both organizations and will lead the merged group.

There Is Only One Way To Stop Trump

Blue America hasn't spent precious time since the election asking you to sign petitions for impractical symbolic appeals to the electoral college, or to waste your money on an un-winnable, pointless Senate race in Louisiana. We are very focused on what can be done-- politically-- to break the back on Trumpism.

Point by Point Response to Likud Party Propaganda

As Israel's myriad human rights abuses and contraventions of international law have become impossible to deny, one argument that apologists for Israel routinely fall back on is: While Israel has engaged in human rights and other abuses, other countries commit far worse abuses. Therefore, it is wrong - and possibly indicative of anti-Semitism - to focus excessively on Israel's wrongs.

Israeli Squatters at Palestine’s Amona accept relocation to other Palestinian-owned Land

Residents of the illegal settlement outpost of Amona in the central occupied West Bank voted on Sunday to approve a relocation plan put forward by the Israeli government, after weeks of discussions trying to assuage settler anger over the mandated evacuation of the outpost. Israeli news outlet Haaretz reported that the settlers residing in Amona in the Ramallah district - an outpost considered illegal by both the Israeli government and the international community - had decided to accept an evacuation plan which would see the majority of them relocated to a nearby hilltop by Dec. 25 following a ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court stating that the outpost was illegally built on privately owned Palestinian land.

U.S. Spy Agencies Leak Intel to News Outlets, but Won’t Brief Electors?

The mapped results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and the number of electoral votes allocated to each state. Amid a nationwide protest effort aimed at convincing members of the Electoral College to reject Donald Trump and serious concerns about alleged interference in the U.S. election by Russia's government, a new poll out Sunday reveals majority support for delaying Monday's scheduled vote until electors are given an official intelligence briefing on the matter.

A Spy Coup in America?

As Official Washington's latest "group think" solidifies into certainty -- that Russia used hacked Democratic emails to help elect Donald Trump -- something entirely different may be afoot: a months-long effort by elements of the U.S. intelligence community to determine who becomes the next president. I was told by a well-placed intelligence source some months ago that senior leaders of the Obama administration's intelligence agencies -- from the CIA to the FBI -- were deeply concerned about either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump ascending to the presidency.

“Corruption” Then And Now

Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric Trump sit at the head of the table during their father's meeting with tech giants. Remember how the "news" media was going on and on about the Clinton Foundation - at least when they weren't going on and on abut Hillary Clinton's emails, or airing entire Trump rallies for free? Media "coverage" of the 2016 campaign was almost entirely devoid of discussion of the important issues.

Help a Reader Out

Longtime reader and commenter Newdealfarmgrrrlll, who now mostly lurks, but stalks me on facebook has had a rough go of it, and I thought many of you might want to help out: I've been drowning in medical bills the last six years, and after yet another layoff two years ago and subsequent early retirement, I've depleted my savings and get constantly derailed by minor emergencies. Over a third of my monthly income goes to various debits paying down outstanding medical bills and insurance premiums.

The Cold War, Continued: Post-Election Russophobia

Corporate TV news anchors including MSNBC's Chris Hayes are reporting as fact-with fuming indignation-that Russia not only sought to influence the U.S. election but to throw the vote to Donald Trump. The main accusation is that the DNC and Podesta emails leaked through WikiLeaks were provided by state-backed Russian hackers .