Archives for General News
February 2017
Tuesday, February 28:
Scott Pruitt Vows Rapid, 'Aggressive' Attack on EPA Regulations (1 comments)
Biologists Warn Half of All Species to Face Extinction (3 comments)
Betsy DeVos praises segregated Jim Crow education system. (2 comments)
Tomgram: William Astore, In Afghanistan, America's Biggest Foe Is Self-Deception (1 comments)
229 House Republicans just voted to keep Trump's tax returns secret (3 comments)
A Massive Election-Rigging Scandal Gave Trump the White House. But the Media Has Ignored It (6 comments)
Ambassador Nikki Haley Has Unique Opportunity After Congo Massacres (4 comments)
Gerrymandering's Insidious Power: Why Redistricting Matters (8 comments)
Monday, February 27:
Trump's choice to be Navy secretary withdraws
Comic cartoon humor--Mardi Gras Misgivings (2 comments)
Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Trumpian Snapshot of America (1 comments)
George W. Bush opens up on Trump's war with the media, travel ban, Russia and veterans (8 comments)
Sunday, February 26:
A cautionary tale about the fight over a charter school and the effect on a community BY Carol Burris (2 comments)
Buoyed By Anti-Trump Activism, Dem Wins Special Election (1 comments)
Saturday, February 25:
After accusing protesters of being 'paid,' Utah rep is getting invoices (1 comments)
Utah lawmakers on both sides of the aisle attend a 'Town Hall for All' (16 comments)
Here Comes the Police State: New Laws Aim for Brutal Crackdown on Protest (2 comments)
Donald Trump will not attend White House correspondents' dinner (2 comments)
Perez elected DNC chairman (7 comments)
Law Professors File Ethics Complaint Against Kellyanne Conway Over "Lies" (1 comments)
Comey finds himself in the political crosshairs -- again (2 comments)
Jackson Thoreau: New Book Details Resistance Movement against Trump (1 comments)
Thousands of furious Trump fans can't stop visiting a website that pretends Clinton won - The Washington Post (1 comments)
Resume inflation at the NSC: Lt. General McMaster's Silver Star Was Essentially Earned for Target Practice (2 comments)
Friday, February 24:
Michael Moore Issues Terrifying Warning: 'It Will Be as Bad or Worse' Than You Think
Trump declared war on the media, NYT response is PRICELESS. (1 comments)
Bannon makes stunning threat to media: We're going to make it worse for you every day (3 comments)
Bannon Admits Trump's Cabinet Nominees Were Selected To Destroy Their Agencies. (2 comments)
White House Bars Times and 2 Other News Outlets From Briefing
Uh-Oh! Violets in late February?: Signs of an Early Spring in Southeastern Pennsylvania are Nothing to Celebrate (5 comments)
Bill de Blasio Holds Town Hall in Northwest Bronx
Thursday, February 23:
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) Would Subpoena Trump's Taxes
Paul DeRienzo: By Paul DeRienzo There is a place in the United States, almost half-a-mile underground, in a salt mine, where radioacti (2 comments)
A Little More Matriarchism and Egalitarianism
Trump's Rating Hits Another New Low; Seen as "Weak" and "Dishonest" (1 comments)
Why We Could Be on the Verge of a Constitutional Apocalypse; by Les Leopold (1 comments)
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, At the Altar of American Greatness (1 comments)
Fox News Channel's Alan Colmes Dies at Age 66
Wednesday, February 22:
Most Trump Voters Say The Media Is Their Enemy
Email Dump Reveals EPA Chief Pruitt's Cozy Ties With Fossil Fuels Industry (1 comments)
From Trump the Nationalist, a Trail of Global Trademarks (1 comments)
Banner reading 'Refugees welcome' appears at base of Statue of Liberty
Trump Exposes His Ignorance and Intolerance - Again (1 comments)
Dairy Industry Furious About New and Better Milks (3 comments)
Tuesday, February 21:
Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos resigns following outrage over his past comments about pedophilia
New Trump Deportation Rules Allow Far More Expulsions
Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Mission Unaccomplished, 15 Years Later
Big Meat's Dirty Little Secret: Few Jobs For Americans (2 comments)
Over 200 Republicans Reportedly Shying Away from Town Hall Events
Monday, February 20:
No Trump tax returns? No GOP tax cuts (1 comments)
Media Bites Back: Newspaper Threatens Defamation Suit for GOP Senator Calling Them "Fake News" (3 comments)
President Trump taps General H.R. McMaster as national security adviser
Russia Compiles Psychological Dossier on Trump for Putin - NBC News (5 comments)
Like Keystone XL, Much of Dakota Access Pipeline Steel Made by Russian Company Tied to Putin (2 comments)
Sunday, February 19:
Donald Trump impeachment rallies to take place across US on "President's Day" national holiday (2 comments)
John McCain on Trump: suppressing free press is "how dictators get started" (1 comments)
Greenwald: Empowering the "Deep State" to Undermine Trump is Prescription for Destroying Democracy (13 comments)
Trump to Interview 4 Candidates for National Security Adviser
Comic cartoon humor--they caLL Trump WHAT? (2 comments)
Saturday, February 18:
Trump Melbourne Florida Rally; Full Video
Lawmakers Feel the Heat as Resistance Shows Up in Droves to Town Halls
Who is Alex Acosta? Trump's back-up Labor Secretary has skeletons in his closet, too.
Where school choice isn't an option, rural public schools worry they'll be left behind (2 comments)
Trump's Approval Rating Sinks Below 40%
Friday, February 17:
The Federal Election Commission Just Told Trump They're DONE With His 'Voter Fraud' Lies (8 comments)
The Trump Administration's First Gifts to Wall Street - by John Light
Senate Confirms Scott Pruitt to Head Environmental Protection Agency (1 comments)
Abbreviated pundit roundup: Trump's tantrum and the press in the room (1 comments)
Lifting political restrictions on churches would open the secret-money floodgates (1 comments)
Chaos Theory (15 comments)
Russian spy ship spotted off coast of Virginia (6 comments)
Trump's Pick For National Security Adviser Rejects Job Offer After Erratic Press Conference
Breaking: LaDonna Allard And Protesters Have No Right to Stay on Sacred Stone Camp, According to New Documents (3 comments)
Congress moves to give away national lands, discounting billions in revenue and millions of jobs
Betsy DeVos's Brother Is Setting Up A Private Army For China, Sources Say (2 comments)
Thursday, February 16:
White House Plans to Have Trump Ally Review Intelligence Agencies (1 comments)
Should Jeff Sessions Recuse Himself From the Russia Inquiries? (1 comments)
Odd Things Happening at OpEdNews are NOT a Hack. We're Upgrading (2 comments)
Grand Prairie mom who got eight years: 'I just wanted to vote and be part of it'
Yes, It Was Blood for Oil (Part Four): Codepink Nails the Truth About George Bush's Wars (3 comments)
Michael Moore Calls for President Trump's Arrest (5 comments)
White House Reportedly in a State of 'Borderline Chaos'
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Donald Trump, a One-Man 9/11? (2 comments)
GOP Overturns Ethics Law in SD (1 comments)
Wednesday, February 15:
Shin-Bet implicates the Central Election Committee in serious computer fraud
Labor Secretary Nominee Andy Puzder Withdraws Nomination
Trump: US wants "really great" peace deal between Israel and Palestine (1 comments)
Tuesday, February 14:
#ShePersisted Goes Viral! (12 comments)
Trump Justice Department delivers CIA 'Torture Report' to federal court (3 comments)
What Trump Is Doing Is Not O.K. by Thomas Friedman (3 comments)
"Blackwater Air" Is Back, and Flying for U.S. Special Forces (6 comments)
After Cancellation, Sanders Vows to Hold WV Town Hall 'In The Streets'
10 unanswered questions after Michael Flynn's resignation
Data shows a downward demographic spiral for Republicans
Tomgram: Michael Klare, A "China First" and "Russia Second" Foreign Policy? (3 comments)
Civil Rights Groups, Funded by Telecoms, Back Donald Trump's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality (3 comments)
Ethically Challenged Philly DA Exits Reelection Race
Monday, February 13:
Michael Flynn Resigns as National Security Adviser
Divided Senate Confirms Steven Mnuchin to Be Treasury Secretary (8 comments)
Right-Wing Skinheads Attack Grad Students At LES Bar Over Antifascist Cellphone Sticker
Judge denies tribes' request to block final link in Dakota pipeline
Some Voting Machines May Be Hackable After All (2 comments)
Turmoil at the National Security Council, From the Top Down - The New York Times
Tomgram: Rajan Menon, The China Missile Crisis of 2018? (6 comments)
Poll: Trump's Approval Rating Hits Another Historic Low
The Stolen Land of Palestine is now too late to stop (1 comments)
Sunday, February 12:
San Francisco: First American City To Offer Free College To All (1 comments)
Stephen Miller says White House will fight for travel ban, advances false voter fraud claims (1 comments)
DeVos Sees Public Education As A Biblical Battlefield (2 comments)
Steve Bannon Cited Italian Thinker Who Inspired Fascists (6 comments)
Saturday, February 11:
Pink Power: Sister March, Norfolk, VA (8 comments)
VA Teens Get Court-Ordered Homework in Historic "Colored" School Vandalism Case (1 comments)
Congressman Invokes 1924 Rule, Demands Trump's Tax Returns (2 comments)
Army veterans return to Standing Rock to form a human shield against police (2 comments)
For Kushner, Israel Policy May Be Shaped by the Personal
When the Government Really Did Fear a Bowling Green Massacre--From a White Supremacist
Over Half of Trump Supporters Say Fake Massacre Justifies Travel Ban
Friday, February 10:
Don't let Andrew Cuomo do Betsy De Vos's dirty work in New York - NPE Action (1 comments)
5 Disturbing New Revelations About What's Really Going on Inside the Chaotic Trump White House
Is President Donald Trump Semi-literate? (43 comments)
Trump's wall to cost over $21bn, says government report (8 comments)
Thursday, February 9:
Looming climate catastrophe?: A Rapidly Warming Arctic Could Loose a Methane Climate Bomb Causing Extinction in 9 Years (50 comments)
3 Million "Alien Voters": Figment of DT's Imagination? (1 comments)
Donald Trump signs executive order giving police greater authority (2 comments)
Kellyanne Conway is "counseled" for plugging Ivanka Trump's product line from the White House (2 comments)
90% of Republicans Trust Trump Over News Media
Americans Are With Trump On Trade, But Little Else
Venezuela Officials Sold Passports to Potential Terrorists; Foreign Minister Rodriguez Threatens CNN Journalists (20 comments)
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, The Enemies of Our Enemy Are Not Our Friends
From the Jill Stein Campaign: Finally! The epic court battle we've been waiting for (4 comments)
Wednesday, February 8:
Don Siegelman is Free (4 comments)
Former Governor Don Siegelman has been released from federal prison (2 comments)
Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman has been released from prison, family spokesman says
Read the letter Coretta Scott King wrote opposing Sessions's 1986 federal nomination
Humor Cartoon--Class reunion hell
The "Trump-Bump" Has Stephen Colbert Finally Beating Jimmy Fallon
Dakota Access Pipeline Gets The Go-Ahead As Site Cleanup Begins (3 comments)
Republicans Introduce Bill to "Terminate the Environmental Protection Agency" (2 comments)
Bernie Sanders Tops Ted Cruz In CNN Debate
Republicans Aim to Kill Election Technology Standards Agency
Your Guide to the Sprawling New Anti-Trump Resistance Movement
Tuesday, February 7:
As Resistance Turns Attention to Congress, Republicans Now Feeling the Heat
Most Progressive Candidate, Jimmy Gomez Wins The Cal Dem Party Endorsement-- With 97% Of The Votes (2 comments)
With historic tiebreaker from Pence, DeVos confirmed as education secretary (2 comments)
Upcoming Anti-Donald Trump Protests Occurring Worldwide To Mark On Your Calendars
Organizing the Women's March, Chicago (13 comments)
Tomgram: Engelhardt, It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's The Donald in the News!
Trainwreck: This Math Curriculum is a Giant Fail! by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Monday, February 6:
U.S. Senate must reject DeVos appointment (3 comments)
Thanks Pharma for warning Superbowl listeners about this disease (2 comments)
Fukushima Disaster explodes to new radiation highs (1 comments)
Trump's Approval Rating Sinks to Record Low (7 comments)
Wall Street Bankers Against Whom Trump Ran Are Making Policy Now (1 comments)
Paul Ryan Plans To Use Trump's Chaos To Destroy Medicare, Medicaid And Social Security
Sean Spicer Says Melissa McCarthy Needs to "Dial Back," and SNL Is Too "Mean" (2 comments)
House Science Committee Plans to 'Make the EPA Great Again'--By Destroying It (1 comments)
Tomgram: Ira Chernus, Now Who's The Enemy?
Donald Trump was bailed out of bankruptcy
Sunday, February 5:
40% of Americans Want Trump Impeached (1 comments)
Appeals Court Rejects Request to Immediately Restore Travel Ban
Citizens Oversight Wins Election Fraud Lawsuit
Saturday, February 4:
The Trump Administration's Dark View of Immigrants - byBenjamin Wallace-Wells The New Yorker (1 comments)
Justice Dept. appeals federal judge's ruling halting immigration order
Legitimizing Plunder at Standing Rock Part II (11 comments)
Jewish community centers in US receive nearly 50 bomb threats in 2017 so far
Judge's ruling gives hope to some Mideast travellers, Trump calls it ridiculous
The Trump Administration Is Scaring Scientists So Much That They're Running For Office (2 comments)
Video: Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich at #SisterGiant (3 comments)
China is building and spending over ten times more on building new energy generation and distribution than the US (1 comments)
Friday, February 3:
Progressive Politics Weds Spirituality at Sister Giant Conference (19 comments)
Donald Trump Signs Financial Deregulation Executive Order
50,000 Turned Out for Austin Women's March
Trump Vows to 'Destroy' Law Banning Political Endorsements (1 comments)
Bernie Sanders Opens Conference Bridging Politics and Spirituality at Sister Giant (20 comments)
Thursday, February 2:
Trump Tells Israel to Hold Off on Building New Settlements (2 comments)
Watch Springsteen Taunt Trump With "Don't Hang Up" Cover (1 comments)
Is There More to the Bacon Shortage Than Reported? (3 comments)
Jonathan Simon: Votecounts As 'Alternative Facts' (15 comments)
Over 70 arrested at Standing Rock as Dakota Access aims to finish pipeline (1 comments)
Tomgram: William Hartung, Investing in the Military (and Little Else)
NY Times: Fearful of Hacking, Dutch Will Count Ballots by Hand
Legitimizing Plunder at Standing Rock Part I (8 comments)
Wednesday, February 1:
Police Raid Standing Rock Camp, Destroy Tipis and Are Burning What Remains
More Americans support Donald Trump's immigration ban than oppose it, poll shows (7 comments)
Breaking The Rules: GOP pushes 2 top Cabinet picks through to full Senate (1 comments)
Two Republican senators vow to oppose Betsy DeVos as education secretary
US Puts Iran "On Notice" After Missile Test; Won't Elaborate (1 comments)
San Francisco sues Trump over sanctuary city order (2 comments)