White House Objections Stop ISIS War Authorization Vote

Published on Anti War, by Jason Ditz, Nov 11, 2015.

A closed briefing in the Senate today has ended with officials saying that the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) for the ISIS war is a “nonstarter,” after White House officials, principally special envoy Brett McGurk, informing the Senate leadership that such a vote was unwelcome.   Continuer la lecture de « White House Objections Stop ISIS War Authorization Vote »

How Outside Normalcy Should an Outsider Be?

Published on Dissident Voice, by James Hoover, Nov 10, 2015.

Ben Carson is the quiet, almost somnolent, version of Donald Trump. He is, like Trump, a political outsider, but a crafty politician all the same, without the reality TV persona of Donald Trump. Carson seems to share other attributes with “the Donald” though not commonly discussed in the media.   Continuer la lecture de « How Outside Normalcy Should an Outsider Be? »

what's Europe for their 99% – with Yanis Varoufakis

on the idiocy ruling our daily life …