Month: October 2020

Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon celebrated Roy Moore’s victory in Tuesday night’s GOP Senate primary runoff in Alabama as the beginning of a “revolution” for insurgent Republicans looking to challenge incumbent senators.  In remarks introducing Moore before his victory speech, Bannon recalled his comments at a pro-Moore rally on Monday night. He pointed to Moore’s victory and Tuesday’s announcement by Sen. Bob…

The Pentagon on Monday announced that 15 men would be transferred from Guantánamo Bay to the United Arab Emirates, in the largest single detainee shuffle under President Barack Obama’s administration. The transfer means there are now just 61 people left in the U.S. military prison in Cuba. The 15 men include 12 Yemenis and three…

Progressives worldwide are celebrating a whopping $14 billion tax bill slapped on Apple, Inc., by the EU for the multinational’s evasive tax practices in Ireland—so why is the Irish government up in arms about the windfall? The European Commission on Tuesday issued a sweeping ruling against Apple demanding that the company pay Ireland $14 billion…

Israel and Facebook will team up to delete content the country views as inciting violence, the Associated Press reports Monday. “The joint Facebook-Israel censorship efforts, needless to say, will be directed at Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians who oppose Israeli occupation,” Glenn Greenwald writes at The Intercept. The development follows a meeting in Tel Aviv between…

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) flawed assessment that fracking has not led to “widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States” must be urgently corrected, more than 200 environmental and public interest groups demanded in a letter (pdf) to EPA chief Gina McCarthy on Monday. Not only did that language “seriously misrepresen[t]…

As the movement to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples Day finds success in communities from Phoenix, Arizona to the state of Vermont, the battle for Indigenous rights in the face of industrial development rages on. #IndigenousPeoplesDay Tweets In North Dakota, 27 Indigenous water protectors were arrested in Monday’s action to peacefully…

President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that former Goldman Sachs partner Steven Mnuchin—a man described as “the anti-populist from Hell”—is his pick for Treasury secretary. His appointment, according to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), “should send shivers down the spine of every American who got hit hard by the financial crisis.” Mnuchin, she added, “is the Forrest…

A pro-Trump outside group aligned with Stephen Bannon endorsed three Republicans running for Senate on Wednesday, firing the starting pistol on what’s shaping up to be a nasty primary season for the GOP. The Great America Alliance — an antiestablishment group which counts Bannon’s political adviser Andy Surabian as a strategist — announced it will support West Virginia…

Republican Senate hopeful Danny Tarkanian, who is challenging Sen. Dean HellerDean Arthur HellerOn The Trail: Democrats plan to hammer Trump on Social Security, Medicare Lobbying World Democrats spend big to put Senate in play MORE (R-Nev.) for the GOP nomination in Nevada, ripped Sen. Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellSenate advances public lands bill in late-night…

This post may be updated. Police descended on water protectors in North Dakota on Wednesday, as images on social media showed a dramatic standoff along a creek that borders a construction site for the long-opposed Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Jordan Chariton, a political reporter with The Young Turks network, posted this video dispatch after covering…