FrontPage

James S. Henry / The American Interest.

One of the biggest beneficiaries of the Trump tax cuts is in Cupertino.

Ryan Grim, Lee Fang / The Intercept.

Candidates Who Signed Up to Battle Donald Trump Must Get Past the Democratic Party First

By George Soros /Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2018
 
The current moment in history

It almost never snows in Silicon Valley,1 but last week the flurries were really flying and the snow-job drifts were piled high at Apple Inc.'s corporate headquarters in Cupertino.
{pdf=http://www1.therealnews.com/t2/images/blogs/AppleTaxScam.pdf|1000|800}

By David Cay Johnston / DC Report.

In the Fine Print of the New Law: Trump and the Republicans Give the Tech Giant and Other Companies Up to $2.6 Trillion

By Andrew Levine / Counterpunch.

Photo by Marc Nozell | CC BY 2.0

By James Wilt / DeSmog.

By Norman Solomon.
Sometimes a party’s leader seems to symbolize an enduring malaise. For Democrats in 2018, that institutional leader is Tom Perez.
While serving as secretary of labor during President Obama’s second term, Perez gained a reputation as an advocate for workers and civil rights. That image may have helped him win a narrow election among Democratic leaders to become chair of the Democratic National Committee, with the backing of Hillary Clinton loyalists eager to prevent the top DNC job from going to Bernie Sanders supporter Rep. Keith Ellison.

By Hanadi LoubaniMany observers have noted how the call by the US for an emergency session of the UN Security Council to support Iranian antigovernment protesters drew heated and bitter debate, laying bare deep ideological rifts over the future of the Middle East. Others have commented how it exposed how competing forces, inside and outside the region, are continually mobilizing events in conflicting ways to suit their policy agendas.

By Brasil Wire
Some are calling it the Coup’s endgame, others the “final battle” for Brazil’s next decade.
Former President Lula, who held office from 2003-2011 has twice the support of his nearest rival to succeed Putschist Michel Temer in the October 2018 elections.