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Chicago Democrats: "Embarrassment of Riches" or War?
By Lenny Brody
National Steering Committee member, Justice Party
Trump's Bizarre Rantings and Tweets Give Cover to His Fellow Authoritarian McConnell to Ram Through a Huge Tax Cut for the Rich
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet.
Planned or not, Trump's provocations distract from McConnell's iron fist in the Senate.
Photo Credit: Image by Shutterstock, Copyright (c) Christopher Halloran
Saudi Arabia’s Lebanon gamble may pay off
By James M. Dorsey / Mid-East Soccer.
Time will tell, but Saudi Arabia’s gamble to pressure Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed, Lebanese Shiite militia, by forcing Saad Hariri, the country’s prime minister, to resign, may be paying off despite widespread perceptions that the manoeuvre backfired.
300 Scientists Oppose Trump Nominee: 'More Dangerous Than Climate Change is Lying'
By Staff, InsideClimate News
Kathleen Hartnett White's nomination for the top White House environment post is headed for a Senate confirmation vote.
At her confirmation hearing in early November, Kathleen Hartnett White repeated her claim that CO2 is not a pollutant. "As an atmospheric gas, it is a plant nutrient," she told senators. Credit: Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Video
E-Commerce at WTO Ministerial Conference (MC11) is effort to hijack basic internet governance issues
By Chakravarthi Raghavan / SUNS www.sunsonline.org
As issues relating to the monopolistic/oligopolistic control over information and data by the Silicon Valley technology giants and their platforms are beginning to attract adverse public and political attention around the world, these technology platforms (Google, Facebook, Twitter) are attempting to hijack the issue of internet governance and democracy by writing trade rules at the WTO under the rubric of "e-commerce".
The Revolution Party and the Russian Revolution
By Leo Panitch / Global Research.
A fresh and compelling new account of the Russian revolution to mark its centenary concludes by paying tribute to the Bolsheviks for acting as history’s switchmen, a term derived from the small booths that dotted the railway tracks across the Russian empire, where local revolutionaries had long gathered for clandestine meetings.