VP Joe Biden recently is on record for saying the American people do not deserve to know what Mr. Biden plans to do about the Supreme Court. Out of context? Maybe, but also… maybe not. He still responded exactly thus: Anger. Defiance. Or is this something else: perhaps the cries of a cornered animal? Mr. Biden […]
Racist Republican senators warn their racist base that if Democrats win the White House and Congress in November, they will make Puerto Rico a state and the Republicans will never have a Senate majority because, of course, those brown Puerto Ricans will always automatically vote for Democrats. I wish... but it's just a mark of GOP paranoia and racism. Puerto Rico would probably be a swing state and certainly not a Democratic slam dunk.
On Friday the House voted, 232-180 to admit Washington, DC-- which has more people than Wyoming and Vermont-- as a state. Every Republican-- ironically, the party of unadulterated and unashamed racism-- voted no, as did the most Republican of the House Dems, Minnesota Blue Dog Collin Peterson.
Moscow Mitch and Putin's Bitch say "Nyet" to DC statehoodAs of last July, the population of Washington DC was 705,749, about the same as Alaska, North Dakota and Vermont. The population of Wyoming was 578,759. Each of those states has 2 senators-- just like California (pop- 39,512,223), Texas (pop- 28,995,881), Florida (pop- 21,477,737) and New York (pop- 19,453,561).
Racism in the U.S. Congress nearly derailed Hawaii becoming the 50th state, as Sarah Miller Davenport reports. By Sarah Miller Davenport University of Sheffield The Conversation Sixty years ago, Dwight Eisenhower signed legislation making Hawaii America’s 50th state.…Read more →
On the eve of the Israeli election on 17 March 2015, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated unequivocally that, if he were returned to power, a Palestinian state would not be established.
Any handover to Palestinians of territory on the West Bank occupied by Israel since 1967 would, he asserted, threaten Israel’s security:
ATHENS, GREECE and LAS PIEDRAS, PUERTO RICO – Until recently, the similarities were stunning.
A Palestinian man tries to stop work by an Israeli bulldozer on a new Jew-sh-only settlement, during a protest outside the village of Deir Qaddis, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, July 13, 2016.
Nazareth.
Israeli and US officials are in the process of jointly pre-empting Donald Trump’s supposed “ultimate deal” to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They hope to demote the Palestinian issue to a footnote in international diplomacy.
Puerto Rican resident Maria Quinones looks carefully at her ballot with a magnifying glass before voting during the fifth referendum on the island’s status, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 11, 2017. (AP/Carlos Giusti)
On June 11, millions of Puerto Ricans will head to the polls to decide the political status of the Caribbean island.
Sunday’s two-part plebiscite, the fifth held since 1967, will decide the future of the unincorporated U.S. territory. Since 1898, Puerto Rico has functioned as a “commonwealth” of the U.S., essentially making it a colony of Washington.
The population of Puerto Rico is around 3.4 million-- just between Connecticut (3,576,452) and Iowa (3,134,693), so more than Utah, Mississippi, Arkansas, Nevada, Kansas and 1115 other states.
