Hong Kong’s increasingly xenophobic protests are devolving into chaos with help from US government regime-change outfits and a right-wing local…
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Activists, led by the Jewish organization 'Never Again Action Group' and Movimiento Cosecha, shut down the entrances to ICE headquarters demanding the closure of detention facilities, Activists, led by the Jewish organization 'Never Again Action Group' and Movimiento Cosecha, shut down the entrances to ICE headquarters to protest the treatment of migrants and to demand the closure of detention facilities, the immediate legalization for all illegal aliens, and an end to deportations.
Twitter has become policy. It is platform, direction and determination. It has served one particular person well, a hazy mechanism to fog up the lenses of law makers. When President Donald Trump needs an air-wave filling distraction, a bilious splurge of interest in the blogosphere, he is always happy to lob a grenade of 280 characters or so. His targets and recipients oblige in an unsettling dance. Speeches are made, press galleries filled and resolutions submitted to Congress.
According to strange #NeverTrump Republican Andrew Sullivan, in his New York Magazine column Friday, many voters who are not Democrats may have "voted for the Democrats last fall because we wanted a serious check on President Trump’s intensifying authoritarianism.
Would the American people re-elect a president caught in the midst of a multi-faceted impeachment inquiry? One never knows.
Or would the American people be more likely to re-elect a president free from any impeachment inquiry?
American Dream Revisted by Nancy OhanianThe bad news: on June 27 129 Democrats joined with the GOP to vote to authorize funds for Trump's concentration camps. Briana Urbina is a top progressive candidate taking on Stony Hoyer this cycle. She told me she "cannot forgive my representative for voting in support of the cruel and inhumane treatment of immigrants at the border.
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the tariff deal reached between the United States and Mexico to “stem the tide of migration”.
US President Trump announced that the tariff threat in response to a surge in illegal migration to the U.S. through Mexico has been suspended. For its part, Mexico has agreed to “strong measures to stem the tide of Migration through Mexico, and to our Southern Border.”
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss triggered Democrat calls to arrest US Attorney General William Barr for contempt, after Barr refused to show up for a House hearing.
Democrat Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler cried out that “Barr’s defiance of the committee isn’t happening in a vacuum: It’s part of a sweeping effort by President Trump’s administration to defy nearly all oversight by Congress.”
