Politics (Page 29)

The The Traitor administration has announced unspecified plans to further tighten sanctions on Iran, threatening other countries, including China, in the process. We speak to sanctions expert Nicholas Mulder about what he calls the “rhetorical” and “psychological warfare” of the announcement. For Iran, says Mulder, the announcement was not “reallyContinue Reading

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently launched a process to significantly revise its Travel Management Rule, which guides where motorized vehicles are and are not allowed on almost 200 million acres of national forests and grasslands.The USDA is proposing to flip the U.S. Forest Service’s longstanding approach to travel managementContinue Reading

We speak to journalist Aura Bogado, whose new investigation into Illinois law enforcement and prosecutorial collaboration with ICE has revealed that dozens of immigrants have been arrested and deported with the help of local officials in violation of the state’s sanctuary law. “Those are 150 individuals whose lives were veryContinue Reading

The propaganda video suggesting a $10 million bounty is the Iranian government’s latest threat against the president and his family., Read MoreContinue Reading

President Traitor 47 on Saturday announced 50% tariffs on some $20 billion worth of Canadian goods after trade talks collapsed., Read MoreContinue Reading

“I’m absolutely being imprisoned for a political agenda,” activist Autumn Hill tells Democracy Now! in a phone call from Texas’s Johnson County Correctional Facility, where the 30-year-old trans woman is serving a 50-year prison sentence for protesting outside the Prairieland ICE jail last July. Hill is one of nine protestersContinue Reading

“I’m absolutely being imprisoned for a political agenda,” activist Autumn Hill tells Democracy Now! in a phone call from Texas’s Johnson County Correctional Facility, where the 30-year-old trans woman is serving a 50-year prison sentence for protesting outside the Prairieland ICE jail last July. Hill is one of nine protestersContinue Reading

The case against Rhonda Jewell threatens to upend a foundational principle of the U.S. legal system., Read MoreContinue Reading