Dissident Voice – by Mina Hamilton

Two days after the election, the New York Times ran a feel-good editorial.  It was called “Being American in the Trump Years.”  The basic message?  Let’s bury our hatchets, all work together and assure a peaceful transfer of power.  Hey, it’s a democracy.  Way down in the text were the words: “Trump owes nothing to the traditional powers in his party — not the Koch brothers, not the leadership in Congress.”

Really?  Trump owes nothing to the Koch brothers?  That’s a statement the veracity of which can’t be tested – unless Donald releases his tax returns (which, of course, is not going to happen).  The assertion also rests on the words of Charles and David Koch and those of Donald Trump.  Not words one can necessarily trust.   Continue reading “Keep Your Eyes on Pence”

ABC News

A new report says cities nationwide are enacting more policies that criminalize homelessness.

The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty said Tuesday many cities have banned living in vehicles, camping in public areas and panhandling.

The center says policies that criminalize homelessness harm communities because they create barriers to employment, housing and education.   Continue reading “Report: Cities Boost Policies to Criminalize Homelessness”

Press TV

Thousands of students across the United States have marched out of their schools to protest against Donald Trump and his election as the 45th American president.

Leaving their classrooms by the hundreds on Monday, the students took to the streets across several cities in California, Maryland and Oregon while carrying anti-Trump signs and flags.   Continue reading “US Students Leave Schools To Join Anti-Trump Protests”

Express – by Alan Hall

GERMANY’S infamous “Nazi Grandma” – an 87-year-old Third Reich fanatic repeatedly up before the courts for denying that the Holocaust took place – has been handed down a new 11-month term behind bars.

Ursula Haverbeck-Wetzel remains free while she appeals the latest sentence meted out at a court in Germany yesterday.   Continue reading “‘Nazi grandma’ jailed for third time for denying Holocaust of six million Jews”

Washington Times – by Stephen Dinan

Illegal immigrants are preparing to ask President Obama to pardon some 750,000 illegal immigrant Dreamers, saying it’s their last, best hope to stave off what they fear will be a wave of deportations once Donald Trump takes office.

Community leaders have planned a rally in New York on Wednesday to make the request.   Continue reading “Illegals demand Obama issue mass pardons, last-ditch effort to stop Trump deportations”

RT

Leftist demonstrators protesting against US President Barack Obama’s visit to Athens have clashed with police, who used tear gas to disperse the crowd as people tried to break through cordons.

Some 7,000 people took to the streets of central Athens on Tuesday to protest Obama’s visit to the Greek capital, Reuters reports. The demonstrators initially planned to walk all the way to the US Embassy located in another part of the city, but the procession was disrupted as protesters clashed with police officers.   Continue reading “Greek police clash with demonstrators protesting Obama’s visit to Athens”

Washington Post – by Juliet Eilperin and Greg Jaffe

ATHENS — President Obama warned Tuesday that Americans and people around the world “are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism, or ethnic identity, or tribalism” taking root amid the populist movements that are gaining currency around the world.

Speaking at a joint news conference with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras by his side, Obama refrained from criticizing President-elect Donald Trump directly as he discussed the impact of his electoral victory last week. But the president made it clear that he sees a dark side to the kind of populist movements Trump’s campaign embodied — ideals that other conservative leaders are advocating in Europe and elsewhere.   Continue reading “Obama warns against ‘a crude sort of nationalism’ taking root in the U.S.”

ABC News 10

In her lifetime, California Sen. Barbara Boxer has seen her party lose two presidential elections after winning the popular vote — Al Gore’s race against George W. Bush in 2000, and now Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald J. Trump.

A week after her party’s White House loss, the retiring U.S. senator has introduced a bill that  would amend the Constitution in order to abolish the Electoral College. According to a New York Times estimate, Clinton will be ahead in the popular vote by more than 2 million votes and more than 1.5 percentage points. But Trump got 306 in the Electoral College vote while Clinton got 232 — 270 is needed to win.    Continue reading “Sen. Barbara Boxer introduces bill to abolish Electoral College”

Activist Post

The establishment media is dying. This is not a biased view coming from “alternative media,” it is a fact borne out by metrics and opinion polls from within the establishment itself. It was true before the recent election, and is guaranteed to accelerate after their shameless defense of non-reality which refused to accept any discontent among the American population with standard politics.

Now, with egg on their face after the botched election coverage, and a wobbling uncertainty about how they can maintain multiple threads of a narrative so fundamentally disproven, they appear to be resorting to their nuclear option: a full shut down of dissent.   Continue reading “Establishment Media Declares War On Their Competition As “Fake News””

Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

Aleppo, Syria – Many Americans have a hard time understanding how sanctions are an act of war, since they are guarded from the consequences of sanctions that their government carries out against other nations.

According to a survey conducted in the midst of the first war in Iraq, it was determined that 4% of Iraq’s population, a total of roughly a half million people, died as a result of US sanctions. The sanctions made it impossible for people to get clean water and decent food, creating a body count that seems “natural” and is not often considered an official casualty of war.   Continue reading “US Sanctions Forcing Syrian Children with Cancer to Suffer and Die By Denying them Food & Medicine”

Press TV

Two members of the US Electoral College are openly campaigning against President-elect Donald Trump, trying to persuade other presidential electors to keep him from entering the White House, according to a new report. 

State electors Bret Chiafolo of Washington and Michael Baca of Colorado have launched what they call “Moral Electors” movement, a last-ditch effort against the New York billionaire, Politico reported on Monday.   Continue reading “Members of US Electoral College lobbying against Trump: Report”

The Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

Julian Assange cautioned all of us a while back, in the vein of revelations similar to those provided by Edward Snowden, that Google — the insidious search engine with a reputation for powering humanity’s research — plays the dark hand role in furthering U.S. imperialism and foreign policy agendas.

Now, as the Wikileaks founder faces days of questioning by a Swedish special prosecutor over rape allegations inside his Ecuadorian Embassy haven in London today — and particularly in wake of the presidential election — Assange’s warning Google “is not what it seems” must be revisited.   Continue reading “Julian Assange — ‘Google is Not What it Seems’ — They ‘Do Things the CIA Cannot’”

The Daily Sheeple

The elite are building a massive underground city being referred to as a “luxury community” outside Dallas, Texas called “Trident Lakes”.

Via the local CBS affiliate there:

An investor group is planning for a doomsday scenario by building a $300 million luxury community replete with underground homes. There will also be air-lock blast doors designed for people worried about a dirty bomb or other disaster and off-grid energy and water production.
Continue reading “Elites Are Building a Massive Underground City, Ahem “Luxury Community,” in Texas”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

One of the more perplexing theories to emerge explaining the failure of Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, is that popular news curators and aggregators such as Google and Facebook had distributed news created by “fake” and “false” websites, thus influencing public opinion.  So, in an attempt to curb such websites, a move some consider tantamount to censorship, Google and Facebook announced measures aimed at halting the spread of “fake news” on the internet by targeting how the creators of this alleged “phony content” make money: advertising.   Continue reading “Google Will Punish “Fake News” Websites By Halting Ads”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady on Tuesday said Republicans should defend free trade and the party should defend the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the new Congress.

“Republicans are going to continue to support the freedom to trade,” the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee said.   Continue reading “Top tax-writing Republican says TPP trade deal not dead in Congress”