Новости за 14.03.2017

By Nika Knight / Common Dreams In rural West Virginia, supporters of Donald Trump cheer the progressive senator’s call for universal health care.

President Trump signing Monday’s order to reorganize the executive branch. (Screen shot via AP) President Trump on Monday signed yet another executive order, one that immediately raised concerns about the prospective elimination of agencies. The order, which lays out a “comprehensive plan for reorganizing the executive branch,” gives the director of the Office of Management and Budget one year to “propose a plan to reorganize governmental functions and eliminate unnecessary agencies.” Although brief... Читать дальше...

The mere existence of a transcript of a phone conversation involving Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser (pictured), carries the potential for a Watergate-size scandal that would land squarely on the Democrats.

By Michael T. Klare / TomDispatch The president’s talk of rebuilding the U.S. military has been influenced deeply by the “Victory at Sea” documentary series and the war movies of Trump’s youth.

Thousands of protesters turned out at Los Angeles International Airport in January in response to President Trump’s initial travel ban. (Flickr / CC 2.0) California joined a lawsuit Monday challenging President Trump’s revised travel ban, becoming a plaintiff alongside six other states opposing the controversial order. Xavier Becerra, the state’s attorney general, said in a statement: Last month, our courts put a lid on the unconstitutional and un-American Trump Muslim travel ban because Americans stood up and demanded it. Читать дальше...

Sen. Rand Paul. (Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0) National Security Agency analysts “are not targeting Americans. They are targeting foreigners,” said Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday’s “Face the Nation.” “But they are doing it purposefully to get to Americans.” Paul’s explanation was in response to questions about Donald Trump’s claims that President Obama had him wiretapped during the 2016 presidential campaign. As The Intercept journalist Glenn Greenwald writes, while Paul dismissed an Obama-led plot to spy on Trump specifically... Читать дальше...

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Rep. Steve King of Iowa goes full-on racist again, supporting Dutch hate-speech master Geert Wilders in his quest to reverse globalization and ban Muslim immigration.

Just after the U.K. Parliament voted on whether to trigger article 50 of the British Constitution in order to begin the formal process of leaving the European Union—aka “Brexit”—the Scottish government threw a wrench in the works. Nicola Sturgeon, first minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), announced Monday she would seek to begin another process, very much inspired by the U.K. negotiations to leave the E.U.: a second Scottish independence referendum. The first one took place in 2014... Читать дальше...