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Brazile describes mounting anxiety over (sidewalk violence) termination of Awan foe, Seth Rich. Fearing for her own life, Donna writes of the Awan congress and DNC server export to Pakistan,. Un named “Top Democrat Officials” were “encouraging us not to talk.” National security adviser Susan E. Rice and attorney general Eric Holder separately pressed GoB goals. That fall, Brazile says she tried ...

There are huge concerns that tubby tyrant Kim will carry out a missile test in a bid to goad the Donald during either his visit to Japan or South Korea. The US supremo has fired aggressive taunts Kim’s way, including his bold threat to unleash “fire and fury” against the North. Patrick Cronin, senior director of the Asia-Pacific Security Programme, said the US needed to be prepared for a reckless act from Pyongyang. He added: “The biggest challenge may be crisis management. We have to be ready for how we deal with the unexpected.” Adam Mount, a senior fellow at...

Though President Donald Trump came to power on a wave of promises to keep jobs in the U.S., reinvigorate heavy industry and, of course, Make America Great Again, many in his core support group are yet to see the benefits. Plenty of people in manufacturing are turning their backs on Trump because he hasn’t followed through on what he said he'd do, says a General Motors union leader representing workers across the U.S. The warning to the president comes almost exactly a year after Trump won the election with a pledge to improve the lives of American workers and the...

The Democratic Party has no discernible message, no recognizable plan and no real response to Donald Trump’s serial rending of basic decency and honor. Donna Brazile may be burning the village in order to save it. What else to take away from the former interim chair of the Democratic National Committee and longtime party operative in dropping the bombshell news this week about a fundraising agreement between Hillary Clinton and the DNC? It’s part of a larger story that focuses on the Russian hacking of the Democratic campaign and the threat to the democratic process, but it’s the “Clinton takeover...

The clock is ticking on the only vehicle capable of resisting Trumpism. I will go to my grave convinced that the 2016 Democratic primary process was the single most depressing political event I ever witnessed. The Republicans at least had a thin, bright edge of insanity that kept things from getting utterly tedious. (I never will forget waking up on the morning of the Indiana primary to discover that the president* had tried to pin the Kennedy assassination on Ted Cruz’s father. Most primary days are a dull as dishwater until they start counting the votes. This one wasn’t.) But...

Every day a new Hillary Clinton scandal explodes. Republicans get outraged, Hillary defenders defend her, and nothing changes. Longtime Clinton critic Sean Hannity asked a very simple question that deserves an answer. With all of the evidence against Secretary Clinton, why is Attorney General Sessions not indicting Clinton? Why do we not have a special counsel who can indict her? Why? Because Sessions is not going to indict her, not now, not ever. Americans are more likely to see President Donald Trump nominate Rosie O’Donnell to his cabinet than see Mrs. Clinton indicted. Hacks: Donna Brazile throws Hillary, Barack, DWS...

#45 hates women! It probably was not necessary for me to say that, but if you didn’t already know it, we now know that #45 hates women—and he’s off the chart in his hatred of women of color. Never mind that Black women have been acknowledged as the best educated in our nation—something we’ve known all along, while one of #45’s professors said he was the dumbest student he ever had. We don’t brag about our education. We just continue using our education to serve our people in need. We, women of color, had #45’s number during the 2016 Presidential...

Yes, it’s hard to imagine wanting to watch 11/8/16 today. The film, a sweeping survey documentary created and produced by Jeff Deutchman, follows 16 Americans from across the country on election day of 2016: a Sikh New York cabdriver, a “Dreamer” in San Jose, a Massachusetts dad in a MAGA hat, a West Virginia coal miner and his family, the assistant managing politics editor at the Los Angeles Times. They vote, go to work and look somewhat relieved, no matter who they voted for. The campaign season had been soiling and protracted, and at long last everything would be returning...

He has failed to pass legislation, under a legal cloud and facing threats of impeachment, but that's not the end of the story. Donald Trump is on a high, writes Bruce Wolpe. Donald Trump is the most unpopular president at this stage of his tenure than any president in modern American history. But that's not the end of the story. He has not secured passage of one major piece of legislation through Congress, failing spectacularly in his efforts to repeal Obamacare. He has presided over a precipitous decline in America's standing in the world, and has engaged in ugly exchanges...

Remember the good ol’ days, only a year ago, back before that fateful first week in November, when Hillary had it in the bag and our biggest worry were these freaky, creepy clown sightings? Funny how, now that combover Bozo Creep-in-Chief is in the White House, those menacing bizarro clown sightings have stopped. Now the lurking menace, the fear, the feeling that something wicked this way comes is much more apparent, and all too real. And it seems to be seeping through cracks and hiding around corners at every turn, trick-or-treating at will through our culture. Witness the ugly resurgence...

DETROIT — “We’re waging our own war against rape and sexual harassment,” said Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA). “We’re waging a war against the perverts who believe we can be misused or exploited in the interests of a job, or recognition, or even so-called love.” Waters was delivering the keynote speech of the Women’s Convention on Saturday, at a luncheon held in her honor. She mentioned equal pay, paid parental leave, and other issues important to many of the women (and men) in attendance. But much of her speech was devoted to an issue that had captured a great deal of...

While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presses world leaders to protect the Kurds as they lose ground in Iraq, some feel that the U.S. has sided with Iran. Kurdistan, in is in disarray (following) a command stand down, to Iraqi / Iranian occupation of Yazidi and Kurdish cities and villages.. Without significant American backing, the Kurds will lose territory including the oil hub @ Kirkuk.

Claim: Did Julian Assange’s Recent Tweet Confirm That Clinton Will Make a Third Presidential Bid? Rating: Maybe Did Julian Assange’s Recent Tweet Confirm That Clinton Will Make a Third Presidential Bid? There is trouble in the Clinton paradise again. No, Monica and Paula did not drop by for a What Happened book tour brunch. But, there have been credible reports that Bill and Hillary are not on speaking terms. The reported cause is that Bill thinks his wife and former Secretary of State has pushed the blame game—and possibly Russia narrative—too far. (Source: “Insider claims Bill Clinton is ‘heartsick’ over...

Just as they used to play an outsize role in the Democratic Party’s apparatus, and in organized labor, putative Irishmen are now the face of the hard Right. Once the biggest names, faces, and voices on television were Huntley and Brinkley, Cronkite, Murrow, even John Chancellor and Dan Rather, all sober, serious Americans—and all Protestants too. Now we have angry loudmouths with names like O’Reilly, Hannity, Buchanan, and, lurking back there with his Cheshire smile, the dissolute but scary Bannon. Yet no one has noticed this obvious fact, and the sheer lack of attention may be the most important thing...

Here’s something that pretty much sums up where the United States of America is right now, more than nine months into Donald Trump’s experiment with blowing up the American Experiment — with principled discourse, a free press, and the quaint notion that citizens should be told the truth all giving up more yards than the Cleveland Browns’ defense on its worst Sunday. On the night of Nov. 8, thousands of the most rabid haters of Trump and his minions plan to gather under the stars in New York and possibly Boston and other U.S. cities to mark the one-year anniversary...

Hillary Clinton has a stalker. Their relationship is over, yet he keeps hounding her, pursuing her, and obsessing over her, dreaming of all the time they're going to spend together, their lives entwined forever, or at least for another few years. Why can't he accept reality? Because she gives his life meaning. Without her, he's nothing. The "he" I'm referring to here is the Republican Party, of course. This week we learned that Republicans in Congress have opened not one but two new investigations into Clinton, one on the government's approval of the sale of a company that controls uranium...

The final push. Claim at the VA was denied, BUT..... I did get what I wanted. They formally noted that my previously undiagnosed illness that I applied for was now known as XXXXXdisease. I have a specialist at the VA that had noted in my record that XXXXXdisease "as likely as not" started while in service. VA returned no evidence, but changed undiagnosed illness to XXXXdisease. Am I reading something into this? It seems like they agree...but need me to add more. So I've got witness statements. Family, friends, and potential love interests. All of which have been pushed away...

Another actress accused Harvey Weinstein of sex assault Tuesday — and slapped his company with a lawsuit claiming it allowed the Hollywood producer to prey on young women for years. The suit was filed against The Weinstein Company in Los Angeles by Dominique Huett, who had an appearance on an episode of “Blue Bloods” in 2010. The NYU grad alleges that Weinstein promised to give her a role on “Project Runway” in exchange for oral sex.

It will soon have been three weeks since the Las Vegas shooting massacre, but already the news cycle has moved on. All of the other issues that have been in the headlines—male sexual predation, Donald Trump’s (un)fitness for the presidency, the respective futures of the Iran nuclear agreement and the Affordable Care Act, and on and on—are undeniably important. On the other hand, we know in our aching hearts that such carnage will happen again. At this point, it still counts as news when a man kills three people and wounds two others in Maryland, but such numbers do not...

The anti-fascists are wearing their sweatpants today. Tennis shoes are a must. They’ve been told to wear something breathable — no masks, no bandanas, no armor. Almost nobody wears black (almost nobody). Gym members drift in through the door of the Breakaway Social Center in the Little Village neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side. The two-story corner building was once home to a $10-a-haircut barbershop, but now the walls are lined with posters bearing anarchist symbols and advertising a recent lecture on militant suffragettes. The couches are pushed back to the walls, next to shelves stacked with political journals. On the...