Author: Richard Eskow

Legal Challenges Remain For Trump’s Second Travel Ban

Legal Challenges Remain For Trump’s Second Travel Ban

Posted by | Mar 12, 2017 | , , , |

The Trump administration has rolled out an updated, new, less filling travel ban. It is, of course, aimed at Muslims with the idea that they are a risk to our national security. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins & Sam Seder discuss the latest leaks coming out of the White House, and whether or not the leaks are helping or hurting democracy. Transcript of the above video: Sam: Farron, we spoke. A lot of things went down this week in addition, of course, to the big story of the Republicans finally revealing their knock-off of Obamacare, and I do mean...

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Senator Sanders Proposes Bill To Force Corporations To Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes

Senator Sanders Proposes Bill To Force Corporations To Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes

Posted by | Mar 11, 2017 | , , , |

Though on the books, the corporate tax rate in the United States is the third highest rate in the world, the reality is that many large corporations use offshore tax havens and other schemes to dodge paying their fair share – sometimes paying nothing at all. It’s an abuse of the tax code that needs to stop, and that’s what Senator Bernie Sanders intends to do with a bill he is sponsoring called the “Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act.” Sanders’ bill would hit corporations where they hurt, imposing large taxes and penalties on corporations’ offshore accounts in the Cayman...

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John McAfee: ‘There are no secrets in this world’ – News With Ed

John McAfee: ‘There are no secrets in this world’ – News With Ed

Posted by | Mar 10, 2017 | , , , |

WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 “Year Zero” release exposed the CIA’s extreme vulnerability as well as ordinary Americans’ susceptibility to internal surveillance. Cybersecurity expert John McAfee joins “News with Ed” to share his peerless expertise on the revelations and what they tell us about the Trump administration’s alleged connections with Russia and MSM claims of Russian meddling in the 2016...

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Donald Trump And The Republicans Clearly Want To Burn America To The Ground

Donald Trump And The Republicans Clearly Want To Burn America To The Ground

Posted by | Mar 8, 2017 | , , |

The agenda of the Trump administration has been a difficult one to peg down, but the overall theme that we’ve seen from this administration is that they simply do not care about the United States.  Whether it is slashing funding for hurricane tracking satellites, cutting funding and “zeroing out” programs at the EPA, proposing legislation to dismantle the Department of Education, or cutting airport security funding to pay for his border wall, all of these ideas and proposals paint a very clear picture of a Republican Party, led by Trump, that wants to destroy the United States of America....

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