Author: Richard Eskow

Ted Cruz Has Zero Chance of Winning

Ted Cruz Has Zero Chance of Winning

Posted by | Mar 26, 2015 | , |

“To me, he’s just a guy with a big mouth and no results…” By now, you’ve heard that Ted Cruz thinks he’s running for president in 2016. Ted Cruz’s entire political career has been marked by opposing progress. He has no significant legislative or leadership record to speak of. But let’s be clear: Ted Cruz is not a serious candidate. He is not a serious politician. He is a serious pain in the ass. His own party rejects him, and that rejection highlights the schism inside the Republican party. In an interview with CNN, Rep. Peter King said that...

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FBI Will ‘Look Into’ Florida Cops for Sharing Racist and Violent Video

FBI Will ‘Look Into’ Florida Cops for Sharing Racist and Violent Video

Posted by | Mar 23, 2015 | , , , |

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will look into the case of four cops from Fort Lauderdale, Florida who engaged in racist behavior while with the department, reported Talking Points Memo. The FBI noted that this isn’t a full probe launched by the federal government. Three of the officers, James Wells, Jason Holding, and Chris Sousa, were all fired by the Fort Lauderdale Police Department for allegedly sending racist text messages. Alex Alvarez resigned in January while the police department conducted its investigation. The allegations against these men include sending text messages that included the word “nigger.” According to the police...

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Here’s How ‘President’ Ted Cruz Would Destroy America

Here’s How ‘President’ Ted Cruz Would Destroy America

Posted by | Mar 23, 2015 | , , |

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) officially announced that he will run for President of the United States in 2016. Cruz is outlandish, fiery, and would completely ruin America if he were to get elected. Here are several reasons why he would be a terrible president. 1. He’s a staunch climate denier. While on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Cruz asserted that “satellite data demonstrates for the last 17 years there’s been zero [global] warming.” He says this despite numerous scientific conclusions that say earth’s average temperature has progressively increased at least in the last decade. According to VICE News, “nine...

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California Gov. Jerry Brown Says Ted Cruz is ‘Unfit to be Running for President’

California Gov. Jerry Brown Says Ted Cruz is ‘Unfit to be Running for President’

Posted by | Mar 23, 2015 | , |

On yesterday’s episode of Meet the Press, California Gov. Jerry Brown said that Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) anti-climate change stance makes him “absolutely unfit to be running for office.” Host Chuck Todd played a clip from Late Night with Seth Meyers in which Cruz, who is the first Republican to announce their candidacy, said, “My view is actually simple. Debates on this should follow science and should follow data. Many of the alarmists on global warming, they’ve got a problem because the science doesn’t back them up. In particular, satellite data demonstrate that for the last 17 years, there’s...

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Climate Change Advocate Bill Gates’ Foundation has Over $1 Billion Invested in Fossil Fuel Industry

Climate Change Advocate Bill Gates’ Foundation has Over $1 Billion Invested in Fossil Fuel Industry

Posted by | Mar 20, 2015 | , |

Bill and Melinda Gates are some of the most vocal advocates for reversing the effects of climate change, but The Guardian revealed yesterday that their foundation held at least $1.4 billion worth of investments in fossil fuel companies, according to the charity’s 2013 tax filings. The Guardian’s examination found that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Asset Trust, the world’s largest charitable foundation, had investments with: “BP, responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, Anadarko Petroleum, which was recently forced to pay a $5bn environmental clean-up charge, and Brazilian mining company Vale, voted the...

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