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Are Top Trump Officials Creating Rationale For Their Exit From The White House?

Are Top Trump Officials Creating Rationale For Their Exit From The White House?

Posted by | Jun 13, 2017 | , , |

Ring of Fire’s Sam Seder is joined by Heather ‘Digby’ Parton to talk about President Trump’s latest trip to Europe and his latest barrage of tweets and why his closest advisors feel like Trump isn’t listening to them anymore. Read Heather Digby’s full story here: Trump goes rogue: NATO speech, London tweets suggest he won’t listen to anyone Transcript of the above video: Sam: Digby, in the last hour, you were making a point about, and you had written about this I think this week as well in Salon, that H. R. McMaster, the National Security Chief, Rex Tillerson,...

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New York State Appeals Court to Exxon-Mobil: “Hand Over Those Records”

New York State Appeals Court to Exxon-Mobil: “Hand Over Those Records”

Posted by | May 31, 2017 | , |

After fighting subpoenas on grounds of jurisdiction, Exxon-Mobil has been told that it will have to turn over records to New York’s attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, that could reveal just how much the oil company giant knew about global climate change and the part played by fossil fuels. The investigation was sparked by questions about a decision Exxon-Mobil executives made not to “write down” the value of its oil fields (in other words, declare them less valuable). In the wake of a collapse in oil prices, virtually every other major oil company had taken advantage of such “write-downs.” It...

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U.S. Turns Away Gay Refugees Seeking Asylum From Torture & Murder

U.S. Turns Away Gay Refugees Seeking Asylum From Torture & Murder

Posted by | May 18, 2017 | , |

Our president may proclaim that he is pro-LGBT when the moment is right, but the reality is that gay men are arriving on our shores desperate for safety right now, and we are turning them away. According to Buzzfeed, approximately 40 gay men have fled Chechnya under fear of torture and death, and those seeking visas to other nations are having no luck reaching out to either the EU or the United States. The 40 or so Chechens are now hiding in different parts of Russia, hoping desperately to secure documentation to allow them to flee for their lives....

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Pope Francis Hosts Astrophysics Summit at Vatican While Trump is Busy Denying Science

Pope Francis Hosts Astrophysics Summit at Vatican While Trump is Busy Denying Science

Posted by | May 11, 2017 | , , , |

On Monday, it was confirmed that the Trump administration was dismissing half of the scientific experts who advise the Environmental Protection Agency. The move, an extreme attack on science and reason, was the just the latest salvo in the President’s war on science. Meanwhile, the Vatican is hosting a summit this week entitled “Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Space-Time Singularities” in the Vatican Observatory. The summit honors the work of Father Georges Lemaître, who was one of the early developers of the “Big Bang” theory, and will feature speakers like Nobel Prize winner Arno Penzias. Penzias was one of the...

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The One Promise We’re Glad to See Trump Break – U.S. Staying In Paris Climate Agreement?

The One Promise We’re Glad to See Trump Break – U.S. Staying In Paris Climate Agreement?

Posted by | Apr 21, 2017 | , |

For all his psychological instability, there is one aspect of Trump that is comfortingly predictable: he can be counted on to backpedal on virtually every campaign promise he has made. Whether it’s because he is a pathological liar or that his mouth has been writing checks that his Administration can’t cash, it is patently obvious that he is, and always has been, a fraud. But, as Wilson Rawls wrote in his classic 1961 children’s novel, Where The Red Fern Grows, “There is a little good in all evil.” Case in point: pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate...

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