Noam Chomsky

• Georgetown law professor explains why Alan Dershowitz’s legal argument will crumble under Senate questioning: ‘No sound basis’
  Georgetown law professor John Mikhail suggested on Sunday that the portion of President Donald Trump’s defense which is being covered by Alan Dershowitz is destined to fail because it has “no sound basis” in history and law.
  David Edwards
• Mitch McConnell mulling ‘kill switch’ that will allow him to pull plug on Trump impeachment at any time: report
  McConnell is reportedly going to reveal the rules just prior to the beginning of the impeachment, and Sen. Josh Hawley admitted he expects the “kill switch” rule to be in place from the start.
  Tom Boggioni
• Moderate Democrats are celebrating MLK. He was ‘gravely disappointed’ with them
  MLK was "gravely disappointed" with white moderates, whom he believed were responsible for impeding civil rights.
  Bob Hennelly
• Trump’s election was white America’s vicious backlash to black success: journalist
  Trump's election felt like a repudiation of a half century of black assimilation and aspiration to integration.
  Howard Bryant
• NSA, CIA are now attempting to withhold documents ‘potentially relevant’ to impeachment: House Intel chairman
  On ABC’s This Week, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff confirmed a grim report that surface last week: The nation’s top intelligence officials are pushing Congress to cancel the year’s usual…
  Daily Kos
• ‘You cannot expect anything but fascism’: Pedagogy theorist on how Trump ‘legitimated a culture of lying, cruelty and a collapse of social responsibility’
  The impeachment of Donald Trump appears to be a crisis without a history, at least a history that illuminates, not just comparisons with other presidential impeachments, but a history that…
  Henry A. Giroux
• MSNBC slammed for hosting ‘body language expert’ who claimed Sanders is a liar: ‘This is why no one trusts the media’
  MSNBC and weekend anchor Joy Ann Reid came under fire from progressives and members of the Bernie Sanders campaign Saturday after airing a segment with a “body language expert” who—citing “eye…
  Jon Queally
• GOP senator: ‘There’s no question’ that a ‘series of grifters’ associate themselves with Trump
  Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) appeared on Face the Nation this morning to let the world know that Donald Trump and his campaign have continually been surrounded by grifters and other…
  Aldous J. Pennyfarthing
• Here’s how existing antitrust law could save our democracy: Robert Reich
  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he’ll run political ads even if false. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says he’ll stop running political ads. Dorsey has the correct approach, but this entire…
  Robert Reich
• ‘Not normal at all’: Former White House aide details Trump’s abusive tantrums when he doesn’t get his way
  Appearing on MSNBC on Sunday afternoon, former Donald Trump advisor Omarosa Manigault Newman backed up assertions in the book ” A Very Stable Genius” that the president is prone to…
  Tom Boggioni