Noam Chomsky

• 'Who do you work for?': Kyrsten Sinema gets targeted for her obstruction of Biden's agenda
  Hours after 13 Sunrise Movement activists were arrested at the Students March on Congress for Climate Action in Washington, D.C., members of the youth-led environmental group rallied for a Monday evening protest outside Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's Phoenix office to demand that the Arizona Democrat support at least a $3.5 trillion reconciliation package that funds robust […]
  Common Dreams
• 'Every node of this supply chain is maxed out' — and the consequences could hit you at home
  Bare toilet paper shelves in supermarkets were a big story early in the coronavirus pandemic but they may not remain a thing of the past, and consumers are being warned to do their holiday shopping early—like, now—thanks to supply chain problems. And even then, you might have to settle."We're getting into the full peak season," […]
  Daily Kos
• There's a message buried in John Durham's latest indictment — and it isn't pretty
  Last week, Special Counsel John Durham secured an indictment against an obscure cyber-lawyer and Democratic insider named Michael Sussmann for allegedly lying to the FBI about who his clients were when he relayed a tip about possible digital communication between the Trump Organization and Russia. Durham was appointed by Donald Trump to delve into the […]
  Lindsay Beyerstein
• DeSantis hires a new surgeon general: A hydroxychloroquine pusher who appeared in ‘demon sperm’ doc’s video
  Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, responsible for one of the worst COVID-19 responses in the nation, has just announced his new Surgeon General, Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD, a UCLA Medical Center physician and health policy researcher who appeared in the viral "Demon Sperm" quack doctor's video that advocated the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat […]
  The New Civil Rights Movement
• 'Oh my God Jesus': Paul Ryan floored when he learned of Trump White House chaos — according to Woodward book
  It was during the time of the 2018 omnibus spending bill going to President Donald Trump's administration and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R) was furious after hearing Fox News pundits trash it on the morning shows, the new book Peril said from the Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.Then-Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) was coming […]
  Raw Story
• The Capitol riot committee now has a clear roadmap for subpoenas: reporter
  There's a clear roadmap for the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter explained on MSNBC on Tuesday.MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace interviewed Carol Leonnig as Politico is reporting the select committee is poised to begin issuing subpoenas.The process was explained by Rep. […]
  Raw Story
• In first UN speech, President Biden declares U.S. has 'turned the page' on war
  President Joe Biden delivered his first United Nations General Assembly address as president on Tuesday, with rallying cries of global cooperation in the midst of the many crises facing the world in recent months. "To deliver for our own people, we must also engage deeply with the rest of the world," he said to the […]
  Salon
• How corporate America cashed in on the post-9/11 Pentagon spending surge
  The costs and consequences of America's twenty-first-century wars have by now been well-documented — a staggering $8 trillion in expenditures and more than 380,000 civilian deaths, as calculated by Brown University's Costs of War project. The question of who has benefited most from such an orgy of military spending has, unfortunately, received far less attention.Corporations […]
  TomDispatch
• Democrats aren't in disarray — they're being held hostage by so-called centrists
  If there was ever a time to hit the panic button in the Biden era, Monday was that day.Monday marked one week before so-called moderates in the House of Representatives attempt to force a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure package passed at the center of President Biden's Build Back Better agenda. With his approval ratings […]
  Salon
• The new 'revelations' about Trump are an indictment of the American political class
  At times during the last five or so years, some of us have been living in the future. Sometimes just a day or two, but at other times it has felt like a week or perhaps even a month. During rare moments of immense clarity, it's like being in a time warp, a year or […]
  Chauncey DeVega