“We can't afford to get this wrong—again,” Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, tells TIME.
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) It pretends to be a democracy and a republic, but it actually represents only the richest .1% of the richest 1% — the richest hundred-thousandth — of Americans, and this has been empirically (i.e., scientifically) proven by all of the scientific analyses of the truth or falsehood of that cardinal […]
WEIRTON, W.Va. (WTRF) -- In December, the Pittsburgh-based steel company U.S. Steel agreed to sell the company to Japan’s largest steel manufacturer, Nippon Steel. Now, two U.S. Senators are calling on President Biden to look deeper into this sale and the effects it could have on the country. Just months after U.S. Steel agreed to []
U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably didn’t directly order the killing of Alexei Navalny at a remote penal colony in February, according to three sources familiar with the matter. But the precise circumstances of the opposition leader’s death at the Arctic prison remain unclear. The assessment does not absolve Putin of ultimate responsibility for Navalny’s fate, only that the Russian president likely did not call for his killing at that time,...
Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control targeted 16 people and two entities in Iran that produce engines that power the drones used in the April 13 attack on Israel.
PANMUNJOM, South Korea — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations urged Russia and China on Tuesday to reverse course, and stop rewarding North Korea’s bad behavior and blocking U.N. scrutiny of the isolated country’s efforts to evade sanctions over its weapons programs. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield made the remarks during a visit to the Demilitarized Zone, a heavily fortified border between the two Koreas, which remain technically at war. Her trip to South Korea came after Russia...
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The way that the U.S. empire expands its control into targeted countries so as to perpetrate coups that formerly the CIA had been doing (such as, most famously, in Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, and Chile 1973 — all of which replaced a democratically elected progressive leader by a fascist dictator […]
NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers is getting pushback on social media for comments he made about the genesis of the AIDS epidemic.
The U.S. 7th Fleet said a Navy P-8A Poseidon flew through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, a day after U.S. and Chinese defense chiefs held their first talks since November 2022 in an effort to reduce regional tensions.
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The best-selling new book by Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario, realistically describes what a nuclear war between America and Russia would be like, though her “scenario” for it is wildly unrealistic. It starts with a North Korean missile that does exist, dropping onto the Pentagon a North Korean 1-megaton […]
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