Asked at Tuesday’s White House press briefing whether Biden had made a decision on keeping the Space Force or changing its scope, Psaki said with a smile, “Wow, Space Force, it’s the plane of today,” apparently likening the query to a January 22 question on the president’s plans for the …
Read More »13 GOP House members demand AOC apologize to Ted Cruz for accusing him of ‘attempted murder’
“It has come to our attention that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sent out a tweet in which she accused Senator Cruz, in essence, of attempted murder,” the letter, which was obtained and revealed by Washington Examiner on Monday, reads. The lawmakers are referring to a recent tweet from Ocasio-Cortez in which …
Read More »Democrats seek to strip Marjorie Taylor Greene of House committee assignments to negate ‘future harm’ from ‘QAnon Congresswoman’
Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida), Ted Deutch (D-Florida) and Jahana Hayes (D-Connecticut) submitted a resolution on Monday demanding Greene be removed from the House Education & Labor Committee and the House Budget Committee. “Reducing the future harm that she can cause in Congress, and denying her a seat at committee …
Read More »Robinhood execs’ contributions to House Financial Service panel leaders under scrutiny as hearing over GameStop saga announced
Federal records, dug up by the media in light of the continuing massacre of hedge funds by retail investors using trading apps like Robinhood and Webull, has showed that Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev and the app co-founder Baiju Bhatt contributed $2,800 each to the campaigns of Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman …
Read More »‘Enemy within’: Pelosi calls for additional House security, claims members of Congress THREATENED by colleagues
“We will probably need a supplemental [budget] for more security for members when the enemy is within the House of Representatives, a threat that members are concerned about in addition to what is happening outside,” Pelosi told reporters at the Capitol on Thursday. Asked to specify her “enemy within” comment, …
Read More »‘I’m a Weapon of Mass Distraction’: American lawyer who took on US oil giant held under house arrest in New York for 500+ days
As a law graduate from Harvard, a contemporary of Barack Obama, there’s an expectation you would be exempt from the abuses of the US state. However, things have played out differently for Steven Donziger. He’s been under house arrest for over 500 days, despite being convicted of no crime. He …
Read More »‘Ku Klux Klan cowboys of the White House’: Maduro unloads on Trump’s ‘extremist’ administration in fiery speech
Maduro pulled no punches as he bid farewell to Trump during an address to the Venezuelan National Assembly on Tuesday. He accused the US of waging a “multiform attack” to disrupt all aspects of Venezuela’s economy, from oil production to imports of essential goods, since 2013. “The blockade and sanctions …
Read More »House votes to impeach Trump for ‘insurrection,’ unclear when the case will go to Senate
After several hours of debate on Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to formally impeach the president over the January 6 unrest at the US Capitol, when a group of Trump supporters broke into the building and interrupted the joint session of Congress meeting to certify Democrat Joe Biden as …
Read More »House votes to advance impeachment of President Donald Trump for the second time
The latest article of impeachment accused Trump of “inciting an insurrection” and gained more than just Democratic support in the wake of the US Capitol riot last week, an event many blamed on the president’s rhetoric regarding election fraud. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) was among the Republicans to join the …
Read More »Declassified White House docs reveal America’s self-doubt over a potential military conflict with China
Following the departure of White House Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger and with the Trump administration coming to an end, a number of documents have been declassified setting out its ‘Indo-Pacific’ strategy or, more specifically, its gameplan to attempt to contain China over its four years in office. The documents …
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