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The mainstream media doesn’t seem to want to talk about this, but it’s important that America and the world face what seems increasingly clear: Vladimir Putin’s best friend in the world – the person prepared to allow Putin to mount additional wars of aggression in Europe – is the leading Republican contender for president of the United States, Donald Trump... What is Trump getting out of this? For years, Russia has been pumping disinformation into American social media and by all accounts continues to do so. I feel confident in saying that Russia is not doing it in support of...

We fool ourselves if we believe that the televised hearings of the January 6 committee are changing the direction of the Republican Party, or that the hearings will end the attempted coup that Trump launched immediately after the 2020 election. The GOP is becoming ever more divorced from reality. Trump’s attempted coup continues unabated. The first three hearings of the House January 6 committee demolished the myths of voter fraud repeated incessantly by Trump and his supporters and amplified by Republicans in Congress. A parade of Republican witnesses -- including his attorney general William Barr, Ivanka Trump, and his own...

Because Cruz fans love it, as they should You will of course remember Robert B. Reich, who served as Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton and has remained outspoken ever since on all kinds of issues - but mainly economic ones - and from a decidedly left-wing perspective that made it no surprise to anyone when he came out recently in support of Bernie Sanders. (Besides, given his Clinton history, he probably knows Hillary too well.). From what we know of Reich, there’s no doubt in my mind that he means every word he says in this video, which basically...

October 27, 2013 Obama Care: It's Nixon's Fault! C. Edmund Wright Robert B. Reich, liberal commentator and Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, insists in today's Huffington Post that "the Democrat's version of Health Insurance would have been cheaper, simpler and more popular" and asks "so why did we enact the Republican version and why are they so upset?"Yes, he did. And no, there is nothing to indicate that his astonishing editorial is satire. Moreover, there is nothing to indicate in the comments sections that the Huffington Post readership manages to spot any irony in all of this either. This...

Former Department of Labor Secretary during the Clinton Administration and and current University of California at Berkeley Public Policy professor, Robert Reich, is calling for a tax cut: With the economy heading for recession, all eyes are on Ben Bernanke and the Fed, and the question everyone is asking is how much the Fed will cut short-term interest rates to stimulate the economy. But a Fed rate cut won't stimulate the economy. That's because lending institutions, fearing their portfolios are far riskier than they assumed several months ago, won't lend lots more just because the Fed lowers interest rates...So if...