Is the US Fanning the Flames of the World’s Largest Humanitarian Catastrophe?
Smoke rises after Saudi-led airstrikes hit a food factory in Sanaa, Yemen, in August 2016.Hani Mohammed/AP “We saw people shredded to pieces, some with no head, no hands,” a man told a Human Rights Watch researcher two weeks after a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a crowded marketplace in Mastaba, Yemen, in March 2016. The strike,…
28 Doctors Say This Man Is Mentally Ill. Arkansas Is Going to Execute Him Anyway.
Jack Greene appears before the state parole board in October.Kelly P. Kissel/KTHV-TV/AP Jack Greene is set to be the first man executed in Arkansas since April, when Arkansas executed four inmates in an eight-day span. Even though Greene suffers from a severe mental illness, his execution for the 1991 murder of Sidney Burnett is scheduled for November 9. Scott Braden, one of…
New Estimate Confirms That Republican Tax Plan Favors the Very, Very Rich
Here’s another estimate of who gets what from the Republican tax plan. This one is from the Institute on Taxation and Public Policy: This is fairly close to the estimate from the Joint Committee on Taxation with the exception of the far-right bar in 2027. ITEP estimates that millionaires will retain a pretty fat 2.5…
Virginia Votes on Tuesday. Here Are 3 Ways Ed Gillespie Wants to Make That Harder.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie debates Democratic challenger Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam at the University of Virginia-Wise on October 9, 2017.(AP/Steve Helber) The candidates in the hotly contested Virginia governor’s race, Republican Ed Gillespie and Democrat Ralph Northam, are in the final stages of getting out the vote for Tuesday’s election. But Gillespie hasn’t always…
AP Confirms That Russia Was Behind the 2016 Email Hacks
Danil Shamkin/NurPhoto via ZUMA This should be pretty obvious by now, but apparently a lot of people are still skeptical that the Russian government was behind the email hacking that upended the 2016 campaign. So here’s an AP story about their own investigation: An Associated Press investigation into the digital break-ins that disrupted the U.S.…
WSJ: Russian Twitter Backed Trump From the Very Start
Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via ZUMA This is from the Wall Street Journal: Kremlin-backed support for Donald Trump’s candidacy over social media began much earlier than previously known, a new analysis of Twitter data shows. Russian Twitter accounts posing as Americans began lavishing praise on Mr. Trump and attacking his rivals within weeks after he announced his…