They don’t get much more craven than Mitch McConnell: Mitch McConnell can’t say whether it's racist to tell an immigrant to go back to their country. He is married to Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, an immigrant. Astonishing. pic.twitter.com/TXv41cmb9z — Mother Jones (@MotherJones) July 17, 2019 Meanwhile, Theo Moudakis graphically
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Northern Reflections: Mitch McConnell And The Inflection Point
William Rivers Pitt has written a really interesting piece on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Pitt believes McConnell is a valuable teacher: He teaches us in graphic fashion how not to be. In his own words, McConnell shines a light down that road to ruin — his road, his way
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Nightmare in Amerika, and the Lesson for Canada
At first sight it couldn't be a more depressing sight, or more of a nightmare.Team Mitch McConnell and his ghastly Republican tea baggers, seizing control of Congress, and promising to bring change to America.Which has some progressives in that country wondering whether it's the end of irony.Or the beginning of
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Beginning of The End for Big Oil’s Billion Dollar Subsidies?
oil-drum-stuffed-with-money.jpg Democratic Senator Bob Menendez (N.J.) has introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate to kill, once and for all, the billions of dollars worth of subsidies that are flowing from the federal government to the oil industry. Under Menendez’s proposal, the $4 billion annual corporate welfare handed out to oil companies
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