US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Mocks Greta, Says She Should Study Economics

“Steve Mnuchin thinks Greta Thunberg needs an economic education, where she can take courses like ‘strip-mining Sears assets 103’ and ‘forging signatures to take homes away from people 204′” Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin mocked teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday at the Davos World Economic Forum, arguing that she should study economics before calling [...]

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Hasn’t the US Been a Greater Source of Instability in the Middle East Than Iran?

Think for a moment how different Iran and the Middle East’s fate would have been if the CIA, along with the British, did not orchestrate a military coup to overthrow the democratically-elected government of Iran. (By Nasim Ahmed, MEMO) During a televised discussion over which country has been the main source of instability in the [...]

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Study Finds 90% of Single-Payer Healthcare Proposals Would Reduce Costs

A sweeping new study of proposed single-payer healthcare plans over the last 30 years suggested a high probability of both short and long-term cost savings. A new study published January 15 by the journal PLOS Medicine concluded universal healthcare could bring significant economic benefits over the current privatized US healthcare system. Researchers for the report [...]

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Report: Saudi Crown Prince Hacked Jeff Bezos’ Phone

Within hours of a video file being sent by WhatsApp to Bezos “a massive and unauthorized exfiltration of data from Bezos’s phone began, continuing and escalating for months.” Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) hacked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ cell phone through a 2018 WhatsApp conversation, according UN investigators and an analysis by cybersecurity [...]

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AOC Blasts the Democratic Party as ‘Center-Conservative’

At an MLK event in New York City, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gave another reminder of the battle waging inside of the Democratic Party to move it further left. “We don’t have a left party in the United States. The Democratic Party is not a left party. The Democratic Party is a center or a center-conservative party.” [...]

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Iran Threatens to Fully Quit Global Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Iran is threatening to be only the second country – North Korea being the first – to withdraw from the landmark 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. On Monday, January 20, Iran’s Foreign Minister announced that they will leave the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if European participants bring Iran to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) [...]

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What Matters in a President

As citizens, we only get a tiny glimpse into our who our presidential candidates really are. Information warfare is waged by campaigns and the media, who seem to all have an agenda. Yet we are tasked with making a huge decision on who should lead the free world. How can we cut through the bullshit [...]

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Pete Buttigieg – Centrist Democrat or Borderline Progressive?

Pete Buttigieg shot into the Democratic primary like a rising star, but criticism from the progressive left may be bringing him down to Earth. Pete Buttigieg, the former two-term mayor of South Bend, Indiana and a retired Navy Reserve Intelligence Officer, has quickly risen from an outlying candidate to one of the top contenders for [...]

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Glenn Greenwald Charged With Cyber Crimes By Brazilian Government

“Charging journalists with criminal activity based on interactions with sources sends a chilling message to reporters working on sensitive stories…” The Brazilian government charged Rio-based journalist Glenn Greenwald with cybercrimes for his reporting on leaked cellphone communications that undermined the credibility of Sergio Moro, President Jair Bolsonaro’s Justice Minister, for his politically-motivated efforts to imprison [...]

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Behind the GAO Report that Concluded Trump Broke the Law on Ukraine

Will a damaging report from the GAO fall into obscurity now that Republicans are trying to fast track the Trump impeachment process? President Donald Trump broke the law by withholding $214 million from Ukraine for security assistance, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirmed in a report last Thursday. Since then Republicans and Democrats have put [...]

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