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US Lawmakers File Resolution To Block Trump’s War In Venezuela

December 4, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
US lawmakers filed a resolution on 3 December that would block a US military attack on Venezuela unless it can win congressional approval. The move, initiated by a group of Democratic and Republican Senators, came in response to repeated statements by US President Donald Trump in recent days claiming that a land invasion of the Latin American nation to combat drug traffickers would begin “very soon.” The president claims, without evidence, that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro heads a criminal cartel trafficking drugs by boat to the US.

Legalizing Yankee Ingenuity

November 26, 2025 Paul Spinrad, The Main Street Journal. , , ,
Did you see the movie The Martian (2015), where Matt Damon plays an astronaut stranded on Mars who constantly has to figure out how to keep surviving? In the newsletter for the CSA farm that I belong to, Terra Firma, Paul Underhill wrote that The Martian is one of the most accurate movie portrayals of what it’s like to be a farmer, even though it’s a sci-fi movie. It shows someone who constantly has to improvise, fixing things however they can with whatever they happen to have. Farmers are the original MacGyvers, he writes, “confronting daily setbacks and weather-related disasters with humor, ingenuity, and a pair of Vise-Grips.”

Pentagon And Military-Related Spending In Congressional Bill HR1

October 31, 2025 Costs of War Project, Brown University. , , ,
It is unusual for reconciliation bills, such as H.R. 1, to include substantial funding for the Department of Defense or other military-related programs in other departments. However, H.R. 1 breaks from precedent by allocating $156 billion to “national defense.” This is problematic for four main reasons: (1) It benefits weapons-makers and contractors more than service members; (2) It lacks details on specific spending categories, effectively making it a slush fund; (3) It incentivizes future lawmakers to skirt the regular budget process, which is more deliberative and transparent than the reconciliation process; and (4) It increases Pentagon and military-related spending by over 13 percent from FY25, pushing “national defense” spending beyond the $1 trillion mark.

How A Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate The Federal Debt Crisis

October 31, 2025 Ellen Brown, Scheer Post. , , , ,
There has been considerable discussion in recent years about reforming, modifying, or even abolishing the Federal Reserve. Proposals range from ending its independence, to integrating its functions into the U.S. Treasury Department, to dismantling it and returning monetary policy to direct congressional or Treasury oversight.  The Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act (H.R. 1846 and S. 869, 119th Congress, 2025-2026), introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie in the House and Sen. Mike Lee in the Senate on March 4, 2025, calls for abolishing the Fed’s Board of Governors and regional banks within one year of enactment, liquidating Fed assets and transferring net proceeds to the Treasury.

US Approves $230m For Lebanese Army, Security Forces

October 3, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
The US government has approved $230 million for Lebanon’s security forces to bolster Washington’s push for the disarmament of Hezbollah, sources told Reuters on 3 October. “The funding includes $190 million for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and $40 million for the Internal Security Forces,” an informed Lebanese source said. “The funding will allow the Internal Security Forces to take over internal security in Lebanon so the LAF can focus on other critical missions,” the source added. “For a small country like Lebanon, that's really, really significant,” a US congressional aide said, adding that the funds were released “just before Washington's fiscal year ended on 30 September.”

Federal Workers Support Shutdown Fight

October 2, 2025 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. , , , ,
A coalition of unions in the federal sector signed on to an extraordinary Federal Unionists Network letter September 29 urging the Democrats to fight Trump administration cuts, even at the price of a government shutdown. It was titled “No Bad Budget in Our Name,” and signers represent tens of thousands of federal workers. Now that the shutdown has started, FUN is organizing a response among federal unionists, stating: “This is much more than a fight between branches of government or political parties. This government shutdown is a showdown between the public and the billionaires.” “[They’re] using a shutdown as a threat to pressure Congress to pass a budget that impacts our most vulnerable, including seniors, rural communities, hungry children and cuts out access to healthcare for millions of Americans,” said FUN Co-Executive Director Alyssa Taft.

‘Forever Wars’ Authorization Finally Repealed By US House

September 13, 2025 Stephen Prager, Consortium News. , , , , , ,
Almost exactly 24 years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the U.S. House of Representatives voted this week to finally repeal a pair of more than two-decade-old congressional authorizations that have allowed presidents to carry out military attacks in the Middle East and elsewhere. In a 261-167 vote, with 49 Republicans joining all Democrats, the House passed an amendment to the next military spending bill to rescind the Authorizations for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) passed by Congress in the lead-up to the 1991 Persian Gulf War and 2003 War in Iraq. The decision is a small act of resistance in Congress after what the Quincy Institute’s Adam Weinstein described in Foreign Policy magazine as “years of neglected oversight” by Congress over the “steady expansion of presidential war-making authority.”

Gaza Aid Whistleblower Arrested For Interrupting Senate Hearing

September 7, 2025 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , , , , , ,
Two United States military veterans, including a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) whistleblower, were arrested for interrupting a Senate Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. They said “the U.S. government is complicit” in the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza and were quickly removed by U.S. Capitol police. GHF whistleblower Anthony Aguilar stood up. “You have an obligation to the Constitution of the United States.” Former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Josephine Guilbeau also spoke up. “Israel is ethnically cleansing Gaza. They’re building a concentration camp!” Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman James Risch declared, “Off to jail,” and when he hear Guilbeau, “Someone else is anxious to go to jail.”

The Deep State’s Burst Appendix

August 3, 2025 Ray McGovern, Consortium News. , , ,
Small wonder that the Deep State tried to keep under lock and key the explosive appendix to Special Counsel John Durham’s anemic May 2023 report on the Russiagate “scandal.” Sen. Charles Grassley, head of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, made it public on Thursday and it became the latest revelation in July to blow open the real scandal behind Russiagate.  It’s small wonder, too, that when Kash Patel won Senate approval to be F.B.I. director, former C.I.A. Director John Brennan, former F.B.I. Director James Comey, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper “lawyered up.” Clapper told CNN colleague Caitlin Collins last week he’d been lawyered up with “perpetual attorneys, since I left the government in 2017.”

US Lawmakers Demand Probe Into Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s ‘Aid Traps’

August 1, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , , ,
A group of 92 Democratic US House members has called on Secretary of State Marco Rubio to launch a formal investigation into the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), citing serious concerns about its funding, operational conduct, and role in civilian massacres at aid distribution sites in Gaza. Led by Representative Sean Casten, the lawmakers pointed out GHF's lack of prior humanitarian experience and questioned its suitability to serve as a primary aid delivery mechanism. They urged greater oversight to ensure aid reaches Palestinian civilians safely and in compliance with international standards.

A Model Anti-Doxing Law?

July 13, 2025 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , ,
A coalition of free speech and press freedom organizations warns that model legislation intended to fight “doxing” could have “devastating consequences" for newsgathering and dissent. “Journalists already face escalating threats for doing their jobs. A vague anti-doxing law could be used to criminalize the truth,” declared Society of Professional Journalists Executive Director Caroline Hendrie.  The Uniform Law Commission (ULC), established in 1892, is comprised of “more than 300 lawyers, judges, and law professors, appointed by the states as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands,” according to the ULC. The group disseminates “uniform state laws” where such “uniformity is desirable and practical.” 

Amid Deadly Floods, Lawmakers Left Gap In Warning System

July 13, 2025 Freddy Brewster and Lucy Dean Stockton, The Lever. , , ,
Despite the rising threat of climate disasters like last week’s deadly flash flood in Texas, the vast majority of America’s waterways are still not being monitored by water level gauges that help identify impending disasters. Lawmakers have long declined to fully fund the federal government’s program supporting a nationwide flood warning system, according to government documents reviewed by The Lever.  While demanding billions of dollars of new tax cuts in the months before the Texas disaster, President Donald Trump’s administration proposed to nearly halve the budget of the federal agency overseeing a federal flood warning network — and proposed a 22 percent cut to the specific budget line funding that system.

The Threat Of Privatization-By-Stealth Looms Over The US Postal Service

July 7, 2025 U.S. Mail Not For Sale. , , ,
The USPS is one of the most popular federal agencies, due to its mission to “bind the nation together”, providing universal mail and delivery services to all. However, its unrivaled delivery network and huge real estate portfolio have also made it a long-standing target for corporate greed. U.S. Mail Not For Sale has already documented Wall Street’s moves to engineer a corporate takeover of the Postal Service. We sounded the alarm when reporters were briefed that the Trump Administration planned a takeover of the USPS, as a precursor to privatization. In recent weeks, we have seen signs that a longer and perhaps more dangerous game is at play – a gradual corporate takeover of the people’s Post Office that degrades the service and hurts its popularity.

Faith Leaders Are Standing Up To The Largest Pro-Israel Christian Lobby

July 5, 2025 Jaisal Noor, Waging Nonviolence. , , , , ,
At lunchtime on July 1, as the Senate prepared to vote on Trump’s deeply unpopular “Big Beautiful Bill,” the cafeteria line at the Rayburn House Office Building ground to a halt. Where lobbyists and staffers usually rushed through the midday crush, over 100 clergy and faith leaders had gathered in solemn resistance. They linked arms and broke into song with the message: “Congress doesn’t eat ‘til Gaza eats.” At the other end of Capitol Hill, the Dirksen Senate Office Building cafeteria filled with chants and prayerful silence. Within minutes, Capitol Police arrested over 65 people.

Radical New Budget Steals From The Poor, Cuts Taxes For The Rich

July 4, 2025 Heidi Shierholz, Economic Policy Institute. , , ,
July 1 - Yesterday, the Senate passed a budget bill that will create a weaker and more unequal U.S. economy. It is even more radical than the House version, with deeper Medicaid cuts that will destroy rural hospitals and strain state budgets, while adding nearly $4 trillion to the federal deficit. The House should reject this legislation and start from scratch. The stakes couldn’t be higher—the bill being rushed to passage will do grave damage to the economy and the well-being of U.S. families for years to come. The bill is designed to cause a shocking upward redistribution of income. It includes draconian spending cuts—mostly to health care and food assistance for children and families—in order to give massive tax cuts to the wealthiest households.
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