Trump Administration

Trump Pressed Aides On Venezuela Invasion, US Official Says

July 5, 2018 Joshua Goodman, Apnews.com Educate! Latin America, Trump Administration, US Imperialism, Venezuela

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — As a meeting last August in the Oval Office to discuss sanctions on Venezuela was concluding, President Donald Trump turned to his top aides and asked an unsettling question: With a fast unraveling Venezuela threatening regional security, why can’t the U.S. just simply invade the troubled country? The suggestion stunned those present at the meeting, including U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and national security adviser H.R. McMaster, both of whom have since left the administration. This account of the previously undisclosed conversation comes from a senior administration official familiar with what was said.

“Officials” Attempt To Sabotage Further North Korea Talks

July 2, 2018 Moon Of Alabama, Moonofalabama.org Educate! CIA, Diplomacy, Foreign Relations, North Korea, Trump Administration

The result of the Trump-Kim summit in Singapore was a "freeze for freeze" deal. North Korea stopped its nuclear and missile testing while the U.S. stopped the large maneuvers it regularity held with South Korea's army. Both sides agreed to further talks. North Korea made some aspirational statements about denuclearization which have the same time frame as similar aspirational statements made by the U.S. in Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). There is no time frame to reach a certain state. There is no commitment towards declaring nuclear sites nor is there a commitment to stop the production of nuclear stuff. Trump declaration that there is "no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea" is correct in the sense that there is certainly no North Korean intent to launch a nuclear attack.

‘Snowden Is The Master Of His Own Destiny’ Russia Rebuts US Attempts To Have Whistleblower Extradited

July 2, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Resist! Edward Snowden, Russia, Trump Administration, Whistleblowers

United States President Donald Trump is expected to pressure Russia to hand over NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in exchange for sanctions relief at the upcoming Trump-Putin summit; however, Russia has emphasized that they “are not in a position” to expel Snowden and will “respect his rights" if any such attempt is made. “I have never discussed Edward Snowden with (Donald Trump's) administration,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said to Channel 4 reporters. “When he (Putin) was asked the question, he said this is for Edward Snowden to decide. We respect his rights, as an individual. That is why we were not in a position to expel him against his will because he found himself in Russia even without a U.S. passport, which was discontinued as he was flying from Hong Kong.”

Thousands Protest Trump’s Treatment Of Child Immigrants

July 2, 2018 By John Zangas, Dcmediagroup.us Resist! Immigration, Protests, Trump Administration, Undocumented

Washington, DC — Thousands of protesters, including many families with children, rallied at the White House Saturday to condemn the Trump Administration for separating children from parents at U.S. borders. Over 30,000 took part in the Families Belong Together rally for three hours, standing in the hot June sun while dozens spoke out against the “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which in some cases has led to young children being held in chain-linked enclosures resembling kennel cages. The immigrant family separation policy created a firestorm of controversy after ProPublica leaked an audio recording from an immigrant detention center of groups of crying children desperate to be reunited with their parents. the separation policy, Enforced by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has incited the nation, spurring several instances where citizens openly confronted cabinet members and a White House aide in restaurants and public places.

The Next White House Chief Of Staff Likely To Be Even Worse

June 30, 2018 Ralph Nader, Nader.org Educate! Trump Administration, White House

Mr. Mulvaney’s title seems uninterestingly bureaucratic—director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). But as Trump’s chief hatchet man extraordinaire, Mugger Mick Mulvaney is easily one of the cruelest, most vicious presidential henchman in modern American history. From his powerful perch next door to the White House, he is carving a bloody trail against tens of millions of Americans who are poor, disabled, frail, and elderly. He has gone after defenseless children and injured or sick patients with little or no access to health care. It is difficult to exaggerate the relentless, savage delight that this former Congressman from South Carolina—handpicked for Trump by the brutish, oil funded Heritage Foundation—takes in attacking the most vulnerable members of our society.

Syrian Child Refugee Choir From Canada Cancels US Trip Over Trump Policies

June 30, 2018 By Jillian D'Amours, Middleeasteye.net Educate! Canada, Children, Refugees, Syria, Trump Administration

MONTREAL, Canada - A Canadian choir composed of Syrian refugee children will not perform at an event in Washington, DC, later this week because organisers and parents feared the kids would be turned away at the US-Canada border. The Toronto-based Nai Kids Choir, composed of about 60 Syrian refugee children who have been resettled in Canada, was invited to participate in the Serenade! Choral Festival last autumn. However, Fei Tang, the choir’s founder and general manager, said her initial excitement quickly “was clouded by what was happening in the US” under the Donald Trump administration. Since taking office, the US president has repeatedly used racist and incendiary language to describe refugees and asylum seekers, and last year he imposed a travel ban on citizens from several Muslim-majority countries, including Syria.

Protesters Descend On Stephen Miller’s Luxury D.C. Apartment Building

June 28, 2018 Rachel Sadon, Dcist.com Resist! Protests, Trump Administration, Washington DC

The national debate over the propriety of directly confronting Trump administration officials—while they dine, shop, rest—spilled out Monday night onto the well-manicured sidewalks of CityCenterDC, the luxury apartment complex that White House senior adviser Stephen Miller calls home. "Say it loud, say it clear: immigrants are welcome here," chanted a group of about dozen people standing on the public sidewalk as residents whisked through revolving doors and tourists sauntered around the 10-acre downtown development. The protesters played an audio recording obtained by ProPublica of sobbing children as they were separated from their parents by border patrol agents and handed out a series of flyers. One, in the style of a wanted poster, called Miller a "white nationalist, Trump lackey, and architect of both the Muslim ban."

Dear Sarah Sanders: You Got What You Deserved — But There’s Still Time To Change

June 28, 2018 By D. Watkins, Alternet.org Resist! Trump Administration

Last Friday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, her husband and some acquaintances were booted from the Red Hen, a farm-to-table restaurant in Lexington, Virginia. This was the decision of one of the restaurant's owners, Stephanie Wilkinson, who said, "I'm not a huge fan of confrontation.” "I have a business, and I want the business to thrive." Wilkinson continued. "This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals." Like any true product of the run-and-tell-Twitter administration, Sanders took her response to social media: Don't let big tech control what news you see. Get more stories like this in your inbox, every day.

NOAA’s Acting Chief Floated New Mission, Ignoring Climate Change

June 27, 2018 Neela Banerjee, Insideclimatenews.org Educate! Climate Change, Trump Administration

The acting chief of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration proposed removing the word "climate" from the research agency's mission statement, the latest maneuver in the Trump administration's wide-ranging effort to downplay federal work on climate science and limit the public's access to it. The proposal drew swift condemnation from scientists. "Redefining@NOAA's mission is a serious threat to the breadth of science, services and stewardship that NOAA provides," tweeted the former head of NOAA Jane Lubchenco. The proposed revision was unveiled by Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere Timothy Gallaudet in a PowerPoint presentation he used at a "vision setting" summit last week of the Commerce Department, which houses NOAA. After the response from scientists and questions from the media, Gallaudet walked back the proposal through a statement issued by the NOAA press office.

Trump Seeks To Privatize The Post Office

June 25, 2018 Staff, Afge.org, Nalc.org Apwu.org Resist! Class Struggle, Post Office, Privatization, Trump Administration

WASHINGTON - American Federation of Government Employees National President J. David Cox Sr. today issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s government reorganization plan: “This administration has displayed nothing but contempt for the 2 million federal workers who serve the public each and every day. Instead of improving health care access to veterans who deserve our very best, administration officials have used the new authorities Congress provided them at the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire thousands of rank-and-file workers like nursing assistants and housekeepers. “Instead of working with employee representatives to make the workplace safer and more inclusive, this administration has violated labor contracts at the Department of Education, Social Security, HUD, and elsewhere to deny employees the representation they are entitled to under the law.

Star Wars Redux: Trump’s Space Force

June 25, 2018 By Karl Grossman, Counterpunch.org Educate! Space, Trump Administration

If Donald Trump gets his way on formation of a Space Force, the heavens would become a war zone. Inevitably, there would be military conflict in space. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 which designates space as the global commons to be used for peaceful purposes—and of which Russia and China, as well as the United States, are parties—and the years of work facilitating the treaty since would be wasted. If the U.S. goes up into space with weapons, Russia and China, and then India and Pakistan and other countries, will follow. Moreover space weaponry, as I have detailed through the years in my writings and TV programs, would be nuclear-powered—as Reagan’s Star Wars scheme was to be with nuclear reactors and plutonium systems on orbiting battle platforms providing the power for hypervelocity guns, particle beams and laser weapons.

The Truth About ‘Sanctuary Cities’

June 22, 2018 By Lizet Ocampo, Otherwords.org Create! Immigration, Sanctuary Cities, Trump Administration, Undocumented

In a recent White House meeting on “sanctuary cities,” President Trump called some undocumented immigrants “animals” — a disturbing new low even for someone who’s demonized immigrant communities from the beginning. The president painted a picture of “sadistic criminals” who are being given “safe harbor” through so-called sanctuary policies. While Trump and his right-wing supporters would have people believe that “sanctuary cities” are places that allow lawlessness and where immigrants aren’t prosecuted for crimes, the reality is far different. Here are the facts: the federal government can enforce immigration law anywhere. The term “sanctuary city” typically refers to a jurisdiction that wants to limit the use of local law enforcement resources to carry out federal law enforcement work, especially when they’re asked to violate constitutional protections.

Trump Executive Order Makes Border Crisis Worse

June 21, 2018 Staff, Nilc.org Educate! Border, Deportations, Executive Order, Immigration, Nationalism, Trump Administration, Undocumented

WASHINGTON — President Trump has signed an executive order mandating that families be jailed by the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security or Defense. This order will likely have the effect of jailing, for months or even years, immigrant families seeking safety in the U.S. The National Immigration Law Center has long decried the practice of jailing immigrant families, filing lawsuits when necessary to defend their rights. Below is a statement from Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, who visited family detention facilities in 2014: “The Trump administration has created a crisis and committed horrific human rights abuses by separating children from their parents at the border. Clearly on the defense, today it used a political sleight of hand to try to placate Americans who have been rightly outraged by their government’s repugnant policies, including separating children and babies from their parents and housing them in cages.

Here’s Why Those Who Care About Human Rights Should Not Care That Trump Pulled Out Of The Human Rights Council

June 21, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, ArtKillingApathy.com Educate! Human Rights, Trump Administration

I was a few hours late today to the story about the United States pulling out of the UN Human Rights Council. But by the time I got to the party, there was a veritable shit storm of media coverage. You have the usual suspects like Fox News spewing that it’s the right choice because… Israel… and because there are human rights violators on the council. On that latter point, good ol’ boy Brett is not wrong. Although what Brett Schaefer neglected to mention is that we are one of the worst human rights violators allowed to tarnish that council with our membership. To the former point of Israel, pretty much all US media is on board with that fallacy. US envoy to the UN, Nikki Haley, used this tired anti-Israel drivel as her reason for leaving the council, playing “chronic anti-Israel bias” as her literal Trump card for a purely theatrical, albeit dick move.

Trump’s Military Drops A Bomb Every 12 Minutes, And No One Is Talking About It

June 21, 2018 By Lee Camp, Truthdig.com Educate! Airstrikes, Bombing, Trump Administration

We live in a state of perpetual war, and we never feel it. While you get your gelato at the hip place where they put those cute little mint leaves on the side, someone is being bombed in your name. While you argue with the 17-year-old at the movie theater who gave you a small popcorn when you paid for a large, someone is being obliterated in your name. While we sleep and eat and make love and shield our eyes on a sunny day, someone’s home, family, life and body are being blown into a thousand pieces in our names. Once every 12 minutes. The United States military drops an explosive with a strength you can hardly comprehend once every 12 minutes. And that’s odd, because we’re technically at war with—let me think—zero countries. So that should mean zero bombs are being dropped, right?

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