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Despite what you heard, there was no peaceful transition
Jan 24, 2021 14:26The article is a critical look at Biden’s first Executive Orders set against the backdrop of Operation Peaceful Transition in Washington, DC.
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Trump departs Washington with lowest approval ratings of his presidency
Jan 24, 2021 05:40Polling from Gallup shows that only 34 percent of Americans approve of the way Trump performed his job, his lowest approval rating in that poll specifically.
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Yemen crisis linked to weapons maker Raytheon’s influence on US foreign policy (1)
Jan 24, 2021 05:33Starting under Obama and continuing under Trump, the U.S. has been heavily involved in the war on Yemen, primarily through weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners. These weapons are by and large used to intentionally target and kill Yemenis.
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Hours before leaving office, Trump quietly revokes order restricting lobbying by former federal officials
Jan 22, 2021 04:40Making one final mockery of his 2016 campaign promise to "drain the swamp," Trump early on Wednesday, January 20th quietly revoked his own executive order barring administration officials from lobbying the agencies for which they worked for five years after leaving government, freeing up a potential line of work for outgoing White House staff.
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Trump grants clemency to more than 100 people, including Bannon
Jan 22, 2021 04:38Trump has come under scrutiny for favoring political allies and well connected individuals in doling out pardons and commutations. In this regard we have prepared an article for you written by Brett Samuels, journalist.
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Trump approves document disclosures in apparent bid to taint Russia investigation
Jan 21, 2021 17:47Trump authorized the declassification of documents related to the F.B.I.’s Russia investigation, the inquiry that clouded his first years in office and that he has sought retribution for ever since.
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Uncertainty reigns in Senate as Schumer pushes fast agenda and McConnell calls out Trump
Jan 21, 2021 17:46Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made his most definitive break yet with President Trump on Tuesday ( 19 Jan 2021) while the leader of the incoming Democratic majority laid out an ambitious agenda for the opening weeks of the Biden administration, signaling a dizzying changing of the guard in Washington.
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Trumpism will haunt America
Jan 21, 2021 17:35Trump's second impeachment satisfies his natural critics but his enraged 'petite bourgeoisie' movement is here to stay.
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By ‘force and fraud’: Is this the end of the US democracy doctrine?
Jan 20, 2021 12:49“The storming of the US Capitol has global repercussions, not least among them is the weakening of the self-serving definition of democracy, especially when it comes to justifying war”, says Ramzy Baroud, a US-Palestinian journalist.
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Heart of int’l terrorism in fear of infighting among local terrorists
Jan 20, 2021 12:41According to reports, over 25,000 uniformed American terrorists, much more than the number of CENTCOM terrorists in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf region combined, have turned Washington, especially the area around the Capitol Hill and the White House, into a military barracks for inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.