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Urgent: Payment to Stormy Daniels

dimanche 25 février 2018 à 01:00

US citizens: call on the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department to investigate the payment made to Stormy Daniels, which may have violated campaign finance laws.

Cross-partisan discussion

samedi 24 février 2018 à 01:00

Cross-partisan discussion groups enable Americans to get to know people from the other side of politics.

NRA's intent

samedi 24 février 2018 à 01:00

"After Florida, I see the NRA as nothing less than a terrorist organization."

But is that valid? Terrorism is a matter of intent: political influence through threats of violence. Does the NRA do that? Not directly. It doesn't threaten to shoot anyone.

However, in an indirect way, maybe it brings this about.

The NRA functions as a marketing arm for gun companies. Its program is to make Americans scared of gun crime, so that they will buy guns. Thus, it appears that a higher rate of gun crime is not merely a byproduct of the NRA's activity, but part of its plan.

Does that fit the definition of terrorism? I'd say it is on the borderline. In the end, I think it is better not to stretch the word this far. We can condemn an organization for wrongdoing without calling that wrongdoing "terrorism".

Food and drug safety standards

samedi 24 février 2018 à 01:00

If the UK leaves the EU, businesses and right-wing ideologues are organizing to take advantage of this by adopting the weaker food and drug safety standards of the US.

War on workers

samedi 24 février 2018 à 01:00

The Trump Administration’s War on Workers.