Che-Che-Changes...
“It’s a historic and very important visit. It’s the first time a US president will visit an independent Cuba,” the son of Ernesto “Che” Guevara tells the Guardian.
“But the US is an empire. Their nature is not to set the table and invite you for a feast. History shows us that every time they set a table, you have to accept you might be poisoned or stabbed in the back. But let’s see.”
I was in Italy when Conor Friedersdorf published this article about the Trump phenomenon, and missed it. In it, Conor argues that Conservatism, Inc., cannot easily divorce itself from the vulgar, sometimes abusive rhetoric employed by Donald Trump. It has been exploiting this kind of thing for years, for the benefit of the GOP. Excerpt:
Submitted by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,
According to a recent poll, 73 percent of all Americans oppose increases in federal spending. Since this anti-government spending sentiment is a major reason Republicans control the House and Senate, one would expect the Republican Congress to hold the line on, or even cut, government spending. Yet, despite the Republican leadership’s rhetoric about "fiscal responsibility," this year’s House Republican budget spends $104 billion more than the GOP’s 2013 budget.
Earlier this month in “GOP Leaders, Tech Execs Plot Against Trump At Secret NeoCon Island Meeting,” we discussed the American Enterprise Institute’s annual World Forum, an event held on Sea Island, Georgia.
It’s a notoriously secretive affair and is off limits to the press. “We can’t even get a snow update,” Bloomberg joked last year.
If you've ever watched Senator Elizabeth Warren grill a Fed chief on Capitol Hill you know that she's not one to mince words and she's not one that's easily impressed or intimidated.
The darling of the liberal Democrats, Warren looms large over the 2016 race which many suspected she would run in. She didn't, but the Massachusetts Senator casts a long shadow and on Monday, she had apparently seen all she cared to see of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.