Authored by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org,
Between last week’s bombing in Manchester, the patriotic three-day weekend in the United States, comedian Kathy Griffin’s mock beheading of President Trump on Tuesday, and the president’s recent ‘covfefe’ tweet, the media and public have been busy.
Update 2: Macron is now trolling Trump on twitter.
pic.twitter.com/3g5LYO9Osj
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) June 1, 2017
Update 1
In a response to President Donald Trump's decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate pact, French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday night that the effects of climate change are already evident around the world.
The Military/Security Complex Is Bankrupting America
Corrupt politicians and neoliberal economists tell the lie that America cannot afford Medicare and Social Security. How then can America afford the $1.1 trillion annual military/secrity budget?
http://news.antiwar.com/2017/05/30/us-eyes-1-1-trillion-national-security-budget-for-2018/
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With former president Barack Obama's climate legacy in tatters, moments ago the ex-president issued a scathing statement, slammed the Trump administration for "rejecting the future", and that "in the absence of American leadership", unlike the "steady, principled American leadership " under Obama, the former president urged "states, cities, and businesses" to "step up and do even more to lead the way, and help protect for future generations the one planet we've got."
Statement from President Barack Obama on the Paris Climate Agreement:
The monetary problems plaguing the state of Illinois (not to mention its public pensions) have been widely documented here over the past few years, and today the rating agencies finally noticed, when in the span of a few hours, first S&P, then Moody's downgraded Illinois to BB+/Baa3, respectively, both just one notch above junk, the lowest rating ever given to a U.S. state, as both agencies cited a long-running political stalemate over a budget shows no signs of ending.