Hillary Clinton is planning another run for president and is preparing to launch a new career as a talk show host in order to “make a comeback” and “lay the groundwork” before the 2020 bid. Clinton would be 73 years old if she were to challenge President Donald Trump – again – and win the White House at her third attempt – after failing in 2008 and 2016.
Submitted by Daniel Lazare via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Last week as Donald Trump was preparing to take office, The New York Times — reeling from Trump’s interview in which he said he didn’t “really care” if the European Union holds together and described NATO as “obsolete” — declared that “the big winner” of the change in U.S. presidents was Vladimir Putin.
How quickly the sins of the past are forgotten.
Roughly 10 years ago, a Mexican immigrant working as a strawberry picker in Bakersfield, California, making $14,000 per year, was lent every single penny he needed to purchase a $720,000 home. And, as crazy as that sounds to most of us, stories such as that were all too common leading up to the 2008 housing crash as everyone, and their brothers, became expert real estate investors buying and flipping multiple houses every month...which worked really well, until it didn't.
Submitted by Farron Cousins via DeSmogBlog.com,
On January 16, 2016, President Obama declared a federal emergency for the city of Flint, Michigan, over the contamination of the city’s drinking water.
One year later, not only is the city still struggling to provide clean sources of water to the Michigan city’s population, but the plight of residents in Flint has opened up the conversation about a water crisis in the United States that very few people even knew existed.
Authored by Alastair Crooke, originally posted at The Automatic Earth blog,