Новости за 27.06.2017

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On a panel moderated by Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer (far right), Goodman explains why he blew the whistle on corruption in the Central Intelligence Agency.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaking at a rally on Capitol Hill on June 21. (Edward Kimmel / CC 2.0) Sen. Elizabeth Warren does not mince words when discussing the Trump administration. “[This] is not the America of our dreams,” she told a crowd last Friday at a town hall in Lowell, Mass. “It is the America of our nightmares.” A new piece in the Wall Street Journal covers the Democratic senator’s progressive positions espoused at that town hall, which was held in a pro-Trump county. The Journal reports... Читать дальше...

By David Bauder / Associated Press The president pounced on the network’s credibility Tuesday following the resignations of three journalists involved in a retracted Russia-related story. (Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci, a subject of the story, is pictured.)

By Henry Giroux / Salon Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is Donald Trump’s gift to the billionaires, evangelicals, hedge fund managers and bankers who view schools as training centers and sources of profit.

By Nick Turse / TomDispatch A lack of meaningful strategic results from these deployment levels have not led Washington to raise fundamental questions about ways the U.S. employs its elite forces.

By Lorne Cook / Associated Press The European Union slapped a record 2.42 billion-euro ($2.72 billion) fine on internet giant Google on Tuesday for taking advantage of its dominance in online searches to direct customers to its own online shopping business.

By Alexandra Rosenmann / AlterNet The ACLU believes the policy likely violates passengers’ First Amendment rights.

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment There seems to be a faction of hawks around the president who want to maintain a condition of undeclared war with Russia and Iran.

By Marshall Allen / ProPublica Here’s another reason Americans pay too much for health care.

By Jefferson Morley / AlterNet Behind the scenes of the U.S. attack on a Syrian air base, American military and intelligence officials doubted that the Syrians had used chemical weapons, according to the investigative reporter.

The Truthdig table at the Los Angeles Press Club’s 59th Southern California Journalism Awards. (Truthdig) Truthdig is committed to covering current news, reporting on issues that are undercovered by mainstream media, and providing provocative commentary. On Sunday, the Los Angeles Press Club honored Truthdig’s work at the 59th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards. The news website earned three first-place awards, three second-place recognitions and five third-place finishes. Judging was done by the Cleveland Press Club... Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama during Trump’s inauguration in January. (Wikimedia Commons) Update: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Monday that the Republican health care bill now in the Senate would leave an additional 22 million Americans without health insurance by 2026. The New York Times wrote, “Under the bill, the budget office said, subsidies to help people buy health insurance would be ‘substantially smaller than under current law.’ And deductibles would, in many cases, be higher. Читать дальше...

Robert Mueller’s investigation is about more than ousting the president. It’s about respecting democratic institutions and protecting constitutional norms.