What I learned from Mike Gravel are lessons ignored, even mocked by the establishment, writes Joe Lauria.
I first met Sen. Mike Gravel in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York in early 2006 after a mutual friend told me Gravel was contemplating running for president.
By Tom Z. Collina President John Kennedy took powerful pain medications. President Richard Nixon was a heavy drinker. President Ronald Reagan had dementia. And now President Donald Trump has the coronavirus. These conditions can significantly impair one’s ability to think clearly. And yet, as president, each had—or, in Trump’s case, still has–the unilateral authority to launch US nuclear weapons within
by David Dodwell Since 2001, the US ‘war on terror’ has killed, injured and displaced millions across 24 countries, while America’s defence spending is nearly 40 per cent of the global total. In contrast, China has waged one foreign war in the past 50 years US President Donald Trump rallies the troops during a surprise Thanksgiving visit at Bagram
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche This article first appeared in the German-language weekly newspaper Neue Solidarität. It was translated by the EIR staff. June 19—After weeks of rumors, President Trump made it official: The U.S. government plans to withdraw 9,500 U.S. troops from Ger-many and limit the total number of troops stationed here in Germany to 25,000. In addition to numerous expressions
Modernity’s major advancements in human governance are: representative governments and the nation-states they govern, which we call democracies. But “democracy” is a misnomer, since the polity is ruled by elites through representatives who corrupt political campaigns and manipulate the voting process while maintaining the fiction that the people rule because they are able to vote for politicians to represent their
MESQUITE, NV / ACCESSWIRE / July 26, 2016 / Cannabis Sativa. Inc. (OTCQB: CBDS) announced today the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to acquire Ibudtender, the first truly smart cannabis web app tailored as a virtual budtender for patients, as well as a B2B & B2 app for dispensaries and cannabis businesses. Ibudtender’s preferential user and medical data makes
Study: Medical marijuana use reduces Medicare spending on prescription drugs. Read more.
