State Dept. ‘Doesn’t Need to See’ Covert Iran Side Deals

US State Department spokesperson Mark Toner said on Tuesday that the State Department doesn’t mind that it is barred from seeing the classified side deals made between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which can only be seen by those two parties. Iran has demanded the side deals be kept secret from the US in a demand the IAEA and […]

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Senate Republicans Allege Collusion Between EPA and Environmental Group Over Climate Regulations

A day after the Obama administration finalized a “historic” plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, Republicans on a prominent Senate committee are alleging that an outside group colluded with the Environmental Protection Agency to create the standards. The allegations are detailed in a report released by the majority staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on […]

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What 14 Republican Presidential Candidates Said at New Hampshire Forum

Republican presidential candidates gathered at Saint Anselm’s college in Manchester, N.H., Monday night for the Voters First Forum. The forum took place only days before the first national debate. Participants included Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, […]

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Obama Admin Tries to Stir Ethnic Division in Crimea

By Eric Zuesse On Saturday, August 1st, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko (who now acknowledges that his government is illegitimate and that his predecessor Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown in a February 2014 coup), sent greetings to an international conference of supporters of Tatars in Crimea, at the Second World Congress of the Crimean Tatars. He charged […]

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Why Mark Levin Says the GOP Needs a Facelift

Mark Levin is fed up with the Republican leadership in Congress. A day before Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., filed a motion to remove House Speaker John Boehner from his leadership post, Levin called on Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to resign.   At the Young America’s Foundation’s National Student Conference in Washington, D.C.,, […]

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Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton Take Different Paths to Solving Racial Inequality

Before a predominantly African-American audience, Jeb Bush on Friday lauded President Obama’s recent comments on racial injustice, while also brushing aside a fiery attack from Hillary Clinton who just an hour before inferred that the former governor of Florida has hindered the black cause. Bush’s adamancy to appeal beyond the GOP’s typical base was evident as […]

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