Politics

By John Leake | Courageous Discourse  For the last three years, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been one of America’s strongest voices in defending our Constitutional Republic from public health officials and politicians wielding emergency power. In a series of rousing speeches reminiscent of his father’s famous University of Capetown address in 1966, RFK, Jr. has articulated why we should never allow our constitution to be compromised by fallible men who promise to keep us safe. Today, April 5, 2023, he filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for President of the United States in the 2024 election. Mr. Kennedy was an environmental activist thirty years before it became fashionable. For decades, he worked as an attorney to protect the natural world from corporate industri...

The former US president is expected to appear in court next week, according to his lawyer Demonstrators unveil a banner outside Manhattan's district attorney office in New York, March 30, 2023 ©  AP / Bebeto Matthews A New York grand jury has voted to indict Donald Trump following a lengthy investigation into alleged hush-money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. The decision marks the first time a former US president has ever faced criminal charges, sending the courts into uncharted legal territory.  What's the case all about? Launched by Manhattan District Attorney (DA) Alvin Bragg, the investigation into Trump centered on an alleged $130,000 payment to Daniels through his then-lawyer Michael Cohen, who previously pleaded guilty to federal ...

The Capitol riot participant has been moved to a halfway house after serving just over half of his sentence Jacob Chansley, also known as the "QAnon Shaman," stands among a group of pro-Trump protesters outside the Senate chamber of the US Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 © Getty Images / Win McNamee January 6 rioter Jacob Chansley, also known as the ‘QAnon Shaman’, has been granted early release from federal prison and transferred to community confinement in Arizona, officials announced on Thursday.  The 35-year-old was sentenced to 41 months’ imprisonment in November 2021, after pleading guilty to one count of obstruction of an official proceeding for his involvement with the January 6 US Capitol riots earlier that year.  After serving 27 mont...

Dear Editor, President Biden, former President Trump, and former VP Pence get busted with mishandling classified information and walked away Scott free. Shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and still fresh on the minds of Muslims were two high profile cases of two U.S.-born Muslim converts:  Brandon Mayfield, an attorney from Oregon, and James [Yusuf] Yee of Washington state. Mr. Mayfield was falsely accused by the government and was implicated with the Madrid bombing, while Captain James Yee, who served in the U.S. Army at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, was charged with espionage and many other serious offenses.  Later the government dropped all charges against both of them. The government agreed to settle with Mayfield who is white for $ 2 million, and offered ...

Kamala Harris is accused of not “rising to the occasion” in her role US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris participate in a meeting with governors visiting from states around the country in the East Room of the White House on February 10, 2023 in Washington, DC © Getty Images / Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images US President Joe Biden has been underwhelmed by the performance of his vice president, Kamala Harris, Reuters has reported, citing former White House officials. According to the outlet, Biden still intends to keep Harris as his running mate if and when he confirms his bid for re-election in 2024. Harris, who is the first female vice president in US history, has battled low approval ratings since she assumed the role following Biden’s victory...

BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR - ALEXANDER COCKBURN Homeless encampment on abandoned overpass, Portland, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. For Bill Clinton and Dick Morris polls were everything. Morris developed what he called a “neuro-psychological profile” of the American voter, and established an iron rule that no initiative could be undertaken by the White House unless polling showed an approval rating of 60 percent. By constant polling, he concocted what he called a “values agenda,” for Clinton. At the top of the list was affirmative action. “Mend it, don’t end it” was the mantra, which meant, in practice, destroy affirmative action from the inside while professing support for the general principle. Next came TV violence. Intimidate the networks, Morris advised, into adopting a “v...