Williamsport PA, May 19, 2019:
Tomorrow Manic Monday President Donald J. Trump will be arriving here in Williamsport–center of Pennsylvania’s Alabama–to waste everyone’s time. A special election will take place on Tuesday for the seat vacated by Tom Marino, the worst member of Congress ever to have served in the House
"There are people who are being wiped off the face of this earth."
PBS: Appoint Jane Ferguson, risking her life in Yemen, permanent moderator, Washington Week
Yesterday, at risk to her life, Jane Ferguson reported on the PBS’ excellent News Hour from the only open port in Yemen from which food and medicine can still be shipped to provide relief to millions of civilians .
A fragile cease-fire the UN negotiated in Sweden may bring a modicum of hope in a country where tragedy prevails.
Meanwhile, on the PBS network, Washington Week—once the premier weekly opinion program in the US—exemplifies the dominant isolationism of,the White House Corps. On Friday night Washington Week continued to ignore ( as it has for years) the humanitarian tragedy in Yemen and President Trump’s complicity in Saudi genocide.
PBS should immediately appoint Jane Ferguson Washington Week’s peermant moderator,replacing Robert Costa who covers the White House for The Washington Post. If Ferguson is not available, Reporters without Borders has many brave reporters on the front lines of the world’s humanitarian crises. American politicians tell the public we are the leading power in the world. If that power is to mean anything, it must be used to resolve crises— not hide from them and pretend they do not exist.
YESTERDAY: Russia-backed Syria regime pummels Idlib | Al Jazeera English
Published on Sep 9, 2018 SUBSCRIBED 2.4M Syria and Russia have carried out their most intensive air attacks on eastern and southern Idlib province, the last major rebel-held part of Syria after seven years of war. Activists and rescue workers reported more than 60 attacks from the air, including helicopters that dropped barrel bombs. Al Jazeera’s […]
Canadian MP Michelle Rempel is the greatest English language orator of our time
++++ Not since Robert Kennedy in 1968 stood on a podium mounted on flatbed truck and announced to a horrified primarily African-American audience on the verge of riot that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been shot and killed have I witnessed a speech of this power and significance. ++++ https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=517s&v=pMMHv5NTUko ++++ Refugees cheer Canadian […]