Does Liz Cheney actually claim that Trump’s incitement of a mob on January 6 was worse than the Bush-Cheney regime’s establishment of a global program of torture, kidnapping, black sites, and the unlawful prison camp at Guantanamo?
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Marc Ash: Who believes that Trump has seen the light and will now quietly let power slip from his grasp? It’s not very likely. We should recall that the invaders of the Capitol were heard to say as they left, “We’ll be back.”
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Stephen Eric Bronner: There are no “two sides” to this story. Thirty hours after the attempted putsch, six are dead, far more are wounded, and the Capitol building is a wreck. It was only at this point that President Trump addressed the nation by video. https://t.co/r064uHskYZ
John Kiriakou: What we saw last Wednesday was indeed a coup attempt. It was poorly planned and poorly executed. But it was a coup attempt. It likely won’t be the last. We need to be ready for the next event. https://t.co/YFfWSCcgRb
Norman Solomon: As Biden moves into the White House, progressives are well positioned to fight – not only against the right wing but also against corporate Democratic elites, who are uninterested in delivering the kind of broad-based economic uplift. https://t.co/WW9YnoaJuU
Barbara Koeppel: President Trump and his Department of Justice will take their final bows in a blaze of bloodletting. This week, the last three of 13 death row prisoners will be executed. The other ten were executed from July through early December.
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Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams made public statements Friday in opposition to Biden’s potential nomination of Michèle Flournoy to be Secretary of Defense.
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Water Protectors in Minnesota have taken action to block construction of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline, which received final approval this week.
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