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Thursday, April 03, 2025

But Vance, who also advocates claiming the Panama Canal as American territory, is not just contemptuous of the U.S.-Denmark alliance. He's actively trying to weaken Denmark.

The country particularly bedevils Vance and others on the global far right, who see it as a leading avatar of the Europe they loathe and fear"the one that's still faithful to the liberal orthodoxies that defined the West for seven decades.


More human than humans? read more


We have the world's richest billionaires, who pay only a tiny fraction of their income in taxes compared to cops and bus drivers. Our middle class, meanwhile, has collapsed from being two-thirds of us in 1980 to fewer than 45 percent of us today as Reaganomics (which is still in effect) has transferred over $50 trillion in wealth from working class people into the money bins of the top one percent. read more


Senators have introduced bipartisan legislation to grant Congress more power over instituting tariffs on other countries following President Trump's announcement of wide-ranging taxes on nearly all U.S. foreign trading partners.

The bill, co-sponsored by Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) " both members of the Senate Finance Committee " would "reaffirm" the role of Congress in setting and approving trade policy, according to a release from Cantwell's office.


In what may be an American first, President Donald Trump pardoned a company sentenced to $100 million in fines for breaking money laundering laws. read more


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