Editorial Opinions
U.S. RESIST NEWS POLICY PROPOSALS FOR THE NEW CONGRESS
Our U.S. RESIST NEWS outstanding team of reporters and analysts have recently put forward a series of Policy Proposals for the New Congress. These are proposals, based on our work and experience, that we believe are important for the new Congress to enact to help...
Trump and Destruction of the American Mind
Donald Trump completes two years as president, and one characteristic of his term has been disdain for scientific evidence, historical perspectives, educated opinions and traditional alliances. These attitudes are not Trump’s own and the presidency represents...
TRUMP’S WALL: REALITY vs. FANTASY
By Ron Wolf "The debate over Trump’s wall isn’t really about border security. It’s really a debate about whether we’re willing to live in a fact-based world." That's the premise of a compelling column in the Washington Post today by Anne Applebaum, who professes at...
Trump is a Liar. So is Most of His Orbit. Will This Ever Disturb His Supporters?
In 1996 William Safire, in a column based largely on the right-wing conspiracy theories of the time, famously called Hillary Clinton a “congenital liar.” One can only guess what Safire would have written about Donald Trump. The president of the United States is liar....
What is Robert Mueller’s Endgame?
Speaking to CNN a few months back, the legendary journalist Carl Bernstein insisted that Robert Mueller’s team of investigators were building a “vast narrative” of what transpired during the 2016 election between the Trump campaign and a variety of anti-American actors, including Russian intelligence and Wikileaks.
Noam Chomsky: How the US “Politically Vulgarizes” Genocide and War Crimes
Interview was originally posted on the website Truthout Noam Chomsky has revolutionized multiple fields of study, from psychology to linguistics to political science. With books such as Manufacturing Consent (with Edward S. Herman), The Fateful Triangle, Hegemony or...
Evidence Mounts of Trump Campaign Conspiracy with Russia, Anti-American Actors
By Jonathan Peter Schwartz Policy Summary Several revelatory developments emerged this week in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. To be sure, they hardly reveal the full scope of what special counsel Robert Mueller and his team may know,...
A U.S. RESIST NEWS SPECIAL REPORT; Trump’s League of Tyrants: A Guide to Authoritarian Leaders Around the World
By USRN Analysts Erin Mayer and Colin Shanley One of the most pervasive misreadings of the 2016 election is that Trump is simply an aberration who somehow slipped through the cracks of our otherwise stable institutions, and into a position of power. This view of Trump...
THE DEMOCRATIC CIVILITY OFFENSIVE
Ron Wolf: The victorious Democrats flooded the zone on the Sunday morning political talk shows. Likely Speaker Nancy Pelosi and ranking members of key house committees who are in line to become the chairmen hit the airwaves to explain their priorities. The guests...