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[ad_1] At PolitiFact, we have been holding presidents to account for their falsehoods since 2007, covering the tenures of Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Joe Biden and now Trump again.  As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, we examined how inaccurate or misleading statements by the nation’s chief executive influenced the long arc of history. Our list includes consequential rhetoric from Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, William McKinley, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Donald Trump. As we assembled this list, we found that the task was more complex than it…

[ad_1] Anyone expecting ‘hope’ and ‘change’ is deluding themselves. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1]  Anna Maria Barry-Jester ProPublica After the Trump administration upended the world’s largest foreign aid provider last year, terminating thousands of programs and firing nearly all of its staff, its plan for the agency was clear: Eliminate it entirely. But because it is a congressionally created agency, President Donald Trump needed lawmakers’ permission to do so. So this year, Trump officials asked Congress for permission to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development and dramatically reduce federal spending on food, medicine and lifesaving work around the world.  Congress said no. Lawmakers, who hold the government’s purse strings and have…

[ad_1] How much attention do you pay to…well, attention? Attention is one of those many brain functions that you don’t notice or think about when it is working fine, but can become debilitating if it is impaired in any way, and we notice when it is stressed to the point of failure. Otherwise we don’t have much reason to contemplate the incredibly demanding and complex neurological process of managing attention. Recently neuroscientists have added one more piece to the puzzle of what we call the neuroanatomical correlates of attention – which parts of the brain are doing what. To review,…

[ad_1] A very intense El Niño has formed in the equatorial waters of the Pacific Ocean much earlier than originally anticipated, and we are being warned that it could cause trillions of dollars of damage to the global economy. Considering everything else that is going on in our world right now, that is really bad news. It is being projected that the El Niño that has developed in the southern Pacific is likely to rapidly transform into a “Super El Niño” of frightening strength. At the same time, a “9,000-mile marine heatwave” has developed in the northern Pacific. Many believe that these…

[ad_1] President Trump’s U.S.-Iran ceasefire is welcome news, but the Rep Ro Khanna argues the deal gives Iran better terms than the JCPOA Trump spent years ridiculing. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The governments of the United States and China both assert that theirs is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. They also agree that the likeliest trigger for an armed conflict between them is Taiwan. In theory, then, it should come as a relief that U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping discussed Taiwan at length in Beijing last month and that the leaders emerged with a better understanding of each other’s positions. Read Full Article ⟶ [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has paid millions of dollars for a covert, digital surveillance operation targeting Christians across multiple U.S. states, writes Alan MacCleod. Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs headquarters. (Almog. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain) By Alan MacLeodMintPress News If you are a Christian living in the Western United States, you have almost certainly been targeted with pro-Israel, anti-Palestine propaganda, paid for directly by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Your searches, location, and internet activity is being monitored by Israel, and your algorithms and search results across multiple platforms are being manipulated by the Israeli government in what its…

[ad_1] The men who wrote the Fourth Amendment had watched a government treat a population as a thing to be catalogued. They had lived under writs of assistance — general warrants that let a customs officer search any house, any ship, any person, on no suspicion at all. So they wrote a sentence meant to settle the matter for good: the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause. It was a line no administration could…

[ad_1] A demonstration in Iran against the Shah, 1978 at College Bridge, Tehran. Wikimedia Commons. GFDL When trying to figure out what’s going on in the Middle East in general and the war in Iran in particular, I have relied quite a lot upon the works of Mouin Rabbani and Trita Parsi, both of whom have done an exemplary job of explaining ongoing events to wide audiences. I’d encourage anyone who wants to improve their understanding of what’s happening to check out these scholars’ interviews and essays. There are also excellent books one ought to read on the subject, not least of…