![Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin provide an update on Iran Policy and Sanctions at the Foreign Press Center in Washington, D.C., on November 5, 2018. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/45736593061_65c987ef78_h-288x180.jpg "US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Mocks Greta, Says She Should Study Economics 1")
“Steve Mnuchin thinks Greta Thunberg needs an economic education, where she can take courses like ‘strip-mining Sears assets 103’ and ‘forging signatures to take homes away from people 204′” Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin mocked teenage ...
Think for a moment how different Iran and the Middle East’s fate would have been if the CIA, along with the British, did not orchestrate a military coup to overthrow the democratically-elected government of Iran. ...
A sweeping new study of proposed single-payer healthcare plans over the last 30 years suggested a high probability of both short and long-term cost savings. A new study published January 15 by the journal PLOS ...
Within hours of a video file being sent by WhatsApp to Bezos “a massive and unauthorized exfiltration of data from Bezos’s phone began, continuing and escalating for months.” Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) ...
At an MLK event in New York City, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gave another reminder of the battle waging inside of the Democratic Party to move it further left. “We don’t have a left party in the ...
Iran is threatening to be only the second country – North Korea being the first – to withdraw from the landmark 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. On Monday, January 20, Iran’s Foreign Minister announced that they ...
As citizens, we only get a tiny glimpse into our who our presidential candidates really are. Information warfare is waged by campaigns and the media, who seem to all have an agenda. Yet we are ...
Pete Buttigieg shot into the Democratic primary like a rising star, but criticism from the progressive left may be bringing him down to Earth. Pete Buttigieg, the former two-term mayor of South Bend, Indiana and ...
“Charging journalists with criminal activity based on interactions with sources sends a chilling message to reporters working on sensitive stories…” The Brazilian government charged Rio-based journalist Glenn Greenwald with cybercrimes for his reporting on leaked ...
Will a damaging report from the GAO fall into obscurity now that Republicans are trying to fast track the Trump impeachment process? President Donald Trump broke the law by withholding $214 million from Ukraine for ...
“I will say, however, that it’s not only him, it’s the culture around him…” Hillary Clinton said that “nobody likes” Bernie Sanders and refused to commit to supporting him if he wins the Democratic nomination ...
Critics so far have given Apple TV’s new immigrant-focused series ‘Little Amerca’ rave reviews for its portrayal of the immigrant experience. Amidst the heated immigration debate in the U.S., a new series entitled “Little America” ...
“We’ve gotten past the symbolic stage. We’re standing up for ourselves,” said Bryan Kibler who coined the term Second Amendment Sanctuaries. Since the Virginia state legislature changed to become Democrat-controlled in the last election the ...
“A March 1968 FBI memo, from the month before King’s death, discussed ways to ‘prevent the rise of a ‘messiah’ who could unify, and electrify, the militant black nationalist movement.’” The Federal Bureau of Investigation ...
“It is unjust and unacceptable that the CEOs of major corporations are making an average of 287 times more than their average worker.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., wants to tackle income inequality and to do ...
The start of the World Economic Forum coincides with a new Oxfam report on global income inequality, which found that the richest 1% now hold more wealth than 6.9 billion people. Climate change and extreme ...
President Trump recently ordered 3,800 troops back to Iraq, bringing the total in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria to over 27,000. What if one of them were your child, your sibling, or your friend? Perhaps one is. ...
“I want to build the wall, I supported direct appropriations for it and fought for it — but we have to evaluate what this does to the military, what it affects, where and how.” President ...
The fate of the longtime owner of the Kwik-E-Mart on The Simpsons, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, is unknown as his voice actor steps away from the role. After 30 years of voicing a popular character of Indian ...
“I guess if you can get a great deal for a serial pedophile (allowing him to go free and continue to molest more children) — anything is possible.” President Trump recruited celebrity lawyers Alan Dershowitz ...
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren supporters, establishment Democrats and corporate media outlets want you at each other’s throats. Don’t take the bait.
The sustained protests are part of a larger trend against austerity and endless war. The protests that started with the national strike called by Colombia’s central union on November 21 to protest pension reforms and the broken ...
Abigail Disney testified in support of a California state senate bill to tax large CEO-worker pay gaps before the committee voted to advance the proposal. (By Sarah Anderson, Inequality.org) A bill to raise taxes on ...
“Although people argue against costly regulations, unrestricted use of these chemicals is far more expensive in the long run, with American children bearing the largest burden.” (Beyond Pesticides) Exposure to environmental chemicals in the U.S. ...
“As wildfires rage out of control and our planet endures record-breaking temperatures, Democrats must stop oil and gas companies from using backroom trade deals to destroy the environment.” The new NAFTA replacement, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement ...
Drug companies are finally having to face the music about their business practices. Is it enough though? Will anything really change? Or will states just get paid off so they can shut up now and ...
“My grandparents, my aunts, and uncles lived under siege in Sarajevo for three and a half years. It was basically dubbed the largest open-air concentration camp; they had no running water, noting could come into ...
“The corruption is absolutely shameless.” (By: Julia Kelly, Common Dreams) More than a dozen former lobbying clients of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt have spent nearly $30 million convincing the Trump administration to do the bidding ...
“What’s happening is persistent, not a fluke due to some weather phenomenon. We know that the long-term trends are being driven by the increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.” The last ten years ...
Jeffrey Epstein was doing this for TWO DECADES where were USVI officials? Were they sleeping or were they being paid off? Where were the feds? Who was watching this registered sex offender’s planes as he ...
A week after Iranian strikes on U.S. military in Iraq, Ayatollah Khamenei is expected to focus his weekly Friday address on Iran’s great victory and the loss of U.S. life endured in the Iranian attack. ...
“There is no secret that Putin is the de facto dictator in Moscow and there is no expectation that the status quo should change when his term concludes in 2024. His annual state-of-the-nation speech Wednesday ...
“I was continually hit on the head with iron rods. … They were about to lynch us.” With her head bandaged and her arm in a sling, university student Aishe Ghosh went before the cameras ...
Reducing the suffering of chickens can only happen if companies follow through on their promises. Consumers and scientists agree: Eggs from hens raised in cages are bad business. “Cage-free” is much more than a trend—soon, ...
Immigration advocates are concerned new asylum procedures at the U.S.-Mexico border are denying migrants their legal right to seek asylum in the U.S. A plan to send Mexican nationals seeking asylum in the U.S. to ...
“BlackRock beginning its shift of capital out of fossil fuels, including today’s divestment of coal in its actively managed funds, is a fantastic start…” BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, the head of the world’s largest asset ...
Ocasio-Cortez wants the federal government to acknowledge hundreds of thousands more Americans as living in poverty with The Recognizing Poverty Act. A new bill called The Recognizing Poverty Act introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., ...
A two-part documentary on PBS titled America’s Great Divide: From Obama to Trump looks for an answer to the question of how the U.S. got so hyperpolarized. How did the U.S. go from electing its first ...
“They are pissing inside the tent and that’s unusual. It’s evidence of how high tensions are within the family over climate change.” Division within the Murdoch media empire intensified on Tuesday after Rupert’s younger son ...
“Our military is the finest military on earth, but we should stop asking our military to solve problems that cannot be solved militarily.” There were high expectations heading into the latest Democrat Presidential Debate with ...
French protesters scored a major victory over the weekend when French President Emmanuel Macron scaled back one of his planned pension reforms, but not all are happy. The French government announced a major concession in ...
Promising signs that the Libyan civil war was approaching an end on Monday gave way to news on Tuesday that General Haftar walked away from a Russian-brokered ceasefire. Only a day after Russia’s foreign minister ...
![U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo joins President Donald J. Trump for a working lunch with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 27, 2019. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/trump-bolton-pompeo-288x180.jpg "Pentagon Admits No Evidence Iran Planned To Attack US, Despite Trump Saying The Opposite 41")
“The president didn’t cite a specific piece of evidence. What he said was he believed. I didn’t see one, with regard to four embassies.” U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said over the weekend on CBS’ ...
The fires ravaging Australia are yet another sign of the urgency needed to deal with the climate crisis. But nothing is going to make a difference, because changing our path involves transforming our economy. The elite ...
In his new solo performance piece “The Truth Has Changed,” the “Gasland” director raises an alarm: The Democrats are ill-prepared for Trump’s oncoming misinformation campaign. Josh Fox, the Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind “Gasland,” the ...
Libya’s warring parties are expected to sign a ceasefire and a ‘political settlement’ that will resolve the country’s seven-year-long civil war on Tuesday. Following intense negotiations in the Russian capital, Moscow this Monday, Libya’s warring ...
“Whether by happenstance or by design Trump’s loans became underwritten by Russia’s own VTB. I informed the FBI of this in 2019.” Val Broeksmit does not fit the profile of a whistleblower. He was not ...
“If they don’t right this wrong, we’re prepared to take legal action to provide relief for those that are incarcerated and their families.” Rap mogul Jay-Z and hip-hop artist Yo Gotti wrote a letter to ...
Trump’s blunders have placed us back on the path to a truly catastrophic war, with barricades of lies blocking every off-ramp. The U.S. assassination of General Qassem Soleimani has not yet plunged us into a ...
Lebanon’s kafala system exploits migrant domestic workers and leaves them prone to physical and emotional abuse, with many turning to suicide as their only way out. Lebanon is a country with a population of six ...
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