RSN: William Boardman | US Constitution Is Now Officially a Joke As Applied to War or Peace




Reader Supported News
15 May 19

How do we come to a point where this organization has no money to operate? Yes, this is a very real funding crisis. Right here, right now. We are battling for the basic resources we need to keep publishing. Our opponent, our adversary, is apathy.
We do great things with the resources we are given.
Let’s get active here, please.
Marc Ash
Founder, Reader Supported News

If you would prefer to send a check:
Reader Supported News
PO Box 2043
Citrus Hts
CA 95611





Reader Supported News
15 May 19
It's Live on the HomePage Now:
Reader Supported News


RSN: William Boardman | US Constitution Is Now Officially a Joke As Applied to War or Peace 
A woman hugs a child in Yemen. (photo: Abdul Jabbar Zeyad/Reuters)
William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "Lawful authority to take the nation to war under the US Constitution has long been an unofficial joke, at least since the US led the 'police action' in Korea in 1950."
READ MORE

Donald Trump Jr. (photo: Getty Images)
Donald Trump Jr. (photo: Getty Images)

Donald Trump Jr. Agrees to Testify Before the Senate Intelligence Committee Again
Jessica Taylor and Tim Mak, NPR
Excerpt: "Donald Trump Jr. has reached a compromise with the Senate Intelligence Committee to testify before the panel, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. The deal comes less than a week after the committee's initial subpoena inflamed tensions between the GOP-led panel and the White House."
READ MORE

In this Wednesday April 17, 2019 file photo, Bianca Cameron-Schwiesow, from left, Kari Crowe and Margeaux Hardline, dressed as handmaids, take part in a protest against HB314, the abortion ban bill, at the Alabama State House in Montgomery. (photo: Mickey Welsh/Montgomery Advertiser/AP)
In this Wednesday April 17, 2019 file photo, Bianca Cameron-Schwiesow, from left, Kari Crowe and Margeaux Hardline, dressed as handmaids, take part in a protest against HB314, the abortion ban bill, at the Alabama State House in Montgomery. (photo: Mickey Welsh/Montgomery Advertiser/AP)

Alabama Senate Passes Near-Total Abortion Ban
Caroline Kelly, CNN
Kelly writes: "Alabama sent the most restrictive abortion bill in the country to the governor's desk Tuesday night, with the state's Senate passing legislation that could punish doctors who perform abortions with life in prison."
READ MORE

Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (photo: Getty Images)
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (photo: Getty Images)

AOC and Bernie Join Forces to Get Fired Up and Angry About Climate Change
Sophie Weiner, Splinter
Weiner writes: "Sanders and AOC didn't hold back in their critiques of centrist climate policy on both sides of the aisle."
READ MORE

Special Council and former FBI director Robert S. Mueller III. (photo: AP)
Special Council and former FBI director Robert S. Mueller III. (photo: AP)

Karen J. Greenberg | Redacting Democracy: What You Can't See Can Hurt You
Karen J. Greenberg, TomDispatch
Greenberg writes: "Blacking out the record of the grimmest aspects of our own recent history will leave American citizens unable to understand the country in which they live."
READ MORE

Mural of Chávez in Caracas. (photo: Univision)
Mural of Chávez in Caracas. (photo: Univision)

The Plot to Kill Venezuela
Vijay Prashad, Venezuelanalysis
Prashad writes: "Obama sanctioned seven individuals, while Trump has-thus far-sanctioned 75 individuals. Obama forged the spear; Trump has thrown it at the heart of Venezuela."
READ MORE

Plastic rubbish washed up on the north bank of the River Thames in London. (photo: Matt Dunham/AP)
Plastic rubbish washed up on the north bank of the River Thames in London. (photo: Matt Dunham/AP)

Record-Breaking Diver Finds Plastic Bag in Deepest Part of Ocean
Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch
Rosane writes: "An American man completed the deepest-ever solo underwater dive May 1. But when he reached the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, he found that another representative of the human world had gotten their first: plastic."
READ MORE







Comments