Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives began public impeachment hearings to determine whether President Donald Trump engaged in “high crimes and misdemeanors” by threatening to withhold international aid to Ukraine, unless the Ukrainians investigated former Vice-President Joe Biden. House Democrats claim testimony from Deputy assistant secretary of state George Kent, diplomat Bill Taylor and […]
Trump Threatens College Funding in the Name of Free Speech
UW Madison could lose federal funding if it violates a new executive order from President Donald Trump. Trump has expressed concern about free speech on college campuses after several high profile conservative speakers were shouted down by protesters in recent years. He signed the executive order at the White House accompanied by university students from […]
Lawrence Tabak digs deep into Foxconn
Some of the best and most damning journalism on Wisconsin’s multibillion-dollar, taxpayer-funded deal with Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn has come from Lawrence Tabak, a freelance writer based in Madison. In a series of deep-digging stories for Belt Magazine and other outlets, Tabak has detailed the unjust use of property seizures and eminent domain to clear […]
Donald Trump to Speak at Foxconn Groundbreaking
The president is speaking in Wisconsin tomorrow. Donald Trump will give remarks ahead of Foxconn’s official groundbreaking at the Mount Pleasant site of their planned LCD display screen manufacturing campus. Wisconsin agreed to a $3 billion incentives package to lure the Taiwanese tech giant to the state. They say they’ll bring around 13 thousand new […]
Al McCoy on the Decline of the US Empire
Allen Ruff’s guest is historian and public intellectual Alfred McCoy. He’s the Harrington Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and author of several books, including The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia and Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State. The two discuss his recent piece […]
Ali Abunimah On President Trump’s Jerusalem Declaration
In the wake of President Trump’s declaration of support for Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, host Allen Ruff speaks with journalist and author Ali Abunimah. He is a columnist, author of books The Battle for Justice in Palestine and One Country: A Bold-Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse, and founder of The Electronic Intifada, a […]
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