Portside

Moscow has run a yearslong operation to blame Ukraine for its own 2016 election interference. Republicans have used similar talking points to defend President Trump in impeachment proceedings.

Nunes warns his Democratic colleagues that “the American people won’t be fooled by your relentless account of things that actually happened.”

Scientists say bug deaths can be cut by switching off unnecessary lights

There is a history of presidential criminals and whistleblowers. Nixon declared that the chief My Lai perpetrator was “probably a good soldier ... getting a bum rap.” He ordered a secret task force to undermine press stories of the massacre.

Over the course of nearly a month, the DC bus drivers strike has intensified: other groups, including a flight attendant union and local union musicians, have joined the picket line. 

The poet Clint Smith, born and raised in New Orleans, writes from a wistful perspective of the city “kept from becoming.”

“Was there a quid pro quo? The answer is yes.” Mr. Giuliani’s requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a White House visit for President Zelensky...the Ukraine had to make a public statement announcing investigations of the 2016 election/DNC server

Benjamin Netanyahu called corruption charges filed against him "an attempted coup" against an acting prime minister, the process is meant to topple him. Saying he 'will not let lies prevail,' calls to 'investigate the investigators'. Sound familiar?

Revolutions do not happen suddenly, nor do they immediately transform a society. A revolution is a process, which moves at different speeds whose tempo can change rapidly if the motor of history is accelerated by intensified class conflict.

More than 200 protesters have been blinded by pellets fired by state security agents. The National Congress has bowed to a key demand of the monthlong rallies and ordered a referendum on a new constitution.