Jon Queally, staff writer
Jon Queally is senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
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News Friday, July 20, 2018 'Yikes': NYT Reports Personal Attorney Michael Cohen Secretly Taped Talk With Trump About Playboy Model Payoff President Donald Trump's longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen, the New York Times reported on Friday, secretly recorded a conversation with the president just weeks before the 2016 election about a payoff to Playboy model Karen McDougal regarding her allegations that she and Trump had an... Read more |
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News Friday, July 20, 2018 While Richest Enjoy 'Yachts That Have Tiny Yachts Inside,' Estimated 400,000 People in US Suffering Under 'Modern Slavery' While the nation's richest and most powerful continue to enjoy the unparalleled fruits of a "New Guilded Age" —including those who have "yachts that have tiny yachts inside" them—a new report reveals that an estimated 400,000 people living in the United States live under forced servitude... Read more |
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News Wednesday, July 18, 2018 After Infamous 2017 Pushing of Prime Minister, Trump Has Gall to Call People of Montenegro "Very Aggressive" Even if U.S. President Donald Trump had not been caught on tape physically shoving Montenegro Prime Minister Dusko Markovic out of the way during a photo op at last year's NATO summit in Brussels, Trump's comments last night about the tiny European nation would still be galling. But Trump was... Read more |
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News Tuesday, July 17, 2018 What Do Novelist Stephen King and Texas Democrat Beto O'Rourke Have in Common? They Both Want Ted Cruz Out of the Senate and Trump Impeached In the wake of his public feud that played out on social media with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) last week, novelist and outspoken progressive Stephen King ended up on the same page as Cruz's Democratic challenger in Texas on Tuesday after both called for President Donald Trump to be impeached over his... Read more |
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News Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Does Putin Actually Have Something on Trump? US Senator Jeff Merkley: 'I Think It's Likely. Yeah.' How to explain such behavior? That has become the question for nearly everyone perplexed by President Donald Trump's bizarre performance at Monday's joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin. And when put to Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Or.) directly this week— Do you think Putin has... Read more |
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News Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Calls for Trump Impeachment Grow as 'Bizarre' Helsinki Performance Draws Epic Backlash Lots of people—across the political spectrum—are seriously upset with President Donald Trump for the " embarrassing spectacle " and his " bizarre " performance in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, but will anything actually come of the president's latest display of... Read more |
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News Sunday, July 15, 2018 Finnish Newspaper Greets Trump and Putin With Billboards Defending 'Free Press' Like every other place the U.S. president has traveled in Europe over the last week, large protests also took place in the Finnish capitol of Helsinki on Sunday—a day ahead of a highly anticipated and much-hyped meeting with his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin. Both leaders were also... Read more |
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News Sunday, July 15, 2018 Think GOP Lawmakers Not Unhinged Enough to Endorse Program Called "Kinderguardians" That Puts Guns in Hands of 4-Year-Old Kids? Watch Them That comedian and chameleon provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen has been traveling the country and duping clueless Republican lawmakers and their supporters has been known for weeks, but as his new show—titled "What Is America?"—readies to drop its first episode for Showtime on Sunday night, clips have... Read more |
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News Sunday, July 15, 2018 'She Won 7% of the Vote': In Rebuke to Feinstein, Progressive Challenger Kevin de León Receives Landslide Endorsement from California Democrats In the latest sign that many in the party are ready for new blood and a bolder, more progressive vision, the Democratic Party in California offered a stunning rebuke to the state's senior U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein by endorsing her primary challenger Kevin de León , the former State Senate leader... Read more |
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News Saturday, July 14, 2018 Scottish Protesters Greet 'Tiny-Fingered, Cheeto-Faced, Ferret-Wearing Shitgibbon' Trump with Even Better Signs Than English A day after an estimated 250,000 Londoners swelled the city streets and Trafalgar Square to tell President Donald Trump that neither he nor his worldview were welcome in U.K., the people of Scotland on Sunday also took to the streets to let the U.S. president—just trying to enjoy a game of golf at... Read more |