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TRP News – Progressive News & Information – June 22, 2015

Posted on June 22, 2015 by TRP

TRP News with James Andre. This week President Obama establishes a green energy program, TPA goes for another vote, more migrant news, Earth’s sixth mass extinction, Charleston church shooting. 0:17 Obama & green energy 2:11 TPA vote 5:37 Migrant crises 12:02 Mass extinction 18:33 Charleston For audio only, stream or download here : https://archive.org/details/TRPNews  

Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Questions and Answers

Posted on June 17, 2015June 17, 2015 by TRP

Senator Warren raises some important questions about an element of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) called Investor-State Dispute settlement, or ISDS. There are good answers. The purpose of investment provisions in our trade agreements is to provide American individuals and businesses who do business abroad with the same protections we provide to domestic and foreign investors…

TRP News – Progressive News & Information – June 15, 2015

Posted on June 15, 2015 by TRP

TRP News with James Andre. This week Hillary Clinton officially kicks off her campaign, Fast Track passes the House but can’t move forward, more U.S. troops head to Iraq in the fight against the Islamic State, and the Mckinney pool incident highlights irrationality in public discourse. 0:20 Clinton 3:25 Fast Track vote 13:35 Troops in…

Why Obama is happy to fight Elizabeth Warren on the trade deal

Posted on June 4, 2015 by TRP

What’s mostly going on here, though, is that frustrated liberals see in the Asian trade deal an opportunity to draw the line on globalization, period. No one thinks this deal is going to be the ruin of American workers, when all is said and done. What they think is that there has to be a…

TRP News – Progressive News & Information – May 18, 2015

Posted on May 18, 2015 by TRP

TRP News with James Andre. This week an news from the Clinton campaign and the conservative false flag operations to erode her support, the Iran nuclear negotiation bill finally goes to the President, fast track moves forward in Congress, the Amtrak crash and the funding debate, and an update on the HIV outbreak in Indian…

TRP News – Progressive News & Information – May 4, 2015

Posted on May 4, 2015 by TRP

TRP News with James Andre. This week the police state in Baltimore comes to an end, Bernie Sanders announces his run for the presidency and raises 1.5 million dollars, Saudi Arabia drops cluster bombs in Yemen, Indiana uses more half measures as the HIV outbreak is expected to grow, and the status of fast track…

TRP News – Progressive News & Information – April 27, 2015

Posted on April 27, 2015 by TRP

TRP News with James Andre. This week Loretta Lynch is finally confirmed and sworn in as U.S. Attorney General, and the Comcast/Time Warner merger finally gives up the ghost. An update on what is happening in Yemen and the arrival of ISIS, and a report on the global refugee crisis. An in-depth discussion of the…

TRP News – Progressive News & Information – Weekly Digest – April 20, 2015

Posted on April 20, 2015 by TRP

This weeks topics are the legislation giving Congress oversight on any Iran deal, The state of the Loretta Lynch confirmation process, the passage of the permanent ‘doc fix’ for medicare payments, an update on Yemen and U.S. involvement, more about the Trans Pacific Partnership and the reactionary rhetoric from the Left, the status of the…

In Which The Democrats Finally Get A Clue

Posted on January 29, 2015January 30, 2015 by TRP

There is something truly odd about the wealthiest country no longer with the wealthiest middle class, and in which every major competitor’s middle class is converging with ours’ in standards of living. This is the real end of American exceptionalism, in which working hard in the middle class is like being on a treadmill rather…

Obama Expands Pacific Ocean Preserve, Making It Largest In The World

Posted on September 25, 2014January 30, 2015 by TRP

President Barack Obama is carving out a wide swath the Pacific Ocean for an expanded marine preserve, putting the waters off-limits to drilling and most fishing in a bid to protect fragile underwater life. The revamped expanded Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument will cover 490,000 square miles – an area roughly three times the…

U.S. reaches landmark $554 million settlement with Navajo Nation

Posted on September 24, 2014 by internal3m

The Obama administration has agreed to pay the Navajo Nation a record $554 million to settle longstanding claims by America’s largest Indian tribe that its funds and natural resources were mishandled for decades by the U.S. government. The accord, resolving claims that date back as far as 50 years and marking the biggest U.S. legal…

Eric Holder, President Obama to meet on Ferguson

Posted on August 18, 2014 by internal3m

Attorney General Eric Holder will brief President Barack Obama on the situation in Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday afternoon after perhaps the most violent night of demonstrations since the fatal shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown. The president, who arrived at the White House early Monday morning for a scheduled break in his family vacation in…

By the Numbers: The EPA’s Proposed New Carbon Pollution Standards for Power Plants | The White House

Posted on June 2, 2014 by internal3m

Today, as part of the President’s Climate Action Plan, the EPA proposed new carbon pollution standards for power plants. These standards represent a commonsense proposal that will have huge benefits for all Americans. In fact, for every dollar of investment spurred by this proposal, there is roughly seven dollars’ worth of health benefits in return….

Weekly Address: Reducing Carbon Pollution in Our Power Plants | The White House

Posted on June 2, 2014 by internal3m

In this week’s address, President Obama discussed new actions by the Environmental Protection Agency to cut dangerous carbon pollution, a plan that builds on the efforts already taken by many states, cities and companies. These new commonsense guidelines to reduce carbon pollution from power plants were created with feedback from businesses, and state and local…

Yes, the White House Is ‘Winning’

Posted on October 5, 2013June 2, 2014 by internal3m

Still, it is true that the Obama administration is winning the zero-sum contest. One way to measure this is polling, which already shows movement toward the Democratic side. Another way to measure it is that Republicans, who have spent months refusing any budget deal, are suddenly desperate to make a budget deal. A flurry of…

Obama May Have Played Us All And Won–That Is Leadership

Posted on September 15, 2013 by internal3m

In one chess match the President was able to make the rank and file Republicans seem like doves, the neocons look reckless, the Tea Party wing seem like flip flopping buffoons all while potentially shutting down Syria’s use of chemical weapons without firing a shot or dropping a bomb. The Right Wing would have none…

With the World Watching, Syria Amassed Nerve Gas

Posted on September 12, 2013 by internal3m

Now, as President Obama confronts enormous difficulties in rallying a reluctant Congress and a skeptical world to punish the Syrian government with a military strike over what is said to be its apparent use of deadly nerve agents last month, he appears to be facing a similar challenge to the one that allowed the Assads…

Why the Push for Syrian Intervention Is About More Than Just Assad

Posted on September 11, 2013September 11, 2013 by internal3m

This is the dilemma facing Obama today. If the United States cannot extricate himself from the geopolitical imperatives posed by Iran’s continuing threat to Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the safety of Persian Gulf oil supplies, it cannot extricate itself from the turmoil in Syria. Because a failure to confront Assad’s excesses could be viewed as…

Alex Wagner: IRS, AP, and Benghazi

Posted on May 14, 2013 by TRP

Here’s a good segment from NOW with Alex Wagner about the latest so-called scandals with a nice summary at the beginning.      

Judicial Vacancies Languish On Key Federal Appeals Court

Posted on April 2, 2013 by TRP

The federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., is sometimes called the second most important court in the country, regularly delivering the final word on major environmental, labor and national security cases. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has a whopping four vacancies, the most in the nation, including one…

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