by Heather Hastie | Feb 20, 2020 | Democracy, Human Rights, US Politics
With the entry of former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg into the race to be the Democratic Party presidential nominee, we have the inevitable. The other runners, and their supporters, are digging into his past to find any dirt they can to discredit him. The primary...
by Heather Hastie | Jun 9, 2018 | Democracy, Russia, US Politics, USA
I hope everyone reading this knows, or at least suspects, that President Trump’s talking point that the FBI put a spy in his campaign is a lie. There is no Spygate. Spygate is lie-gate (as someone else said, but I can’t remember who). Spygate is a...
by Heather Hastie | Dec 3, 2017 | US Politics
The big news all over the world continues to be that US President Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn admitted to lying to the FBI. He has pleaded guilty to one count, although the court documents detail evidence of other lies. This is...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 12, 2016 | US Politics
Note: In quoting Donald Trump, this post includes crude and sexually explicit language. Just 48 hours before the second presidential debate, the Washington Post released an eleven-year-old video in which, among other things, Trump boasts of sexually abusing women and...
by Heather Hastie | Feb 19, 2016 | US Politics
CNN’s Anderson Cooper is still in Greenville, South Carolina, ahead of Saturday’s Republican primary, and tonight (Thursday US time, Friday afternoon NZ time) is hosting John Kasich, Jeb Bush and Donald Trump. John Kasich Kasich has been doing slightly...
