Gerald Feuerstein News Today

Meltdown. Technically the nation went over the fiscal cliff when the new year began. But practically the senate pulled a parachute that should soften the fall. About 2 00 a. M. Eastern, senators passed a round of compromises with a vote of 898. I said should. This deal is far from done. Now it is up to the house to stop 600 billion of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts. At this hour, though, a vote is not scheduled. Multiple house members took to the floor today to say their vote will be no. ...

By PTI WASHINGTON: A clan-based militia government in the Arab world’s poorest country is treating the Biden administration with another foreign policy blow as Yemen’s Houthis launch cross-border drone and ballistic-missile attacks on the Gulf’s rich oil and gas fields. Banking centers dodged. In the face of three such attacks in as many weeks, US …