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America in Crisis… Blaming Russia Is Self-Defeating Diversion
There is something deranged about U.S. politics that continually seeks to find foreign “enemies” who are purportedly hellbent on destroying America.
As the United States heads towards the inauguration of Joe Biden next week to become the 46th president of the republic, the nation is gripped by a foreboding sense of civil violence erupting.
Some 20,000 troops have been deployed in Washington DC to protect government buildings from assault. There are more U.S. soldiers taking up defensive positions in the American capital city than there are currently in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria combined. Both the White House and the Capitol building – where the Congress sits – are ring-fenced with steel and concrete barriers. Images of heavily armed National Guardsmen camped on the floor of the Capitol evoke an inescapable atmosphere that this nation – and the very heart of its government – is under siege. Un
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee will hold a confirmation hearing next Thursday on the nomination of former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg to head the Transportation Department, the panel announced on Friday.
FILE PHOTO: Former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden s nominee to be secretary of transportation, reacts to his nomination during a news conference at Biden s transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., December 16, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/Pool/File Photo
President-elect Joe Biden tapped Buttigieg - a rival for the Democratic presidential nomination last year - to head the department that oversees aviation, highways, vehicles, pipelines and transit.