Is Trump Really Getting Tough With Putin?

17 March 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News ON FUNDING THE STAKES ARE HIGH - The stakes are high. We can have a powerful, influential publication - that serves the community or we can have nothing. It's a thin line. "We the community" often get less, because we accept less. Enough of that. Watch us fight, you fight too. Step up with what you can afford, watch what we do with it. In peace and solidarity. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Is Trump Really Getting Tough With Putin? Bob Dreyfuss, Rolling Stone Dreyfuss writes: "What to make of the sanctions announced yesterday by the U.S. Treasury Department against a passel of Russians, the St. Petersburg 'troll farm' and several Russian intelligence officials?" READ MORE Andrew McCabe and President Donald Trump. (photo: Pete Marovich/Ron Sachs-Pool/Getty Images/Slate) Statement: Fired Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Andrew McCabe, Reader Supported News McCabe writes: "I have been an FBI Special Agent for over 21 years. I spent half of that time investigating Russian Organized Crime as a street agent and Supervisor in New York City." READ MORE Adrian Lamo. (photo: WIRED) Adrian Lamo, Hacker Who Turned in Chelsea Manning, Dies Aged 37 Sam Levin, Guardian UK Levin writes: "Adrian Lamo, the computer hacker who turned in whistleblower Chelsea Manning to law enforcement, has died at the age of 37, according to authorities in Kansas." READ MORE In this February 28, 2018 file photo, Somerville High School students sit on the sidewalk on Highland Avenue during a student walkout at the school in Somerville, Massachusetts. A large-scale, coordinated demonstration is planned for Wednesday, March 14, when organizers have called for a 17-minute school walkout nationwide to protest gun violence. (photo: Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe/AP Enough! A Million Students Walk Out of Schools to Demand Action on Guns in Historic Day of Protest Luna Baez, Citilali Mares, Nermeen Shaikh and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Excerpt: "In a historic day of action, more than a million students from over 3,000 schools walked out of classes to protest gun violence on Wednesday." READ MORE A security contractor frisks a detainee ahead of a deportation flight to Honduras. (photo: Getty Images) Meet the 20+ Immigration Activists Arrested Under Trump John Burnett, NPR Burnett writes: "Is the Trump administration retaliating against activists that criticize its harsh immigration policies?" READ MORE In this file photo, Israeli forces detain a Palestinian child in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) following clashes in the Israeli-occupied Old City. (photo: Reuters) Israeli Forces Detain 16 Palestinians From West Bank, Including 3 Ahed Tamimi Relatives teleSUR Excerpt: "Israeli forces have detained 16 Palestinians from across the West Bank, the WAFA Palestinian news agency reported citing the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS)." READ MORE A woman tries to walk out from her house after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria in Salinas, Puerto Rico. (photo: Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters) FEMA Drops 'Climate Change' From Its Strategic Plan Richard Gonzales, NPR Gonzales writes: "The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the federal government's first responder to floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters, has eliminated references to climate change from its strategic planning document for the next four years." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation