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ALL ARTICLES July 20, 2020

Code Blue America: As Numbers Spin Out Of Control, It’s Time To Protect Yourself From Pandemic In Spite Of Trump

“It is what it is.” — Trump’s callous response regarding US coronavirus deaths during Fox News Sunday interview with Chris Wallace (7/19/20) By Dan Peak Commoner Call (7/20/20) Dear Fellow Readers, Trump is killing us. The opening quote is not even his worst. Incapable of admitting he’s ever been wrong, Trump once again assured all, coronavirus would “disappear”: “I’ll be right eventually,” the president said. “You know, I said, it’s going to disappear. I’ll say it again, it’s going to disappear. And I’ll be right.” After declaring the US had the lowest pandemic mortality rate Fox News interviewer Chris Wallace corrected…

ALL ARTICLES, Health Care July 20, 2020

Nightmarish Autumn Confronts US As Covid-19 Surges: ‘The virus doesn’t care about excuses’:

As dire as the current position seems, the months ahead look even worse. By Tom McCarthy The Guardian (7/18/20) In early June, the United States awoke from a months-long nightmare. Coronavirus had brutalized the north-east, with New York City alone recording more than 20,000 deaths, the bodies piling up in refrigerated trucks. Thousands sheltered at home. Rice, flour and toilet paper ran out. Millions of jobs disappeared. But then the national curve flattened, governors declared success and patrons returned to restaurants, bars and beaches. “We are winning the fight against the invisible enemy,” vice-president Mike Pence wrote in a 16 June op-ed,…

ALL ARTICLES, Health Care July 20, 2020

Did Covid-19 Get Loose From A Lab? ‘Gain Of Threat’ Research At UW-Wisconsin & Other Labs Around The World Place World At Risk

“Whatever value that research would provide can’t possibly equal the threat.” [Editor’s Note: The role of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the National Institute of Health and the Gates Foundation in funding gain of threat research at the Wuhan laboratories is a story that needs more exploration and exposure. — Mark L. Taylor] Ralph Nader Radio Hour (7/18/20) Ralph welcomes back Andrew Kimbrell, founder of the Center for Food Safety, to discuss the dangers of genetically engineered viruses and the possibility that COVID-19 escaped from a lab. And Dr. Michael Carome, director of the Health Research Group at Public Citizen, tells…

ALL ARTICLES, FEATURE July 20, 2020

We Worked On The Sanders Campaign — Some Democracy Would’ve Made It More Effective

  It became clear that management would not consider the input of its workers in the field. [Editor’s Note: How ironic that an avowed Democratic Socialist had his campaign managed like just any other clueless corporation. As in most corporations, the well-paid campaign executives of the Sanders campaign ran a top-down, clueless show. More sheep dog than revolutionary, it is clear Sanders’ true job was to herd stray progressives back into the DNC corral. — Mark L. Taylor] By Mia Arievitch, Simon Narode & Ben Mora Jacobin (7/6/20) here is no doubt that Bernie Sanders’s campaign for president inspired an…

ALL ARTICLES, American Socialist Tradition, Economic Injustice, History They Don't Want You To Know, One Percenters, Rethuglicans, Trumpenstan July 20, 2020

Economist Richard Wolff: The Crash IS Coming! What To Watch For

“I fear we are really heading into a blind tsunami because of the blindness and the denial of the few at the top who are doing well.” By Julianna Forlano act.tv (7/15/20) Julianna welcomes back recurring guest, Marxian Economist Professor Richard D. Wolff, to the show to discuss how Economists are warning Americans that while the recent unemployment numbers were surprisingly positive, the long-term consequences of the pandemic could be severe joblessness for millions of Americans faced with permanent unemployment. And according to Professor Richard Wolff, there has been a widespread understanding among experts that a whole raft of jobs…

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats July 16, 2020

Danger Dems: Democratic Complacency Is Back

  I am not a pessimist by nature. What I am is extremely cautious, and because of the utter disaster that was 2016, I would encourage Democrats to take every possible step to avoid lapsing into complacency. [Editor’s Note: Voters will never be as strongly motivated to vote against a candidate as they would be voting for a platform of hope and genuine response to their needs and suffering. So far, the dems don’t get that. One can hope someone in the Biden campaign wakes up, soon. — Mark L. Taylor] By Nathan Robinson Current Affairs (7/13/20) In 2016, many Democrats were…

ALL ARTICLES, Economic Injustice, FEATURE, One Percenters July 16, 2020

On Tax Day — As Millions Go Homeless & Hungry — Analysis Shows Billionaire Wealth Growth Since START Of Pandemic Exceeds Total Budget Deficits Of 23 US States

“A few very wealthy people in states are doing really well, while millions suffer. If there ever was a wake-up call to make the rich start paying their fair share of taxes this is it.” By Eoin Higgins Common Dreams (7/15/20) A new study out Wednesday shows that billionaires around the U.S. have added to their wealth in the months since the coronavirus pandemic began in March at levels exceeding budget shortfalls due to the economic crisis triggered by the outbreak in 23 states. “This analysis shows how out of whack our economy has become with handfuls of billionaires in…

ALL ARTICLES, Screwing With Your Vote July 16, 2020

Are You Ready For Trump To Lose … And Remain President? (And, No, It’s Not Just About The Electoral College)

Trump is going to do everything he possibly can to stay in power. That’s the basic assumption that one has to make. By Jeff Schechtman Radio Who.What.Why (7/10/20) Mary Trump, President Donald Trump’s niece, has written a tell-all book that portrays her uncle as a man unhinged, obsessed with winning, and still afraid of what his father might say if he loses. Which inevitably raises the question: What might such a man do if he senses his bid for reelection slipping away amid a punishing pandemic with a rising death toll, unemployment in double digits, racial division, and plummeting poll…

ALL ARTICLES, Economic Injustice, One Percenters July 16, 2020

As The Corporations & 1% Cash In, Half Of Americans Faces Crushing Impoverishment

“coming poverty epoch, rather than an episode” By Paul Buchheit Common Dreams (7/13/20) There is something perverse about an economic system in which the stock market keeps climbing while people are dying. And in which 20 individuals can own as much wealth as the entire bottom half of the population. For the great majority of Americans without a share of the stock market, and for those who can’t work from home, the pandemic is adding the prospect of a financial collapse to all their other concerns. Half of America was In or Near Poverty BEFORE the Pandemic Anywhere from half to three-quarters of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck. The American Psychological Association recently estimated that 62% of…

ALL ARTICLES July 16, 2020

5.4 Million Have Lost Insurance Amid Pandemic. Progressives Note Number Under Medicare for All Would Be: 0

And Joe Biden still says no to compassionate health protection to all. By Jake Johnson Common Dreams (7/14/20) Amid the worst public health crisis in a century and a devastating economic downturn that has thrown tens of millions out of work, more than five million people in the U.S. lost their health insurance in just three months this year, shattering the previous record set during the entire annual period from 2008 to 2009. The estimate by advocacy group Families USA that at least 5.4 million Americans became uninsured between February and May was viewed by progressive activists and lawmakers as the latest…

ALL ARTICLES July 16, 2020

Code Blue America: The Trump Pandemic Response Hoax Is Killing More And More Each Day

“Covid-19 is now killing about as many people each day in FL as it is in the whole EU, which has 20 times as many people.” — Paul Krugman, New York Times (7/15/20) By Dan Peak Commoner Call (7/15/20) Dear Fellow Readers, One hundred thirty-two people died in Florida from the coronavirus in a single day, on July 14. On the same day, California was 141, Texas 136, Arizona 91. For California and Florida these were new records; Arizona was the second highest day, Texas the third. But there is always coronavirus push back, a voice saying it’s a ‘hoax’,…

ALL ARTICLES, Health Care July 16, 2020

Child Sacrifice: America Is Completely Unprepared For Coming School Year. This Will Be Bad

Our inability to solve or even avoid devastating problems is now immediate, local and clear. By Siva Vaidhyanathan The Guardian (7/13/20) The public school district in Charlottesville, Virginia, has proposed a model for schooling this fall that resembles what most districts are trying to do. Because state health officials recommend putting three to six feet between students, and because classrooms were already crowded and schools over-enrolled, the district leadership has decided to alternate attendance. Half the student population will attend Mondays and Wednesdays. The other half will attend Tuesdays and Thursdays. Fridays will be for teacher preparation and deep cleaning. As…

ALL ARTICLES, Bomb Trains, Climate Change July 16, 2020

You Pay For Abandoned Fracking Wells Left Spewing Climate-Killing Methane Nationwide: ‘Privatize the profit, socialize the mess’:

“Are we going to be responsible for the mess that these companies leave behind?” By Eoin Higgins Common Dreams (7/13/20) A devastating new report from the New York Times details how as fracking companies are going out of business they are leaving behind unsecured wells spewing methane and other gases into the atmosphere and paying out the same executives that drove them into bankruptcy huge bonuses—drawing condemnation from activists and climate advocates. “Frackers don’t clean up after themselves,” tweeted 350.org founder Bill McKibben. Even before the coronavirus outbreak, the U.S. fracking industry was struggling amid debt obligations, the rise of renewable energy sources, and…

ALL ARTICLES, Quotes July 16, 2020

Notably Quotable: ““A state that cannot safeguard the lives of its citizens has…”

  “A state that cannot safeguard the lives of its citizens has failed a basic test of legitimacy.” — Glenn Ford, Democrats Will Never Choose Transformative Change – So Give Them No Choice ***** “When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight! Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.” — John Lennon ***** ““What we’re saying right now…

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats, Health Care July 13, 2020

What’s Missing From The Biden-Bernie Task Force Health Plan? Medicare For All & Basic Human Decency

The recommendations are an improvement on Biden’s previous healthcare plans, but a public option won’t cut it. We need free, universal coverage. By Natalie Shure In These Times (7/9/20) On Wednesday, the “unity task forces” set up by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden rolled out a set of policy recommendations for the candidate, and, by extension, for the party writ large. Launched in May, the group behind the proposed platform was comprised of a core of establishment-aligned politicos as well as allies of Bernie Sanders, the primary’s runner-up whose campaign advanced an agenda squarely to the left of Biden. While…

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats July 13, 2020

The Major Plank In Dem Party Platform Committee: Financial Conflict Of Interest

  By Branko Maretic In These Times (7/9/20) A month out from the Democratic National Convention, the party continues to be pulled in opposing directions by its progressive and corporate wings. While presumptive nominee Joe Biden and the party establishment charts a course of cautious centrism, rejecting policies like Medicare for All and key planks of a Green New Deal, progressives and supporters of Bernie Sanders are attempting to push Biden as far left as they can. With the party platform due to set the agenda for both Biden’s campaign and presidency, Sanders allies have sought to shape the finished…

ALL ARTICLES July 13, 2020

War R’ US: Biden Supports Failed Trump Policy On Venezuela

A Biden presidency, just like another four more years of Trump, looks to be disastrous for the Venezuelan people. By Leonardo Flores Common Dreams (7/9/20) The Biden campaign held an online event on Wednesday, July 8 pitched as the former Vice President’s “vision for Venezuela and Venezuelans in the U.S.” Spoiler alert: his vision for Venezuela barely differs from President Trump. This event, which didn’t merit an appearance from Biden himself, was aimed at getting Venezuelan-Americans to volunteer for “Uncle Joe”, as Representative Darren Soto (D-Fl) called him. It was an hour and a half of shilling for votes and influence,…

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ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Police State America July 13, 2020

ICE Offers New ‘Citizen’s Academy’ In Basics Of Fascism

“And yesterday [7/10] we learned that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to offer a six-day “citizens academy” course to train people in what ICE does, including the arrest of immigrants. “You have been identified as a valued member of the community who may have interest in participating in the inaugural class of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Chicago Citizens Academy,” read a letter from ICE Chicago Field Office Director Robert Guadian. The program will “serve as a pilot for nationwide implementation,” it said. The course will include training in “defensive tactics, firearms…

ALL ARTICLES July 13, 2020

Code Blue America: Mixed Messages & Spiraling US Infection And Death Rates

“I think I made a mistake, I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not.” — Final words of a thirty year-old patient after contracting the virus at a ‘COVID-party’ per San Antonio Methodist Healthcare Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jane Appleby. ***** “As a country, when you compare us to other countries, I don’t think you can say we’re doing great. I mean, we’re just not.” — Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci, July 9, 2020. By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (7/13/20) Dear Fellow Readers, Coronavirus messages that contributed to the problem:…

ALL ARTICLES, Health Care July 13, 2020

Coronavirus: Why Surviving The Virus May Be Just The Beginning

“Covid is a nasty, nasty disease that kicks every single system you’ve got in the neck.” By Chris Morris Reality Check / BBC (7/3/20) The first thing Simon Farrell can remember, after being woken from a medically induced coma, is trying to tear off his oxygen mask. He had been in intensive care for 10 days, reliant on a ventilator just to breathe. “I was trying to pull the mask off my face, and the nurse kept putting it back on,” he recalls. When doctors woke him up, his body had fought off the worst of Covid-19 but he still…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, FEATURE, History They Don't Want You To Know, War State America July 13, 2020

On Contact: Chicken Hawk Patriotism & Dissent With Anti-War Combat Veteran Danny Sjursen

By Chis Hedges On Contact (7/4/20) On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the nature of patriotism with West Point graduate and US Army combat veteran, Danny Sjursen. Sjursen’s newest book “Patriotic Dissent: America In The Age Of Endless War” will be published September 8, 2020. Link To 28-Minute Video (Commoner Call photo by Mark L. Taylor, 2020. Open source and free for non-derivative use with link to www.thecommonercall.org ) ***** Undercover Patriots: Trump, Tulsa & The Rise of Military Dissent By Danny Sjursen TomDispatch (7/9/20) It was June 20th and we antiwar vets had traveled all the way to Tulsa,…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Police State America July 13, 2020

The Opportunity The Far-Right Revolution Was Waiting For Has Now Arrived

“For white nationalists, this is a crisis as well as an opportunity.” By Murtaza Hussain The Intercept (7/11/20) AT THIS POINT, it’s become a staple of dark humor to observe that 2020 has been the year in which the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse seemingly decided to descend on the United States. Yet even before our fears of war, pestilence, and economic collapse began taking physical form, one could already observe morbid symptoms spreading within the extremities of our body politic. The strongest sign of a looming social illness has been the rebirth and spread of extremist ideologies — beliefs not…

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ALL ARTICLES July 13, 2020

A Gutsy, Real Discussion On White Progressive Racism

“White people gotta’ work that out amongst themselves. They have to work out that pus amongst themselves.” By Krista Tippett On Being (7/9/20) The show we released with Minneapolis-based trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem in the weeks after George Floyd’s killing has become one of our most popular episodes, and has touched listeners and galvanized personal searching. So we said yes when Resmaa proposed that he join On Being again, this time together with Robin DiAngelo, the author of White Fragility. Hearing the two of them together is electric — the deepest of dives into the calling of our lifetimes. Link To 51-Minute Audio “An…

ALL ARTICLES July 13, 2020

Book Review: “Splinterlands”

A wild ride through a bleak future. By John Feffer TomDispatch (6/16/17) Julian West, looking backwards from 2050, tries to understand why the world and his family have fallen apart. Part Field Notes from a Catastrophe, part 1984, part World War Z, John Feffer’s striking new dystopian novel, takes us deep into the battered, shattered world of 2050. The European Union has broken apart. Multiethnic great powers like Russia and China have shriveled. America’s global military footprint has virtually disappeared and the United States remains united in name only. Nationalism has proven the century’s most enduring force as ever-rising global temperatures have supercharged each-against-all…

ALL ARTICLES, Health Care July 13, 2020

Episode 98 — Harsh Reality: “Ladies and Gentlemen, This Is The Plague”

  There has never been a consistent policy in dealing with this epidemic. We are a pariah on the planet. A nuclear bomb covid explosion. By Michael Moore Rumble (7/7/20) Since the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett has been the most blunt and forthright analyst warning the public about how destructive the virus will be. She has been sounding the alarm on our lack of preparedness for a pandemic since her 1994 book, “The Coming Plague.” Her warnings were not heeded. The United States has now bungled it’s response and we are hitting record-high…

ALL ARTICLES, Trumpenstan July 13, 2020

Horror Clouds Every Page Of Mary Trump’s Book About Her Uncle Donald & The Family That Created Him

It’s a bleak story, and there’s no redemption. The country, like Donald Trump’s creditors, will not recoup its losses. By Virginia Heffernan Los Angeles Times (7/ Mary Trump’s book about her Uncle Donald is dark. Right from the get-go, when it begins with this feel-good epigraph from “Les Miserables”: If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. Already notorious, “Too Much and Never Enough” is Donald Trump’s story, written by his niece, a clinical psychologist and Trump family dissident. It’s being released this month after a failed effort, nominally by Donald’s brother Robert, to get a court to stop its publication. You…

ALL ARTICLES, American Socialist Tradition, Democrats, FEATURE, History They Don't Want You To Know July 9, 2020

Winning Isn’t Enough: Time For Democrats To Wake Up & Dream Big Again

Win for what? By John Nichols The Nation (6/15/20) The simple farmhouse where Henry Wallace was born and came of age can be found in Orient Township, on the southern side of Iowa’s Adair County, just off what is referred to as a minimum maintenance road. Drivers are advised to travel it “at your own risk.” That pretty well sums up the approach that has been taken with Wallace, Franklin Roosevelt’s second vice president, over the 75 years since he battled for the soul of the Democratic Party at its 1944 convention, struggled to keep alive the promise of the…

ALL ARTICLES, American Socialist Tradition, Democrats, History They Don't Want You To Know, Media Hits & Misses July 9, 2020

The Establishment Corporate Media Convinced The Old, White Tidal Wave That Sanders Was ‘Unelectable’

The irony was, the fears driving many older liberals from Sanders were never well-founded. By Branko Marcetic Jacobin (7/6/20) Why did Joe Biden win the Democratic primary and Bernie Sanders lose it? Everyone has a theory: Sanders went too far left, or too far woke; he couldn’t expand his base, particularly into the black electorate; his surprise 2016 showing mostly owed to anti-Clintonism, and his insurgent campaign turned off loyal Democrats; meanwhile, Biden was an electoral powerhouse able to excite voters with his “moderate” agenda and historic ties to the party. Accepting all this has meant crashing headlong into a…

ALL ARTICLES, History They Don't Want You To Know, War State America July 9, 2020

Pentagon Already Knows Mighty U.S. Military Will Be Left Broken & With Nowhere To Hide In Future Wars

The United States has the most powerful military in the world by a wide margin but routinely “gets its ass handed to it” in simulated wars. The problem may get even worse. By Michael Beckley Foreign Policy (11/20/19) For most of its history, the United States has had the luxury of fighting its wars from safe havens. No major international battles have taken place on the continental United States in more than two centuries, and its offshore territory has not suffered a serious attack since Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in World War II. For the past few decades, even U.S. bases on foreign…

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats, War State America July 9, 2020

WAR Inc. — How Biden’s Foreign-Policy Team Got Rich

When it comes to foreign affairs, Biden and his advisers are nonideological and mainly transactional. By Jonathan Guyer American Prospect (7/6/20) They had been public servants their whole careers. But when Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election, two departing Obama officials were anxious for work. Trump’s win had caught them by surprise. Sergio Aguirre and Nitin Chadda had reached the most elite quarters of U.S. foreign policy. Aguirre had started out of school as a fellow in the White House and a decade later had become chief of staff to U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power. Chadda, who joined the Pentagon out…

ALL ARTICLES July 9, 2020

Supreme Court Rejects Trump Effort To Greenlight Keystone XL Construction: ’24 Hours. 3 Dirty Pipelines Delayed’

Keystone XL protest art. “The movement to put people before profits, and Indigenous rights before oil companies, is winning.” By Jake Johnson Common Dreams (7/7/20) The Supreme Court late Monday upheld a federal judge’s rejection of a crucial permit for Keystone XL and blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to greenlight construction of the 1,200-mile crude oil project, the third such blow to the fossil fuel industry in a day—coming just hours after the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the court-ordered shutdown of the Dakota Access Pipeline. While the ruling was not a total victory for the climate—the high…

ALL ARTICLES July 9, 2020

Every Family’s “Most Dangerous Man”

  Heroes and Non-Heroes By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (7/9/20) Dear Fellow Readers, The World’s Most Dangerous Man. It helps to delve into this for the light it sheds on Trump’s indifference to the human cost of the coronavirus. What was done to Trump and what Trump has done to his own family sets up what he’s now doing to us. In her book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man Trump’s niece Mary Trump delves into the family history and  experience her uncle had being raised by a “sociopath who damaged his…

ALL ARTICLES, Health Care, Mike McCabe for Gov July 9, 2020

Mike McCabe: Freedom Is To Do What Is Right By Wearing A Mask To Keep Our Neighbors Safe

True freedom is more than individual liberty. With freedom comes the responsibility not to hurt others with our actions. By Mike McCabe Our Wisconsin Revolution (7/7/20) Watch and weep. One man interviewed by a reporter who was berated for wearing a mask at a crowded public gathering insisted that being an American means “I should be able to do what I want to.” A woman told that same reporter that having to wear a mask is “against our constitutional rights.” No, it’s not. The U.S. Constitution is silent on mask wearing. And freedom doesn’t mean doing as you damn well please….

ALL ARTICLES, Health Care, History They Don't Want You To Know July 9, 2020

In A Book Written 15 Years Ago, Historian Mike Davis Warned Of A Virus-Induced Apocalypse

If the book has a villain, it is private industry: from the pharmaceutical giants, whose market-led inaction has halted research into influenza, to the rise of factory farming, and the industrialization of nature. By John Merrick Jacobin (7/7/20) Mike Davis has good claim to being the most important Marxist historian of the past fifty years. While his work may not have the vast geographical or temporal scope of Perry Anderson, Ellen Meiksins Wood, or Robert Brenner, nor has it mined a particular period or subject with the focus of a figure like E. P. Thompson, Robin Blackburn, or Christopher Hill,…

ALL ARTICLES, Climate Change July 9, 2020

Another ‘Pandemic’ Is Destroying The World’s Favorite Fruit

The banana equivalent to Covid-19. By Louise Gray BBC News (6/20) A killer disease turns up out of the blue. It moves by “stealth transmission”, spreading before symptoms even show. Once it takes hold, it is already too late to stop it – there is no cure. Life will never be the same again. Sound familiar? Although this may sound remarkably like Covid-19, I am actually talking about Tropical Race 4 (TR4), a disease that affects bananas. Also known as Panama Disease, it is a fungus that has been rampaging through banana farms for the past 30 years. But within the…

ALL ARTICLES, History They Don't Want You To Know July 9, 2020

‘Rumble, Episode 96: The Third Founding Of America With Author Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

“As long as we have an economic system that functions like locusts, we’re all in jeopardy.” By Michael Moore Rumble (7/1/20) Eddie Glaude Jr. is one of America’s preeminent scholars and the author of a new book about the work of James Baldwin and how it relates to the perilous times we live in today. He and Michael discuss race, capitalism, despair, hope, Baldwin, and how to ensure that changes in society are not just superficial marketing exercises, but real and substantive. Link To 1-Hour, 20-Minute Audio    

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats, FEATURE, History They Don't Want You To Know July 9, 2020

Even If This Dem Wins His Primary, Let’s Hope He Is Soundly Defeated

By Andrew Perez TMI (7/7/20) As Democrats campaign against “tough on crime” policies and for criminal justice reform, the party may end up with a congressional nominee who confined former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to an 8-by-6-foot cell at least 23 hours a day. James Averhart, who is competing in a July 14 run-off election for an Alabama congressional seat, also oversaw a Bush-era military push to track down and punish veterans who deserted the Vietnam War — an initiative seen as an attempt to discourage soldiers from deserting during the Iraq War. Averhart, who served as Chief Warrant…

ALL ARTICLES, Quotes July 9, 2020

Notably Quotable: “The message should be simple – you want to go back to normal life …”

“The message should be simple – you want to go back to normal life? Wear a mask. You want your children to go to school and to be able to go to bars and not be unemployed? Wear a mask. You don’t want another lockdown? Wear a mask.” — Yanis Ben Amor, executive director of the Center for Sustainable Development and experienced researcher of infectious diseases, ‘Trump is in a dreamland’: what the US should do now on Covid-19 ***** “The US economy isn’t roaring back. Just over half of Americans have jobs now, the lowest figure in more than 70 years. What’s…

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats, Economic Injustice, One Percenters, Rethuglicans July 6, 2020

Robert Reich’s (Partial) List Of All The Ways America Is Exceptional In All The Wrong Ways

This pandemic has exposed what has long been true: On the global stage, America is the exception, but not in the way we would like to believe. [Editor’s Note: The one thing Reich does not mention in this list of American failure is that it is a bipartisan failure; both Republicans and Democrats are responsible. While it is easy to focus on the myriad, ever-cascading craplist of Trump failures, never forget that when it comes to issues of war and enriching the corporations there isn’t a frog’s hair of difference between the R’s and the D’s. They have both created…