By Vijay Prashad and Alejandro Bejarano on Jul 28, 2020 09:30 am
 On July 24, 2020, Tesla’s Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that a second U.S. “government stimulus package is not in the best interests of the people.” Someone responded to Musk soon after, “You know what wasn’t in the best interest of people? The U.S. government organizing a coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia so you could obtain the lithium [...]
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By Alec Pronk on Jul 28, 2020 08:00 am
 $1,200 stimulus checks, cuts to unemployment benefits, no eviction moratorium, and a $1.75 billion FBI Building? Yesterday, the GOP announced their latest coronavirus stimulus package proposal, the HEALS Act, a $1 trillion bill in response to the Democrats’ $3 trillion proposal. Within the bill, the White House snuck in a $1.75 billion handout “for the [...]
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By Guest Post on Jul 28, 2020 07:00 am
 The moves are believed by experts to be information gathering operations, attempting to track the positions of Chinese submarines and pinpoint coastal defenses as the US increases the tension with Beijing. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) A U.S. warship and military aircraft were spotted traveling southwest from Japan towards China yesterday afternoon, in what some fear is [...]
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By Jeff Cohen on Jul 28, 2020 05:00 am
 This history of Democratic obstruction and vacillation to corporate interests and the greed of insurance companies must come to an end. The need for Medicare for All has never been more clear than it is today. (Common Dreams) In 1948, Harry Truman pushed for a national nonprofit health insurance program in his successful, come-from-behind presidential [...]
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By Daniel Davis on Jul 27, 2020 03:00 pm
 “As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction,” said Sen. Tom Cotton, R–Ark. The senator made the comment while opining on The New York Times 1619 [...]
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By Gigi Kellett on Jul 27, 2020 12:00 pm
 In certain cases, preemption—when a higher level of government limits the authority of a lower level to enact new policies—can devastate public health. Public health advocates were winning. City after city was innovating ways to reduce smoking and protect public health between the 1960s and 1970s. As former industry lobbyist Victor Crawford observed, you’d “put [...]
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By Guest Post on Jul 27, 2020 10:00 am
 Telsa CEO Elon Musk is once again under fire, this time for tweeting “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.” in reference to the 2019 US-backed coup in Bolivia. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Multibillionaire Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk once again proved that he does not know how to keep silent. After [...]
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By Jack Xiong on Jul 27, 2020 08:00 am
 Author Max Brooks is making headlines for suggesting that Hollywood could help relay the message of scientists during the global pandemic. It’s somewhat fitting, since the COVID-19 virus has the cinematic sweep of an apocalyptic film — replete with mysterious origins for the disease, global hysteria, and massive ramifications for humanity that will go down [...]
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By Ralph Nader on Jul 27, 2020 05:30 am
 Now it is time for various House Committees to publicly question Chairman Powell about the costs of the Fed’s callous indifference to the real economy and struggling Americans. (Common Dreams) The Federal Reserve Board—our unaccountable Central Bank—needs more citizen and congressional supervision. Fees from financial institutions fund its operations, not congressional appropriations. It is as [...]
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By Joseph Mangano on Jul 27, 2020 05:00 am
 This is how I felt when I heard the Democrats were inviting former Ohio governor and Republican(!) John Kasich to speak at the Democratic National Convention. (Photo Credit: Marc Nozell/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) Reportedly, former Ohio governor John Kasich is slated to speak at the Democratic National Convention next month. If you’re keeping score at home, [...]
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By Alaeddin Saleh on Jul 27, 2020 04:33 am
 The US administration under President Trump has long tried to dissemble Turkey’s not entirely legitimate yet brazenly aggressive military intervention in Libya, where the NATO allies turned regional rivals. The U.S. military is increasingly wary of Turkey’s proxy war in Libya, the Associated Press revealed on Friday, July 17, citing the quarterly report on the [...]
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