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Leading Big Tech Lawyer May Head Biden Antitrust
“Hesse’s past work defending Google and enabling Amazon’s acquisitions create irresolvable conflicts of interest that must disqualify her from serving in a Biden administration’s DOJ antitrust division or Federal Trade Commission.”
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Questions for Blinken Today
“The trend of the past dozen years is away from ground wars in favor of air wars. This often means more killing, more injuring, and more making people homeless, but with an even higher percentage of all that suffering concentrated on the non-U.S. side. We need to know whether Blinken favors continuing this trend and how he claims to defend it morally and legally.”
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New Domestic Terrorism Legislation “Would Make It Worse”
“One thing is certain: the failure to prevent the Capitol attack is not because of a lack of police powers or anti-terrorism measures. Still, some people have wasted no time hijacking the moment to advocate new domestic terrorism legislation. A lawmaker in the solidly Democratic state of Maryland has proposed a state domestic terrorism statute, and others are sure to follow.”
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You Can’t Fight Fascism by Expanding the Police State
“Expanding the U.S. government’s already bloated surveillance state will only bring more terror and harm to the same communities that Trump targeted with his racist policies and rhetoric.”
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Samantha Power’s Yemen Record and Potential for More Disasters at USAID
“Said Kovalik: ‘While making her name by penning a Pulitzer-prize award-winning book inveighing against the evils of genocide — A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide — Power went on as Obama’s ambassador to the UN to actually help facilitate quite possibly the greatest slaughter of innocents in modern history.'”
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Threats of Impeachment, Wagging the Dog as Pompeo and Facebook Join in Targeting Iran
“Boyle argues for impeachment as an immediate remedy to address ‘the seditious storming of the Capitol’ as well as to prevent Trump from ‘further illegal activities, like attacking Iran.'”
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Abolish the Electoral College?
“The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would ‘guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.'”
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Trump’s Twitter Suspension Raises Calls for Democratic Accountability
Following the Capitol Hill riot which delayed Congress certifying the Electoral College results, Donald Trump was banned by Twitter, Facebook and other big tech corporations. Google removed the far-right user-friendly platform Parler from its mobile app store and Apple threatened the same.
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Biden Nominating Victoria “F*ck the EU” Nuland
“In the years following, we have ‘invested’ a great deal more money into Ukraine — for questionable returns. But the affair has not seemed to have clouded Nuland’s career prospects. Smart, well-connected, and well-liked, she, like many of her fellow neocons, seems to move from strength to strength in this town, never held to account for the damage they’ve caused. After her stint in the State Department ended (she was replaced in the early Trump years by the woefully unqualified neocon operative A. Wess Mitchell), Nuland took up what one can only assume were lucrative positions on the other side…
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Can We Make the Electoral College Representative? Two Proposals
“Because of these state winner-take-all laws, presidential candidates only pay attention to the concerns of voters in closely divided battleground states.”
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“With a tiny staff, it has managed to place on the air and in newspapers, points of view otherwise excluded from the national debate.”
Howard Zinn