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Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health
It finds that essential workers continue to suffer as U.S. billionaires gain almost $1 trillion during the pandemic, stating that “A handful of billionaires and corporations have seen their wealth surge to record levels, in part as a result of their monopoly status and opportunism during the pandemic.”
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Biden Can Have a Progressive Cabinet
“By a staggering 2 to 1 margin, voters of all stripes — including Republicans — say that Biden should not hire big business executives to run his government.”
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Biden: More Humane Cages for Immigrants?
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Biden Transition: War Profiteers, Beltway Chickenhawks and Corporate Consultants
“An eye-popping array of corporate consultants, war profiteers, and national security hawks have been appointed by President-elect Joe Biden to agency review teams that will set the agenda for his administration.”
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“When Centrists Lose, Corporate Media Blame the Left”
It analyzes several major media articles and notes: “Though all of these pieces offered plenty of suggestions that the left wing’s vocal support for things like socialism, Medicare for All, the Green New Deal and defunding the police cost the party seats in 2020, they failed to provide any actual data that might have helped readers evaluate the veracity of those statements.”
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Pacifists Face Prison for Taking on U.S.’s Nuclear Weapons
Three Catholic Worker activists are scheduled to be sentenced separately beginning Thursday morning at 10:00 and going into Friday for trespassing on a major U.S. nuclear weapons facility in Georgia.
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Lessons from Electoral History: Corrupt Deals and Supreme Court Subversion
“As the 2020 post-election crisis unfolds, we must learn from history — specifically the presidential election chaos in 1876 and 2000.”
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Biden: A War Cabinet?
Everett’s piece notes the record of Susan Rice, expected by many to be Secretary of State in a Biden administration.
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Is Mitch McConnell President?
“The transition team is leaking that they’re resigned to putting forward corporate lobbyists and bland centrists, in the desperate hope that this will appease McConnell into doing his damn job.”
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How Biden Could Advance Peace and Save Hundreds of Billions in Funds: Will Biden Finally Acknowledge Israel’s Nukes?
“Since then, Israel has continued to be the Middle East’s leading state sponsor of nuclear proliferation due to its incessant top-to-bottom illicit trafficking in nuclear weapons-related materials, know-how and technology from the United 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