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Scrutinizing Kamala Harris
Sen. Kamala Harris — chosen on Tuesday by Joe Biden as his Vice Presidential pick — has been criticized by Homewreckers author Aaron Glantz for “spiking an investigation against” current Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin for foreclosure fraud while he headed up OneWest Bank. See IPA news release: “Kamala Harris’ Claims About Her Record on Big Banks ‘Doesn’t Withstand a Moment’s Scrutiny’.”
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Do the Climate Solutions Offered Meet the Moment?
“President Donald Trump is down in the polls, but was up for a speech at a fracking rig in a COVID-19 hotspot, one with no masks in sight.”
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If TikTok is Tool of China, Aren’t Facebook, Google and Twitter Tools of U.S. Gov’t?
“You’ve probably heard about this whole TikTok business. Donald Trump has given the company 45 days to either sell itself to an American firm or be banished from our borders.”
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Lebanon Explosion
“This catastrophe was neither a natural disaster, nor an accident, nor an external act of terror. This explosion was caused by the criminal negligence of men — encouraged by a political system designed to build clients and not see citizens.”
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Implications of Pro-War Susan Rice as VP Nominee
“Should Susan Rice be chosen as Biden’s running mate, it would serve as yet another signal that the likely next Democratic administration would embrace a foreign policy similar to that of Bush and Cheney.”
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Billionaires Promised to Give Away Half Their Wealth, Instead, They Doubled it
Aug 4, 2020 is the 10th anniversary of the “Giving Pledge,” started by billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
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Kamala Harris Fought to Keep Nonviolent Prisoners Locked Up
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), a leading candidate to be Joe Biden’s running mate, repeatedly and openly defied U.S. Supreme Court orders to reduce overcrowding in California prisons while serving as the state’s attorney general, according to legal documents reviewed by the Prospect.
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The Decisions to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Several leading scholars are available for interviews on the decisions to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago.
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In Ecuador, Move to Keep Former President off Ballot Denounced
More than 20 former presidents and high-level government officials in Latin America are “denounc[ing] and reject[ing] the decision made by the National Election Council of Ecuador to eliminate the electoral registration of the party Fuerza Compromiso Social, which is partly formed by the members of the Revolución Ciudadana [Citizens’ Revolution] movement, led by former President Rafael Correa,” saying “This act of political bias calls into question the legitimacy of the election that will take place on February 7, 2021 in Ecuador. …”
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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