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Big Media and DNC: Distinguishing Policy Criticism from Slurs
Robin Andersen, a professor of graduate studies at Fordham University writes on the criticism of VP-nominated Kamala Harris. Andersen writes, “Yet emerging as a corporate media frame is a sloppy, mystifying confusion that refuses to distinguish the racist and sexist slurs against Harris from an authentic discussion of the trajectory of her political positions, and what they might mean for her as a serving vice president and a potential future leader of the Democratic Party. Within this frame, criticisms from the left and the right are treated as equally offensive.”
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Twelve U.S. Billionaires Have a Combined $1 Trillion
“For the first time in U.S. history, twelve U.S. billionaires surpassed a combined wealth of $1 trillion… This is a disturbing milestone in the U.S. history of concentrated wealth and power. This is simply too much economic and political power in the hands of twelve people.”
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Behind the Attacks on the Post Office
Lisa Graves, the executive director of the policy research group True North, is pointing to connections in the Post Office itself that brought us to this point.
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Historian on Attacks on Post Office
“The U.S. Postal Service has served the American people day in and day out since 1775. Time and again, the Postal Service rose to the occasion in moments of national crisis, and millions of Americans will rely on the U.S.”
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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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“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