News Release Category: Biden’s Cabinet
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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…
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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…
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Buttigieg at Transportation Gives Campaign “Investors” Great Return
President-elect Joe Biden is nominating Pete Buttigieg as Secretary of Transportation.
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Vilsack at Agriculture: “Mr. Monsanto”?
Numerous media outlets are reporting that Tom Vilsack will be Joe Biden’s nominee for agriculture secretary.
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Austin at Pentagon: Good for Empire, Raytheon
Joe Biden has reportedly selected retired general Lloyd Austin III as his nominee to head the Pentagon.
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Over 1,000 Educators Urge Biden to Pick Kumashiro for Education
Anticipation and advocacy is building around Biden’s pick to lead the Department of Education and whether his policies will significantly depart from past decades.
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Pressure Grows on Biden on Pentagon Pick
“Ms. Flournoy’s consistent support for military interventions has contributed to devastating crises around the world, including in Yemen.”
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Should Michèle Flournoy Be Defense Secretary?
Michèle Flournoy is facing opposition for her hawkish record and financial entanglements with the weapons industry.
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Biden’s OMB Nominee: Firestorm of Criticism
Joe Biden has just nominated Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, as his director of the Office of Management and Budget. This has produced a range of criticism online.