News Release Category: US Elections
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Trump in Kenosha
President Donald Trump is scheduled to travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, where Jacob Blake was shot repeatedly by police in the back.
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RNC, DNC and Anti-Palestinian Agreement
Michael Brown, a journalist with The Electronic Intifada, covers the intersection of white supremacy in the U.S. with anti-Palestinian sentiment and backing for an expansionist Israel. He remarked: “The Republican Party has made clear this month its absolute support for Israel and its de facto annexation of the West Bank.”
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Major Post Office Hearings Today
The House is having hearings with Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on August 24, 2020. Two analysts, Christopher Shaw and Lisa Graves, have done extensive research on the issue. Shaw, a historian and author, has stated that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s “actions have targeted the agency’s civic role and jeopardized voter participation in the 2020 election.”…
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Biden: An FDR or Deficit Hawk?
Branko Marcetic has found Joe Biden will not have “an FDR-sized presidency” unlike what Biden and his advisors have insisted since April and at the Democratic National Convention. Marcetic writes, “”Even Biden’s promise in his DNC speech last night to ‘protect Social Security and Medicare’ should be viewed with caution. A President Biden could try,…
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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…
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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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Democratic Platform Committee Members’ Conflicts of Interest
Several of the [platform drafting] committee’s members, announced last month by DNC Chair Tom Perez, have corporate ties.
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Biden Advisor an “Apologist for Torture,” an Architect of “Kill Lists”
Avril Haines is presented as a humane, intelligent and compassionate alternative to the typical white male elite that run the CIA and other such agencies. But her record is clear. She is an apologist for torture operations.