Wanting America to go back to how it was before Trump is like rewinding the same horror movie, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
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Guccifer 2.0’s Hidden Agenda
Why would an alleged GRU officer supposedly part of an operation to deflect Russian culpability suggest that Assange “may be connected with Russians?”, asks Tim Leonard.
ASSANGE EXTRADITION: UK Minister Who Approved Trump’s Request to Extradite Assange Spoke at Secretive US Conferences with People Calling for Him to be ‘Neutralized’
Britain’s former home secretary attended “starlight chats” and “after-dinner cocktails” in off-the-record conferences involving high-level U.S. military and intelligence figures, report Mark Curtis and Matt Kennard.
COVID-19: FDR’s Polio Crusade & Leadership Amid Crisis
Thomas Doherty offers a reminder of the lesser-known battle that FDR waged, in public and in private.
COVID-19: Trump Lets Big Corporations Get Away with Whatever They Want
During the pandemic, Ralph Nader says the president has allowed a corporate crime epidemic.
Don’t Expect to See Trump’s Tax Returns Before the Election
Even if the Supreme Court were to order Trump to release his tax returns, they would be transmitted confidentially to the grand jury, writes Marjorie Cohn.
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LEE CAMP: Trump Will Win Reelection Unless We Do One Thing
We — the American people — have a right to participate in the last vestiges of this tattered democracy.
COVID-19: China Updates its ‘Art of (Hybrid) War’
Chinese General Qiao Liang argues, “If we have to dance with the wolves, we should not dance to the rhythm of the United States,” reports Pepe Escobar.