The request to Congress comes days after relatives of a prominent Egyptian American activist were arrested and jailed.
White House Seeks $200 Million Arms Sale to Egypt
Category: Advanced Technologies
Poll: Likely Voters Support ‘Wall Street Tax Act’
The levy would target high-frequency trading and is projected to generate $777 billion over a 10-year period.
Suspicion of Chinese-Born Researchers Threatens US Innovation
Caroline Wagner responds to the arrest of MIT engineering professor Gang Chen earlier this month.
COVID-19: Americans’ Unrealistic Vaccine Expectations
Matt Motta says high refusal rates in the U.S. could jeopardize population immunity.
Netflix’s ‘The Social Dilemma’ Tells Only Half the Story
Social media and the AI behind it are among the multiple crises we can no longer ignore as capitalism reaches the end of a trajectory, writes Jonathan Cook.
COVID-19: Intellectual Property Monopolies Block Vaccine Access
Few people in poor countries will get vaccinated in 2021, making a mockery of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals’ over-arching principle of “leaving no one behind,” the authors say.
OPCW Execs Praised Whistleblower & Criticized Syria Cover-up, Leaks Reveal
These private admissions obtained by The Grayzone further expose the public whitewash of the Douma cover-up, and undermine the ongoing attacks on the whistleblowers who challenged it, Aaron Maté reports.
Trump’s Pernicious Military Legacy
Michael Klare says it’s impossible to overstate the significance of the Pentagon’s shift in posture during the term of the outgoing president.
Who Gets it First?
The run on the coronavirus vaccine is also about power and image. Dispatches from Argentina, Kenya and Serbia.
DIANA JOHNSTONE: The Great Pretext … for Dystopia
In their World Economic Forum treatise Covid-19: The Great Reset, economists Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret bring us the voice of would-be Global Governance.