Some lawmakers worry partial cancellation of student debts will harm military recruitment and they’ve written to the president and defense secretary about it.
Caitlin Johnstone: America’s Perverse Poverty Draft
Category: U.S. Congress
Ukraine Is the New Israel
As`ad AbuKhalil says current U.S.-NATO strategic calculations are demoting Israel from its once central position and will leave the apartheid state increasingly reliant on new alliances with the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia.
Autocracy, American-Style
Governmental bodies in the U.S. aren’t meant to be owned by those who lead them. They aren’t possessions to be disposed of according to the will and inclination of the governors, writes Michael Brenner.
$3 Billion More for War, But Nothing for Free Covid Tests
A U.S. government portal says shipments will be suspended on Sept. 2 because Congress hasn’t provided additional funding to replenish the nation’s stockpile of Covid tests.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: J Edgar Hoover’s Evil Brainchild
All of COINTELPRO should be declassified. Bobby Rush’s legislation — now at high risk of getting lost in Congress — would do that.
US-China Climate Talks in Tatters
With an eye on a major climate gathering in November, Marcy Winograd says a veterans’ group wants the White House to apologize for the way Pelosi unnecessarily escalated tension in the Asia Pacific.
Biden’s Assassination of Al-Qaeda Leader Was Illegal
Since Zawahiri did not pose “an immediate international threat,” Marjorie Cohn says he should have been arrested and brought to justice in accordance with the law.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Pelosi Fallout
The U.S. now operates as a bulwark against time and history — a hopeless but destructive project.
Big Chip in US-China Crisis
For the U.S., it is unthinkable that semiconductor behemoth TSMC could one day be in territory controlled by Beijing, writes Maria Ryan.
SCOTT RITTER: Chuck Schumer’s War on Free Speech
The Senate majority leader pushed through a funding bill that now supports a structure under which U.S. citizens and politicians — including a challenger for his own seat — are being targeted as “information terrorists.”