In response to the atmosphere of war that the U.S. is creating during the Great Lockdown, Vijay Prashad and Abdallah El Harif are issuing a fresh appeal for peace.
COVID-19: A New Appeal Against Preparations for War
Category: U.S.
COVID-19: Richest Americans Added $434 Billion in Wealth Since Pandemic Hit
Jake Johnson reports on an analysis by Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies.
Biden Can’t Return US to Normal, Because Trump is a Normal President
Wanting America to go back to how it was before Trump is like rewinding the same horror movie, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
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.
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.
Partisanship Aside, Trump Had Reason to Fire Michael Atkinson, Say Two Former CIA Whistleblowers
The inspector general violated the law by protecting the “Ukraine whistleblower” and proved to be the enemy of real whistleblowers, say John Kiriakou and Pedro Israel Orta.
COVID-19: Trump Calls Legally Protected Whistleblowing a ‘Racket’ as Fired Scientist Rips President
Dr. Rick Bright — who was fired from his post at Department of Health and Human Services last month — condemned the White House’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic as fatally slow, disjointed and inadequate, reports Jake Johnson.