Tag: Joe Biden
Native leadership for the US Department of the Interior
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez called it a “truly a historic and unprecedented day for all Indigenous people.”
Winona LaDuke: Deb Haaland’s nomination for Interior Sec. is ‘important step’...
Haaland’s nomination was backed by progressives, as well as more than 120 tribal leaders, who sent a letter to Biden last month urging him to select her for the post.
Joe Biden’s biggest challenge
Unless trends change, the pandemic and economic crisis America is experiencing will be nothing compared to what’s to come.
Will Biden’s America stop creating terrorists?
If the Biden administration really wants to stop fueling chaos and terrorism in the world, it must radically transform the CIA.
Next up: The pretend president in exile—Trump’s survival scam against defeat...
Behold! Our new normal is having two presidents, a weathered veteran and a self-anointed, undisciplined pretender.
Biden’s chance to revive US tradition of inserting ethics in foreign...
Joe Biden has promised to set a different course, to “reclaim” America’s “position as the moral and economic leader of the world.”
‘US leadership’—and other euphemisms for war
If the pundits get their way, Biden could secure “U.S. global leadership” by flattening large parts of the planet.
Biden needs to go big to rebuild America
While this perfect storm of social, economic, and environmental emergencies may feel unprecedented, Americans during the 1930s faced a similar triple threat.
Eisenhower’s ghost haunts Biden’s foreign policy team
The most serious challenge facing President-elect Biden's foreign policy team, which is not a threat from a hostile country, but the corruption of U.S. policy by powerful corporate interests, is the "unwarranted influence" of the Military-Industrial Complex.
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White House plan would erase age from Social Security disability decisions
Sources say the administration may raise the age threshold from 50 to 60 or remove it entirely, a move that could cut benefits for 750,000 people and reduce payouts by $82 billion.
Organizers plan massive Oct. 18 ‘No Kings’ protests as Trump escalates attacks on dissent
Organizers say more than 2,110 protests across all 50 states will build on June’s nationwide actions, as Trump expands National Guard deployments, ICE raids, and rhetoric about cities as “training grounds.”
Video claim challenges DHS account of Border Patrol shooting in Chicago
Attorney says body camera shows agent saying “Do something, b––” before firing; prosecutors charge two drivers as officials expand Operation Midway Blitz.
Nuclear power plants pre-deployed weapons of mass destruction
The global crisis it now embodies was foreseen 45 years ago by Bennett Ramberg, in his book “Nuclear Power Plants as Weapons for the Enemy: An Unrecognized Military Peril.”
Will teachers save our democracy?
A new book by teachers’ union president Randi Weingarten explains “why fascists fear teachers.”