By Ben Smith* – The New York Times Staff members’ demands helped end the tenure of James Bennet as Opinion editor of The New York Times. And they are generating tension at The Washington Post.
Miller – The Washington Post The teenager was standing in sight of the White House, a few yards from soldiers in an armored vehicle and a few feet from a line of Secret Service officers in riot gear, when he spotted the president in the distance. “Where are you going?” Adam…
By Naked Capitalism – Posted by Yves Smith Yves here. Regular readers of this site are likely to have encountered previous interviews with Heiner Flassbeck (*), one of the few German economists who has been a consistent and sound critic of Eurozone arrangements, and in…
By Raymond Zhong and Russell Goldman (*) – The New York Times The move by the social media platform is likely to spur more tension with the White House and prompt criticism from the president’s supporters. Twitter said early Friday that a tweet from President Trump implying that…
The Economist How the world’s most powerful country is handling covid-19 Contrary to what many Americans think, the death rate in America is about the same as in Europe America has passed a grim milestone: 100,000 deaths from a novel coronavirus that began to spread half a…
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Even in the midst of the pandemic, the rich are getting richer and bolder in their fight against working Americans. The American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) Michael Strain wrote an op-ed in the New York Times recently…
By Bob Dreyfuss* – The Nation The current administration is smearing China in the same way Bush fabricated intelligence on Iraq. There’s a meme that appears now and then on Facebook and other social media: “Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it.
By Vijay Prashad*) – Independent Media Institute On March 20, just after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on March 11, the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) sent a cable to U.S.
By Ellen Brown* – Common Dreams Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities. When the Dodd Frank Act was passed in 2010, President Obama triumphantly declared, “No more bailouts!” But…
By Marshall Auerback* – Independent Media Institute Germany’s highest court issued a ruling that could threaten the existence of the euro with a constitutional court decision that said the European Central Bank’s bond-buying operations exceeded the ECB’s legal remit, and…
