Obama Call for Open Nomination After Biden Withdrawal Assures Party Damaging “All Pay Auction” Process
How Obama rejecting Harris by calling for nominee selection assures not just more infighting but also serious donor fund wastage.
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Until 1968, Presidential Candidates Were Picked by Party Conventions – A Process Revived by Biden’s Withdrawal From Race
Biden’s “decline” and withdrawal from the race is already being blamed on voters and used as an argument to return the candidate-selection process to an elite group of party insiders.
Read more...Where’s the Death Data on Heat, Wildfire Smoke, and Other Climate Extremes?
Knowing the true human toll resulting from soaring temperatures might help jolt the nation into action on climate change sooner and lessen the mitigation and resilience we will need.
Read more...EU Undershoots 155MM Shell Capacity Target by More Than Half, Blames All Sorts of Things Besides Lack of Operational Capability
EU inability to meaningful increase 155mm shell production show the high cost of giving private arms-makers free rein.
Read more...Spook Scholarship: A Prominent Former CIA Analyst and Project Ukraine Backer Moonlights as a Collegiate Textbook Coauthor
Students lucky enough to be assigned the books will learn that foreign countries resisting US imperialism aren’t the only danger to “democracy,” but the American people are as well.
Read more...As New Campaign Implores Him to ‘Pass the Torch,’ Biden Rejects Calls to Drop Out
A shadowy group of Democrat insiders leads the effort to pick the party’s nominee in smoke-filled room.
Read more...Biden Crashes, Trump Lies: A Campaign-Defining Presidential Debate
Yves here. The presidential debate last night is likely to go down as being of historical importance, in the same league as the Kennedy-Nixon debate. But here, instead of demonstrating how the then-young medium rewarded good looks and a confident affect, here it showed two men, which as often happens with the aged, having become […]
Read more...Ursula von der Leyen: Beyond Redemption
Sadly, Europeans look set to continue as victims of Ursula von der Leyen as European Commission president for another five years.
Read more...Power in Sovereign Debt Markets: Explaining the Uneven Debtor–Creditor Landscape and Its Implications
A long time ago, the US intervened on the side of underwater sovereign borrowers. Private creditors now extract even more than back then.
Read more...US Jury Holds Chiquita Liable for Colombian Death Squad’s Murder of Banana Workers
A rare bit of justice, and perhaps also US consciousness raising, over corporate backed murder abroad.
Read more...Thousands of Children Got Tested for Lead With Faulty Devices: What Parents Should Know
Faulty lead test kits made by Magellan Diagnostics may have been used as late as 2021 to test children for exposure to the toxic metal. The company agreed to pay $42 million to settle criminal charges that it concealed malfunctions.
Read more...Clues From Bird Flu’s Ground Zero on Dairy Farms in the Texas Panhandle
The failures is the US response to the bird flu outbreak are piling up.
Read more...Why Did the US Spend $320 Million on a Rube Goldberg Pier For Gaza?
The infamous Gaza humanitarian aid pier is a construction and logistical nightmare.
Read more...The US, Israel, and the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Fraud
Since it clearly needs to be said early and often, the campaign to demonize opponents of Israel’s genocide as anti-Semites is a complete crock.
Read more...‘Unhinged’ Israeli Ambassador Literally Shreds UN Charter Ahead of Successful Vote Urging Security Council to Reconsider Palestine Membership
Israel has yet another childish temper tantrum over the prospect of not getting its way, here over Palestine membership advancing in the UN.
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