(2022-07-25). Biden Administration Fears Pelosi Taiwan Trip Could Spark Cross-Strait Crisis. news.antiwar.com The Washington Post reported Saturday that Biden administration officials increasingly fear that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's planned trip to Taiwan next month Media reports said last week that Pelosi plans to make the trip in August, prompting strong warnings from China. Beijing would view the visit as a major provocation since Pelosi is a high-level official in the US government and it would signal that Washington was moving away from the one-China policy. | Administration officials told…
(2022-07-25). Trump, Republican lawmakers incite fascist violence at far-right conference in Florida. wsws.org While Republicans at the conference defended Trump's coup and threatened their political enemies, outside the conference hall, neo-Nazis attacked abortion rights demonstrators.
(2022-07-25). German government hosts "climate dialogue" with the Butcher of Cairo, exposing its human rights propaganda. wsws.org If one event could expose the German government's human rights propaganda and climate policy platitudes, it was the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, where the star guest was none other than Egyptian dictator Abdelfattah al-Sisi.
(2022-07-25). US considers deploying carriers to support House speaker's Taiwan trip – Washington Post. wsws.org The US military is considering "moving aircraft carriers or sending fighter planes for close air support" as part of a potential trip by US house speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, the Washington Post reported Saturday.
(2022-07-24). Congresswoman Karen Bass And The Will To Intervene. popularresistance.org Los Angeles, California – What will it mean if the Vice Chair of the board of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) becomes the Mayor of Los Angeles? Meaning, of course, Karen Bass, the current Vice Chair of that soft power tool, who is also Chair of the House Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on Africa. Come November, the Black Congresswoman representing parts of Los Angeles will most likely become its mayor, having pulled well ahead of Rick Caruso, the billionaire real estate developer who spent more than $41 million on his primary campaign. Bass spent a mere $3.28 million but still finished ahead…
(2022-07-24). Amazon Joins The Medicare Privatization Spree. popularresistance.org Amazon, the $1.25 trillion company founded and led by Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, has announced that it is acquiring One Medical, a private equity-backed primary care provider that generates over half of its revenue from Medicare. | While Amazon's profits from its core consumer retail business are dwindling, in part because of heightened competition from brick-and-mortar retailers that were shut down at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the corporation's cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, continues to enjoy robust profits thanks in part to generous government contracts. Now Amazon could be…