The announcement came during a national address on Thursday night, where Biden marked the one-year anniversary of pandemic-related shutdowns across the US and updated the various ways his administration had tacked the health crisis, including an upcoming directive to states to slash their eligibility requirements. “Tonight, I’m announcing that I …
Read More »American astronauts to again use Russian Soyuz rocket to reach ISS as NASA can’t rely on ‘unstable’ US tech – Moscow space chief
From 2011 to last year, the US relied on Russia’s Soyuz launch system to send its astronauts to live on the ISS, with America not having its own capability. In May 2020, Crew Dragon, a reusable spacecraft made by Elon Musk’s private company SpaceX, took two Americans to space for …
Read More »Biden signs ‘historic’ $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, promises answers to press later
In a brief photo opportunity at the White House on Thursday afternoon, Biden called the American Rescue Plan a “historic legislation” that is about “rebuilding the backbone of this country,” and said it had broad support among all Americans. He told the reporters gathered at the Oval Office that he …
Read More »Why does every American president promise to bring the economy back? Boom Bust explores
“Right now, it’s having a kind of euphoric effect with these enormous promises that it’s going to solve our problems and bring us our economy back,” Wolff says, adding: “Here’s the irony, this constant message of bringing it back. Back to what? To what it was before Mr. Trump became …
Read More »WATCH: Israeli jets escort American B-52 bombers in apparent ‘show of force’ to Iran
Israeli F-15 fighter jets escorted US bombers during part of the trip through Israeli airspace, the Israeli Defense Forces confirmed in a tweet on Sunday, releasing some rare photos and video of the drill. On other parts of the route the US strategic bombers were escorted by Saudi and Qatari …
Read More »Ragebait backlash continues after Journal of the American Medical Association tweets that ‘no physician is racist’
The ill-advised, offending tweet from the Journal of the American Medical Association boldly stated: “No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in health care?” The promoted podcast in question was produced by two white doctors, a deputy journal editor and a physician who runs a New …
Read More »Russia & China’s partnership not only about ‘containing’ American aggression, also vital for creation of multi-polar world order
Russia and China: Strategic partnership or a marriage of convenience? Thus, it’s expected that under the surface, centuries of distrust linger, and as China continues to grow, eventually, power rivalry and a “divorce” would follow. Their common opposition to the US has indeed intensified the partnership, and historical distrust and …
Read More »‘For The People Act’ confirms it: Our Democracy has officially replaced the American Republic
The bill, also named “For The People Act” of 2021, passed in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives in a 220-210 vote on Wednesday. Only one Democrat was opposed. The 800-page bill basically codifies all the problematic practices of the 2020 election into law. There’s an expansion of mail-in ballots and …
Read More »Tara Reade: As the American hawk bombs overseas, the rot of corruption and bigotry plucks at its underbelly at home
From my time as a volunteer at a raptor rescue, I know doves and pigeons sometimes manage to fight back against hawks. When it happens the dove usually makes little cuts in the hawk’s underbelly, only visible if the bird is turned over. But eventually, the hawk spirals to the …
Read More »This is who they are: Biden’s Syria strike is a stark reminder of American Empire that’s back to its old tricks
Democrats love proclaiming one can’t “turn back the clock,” usually to argue against even attempting to undo whatever domestic policies they’ve rammed through when in power. Yet everything about the Joe Biden administration has been about just that: erasing the past four years of Donald Trump and picking up where …
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