BY DAVID BRENNAN ON 4/15/19 (newsweek.com) Former President Jimmy Carter told a church congregation this weekend that he had spoken with President Donald Trump about China on Saturday, and said the commander in chief was worried that Beijing had outpaced its global rivals. According to Emma Hurt, a reporter for NPR affiliate… Continue reading
April 16, 2020 by Common Dreams “The Fed will soon lend trillions to companies. But it has not committed to disclosing which private companies are getting taxpayer-backed support. That’s wrong.”byJake Johnson, staff writer 26 Comments Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell attend a meeting on October 17,… Continue reading
♥ Shout out to all the parents and children – especially single parent households that are “Sheltering in Place” ♥ Sorry for the delay – computer has been down for over a day. NOT back posting on a regular basis. – Please post events on Indybay even if event is digital: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12 Thank you to… Continue reading
HooverInstitution Recorded on March 27, 2020 Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a senior fellow at both the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute. His March 24,… Continue reading
I’m phobic about kleptocracy, not Modern Monetary Theory Matt Taibbi Apr 14, 2020 Longtime friend Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism published an interview today with Richard Vague, Pennsylvania’s acting Secretary of Banking and Securities, that takes issue with my last two Substack pieces on the recent bailouts. Both Vague and Yves seem to think… Continue reading
April 14, 2020 by Common Dreams “To give a crumb to Bernie voters, you need to do something that includes the youth.” by Julia Conley, staff writer 13 Comments Leicha Clemente visits the pediatrician with her two children and her mother at the Esperanza Health Center in Philadelphia on March 13,… Continue reading
April 14, 2020 by TomDispatch Could a post-coronavirus planet be one on which the U.S. military and the national security state were no longer the sinkholes for endless trillions of taxpayer dollars that could have been spent so much more fruitfully elsewhere? by Tom Engelhardt 4 Comments In some sense, President Trump has… Continue reading
Bathtub BulletinEpisode #3: Mike Zonta comments on an alternative view of COVID-19 and a breeched birth for the Democratic Party. Go to: http://bathtubbulletin.com/Go to: http://occupysf.net/Go to: https://zontaphotos.com/ Link to “An Alternative Viewpoint About COVID-19″ at: http://bathtubbulletin.com/an-alterna… PHONEBANKING FOR BERNIE, WOMAN GIVES BIRTH TO BABY GIRL, MARCH 22, 2020: On the phone with New York… Continue reading
Dr. Knut Wittkowski, a 35 year epidemiologist, not a politician nor media talking head, gives his views based on facts. If his explanations become too weighty to understand (he analyses charts detailing growth and descent of cases) then skip to 41:40 and hear out the creator of Brasscheck. Perhaps his… Continue reading
