Common Dreams:
"In Historic Shift, Second Largest Physicians Group in US Has New Prescription: It's Medicare for All. 'Major changes are needed,' declares the 159,000-member American College of Physicians, 'to a system that costs too much, leaves too many behind, and delivers too little.'
The fight for Medicare for All received a two-handed boost from tens of thousands of doctors on Monday when the American College of Physicians—in a move described as a 'seachange for the medical professions'—officially endorsed a single-payer system as among only one of two possible ways to improve the nation's healthcare woes.
Representing 159,000 doctors of internal medicine nationwide, the ACP is the largest medical specialty society and second-largest physician group in the country overall after the American Medical Association (AMA)."
-->The NYT doesn't like "sea changes" when it comes to their favorite corporate interests: the insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, and the private healthcare providers. It didn't cover this story.
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The Guardian UK:
"A British mercenary company established by former SAS veterans conducted clandestine and highly controversial operations around the world, with successive British governments either unwilling or unable to rein it in, a new book reveals.
Keenie Meenie Services (KMS) was one of Britain’s first mercenary companies, believed to have taken its name from Arabic slang for 'undercover'. It was set up in the 1970s and recruited veterans battle-hardened by the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Operation Storm in Oman – when Anglo Omani forces quashed an uprising – and the 1980 siege of London’s Iranian embassy. ..
In Nicaragua, one of the company’s directors worked with US-backed Contra rebels. Documents seized from Colonel Oliver North, who oversaw the funding of US operations in Nicaragua, confirmed KMS’s involvement in the country."
-->War crimes committed by private corporations were being paid for by both US and British governments. The US media doesn't cover war crimes unless given the go ahead by the Pentagon, even though the KMS was closed down in the early 1990s. This story was ignored by virtually all US mainstream media.
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The Guardian UK:
"Targeted assassinations via drone strikes, such as the killing of Iran’s Qassem Suleimani, have become progressively normalised with the help of official secrecy, government propaganda and some uncritical press coverage, according to a report.
In The Frame, published by pressure group Drone Wars, concludes that 'an easy narrative for targeted killing' had been constructed by the UK and the US during the conflict with Islamic State, where several high-profile individuals were killed by drones and the existence of a British 'kill list' emerged.
Chris Cole, the director of Drone Wars, said it helped reinforce the justifications for the US assassination of Suleimani, the leader of the Quds Force in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, earlier this month."
-->Trump has said the legal justifications for drone assassinations "don't really matter." They don't seem to matter for the NYT either, which didn't report this story.
