Common Dreams:
"Progressive Democrats led by Rep. Ilhan Omar and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday introduced a bill to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies and other industry giveaways, calling taxpayer support of the climate-killing business- a counterproductive and dangerous use of federal funds as the climate crisis worsens and Americans suffer through an economic downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic.
'It's past time we end the billions of taxpayer subsidies to fossil-fuel companies,' said Omar, a Minnesota Democrat. 'Our focus right now needs to be on getting the American people through this difficult, unprecedented time, not providing giveaways to polluters.'
'Taxpayers provide $15 billion in direct federal subsidies to the fossil fuel industry every year,' she added. 'That ends with this bill.' "
-->What a great idea! Why are we subsidizing fossil fuels? Why because Big Oil funds most candidates for Congress as well as for President. The mouthpiece for corporate American, the NYT, didn't cover this story.
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The Guardian UK:
"Donald Trump has vowed to use a contentious provision to unilaterally reinstate UN sanctions on Tehran, following what Iran’s president said was a humiliating defeat for the US in its bid to extend an arms embargo on Tehran.
A day after the UN security council overwhelmingly rejected a US resolution to extend the embargo, Trump said at a news conference at his New Jersey golf club: 'We’ll be doing a snapback. You’ll be watching it next week.' ...
'I don’t remember the US preparing a resolution for months to strike a blow at the Islamic Republic of Iran, and it garners only one vote,' the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, said in a televised speech. 'But the great success was that the US was defeated in this conspiracy with humiliation.' ”
-->The NYT doesn't report "humiliation" when it comes to the empire. Only two countries in the entire world voted to prolong the US embargo on Iran. But if you read the NYT for your news, you just might have missed this.
(UPDATE) The NYT finally covered this story on Aug. 17
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Common Dreams:
"President Donald Trump's trade policies during his first term have 'failed to stop offshoring or the erosion of the U.S. manufacturing base,' and his administration's mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic has erased much of the progress made in the wake of the 2008 finanical crisis, according to a report released Monday.
The new report authored by Robert E. Scott, senior economist and director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), challenges the narrative from the president and key figures in his administration that the era of offshoring U.S. jobs is 'over' thanks to Trump's trade agenda.
In spite of claims from the Trump administration, Scott wrote, 'the United States has not begun to address the root causes of America's growing trade deficits and the decline of American manufacturing. Decades of trade, currency, and tax policies that incentivized offshoring, combined with an utter failure to invest adequately in infrastructure and good jobs at home, have contributed to growing inequality and an eroding middle class.' "
-->Words of wisdom about Trump's failed policies. Why can't you read about this report in the NYT? Maybe its because the newspaper's corporate Board of Directors like these policies.
