Democracy Now!
"As mass protests rock Israel against the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his plan to overhaul Israel’s judiciary, we turn now to look at how Netanyahu secretly tried to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election. That’s the focus of a new cover story in The Nation headlined 'The Candidate and the Spy.' Longtime, award-winning investigative journalist James Bamford reveals Netanyahu dispatched a secret Israeli agent to the United States in the spring of 2016 to meet with advisers to Trump and offer to share secret intelligence with the campaign against Hillary Clinton. ...
James Bamford writes, quote, 'While the American media and political system fixated on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his armies of cyber warriors, trolls, and bots, what was completely missed in the Russiagate investigation of 2016 was the Israeli connection. No details of it were ever revealed in the heavily redacted Mueller Report' or in the Senate Intelligence Committee report. ...
[The collusion] went on for months and months and involved providing the Trump campaign with secret access to the information that the Russians were picking up from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC. In other words, the Israelis, they have a very, very sophisticated eavesdropping organization, Unit 8200. It’s their equivalent of the NSA. And they were eavesdropping on the Russians and eavesdropping on WikiGate ... and Julian Assange."
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/3/24james_bamford_2016_israel_netanyahu_trump
-->So the Israelis were heavily involved in throwing the 2016 election to Donald Trump. It wasn't the Russians at all, but our very own apartheid ally in the Middle East. So why didn't the NYT or our mainstream media jump all over this story? Most likely, the powerful Israel Lobby wouldn't let this story out.
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Common Dreams:
"A pair of polls published Friday revealed that the rising cost of living is causing financial strain for most Americans—especially people with lower incomes—and that pessimism about the state and future of the country's economy is pervasive and spreading.
A Wall Street Journal/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that 80% of 1,019 respondents said the nation's economy is in 'poor' or 'not so good' condition. Asked about the future of the economy, 47% of those polled said they believe it will be worse in a year, while just 15% said they think it improve. Thirty-eight percent of respondents said the economy will be in about the same shape a year from now.
The pessimistic economic outlook can be summed up in one survey question: Asked if they felt confident that life for their children's generation 'will be better than it has been for us,' only 21% of respondents answered affirmatively. The Hill noted that 42% of people who took a similar survey in 2001 said they didn't think their children would enjoy better lives than theirs. Today, that figure has soared to 78%."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-one-s-having-fun-surveys-show-soaring-us-economic-pessimism
-->We have seen stories like this before in the NYT. But this story is more dramatic, showing the weaknesses of Biden's efforts to court working people. If Trump becomes our next president, this will be why. The Democrats have backed away from any redistribution of wealth in a society of Billionaires and paupers.
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Common Dreams:
"Two days after President Joe Biden's administration rejected a petition asking federal regulators to use their authority to lower the astronomical price of a lifesaving prostate cancer drug developed entirely with public funds, petitioners on Thursday filed an administrative appeal. ...
Although [the cancer drug] Xtandi owes its existence to U.S. taxpayers, who bankrolled 100% of its development, an annual supply of the drug costs $189,900 in the United States—three to six times more than its list price in other wealthy nations.
In late 2021, prostate cancer patients Robert Sachs, Clare Love, and Eric Sawyer petitioned the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to exercise its 'march-in rights' against Xtandi. Under the Bayh-Dole Act, the federal government can reclaim and redistribute patents for inventions created with public funding—enabling generic competitors to produce cheaper versions—when 'action is necessary to alleviate health or safety needs' or when an invention's benefits are not being made 'available to the public on reasonable terms.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/appeal-biden-becerra-hhs-nih-march-in-rights-xtandi
-->Why no NYT coverage? Well, this story is all about Biden and the ill gotten profits by the US pharmaceutical companies. It's a perfect example of how Biden and the Democratic Party betray working class people.
"As mass protests rock Israel against the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his plan to overhaul Israel’s judiciary, we turn now to look at how Netanyahu secretly tried to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election. That’s the focus of a new cover story in The Nation headlined 'The Candidate and the Spy.' Longtime, award-winning investigative journalist James Bamford reveals Netanyahu dispatched a secret Israeli agent to the United States in the spring of 2016 to meet with advisers to Trump and offer to share secret intelligence with the campaign against Hillary Clinton. ...
James Bamford writes, quote, 'While the American media and political system fixated on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his armies of cyber warriors, trolls, and bots, what was completely missed in the Russiagate investigation of 2016 was the Israeli connection. No details of it were ever revealed in the heavily redacted Mueller Report' or in the Senate Intelligence Committee report. ...
[The collusion] went on for months and months and involved providing the Trump campaign with secret access to the information that the Russians were picking up from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC. In other words, the Israelis, they have a very, very sophisticated eavesdropping organization, Unit 8200. It’s their equivalent of the NSA. And they were eavesdropping on the Russians and eavesdropping on WikiGate ... and Julian Assange."
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/3/24james_bamford_2016_israel_netanyahu_trump
-->So the Israelis were heavily involved in throwing the 2016 election to Donald Trump. It wasn't the Russians at all, but our very own apartheid ally in the Middle East. So why didn't the NYT or our mainstream media jump all over this story? Most likely, the powerful Israel Lobby wouldn't let this story out.
=====
Common Dreams:
"A pair of polls published Friday revealed that the rising cost of living is causing financial strain for most Americans—especially people with lower incomes—and that pessimism about the state and future of the country's economy is pervasive and spreading.
A Wall Street Journal/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that 80% of 1,019 respondents said the nation's economy is in 'poor' or 'not so good' condition. Asked about the future of the economy, 47% of those polled said they believe it will be worse in a year, while just 15% said they think it improve. Thirty-eight percent of respondents said the economy will be in about the same shape a year from now.
The pessimistic economic outlook can be summed up in one survey question: Asked if they felt confident that life for their children's generation 'will be better than it has been for us,' only 21% of respondents answered affirmatively. The Hill noted that 42% of people who took a similar survey in 2001 said they didn't think their children would enjoy better lives than theirs. Today, that figure has soared to 78%."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-one-s-having-fun-surveys-show-soaring-us-economic-pessimism
-->We have seen stories like this before in the NYT. But this story is more dramatic, showing the weaknesses of Biden's efforts to court working people. If Trump becomes our next president, this will be why. The Democrats have backed away from any redistribution of wealth in a society of Billionaires and paupers.
=====
Common Dreams:
"Two days after President Joe Biden's administration rejected a petition asking federal regulators to use their authority to lower the astronomical price of a lifesaving prostate cancer drug developed entirely with public funds, petitioners on Thursday filed an administrative appeal. ...
Although [the cancer drug] Xtandi owes its existence to U.S. taxpayers, who bankrolled 100% of its development, an annual supply of the drug costs $189,900 in the United States—three to six times more than its list price in other wealthy nations.
In late 2021, prostate cancer patients Robert Sachs, Clare Love, and Eric Sawyer petitioned the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to exercise its 'march-in rights' against Xtandi. Under the Bayh-Dole Act, the federal government can reclaim and redistribute patents for inventions created with public funding—enabling generic competitors to produce cheaper versions—when 'action is necessary to alleviate health or safety needs' or when an invention's benefits are not being made 'available to the public on reasonable terms.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/appeal-biden-becerra-hhs-nih-march-in-rights-xtandi
-->Why no NYT coverage? Well, this story is all about Biden and the ill gotten profits by the US pharmaceutical companies. It's a perfect example of how Biden and the Democratic Party betray working class people.
