Obama made a big mistake refusing to prosecute Bush-era crimes, and Biden seems prepared to “look forward, not backward”…--NY Times Magazine weighs the pros and cons
--Forbes, the “capitalist tool”, explains how Trump has scored $6.9 million from taxpayer and campaign funds
--Trump’s latest defense secretary announces troop cuts in Afghanistan, Iraq
--Caitlin Johnstone details how top officials lied to Trump about troop levels in Syria
--hopeful about Biden’s win, Palestinians resume some cooperation with Israel
--Abby Martin’s lawsuit about being dis-invited from Georgia State leads lawmaker to amend anti-boycott law at behest of Israeli diplomat
--Koch money fuels “Campus Reform” that grooms right wing media actors
--Senate Judiciary chair Lindsay Graham is outed for attempted election fraud by Georgia’s secretary of state
--new team of Trump lawyers, led by Rudy Giuliani, tries to block certification in Pennsylvania, as nonpartisan canvassing boards feel pressure in Michigan
--Biden is populating his administration with familiar corporatists and loyalists from Obama and Biden years—will it include Hillary Clinton?
--Biden hasn’t spilled the details, but plans to address student loan burden
--conservative NY Times pundit Bret Stephens blathers about the “Left”, exposing his ignorance
--and Norman Solomon defends real progressives
- --Twitter and Facebook CEO’s are pelted by senators, again
- --Buzzfeed exposes Facebook’s failure to police posts from armed militia groups, like the Kenosha Guard
- --the new “Facebook for haters”, Parler, is funded by the Mercers
- --our daily Covid-19 update, prepared by Linda Lewis
- --at MintPress, Raul Diego adds context to China’s new trade agreement RCEP, which Pepe Escobar reported on yesterday
- [not sure where the above "bullets" came from]
--by yesterday’s deadline, almost 90,000 claims of sex abuse have been filed against the Boy Scouts of America
--Peru has a new leaders, third in about a week
--voters in several states legalized cannabis, and Virginiamay be next
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