Some Democrats Want to Give Biden War Powers to Fight China Over Taiwan

Some Democrats Want to Give Biden War Powers to Fight China Over Taiwan

Missing from most reports on China’s ADIZ flights is how much the US has increased its military activity in the region. Beijing’s moves around Taiwan are clearly fueled by the US’s presence and Washington’s steps to boost ties with Taipei. A change in policy in the form of a war powers authorization would only raise tensions in the region and make a conflict more likely.

Fed Chair Powell Misleads House Hearing on Wall Street’s Bailout Programs

Fed Chair Powell Misleads House Hearing on Wall Street’s Bailout Programs

It’s factually incorrect for the Fed Chairman to say that it can only make emergency loans with the approval of the Treasury. Months before there was any case of COVID-19 anywhere in the world the Fed was making hundreds of billions of dollars a week in emergency repo loans to Wall Street trading houses. The emergency loans started on September 17, 2019 – four months before the first reported case of COVID-19 in the United States. By January 27, 2020 the Fed’s ongoing cumulative loans to bail out Wall Street’s hubris tallied up to an astounding $6.6 trillion. (See Fed Repos Have Plowed $6.6 Trillion to Wall Street in Four Months; That’s 34% of Its Feeding Tube During Epic Financial Crash.)

NYT: The ‘Unshakable’ Bonds of Friendship With Israel Are Shaking

Surprising opinion piece, from a New York Times columnist, although the author pretty much demonizes Syria and Iran. He also refuses to call what Israel is doing war crimes, instead they’re “possible war crimes.”

If you oppose war crimes only by your enemies, it’s not clear that you actually oppose war crimes.

The ‘Unshakable’ Bonds of Friendship With Israel Are Shaking