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Reports on Flynn pardon leave out elephant in the room: Israeli interference in US policy

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Reports on Flynn pardon leave out elephant in the room: Israeli interference in US policy

There’s a second false statement in the same plea document. Flynn actually contacted Kislyak six days before the sanctions matter (on Dec. 22, 2016) to ask Russia to veto a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements. President Obama was planning to allow the resolution to pass, and Israeli officials contacted the Trump team, and Jared Kushner then initiated a “blitz” of calls by several officials to call foreign countries to step in. The blitz failed.

Election Crisis and the Electoral College

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Election Crisis and the Electoral College (Watch on YouTube)

Alan Hirsch, author of A Short History of Presidential Elections Crises: (And How to Prevent the Next One), says while there is no election crisis now – Biden’s win is definitive – the electoral college is undemocratic and increases the possibilities of fraud, uncertain results, and more post-election crises. Hirsch joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.

Chris Hedges on the task ahead: Will Biden surrender to plutocrats and paralysis?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Chris Hedges on the task ahead: Will Biden surrender to plutocrats and paralysis?

The Biden administration will also have to take the first steps to remedy the social, cultural, institutional, political problems that made Trump’s neofascist movement possible, and nearly won Trump a second term. Of course, Biden’s most immediate problem is the coronavirus pandemic and the human and economic destruction it has caused.

H/T: Howell Underground on YouTube