Tag: student loan debt
The President Can Now Assassinate You, Officially
Under this new standard, a president can go on a four-to-eight year crime spree and then retire from public life, never to be held accountable.
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Immunity for Me but Not for Thee
President Obama ordered a drone strike in Yemen to kill Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen and Islamic Imam critical of American foreign policy in the Middle East. Before releasing the drones that killed al-Awlaki and two others, the White House sought and received a Memorandum from the Department of Justice providing legal justification for the attack.
Several questions come to mind. Should the memo from DoJ authorizing the killing of an American citizen abroad without judicial due process immunize President Obama for violating the federal criminal statute that imposes criminal penalties for the extra territorial killing of an American citizen?
Could a subsequent President, a member of the opposing political party, direct a new Attorney General to investigate whether the killing of the U.S. citizen by drone attack in Yemen violated federal criminal law? If an indictment is returned against the now former President for that killing, should President Obama be allowed to claim immunity or be forced to stand trial?
It’s official: Student loan payments will restart in October, Education Department says
Over the three-year-long pause on student loan payments, the U.S. Department of Education has repeatedly told borrowers their bills were set to resume, only to take it back and provide them more time.
It’s official: Student loan payments will restart in October, Education Department says
The Supreme Court showdown over Biden’s student debt relief program, explained
The law is very explicit that Biden’s student debt relief program is lawful. The Court’s Republican majority is unlikely to care.
The Supreme Court showdown over Biden’s student debt relief program, explained
Worthy and Unworthy Protest
Protesters in some nations are celebrated. Others are ignored. Protest is a human right to be respected but instead can be used as a pretext for nefarious motives such as regime change.
Worthy and Unworthy Protest
US Lawmakers Say Student Loan Forgiveness Will Hurt Military Recruiting
Nineteen members of the US House of Representatives have written a letter [PDF] to President Joe Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin cautioning that the partial cancellation of student debts can have the unintended consequence of reducing military recruitment in the United States.
US Lawmakers Say Student Loan Forgiveness Will Hurt Military Recruiting
What’s wrong with the USA?
China has been, variously described as a rising power, a sleeping dragon and a collapsing economy. Most of the rhetoric is driven from the US. Inside their government, both the Senate and Congress have anti-China hawks, their State Department seems to see a threat at every turning point and their military seems to believe that a defensive People’s liberation Army is a bad thing as it threatens US interests. Books reports and documentaries are created about mass dissatisfaction which extended academic research seems unable to identify.
What’s wrong with the USA? (archived)
Biden’s MAGA Obsession Won’t Help Democrats
Because Joe Biden and democrats act on behalf of the oligarchy instead of the people, they now risk a mid-term election loss. His solution to this political problem is to speak endlessly about Donald Trump and shout the word MAGA at every opportunity.
Biden’s MAGA Obsession Won’t Help Democrats
West’s neoliberal ‘age of abundance’ is over, as war and sanctions boomerang home
Aug 27, 2022 — France’s President Emmanuel Macron, a former banker, warned “we are living the end of what could have seemed an era of abundance.” Western wars and sanctions are boomeranging back at home. The neoliberal phase of capitalism is collapsing.
Neoliberalism has lost the key pillars it was built on: cheap energy and raw materials from Russia, cheap labor and consumer goods from China, an unsustainable bubble of household debt, low to zero interest rates, and Washington’s ability to organize regime-change operations in any country where a government tried a socialistic or state-led economic model.
West’s neoliberal ‘age of abundance’ is over, as war and sanctions boomerang home via Multipolarista
Barack Obama Reminds Us That the Democrats Remain the More Effective evil of Imperialism
Obama’s first visit to the White House since his presidency was celebrated by the neoliberal establishment. But his true legacy should not be forgotten.
Barack Obama Reminds Us That the Democrats Remain the More Effective evil of Imperialism
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 