Above Photo: Doctor David Himmelstein. A group of high profile single payer advocates now say single payer is not enough and are calling for a move toward a Veterans Administration (VA) style universal healthcare system. In an article in The Nation magazine last week, doctors David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, Adam Gaffney, Don McCanne and John Geyman called for a National Health System in the United States. “We have long advocated for single-payer national health insurance,” the doctors wrote. “By eliminating private insurers and simplifying how providers are paid, single-payer would free up hundreds of billions of dollars now squandered annually […]
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Lawyers from the US Department of Justice told a federal judge on Tuesday the department had no intention of totally declassifying documents related to the Russiagate investigation, despite US President Donald Trump’s tweets to that effect, since it hadn’t been given an official order to release unredacted files. On October 6, Trump tweeted he had “fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to” the FBI’s investigation of alleged collusion between Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign and the Russian government. The investigation, which presented its findings in a two-volume March 2019 report, found no evidence a crime had […]
Daily Beast: We still don’t know what exactly went down during President Donald Trump’s trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center last week—and, if his trip in 2019 is anything to go by, we never will. NBC News has reported that Trump’s mysterious visit to the hospital last year, which has never been adequately explained, has been subjected to nondisclosure agreements. Wait what. https://t.co/EnzO0K5tqP pic.twitter.com/2bpaOJoPBd — Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) October 8, 2020 They’re accusing Biden of taking adderall because Trump is addicted to adderall. They’re accusing Biden of having dementia because Trump has dementia. They’re accusing Hunter Biden of […]
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The Clinton Digital Library has released a trove for transcripts documenting private conversations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Bill Clinton. The transcripts, spread across 225 pages of text, are almost completely unredacted, and provide invaluable insights into Russia-US relations, a range of policy matters, and the personal rapport established between the two men. Kursk Among the topics discussed was the sinking of the August 12, 2000 sinking of the Kursk, a Russian nuclear missile submarine. The Kursk was one of the first major crises of Putin’s presidency. In a transcript, dated September 6, 2000, receiving condolences from Clinton […]
A Texas drifter threatened to kill “every black person at the Social Security office” if he didn’t get his benefits, according to a guilty plea filed in federal court this week. It all began in January 2019, when Dewitt Chandler, 40, contacted a Social Security Administration call center to ask why he hadn’t received his check. During the conversation, an apparently dissastified Chandler told the rep helping him that he would “find [his] fucking office and cut [his] fucking balls off,” say court documents. The rep handed the call off to his supervisor, who tried to defuse the situation. Chandler, however, […]
According to the hacktivist collective, the files provide, for the first time, “a detailed map” on the British intelligence services’ clandestine operations in Syria to fund, arm and provide a sanitized, publicly acceptable media voice to an array of opposition militants and jihadists seeking to topple the Assad government. Anonymous, the international hacking group behind the 2018 publication of documents detailing the UK government’s Integrity Initiative media manipulation project, has released a new trove of dozens upon dozens of files on a separate, clandestine project by the British and American governments to handcraft a broad, pro-opposition, anti-Assad propaganda narrative which has […]
The FBI is investigating blundering conservative operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman for a series of possible crimes, according to a document filed by federal prosecutors. Ironically, the document revealing the investigation was filed just days after Wohl and Burkman staged a fake FBI raid on Burkman’s home in a bid for media attention. The FBI investigation centers on Wohl and Burkman’s February release of confidential juror questionnaires from the trial of Trump associate Roger Stone. The FBI is investigating the pair for potential witness harassment, criminal contempt, and obstruction of justice, according to the filing. The case could mark more […]
The argument that Mr Assange conspired with Chelsea Manning in 2010 to hide her identity in order to secure classified US documents is not supported by the evidence a 20-year-long US Army investigator told the Old Bailey on Friday. The conspiracy to commit computer intrusion charge levied against Julian Assange by the US government is not based on a reliable set of presumptions, the Old Bailey heard on Friday. Mr Patrick Eller, who served 20 years in the US Army, was Command Digital Forensic Examiner at the US Army Criminal Investigation Command headquarters in Quantico, Virginia. He has reviewed the computer intrusion […]
US President Donald Trump said the FBI targeted him for a “coup” after newly released documents showed that federal agents bought liability insurance over fears their handling of the Trump-Russia probe could lead to legal trouble. The new documents were disclosed in a federal court filing on Thursday by Sidney Powell, defense attorney for former Trump adviser Michael Flynn. Seizing on the new release, the president ran a victory lap at a campaign rally in Florida, telling the crowd the FBI had been “caught” attempting a “coup.” “Today a trove of text messages was released from FBI agents involved in the […]
The poisoning incidents in Salisbury, England in 2018 with an unusual organophosphate compound designated A-234 gave rise to wide coverage of the story that a novel class of nerve agents named “Novichoks” had been discovered in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and that development of these agents as weapons had continued in Russia in violation of bilateral agreements with the US signed in 1989 and 1990. This story, originating with the dissident Russian chemist Vil Mirzayanov, has been accepted by many scientists and officials involved with chemical arms control. Russian officials however have denied that any studies under the name […]
The New York Attorney General’s office (NYAG) wants Tether and Bitfinex to immediately turn over documents detailing a $900 million line of credit the first entity extended to the second, according to a new filing with a public court system. The NYAG’s office began a formal inquiry into Bitfinex and Tether last April, when it alleged Bitfinex had lost access to more than $850 million in customer and corporate funds, and covered up the shortfall by borrowing from Tether, with which it shares executives and corporate owners. The NYAG won a ruling that ordered the companies to turn over information pertaining […]
KENOSHA, Wisconsin—Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen vigilante charged with murdering protesters in Kenosha, allegedly shot one of them after they accosted him and threw a plastic bag in his direction. The Kenosha County District Attorney’s Office filed five felony charges against Rittenhouse on Thursday, including first-degree intentional homicide and first-degree reckless homicide, as well as a misdemeanor charge of possession of a deadly weapon. The big-time Blue Lives Matter fan allegedly armed himself with a Smith & Wesson AR-15 style .223 rifle and traveled half an hour from his home in Antioch, Illinois, to Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday. He was photographed scrubbing […]
New FOIA Docs Expose Conditions In Private Immigration Prison By Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. August 23, 2020 New FOIA Docs Expose Conditions In Private Immigration Prison2020-08-232020-08-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/farmville.jpg200px200px Above photo: This aerial view shows the Immigration Centers of America facility Farmville on Aug. 12, 2020 in Farmville, Va. Steve Helber | AP. So Bad That Even ICE Was Shocked. Documents obtained through Freedom of Information requests show a consistent pattern of abuse at the privately-run ICE facility in Farmville, where detainees suffered abuse, neglect, and threats of retaliation if they complained. New documents shed light on what activists are calling “a dark pattern of […]
The unsealed court documents reportedly mention Alan Dershowitz making a claim about having a recording of one of Giuffre’s friends who allegedly admitted they were trying to “squeeze” Wexner for money. Virginia Giuffre, the accuser of the late disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, revealed an apparent awareness of the lingerie preferences of Les Wexner, an American billionaire whose holdings include Victoria’s Secret, the New York Post reports citing recently unsealed court documents. According to the newspaper, this reveal comes amid the ongoing legal battle between Giuffre and Epstein’s former lawyer Alan Dershowitz, as the latter insists that Giuffre […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008031080050437-trump-says-us-probe-into-his-financial-docs-part-of-continuing-witch-hunt/ US President Donald Trump dismissed the ongoing investigation into his personal finances, calling it part of a continuing “witch hunt” by the Democrats. The New York District Attorney’s Office on Monday filed new documentation aiming to refute the argument by Trump’s lawyers that a subpoena of his finances has no bearing. That document, Sputnik reported, revealed the investigation may go far beyond the money trail of “hush payments” given to several women to ensure their silence about past liaisons with Trump, and might include financial crimes such as bank and insurance fraud. “This is […]
Ghislaine Maxwell, who is already facing six federal criminal charges, is also fighting to stop her deposition from a 2015 lawsuit from being released, with a hearing for the appeal slated for 22 September. Convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged “pimp” Ghislaine Maxwell won a legal battle to keep “highly intrusive” documents about her private life secret hours before they were to be made public. The 58-year-old socialite, who was detained in her New Hampshire hideaway in early July, argued against releasing documents from her deposition, saying they are “extremely personal, confidential and subject to considerable abuse by the media”. The deposition materials came […]
Newly unsealed files tied to the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking case imply that former US President Bill Clinton visited the investor’s private island along with “young girls,” and that the FBI knew well about the minors’ abuse. Comprising hundreds of pages of documents, the trove was released on Thursday night following a judge’s order last week to have it unsealed, over the objections of Ghislaine Maxwell, a former girlfriend to Epstein who has recently been charged as an accomplice in his alleged sex-trafficking operation. Also on rt.com US judge authorizes release of previously-sealed documents in case of Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell […]
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Speaking about health check-ups ahead of the November polls, Trump bragged about his “unbelievable” results in cognitive testing, insisting his rival Joe Biden would fail it if he took it. President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that he recently took a cognitive test and “aced” it, inviting Joe Biden, his Democratic rival in the upcoming presidential vote, to take the “same test”. He specified that he underwent the check-up at the Walter Reed Medical Center, but didn’t mention the type of cognitive test he took. “I actually took one, very recently, when I was – you […]
Max Blumenthal is an award-winning investigative journalist, author and founder of The Grayzone, an independent news outlet. He has obtained High Court documents regarding the ongoing Spanish criminal investigation into David Morales, the Ecuadorian ex-special forces member and CEO of the Spanish security firm UC Global, which was revealed to have been spying on Julian Assange, despite originally being hired to provide protection for the Ecuadorian Embassy. The documents obtained by Blumenthal and The Grayzone have revealed previously unknown details regarding the connection between David Morales, UC Global and Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire campaign contributor to US President Donald Trump. Sputnik: What’s […]
By Susan Jaffe, Kaiser Health News Coronavirus patients and their families who believe a doctor, nurse, hospital or other provider made serious mistakes during their care may face a new hurdle if they try to file medical malpractice lawsuits. Under pressure from health provider organizations, governors in Connecticut, Maryland, Illinois and about a dozen other states have ordered that most providers be shielded from civil—and, in some cases, criminal—lawsuits over medical treatment during the COVID-19 health emergency. In New York and New Jersey, immunity is now part of state law. In California, six hospital, physician and long-term care provider groups are […]
Opinion 16:13 GMT 10.05.2020Get short URL The newly released House Intelligence Committee transcripts have dealt yet another blow to the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, international political observers say, suggesting that the recent disclosure and forthcoming publications will help establish that there was no Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections whatsoever. On 7 May, the House Intelligence Committee released 57 transcripts of interviews held between 2017 and 2018 as part of the Russia investigation. However, the publication does not appear to have played out in the way the committee’s chairman, Adam Schiff, planned in March 2018. At the time, he lambasted the […]