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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

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Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features Motown vocal group Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. Enjoy!

^{Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - My Baby Loves Me}

"Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game."

-- Matt Taibbi

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News and Opinion

Covid-19 Relief Draft Bill Provides $100 Billion “Double-Dip” Tax Deduction for the Wealthy

A draft of coronavirus relief legislation, circulated by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, eschews direct payments to average Americans but contains an unusually generous handout to the very wealthy. The draft legislation, the Bipartisan Emergency COVID Relief Act of 2020, was released this week as part of a package of two major bills to confront the ongoing crisis.

The draft of the first bill circulating on Capitol Hill contains a number of adjustments to the Paycheck Protection Program, the forgivable loan program that has served as the centerpiece of the government’s efforts to curb job loss stemming from the pandemic. Many of the changes provide extended eligibility for expenses that can be reimbursed by the PPP program, including damage from looting and costs associated with cloud computing, as well as the construction of sneeze guards and other safety measures implemented by businesses.

But one of the revisions in the legislation is a subtle yet radical change that would result in a major windfall for the highest-income Americans and large corporations. The bill provides that businesses claiming expenses reimbursed by PPP forgivable loans, which are already tax-free, can be further used as deductions when calculating taxable income. In other words, the change would allow a corporation that claimed $1 million in PPP reimbursements to apply that money as a deduction on its tax return, reducing taxable income by $1 million.

Critics of this idea, first circulated by a bipartisan set of legislators last summer, note that it provides an unprecedented tax advantage that overwhelmingly benefits investors and high-net-worth professionals. IRS rules have long prohibited tax-free government grants and reimbursements from being used as deductions. ...

Even so, a growing chorus of lawmakers has demanded that businesses should be able to deduct tax-free PPP money. The demand has been pushed by the most senior lawmakers on the tax-writing committees, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. In recent months, nearly half a dozen standalone bills by other members of Congress have floated variations of the same PPP tax deduction proposal.

Bernie Sanders SHREDS COVID-19 relief bill: "NOT ENOUGH"

Did Establishment BOW To Bernie, Hawley Demand Of Direct Stimulus Checks?

Krystal Ball: Defense Ghouls Get A Bailout While Americans Get Scraps

Fauci says Biden should get vaccine as FDA gives Moderna the green light

President-elect Joe Biden should be vaccinated against the coronavirus as soon as possible for “security reasons”, top US public health expert Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday, as a second vaccine candidate, made by Moderna, received an encouraging assessment ahead of likely approval by the Food and Drug Administration.

A Pfizer-made Covid-19 vaccine is starting to be administered to high-priority populations across the US – as the virus continues to surge across the country.

Monday saw 193,454 new cases and 1,311 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. The seven-day moving average for daily new cases stood at more than 209,000, or more than one a minute.

The US death toll has passed 300,000 and the number of Americans hospitalized continues to climb, reaching a record 110,549, according to the Covid Tracking Project.

On Monday night, Ron Klain, Biden’s chief of staff, told MSNBC: “We’re still in the middle of what will be a very, very, very dark winter. There are probably tens of thousands of deaths left before the end of the year and more deaths after that.”

New Covid strain: Is mutated virus cause for concern?

Illinois board rejects plans to close essential South Side Chicago hospital

In a victory for health advocates and community members in Chicago, a review board has unanimously rejected a plan to shutter a safety-net hospital that would have likely worsened the medical desert on the city’s predominantly Black South Side.

The 6-0 decision came after activists rallied in support of Mercy, and after hours of often-emotional public comment Tuesday – including from the former Illinois governor Pat Quinn and a representative for the current governor, JB Pritzker – against Michigan-based Trinity Health’s plan to close the facility early next year, despite the pandemic.

“I do not believe that Mercy has made a reasonable case that [the closure] will not have an extremely negative impact on the South Side of Chicago,” Dr Linda Rae Murray, a member of the Illinois health facilities and services review board, said in voting against Trinity’s plan to shut down the hospital.

“I am really distressed that this is going on in the midst of a global pandemic,” Murray added, calling the notion “unconscionable in my mind”.

Mercy, located in the historic Black neighborhood of Bronzeville, is the oldest hospital in Chicago, and serves a primarily Black, poor and elderly community – a population that has been especially hard hit by the coronavirus crisis.

COVID-caused rise in malnutrition to stunt growth of 2.6mn more children

Wall Street Titan Gloats Over Pandemic Profits From Rentals as Eviction Tsunami Looms

As the December 31 expiration date on the CDC's federal eviction moratorium nears in the midst of the surging Covid-19 pandemic and freezing weather, an estimated 30 to 40 million working-class households in the United States are bracing for the possibility of eviction—but at least one Wall Street investor looking to capitalize on the crisis is bragging about what he sees as a golden opportunity to expand his real estate empire.

"You always have winners and losers—Blackstone was a huge winner coming out of the global financial crisis, and I think something similar is going to happen," said the billionaire CEO Stephen Schwarzman.

Schwarzman—chief of the world's largest private equity firm and landlord, top Republican donor, and confidant of President Donald Trump—made these comments at last week's Goldman Sachs Financial Services Conference, The Daily Poster's David Sirota and Andrew Perez reported.

After recounting how Blackstone profited in the wake of the 2008 financial crash by gobbling up tens of thousands of foreclosed homes for pennies on the dollar and converting them into reportedly substandard rental properties—and intensifying the affordable housing crisis by funding campaigns against rent control even after receiving public subsidies—Schwarzman "indicated his firm is positioning itself for a similar jackpot," wrote Sirota and Perez.

While Schwarzman alluded to the future when discussing the potential to make a killing from the worsening economic crisis, "his firm is generating big revenues today," the pair continued.

"We're the largest owner of real estate in the private world," said Schwarzman. "And that asset class has boomed with huge increases in rents." He added that much of Blackstone's rental income comes from commercial real estate, especially the logistics sector, with warehouse space accounting for over one-third of the property owned by the investment firm.

As Sirota and Perez explained, "that gives Blackstone enormous power to jack up rents and potentially bankrupt pandemic-battered small businesses."

Jimmy Trending Because AOC Against Fighting for Medicare For All

Support Grows For Leveraging Pelosi Vote for Medicare For All

Heh, I found this amusing. Compare and contrast the highlighted material in the following two articles from The Guardian:

Suspected Russian hackers spied on US federal agencies

Russian hackers are being accused of carrying out the biggest cyber-raid against the US for more than five years, targeting federal government networks in a sophisticated attack, according to American officials and sources.

The hackers, linked to Russian spy agencies, were able to monitor internal emails at the US Treasury and Department of Commerce and may have compromised other bodies, in what is being described as a highly sophisticated state-level attack.

Security agencies in the UK and elsewhere were also scrambling to assess the impact on their systems – while the revelation was deemed so grave it led to a national security council meeting at the White House over the weekend.

What you need to know about the biggest hack of the US government in years

A vast trove of US government emails has been targeted in a hack thought to have been carried out by Russia, American officials revealed on Monday.

The stunningly large and sophisticated operation reportedly targeted federal government networks and marks the biggest cyber-raid against US officials in years. The treasury and commerce departments were both affected and others may have been breached.

Hackers gained entry into networks by getting more than 18,000 private and government users to download a tainted software update. Once inside, they were able to monitor internal emails at some of the top agencies in the US.

The hack began as early as March, when malicious code was sneaked into updates to popular software called Orion, made by the company SolarWinds, which monitors the computer networks of businesses and governments for outages. That malware gave elite hackers remote access to an organization’s networks so they could steal information.

Doing so may not have been difficult. Vinoth Kumar, a security researcher, told Reuters that, last year, he alerted the company that anyone could access SolarWinds’ update server by using the password “solarwinds123”.

The breach was not discovered until the prominent cybersecurity company FireEye, which itself also uses SolarWinds, determined it had experienced a breach by way of the software. FireEye has not publicly blamed its own breach on the SolarWinds hack, but it reportedly confirmed that was the case to the tech site Krebs On Security on Tuesday.

Worth a full read:

US Media Outlets Claim Russia is Behind Massive Hack Without Evidence

According to reports, multiple US government agencies were targeted by a hack that penetrated network-management software of the tech firm SolarWinds, whose clients include hundreds of US corporations and many government agencies. The hack was first discovered by the cybersecurity firm FireEye.

Anonymous sources were quick to pin the hack on their favorite suspect — Russia. On Monday, The Washington Post published a story that cited anonymous “people familiar with the intrusion” who pinned the blame on Russian intelligence. What started as conjecture from unnamed sources turned into fact in a story published by the Post just hours later. ... A similar phenomenon took place in the pages of The New York Times. ...

When the firm FireEye first reported the hack, it did say the cyberattack was carried out by a “nation-state” but did not specify which one. As of Tuesday, FireEye has yet to identify the suspect. ... According to Bloomberg, Charles Carmakal, a leading incident response expert for FireEye, said the firm had “not yet seen sufficient evidence” to name the actor responsible for the hack.

It’s worth noting that FireEye has a history of attributing online activity to so-called adversary nations with flimsy evidence in cooperation with the US government.

Mayo Pete gets a job!

Biden taps Pete Buttigieg for transportation post and Jennifer Granholm for energy

More picks for senior positions in Joe Biden’s incoming administration emerged on Tuesday, including Pete Buttigieg, the former South Bend mayor, for transportation secretary, and Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan, to run the energy department.

Buttigieg confirmed he had been tapped as transportation secretary in a tweet on Tuesday evening, saying he was “honored”. ...

Granholm’s selection as energy secretary was widely reported on Tuesday and confirmed to the Associated Press by four people familiar with the plans, although Granholm has yet to comment publicly. Granholm served two terms as Michigan’s governor and defeated the husband of the US education secretary, Betsy DeVos, to win her second term.

'Political Consolation Prize'? Biden Picks Buttigieg as Transportation Secretary Despite His Lack of Relevant Experience

President-elect Joe Biden has reportedly decided to nominate former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg to lead the Transportation Department, handing a powerful cabinet position to an erstwhile Democratic presidential rival whose campaign was fueled in part by donations from companies he could soon be tasked with overseeing.

Jeff Hauser, executive director of the Revolving Door Project, noted in a blog post Tuesday that Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign "raked in large contributions from top executives at major technology and defense corporations like Google (from whom he received over $44,000), Apple (from whom he received over $16,000), Amazon (over $12,000), and Raytheon (over $8,000)."

"Public disclosures show that all four of these companies have repeatedly lobbied the Department of Transportation in the last year," Hauser wrote. "Other major corporations whose executives donated to Buttigieg include Apple, Walmart, and Allstate, as well as several members on the boards of Boeing, JetBlue, and American Airlines (all of whom, again, have lobbied DOT in the last year). Bradley Tusk, a former lobbyist for Uber who made more than $100 million helping the rideshare giant expand operations in New York, was one of the Buttigieg campaign's top fundraiser hosts."

Biden's selection of Buttigieg—who, if confirmed, would be the first openly LGBTQ person to serve as a cabinet secretary—comes in the wake of speculation that the president-elect was reportedly considering Rahm Emanuel, the notorious former mayor of Chicago, for the transportation post. Biden is now weighing a "high-level ambassadorship" for Emanuel, according to Business Insider.

Buttigieg was widely considered to be a lock for some position in the Biden administration following his decision to drop out of the presidential race just before Super Tuesday and endorse the former vice president, helping Biden consolidate moderate support and defeat Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for the Democratic nomination.

But as Politico put it Tuesday, "Buttigieg's landing spot comes as a surprise given his thin transportation policy resume." The former South Bend mayor reportedly rejected the idea of serving as director of Office of Management and Budget, saying he wanted a "real" cabinet post, not a "staff-level" role.

"If confirmed," Politico noted, "Buttigieg will head to Washington to take responsibility for nearly 55,000 employees, an $87 billion budget and more than a dozen administrations, overseeing the nation's airspace, highway system, pipeline safety, and much more."

Pointing to a list of significantly more experienced candidates Biden was considering before he picked Buttigieg, The Revolving Door Project tweeted that "the position of secretary of transportation should be granted to someone with actual expertise and passion for transportation issues."

"It should not be a political consolation prize," the group added.

'A Troubling Indication of What Could Be to Come': Biden Quietly Adds Goldman Sachs, Big Tech Officials to Transition

President-elect Joe Biden's transition team in recent weeks has quietly brought aboard alumni of Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs, tech giants Google and Facebook, and notorious consulting firm McKinsey, heightening alarm among watchdog groups that have urged the incoming administration to steer clear of the corrupting influence of corporate America.

Without the public announcements that accompanied the president-elect's cabinet picks and original members of the transition, Team Biden has added to its agency review groups Monica Maher, vice president for cyber threat intelligence at Goldman Sachs; Eric Goldstein, an 18-year Goldman Sachs veteran; and Josh Zoffer, a former engagement manager at McKinsey who now works at private equity firm Cove Hill Partners.

On or around Thanksgiving, Politico reported, Biden's transition also "quietly added four Facebook and Google employees to its agency review teams," despite pressure on the president-elect to resist Big Tech's efforts to "co-opt" his administration. As Reuters pointed out earlier this month, there are currently "more tech executives than tech critics on Biden's transition team."

Eleanor Eagan, research assistant at the Revolving Door Project (RDP), an initiative that scrutinizes executive branch appointees, told Common Dreams Tuesday that the Biden team appears to have been counting on "people not paying quite as much attention" to later additions to the transition team.

"This move by the transition team to slip in these revolving-door figures later in the game certainly is a troubling indication of what could be to come" as Biden begins staffing lower-profile but powerful positions in his administration, said Eagan.

As part of its ongoing effort to shine light on industry influence on the upper reaches of the federal government, RDP on Tuesday morning unveiled a Personnel Map that aims to visualize and track "the breadth and depth of corporate America's interest in the executive branch."

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With the deluge of ad buys, there will be no time for regularly scheduled programming on teevee in Georgia.

Wall Street donates millions to back Republicans in Georgia Senate race

Billionaire Republicans on Wall Street have been opening their wallets to try and protect David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler’s Senate seats in January 5’s high-stakes runoff in Georgia against two Democrat challengers. Two super Pacs are planning to spend about $80m on ads and other efforts backing the Republicans.

Among donors are top finance CEOs Stephen Schwarzman, of Blackstone Group, and Kenneth Griffin, of Citadel LLC, who have donated millions to the Senate Leadership Fund super Pac which is supporting Perdue, according to campaign finance records.

Last month, Schwarzman, who briefly was the chair of Donald Trump’s strategic and policy forum, contributed $15m and Griffin donated $10m to the Pac; while earlier in the year, the Pac received $20m from Schwarzman and $25m from Griffin.

Separately, a fundraising committee backing both Republican senators that launched last month has surpassed its goal of raising $35m to oppose Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. This committee is also being helped by fundraising on Wall Street including Schwarzman, Griffin and others, say two GOP sources. ...

With the stakes so high, reports show that over $400m on ads has been spent or booked so far in Georgia by the candidates’ campaigns, their parties and outside backers.

As Biden won the presidency, Republicans cemented their grip on power for the next decade

While the world focused on the election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in November, some of the most consequential contests were in state legislative races between candidates many have never heard of.

State lawmakers have the authority to redraw electoral districts in most US states every 10 years. In 2010, Republicans undertook an unprecedented effort – called Project Redmap – to win control of state legislatures across the country and drew congressional and state legislative districts that gave them a significant advantage for the next decade. In 2020, Democrats sought to avoid a repeat of 2010 and poured millions of dollars and other resources into winning key races.

It didn’t go well.

Democrats failed to flip any of the legislative chambers they targeted and Republicans came out of election night in nearly the best possible position for drawing districts, according to an analysis by FiveThirtyEight, and will have the opportunity to draw 188 congressional seats, 43% of the House of Representatives. Democrats will have a chance to draw at most just 73 seats. Republicans will probably also be able to draw districts that will make it more difficult for Democrats to hold their majority in the US House in 2022.

Nina Turner Launches Bid for Congress, Pledging "No Honeymoon" for Biden Administration

Progressive Powerhouses Swiftly Endorse Nina Turner After She Announces House Run

It's official—Nina Turner is running for Congress. The former Ohio state senator kicked off her campaign Tuesday for the House seat to be vacated by Rep. Marcia Fudge, who was selected for a Biden cabinet post, and no sooner did she announce her candidacy than a parade of progressive powerhouses lined up to offer their support.

Speaking to a capacity crowd of supporters—on Zoom, that is—Turner said that "what I want the people of Akron and Cleveland to know is that I know what it means to be counted out."

"I am running to ensure the people of Akron and Cleveland are always counted in," Turner pledged in the impassioned voice that has made her a favorite of progressive activists across the nation.

And across the nation, progressives were thrilled by Turner's run.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) moved swiftly to endore the woman who was a standout surrogate during his 2016 presidential run and his national campaign co-chair in 2020.

"I've gotten to know Nina over the last five years," Sanders tweeted. "She deeply cares for working families and she has the heart to be an effective, unwavering fighter for them in Congress. I am proud to endorse her candidacy."

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), another former Sanders campaign co-chair, was also quick to throw his support behind Turner, tweeting that she "will bring a phenomenal commitment to a $15 minimum wage, Medicare for All, and free public college." ...

It wasn't just fellow politicians and political organizations that were lining up to support Turner. Rapper and activist Killer Mike; actors and activists Danny Glover, Susan Sarandon, and Mark Ruffalo; and popular podcast host Charlamagne tha God were just some of the prominent progressives who offered their endorsements. ...

The date of the special congressional election for Ohio's 11th District will be determined once Fudge—who last week was tapped by Biden for the post of secretary of housing and urban development—officially resigns her House seat.

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As oil prices languish, Alberta sees its future in a 'coal rush'

With the price of Western Canadian oil languishing around $35 a barrel and Canadian oil sands companies hemorrhaging both workers and money, the province of Alberta sees its future in another fossil fuel: coal. A “coal rush” in the province could see at least six new or expanded open-pit coal mines built up and down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, mostly by Australian companies. Together, these projects could industrialize as much as 1,000 sq km of forests, waterways and grasslands, an area the size of Vancouver Island.

Alberta has eight operating coal mines and more than 91bn tonnes of mineable coal, but until recently, Alberta had a restrictive coal-mining policy that’s been in place for 44 years to protect drinking water for millions of people. In 2015 the previous Alberta government announced a plan to eliminate coal-fired electricity by 2030, a goal Canada’s federal government embraced three years later to help fulfill Canada’s greenhouse-gas-reduction commitments to the Paris Agreement. Canada, along with the United Kingdom, also launched the Powering Past Coal Alliance at the 2017 UN Climate Change Conference to accelerate the phase-out of coal-fired power plants worldwide.

Yet despite the commitment to eliminate coal-fired electricity, the new conservative provincial government has pulled out all the stops to increase coal production for export. It rescinded the 1976 coal mining policy without public consultation, after spending months wooing Australian coal companies. It also reduced the corporate tax rate from 10 to 8%, axed provincial parks in coal-rich areas, offered one percent royalties (Australia’s is a minimum of seven), and passed legislation to fast-track project approvals. ...

The new mines are mostly meant to supply coking, or metallurgical, coal used to make steel. Steelmaking accounts for 4.8% of global industrial carbon emissions. Unlike the market for coal used in power plants, which is beginning to crumble, coking coal is in high demand, particularly in China, which produces almost half of the world’s steel. Coking coal is expected to remain profitable in the near future as the Chinese economy rebounds from the Covid pandemic.

“It’s all pretty shocking,” said Katie Morrison, conservation director of the southern Alberta chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. “The government is saying this is going to be the next economic boon for the province, but it’s just another boom-and-bust economy. And there’s a good chance [the mines] will go bust before they ever clean up their mess, and the public will be left with the clean-up costs.”

America's last wilderness is about to go to the highest bidder for oil drilling

On 6 January, the Bureau of Land Management, directed by the Trump administration, is scheduled to hold a virtual oil and gas lease sale – an “aggressive, competitive exploration and development program” – for drilling in ANWR. More specifically, in the 1.5m acre coastal plain, the refuge’s biological heart: the birthing grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd, the prime denning area for the Beaufort Sea population of polar bears (a threatened species, numbering only 900), and the breeding sites for birds that every year fly across oceans and continents to raise their young on undisturbed, flower-embroidered tundra.

Ten thousand years of natural beauty and balance – America’s last great wilderness – will soon be “open” to the highest bidder, beginning at $25 an acre. The winner could initiate seismic testing: shaking the earth with massive vibration trucks, awakening polar bears in their dens. If the testing shows a strong promise of oil (which is presently unknown), they may build an industrial complex of roads, well pads, desalinization plants, airstrips and pipelines, all tied into Prudhoe Bay, some 80 miles to the west. If not, the seismic testing alone will produce many scars visible for decades.

How can this happen? Easy. On the final page of the massive 2017 feed-the-rich federal tax bill, the Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski added oil and gas exploration as a “purpose” of ANWR. She and her Republican colleagues said it would pump significant revenue into the treasury, a claim which Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan federal budget watchdog organization, has called “blatantly irresponsible and fiscally reckless”.

This is how beauty dies, how places change forever, how traditional ways of life disappear. All for money, in the absence of the sacred. “Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism,” the author Edward Abbey once asked, “yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?”

Researchers Warn of Looming Oil Spill Four Times Larger Than Exxon Valdez If Urgent Action Not Taken

A team of scientists issued a stark warning Tuesday that the possibility of averting an oil spill bigger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez catastrophe and "disastrous environmental and humanitarian consequences" posed by an abandoned oil tanker in the Red Sea are "quickly disappearing."

At issue is the corroding Safer, moored off the coast of Yemen and under control of Houthi rebels since 2015.

After blocking such efforts for years, Houthi authorities last month approved a United Nations plan to visit the tanker early in 2021. U.N. Environment Program executive director Inger Andersen warned in July that the vessel's deteriorating condition and the over 1 million barrels of oil it holds threaten long-term damage to local ecosystems.

In a policy brief published in Frontiers in Marine Science, researchers said the need to pump off the oil is urgent.

"A massive leak of over 1 million barrels of oil (4 times the Exxon Valdez tanker spill) is anticipated shortly off the coast of Yemen, in the Red Sea, where the Safer floating storage and offloading unit (FSO) is in the final stages of decay." That quantity, they continued, "guarantees a regional environmental and humanitarian disaster," with impacts certain to affect dozens of coastal countries and the sea's rich biodiversity, including its coral reefs.

Given the stakes, the paper called for the U.N. International Maritime Organization and U.N Secretary-General António Guterres to "take coordinated action and achieve access to the Safer by all means necessary in order to pump off the oil."

That action must happen before winter, they added, pointing to models showing that "winter oil dispersion will extend further north and into the center of the Red Sea as compared to a spill dispersing during summer."

"The time is now to prevent a potential devastation to the region's waters and the livelihoods and health of millions of people living in half a dozen countries along the Red Sea's coast," lead author Karine Kleinhaus, MD, MPH, an associate professor of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University, said in a statement.

"If a spill from the Safer is allowed to occur," she continued, "the oil would spread via ocean currents to devastate a global ocean resource, as the coral reefs of the northern Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba are projected to be among the last reef ecosystems in the world to survive the coming decades."

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Also of Interest

Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.

Congressional Progressive Caucus Calls for 'Direct Payments of at Least $2,000' for Working Families

Caitlin Johnstone: The Revolutionary Struggle Is A Fight Between Movement And Inertia

Compared to the Last Three Treasury Secretaries, Janet Yellen Is Mother Teresa

Florida Grim Reaper lawyer sues 'mini-Trump' governor over Covid response

Chicago mayor Lightfoot sought to block release of video of wrongful police raid

Biden Team Plans to Reverse Trump’s Cuba Sanctions

Biden’s foreign policy team is full of idealists who keep getting people killed

Charges of Anti-Semitism & the Silencing of Dissent in Europe

Warnock Is Taking White People to Church. That Could Be a Problem for Loeffler.

Little Richard remembered by Bootsy Collins

'All they want is my voice': the real story of 'Mother of the Blues' Ma Rainey

How to watch the Jupiter and Saturn 'great conjunction' of 2020

AOC: Nancy Pelosi Needs to Go, but There’s Nobody to Replace Her Yet

Briahna Joy Gray: AOC TRASHES Pelosi, Schumer But Won't Commit To Action

Jimmy Dore: Will Trump Pardon Assange & Snowden?

Jimmy Dore: Punching Down on Workers During Economic Crisis

Rising: Biden Aide Calls GOP 'Bunch Of F***kers While Biden Insists 'Fever Will Break'

Tulsi Gabbard introduces bill to REPEAL PATRIOT Act

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A Little Night Music

Martha & the Vandellas - Nowhere To Run

Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - Wild One

Martha Reeves & the Vandellas - Jimmy Mack

Martha & the Vandellas - Quicksand

Martha & the Vandellas - I gotta let you go

Martha & the Vandellas - Heat Wave

Martha And The Vandellas - I'm Ready For Love

Martha And The Vandellas - Easily Persuaded

Martha And The Vandellas - I Can't Wait Till Summer Comes

Martha And The Vandellas - Dancing In The Street

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