Background Briefing: May 27, 2020
Can the Republicans Get Away With Unpopular Programs While Ignoring Popular Demands? We begin with an analysis of why the Republicans are determined to enact unpopular measures like more tax cuts for the rich, immunity for big corporations, bankrupting the Post...
Background Briefing: May 26, 2020
Our "Bone Spur" President Trolls a Marine Captain on Memorial Day and Promotes a Vile Conspiracy Theory We begin with Trump's Memorial Day weekend twitter storm of insults and conspiracy theories in which the "bone spur" president attacked a Marine Captain on...
Background Briefing: May 25, 2020
As Tribal Divisions Intensify, We Look More and More Like a Failed State We begin on this Memorial Day with Lucian Truscott, a journalist and author who is the son of a U.S. Army Colonel and grandson of a famous American general and a graduate of West Point who has...
Background Briefing: May 24, 2020
Questioning Trump's Sanity and Half the Country's Too We begin with an article in The Atlantic warning of a coming mental health crisis as the coronavirus has laid bare the failings of American heath care and public health. Dr. Allen Frances, a Professor...
Background Briefing: May 21, 2020
Trump Trashes Another Treaty We begin with the tearing up of a third major arms control treaty by President Trump, this time the Open Skies Treaty, first proposed by President Eisenhower then eventually signed in 1992 by 34 nations. Joseph Cirincione, the...
Background Briefing: May 20, 2020
Republican Governors Assist Trump by Undercounting Covid Deaths We begin with the efforts underway by Trump and his loyal governors like DeSantis in Florida, Kemp in Georgia and Ducey in Arizona, to engage in deliberate efforts to undercount their states'...
Background Briefing: May 19, 2020
Trump's New Vaccine Czar and Big Pharma's Grip on Vaccines We begin with the new vaccine czar Moncef Slaoui appointed by Trump to head up what the White House calls "Operation Warp Speed", having to divest $10 million's worth in stock options from Moderna the...
Background Briefing: May 18, 2020
China Gives $2 Billion to the WHO While the US Cuts Funds and Blames Them for the Pandemic We begin with the 73rd WHO, World Health Organization's assembly which China's President Xi Jinping addressed by video-link pledging $2 billion to deal with the...
Background Briefing: May 17, 2020
Trump Sidelines Health Professionals While Fox Switches Coverage From Covid to Obamagate We begin with the inescapable conclusion that the top public health professionals advising the White House have become nothing more than window dressing for a president who...
Background Briefing: May 14, 2020
The Whistleblower's Dark Warning as Trump is Poised to Fire or Muzzle Fauci We begin with the alarming testimony in the House today from the whistleblower Dr. Bright, the former head of BARDA, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, who was...