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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative September  2021 news and views. This is Part 2 of our excepts during a heavy news month.

 

Sept. 22

Top Headlines

• New York Times, F.D.A. Authorizes Pfizer Booster Shots for Older and At-Risk Americans
• Washington Post, House passes bill to avert shutdown, but legislation faces grim prospects in Senate
• Washington Post, U.S. default this fall would cost 6 million jobs, wipe out $15 trillion in wealth, study says
• Washington Post, U.S. careens toward shutdown, financial crisis amid stalemate in Congress
• New York Times, Trump Campaign Knew Lawyers’ Voting Machine Claims Were Baseless, Memo Shows, Alan Feuer
• Washington Post, Opinion: New details about Trump’s Dominion scam help explain our authoritarian slide, Greg Sargent
• Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: Covid and Trumpism lead to coups and rumors of coups, Wayne Madsen
• Washington Post, More centrist Democrats question size of $3.5 trillion economic plan
• New York Times,  In U.N. Debut, Biden Confronts Doubts About U.S. Global Leadership

 

Virus Victims, Responses

• Washington Post, Second dose of J&J vaccine increases covid protection, company says
• New York Times, Pressure Grows on U.S. Companies to Share Covid Vaccine Technology
• New York Times, People with serious conditions are waiting weeks for non-Covid surgeries as hospitals are inundated once again
• Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 696,918
• Washington Post, 212.3 million U.S. vaccinated
  

 

U.S. Governance, Politics, Elections

• Washington Post, Former treasury secretaries tried defusing debt-ceiling bomb in talks with Yellen, McConnell
• Washington Post, Fed projects new interest rate hikes in 2022, signals upcoming easing of supports if economy continues to heal
• New York Times, What’s at Stake in the 2022 Races for Governor
• Washington Post, ‘I’ve never seen maggots this big’: New Orleans hasn’t picked up some people’s trash since Ida.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative September  2021 news and views.

 

Sept. 2

Top Headlines

• New York Times, Supreme Court, Breaking Silence, Won’t Block Texas Abortion Law
• Washington Post, Opinion: Texas shows us what post-democracy America would look like, Dana Milbank
• Washington Post, Manchin calls on Democrats to ‘pause’ and cut their $3.5 trillion spending plan, dealing potential blow to Biden agenda
• Washington Post, Live Updates: U.S. could work with Taliban against terrorists, Pentagon says
• Washington Post, Questions hang over diplomatic mission as next phase of U.S.-Afghanistan relationship begins
• Washington Post, Perspective: The viral photo of the last soldier in Afghanistan is powerful — and deceptive, Philip Kennicot

Virus Victims, Responses

• Washington Post, Joe Rogan has covid-19, is taking unproven deworming medicine
• Washington Post, Texas district closes schools after covid kills two teachers in one week
• Washington Post, Four conservative radio talk-show hosts bashed coronavirus vaccines. Then they got sick
• Washington Post, Georgia professors are quitting over their universities’ lax mask rules: ‘This is a matter of life and death,’
• Washington Post, FDA to hear from outside experts on coronavirus boosters just days before shots become available
• Washington Post, Opinion: Yes, you can get some immunity from having covid-19. But no one should wait to get vaccinated, Leana S. Wen
• Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 659,927
• Washington Post, 205 million U.S. vaccinated
• New York Times, Opinion: The Buying of the American Mind, Paul Krugman

 

More On Supreme Courts, Abortion, Votes, Democracy

• New York Times, Supreme Court, Breaking Silence, Won’t Block Texas Abortion Law (continued)
• Washington Post, Opinion: Texas shows us what post-democracy America would look like, Dana Milbank, (continued)
• Washington Post, Opinion: Say goodbye to Roe v. Wade, Paul Waldman
• New York Times, Citizens, Not the State, Will Enforce New Abortion Law in Texas
• Wayne Madsen Report, Opinion: Texas actions make it a prime candidate for international sanctions, Wayne Madsen

 

Pro-Trump Election Claims, Capitol Riot

• Washington Post, Liz Cheney appointed vice chair of panel investigating Jan.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative August 2021 news and views.

 

Aug. 3

Top Headlines

• Washington Post, 70 percent of U.S. adults have gotten at least one shot, hitting Biden vaccine goal a month late
• Washington Post, Florida breaks record for new cases as surge of infections hits state
• Washington Post, Senate unveils details of bipartisan infrastructure proposal

 

U.S. Insurrection Probes, Commentaries

• Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: Foreign cash bought the White House for Trump, Wayne Madsen
• Proof via Substack, Investigation: Trump Adviser Roger Stone Was Closely Attended By a Leading Proud Boy Just Before a Proud Boy Arson, a Proud Boy Riot, and the Proud Boys’ Capitol Attack, Seth Abramson
• Washington Post, Opinion: Biden cannot sit back and let our democracy sink. He’s now showing us he gets that, E.J. Dionne Jr.
• Washington Post, As many Republicans try to rewrite history of Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Sen. Ron Johnson suggests FBI knew more than it has said
• Washington Post, Maricopa County defies Arizona Senate subpoena seeking to expand GOP ballot review

 

Virus Victims, Responses

• New York Times, Where a Vast Global Vaccination Program Went Wrong, Benjamin Mueller and Rebecca Robbins
• New York Times, Live Updates: Workplace Vaccine Mandates Reveal a Divide Among Employees
• Washington Post, Lindsey Graham tests positive for the coronavirus after meeting senators without masks
• Washington Post, 190.5 million U.S. vaccinated
• Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 629,868

 

U.S. Governance, Politics, Elections

• Washington Post, Liberals erupt in fury at White House over end of eviction moratorium
• New York Times, Government scientists who quit during the Trump administration haven’t returned, stunting President Biden’s climate plans
• New York Times, Two House Races in Ohio Could Challenge Democratic Divisions and Trump’s Sway
• New York Times, New York Is Pushing Homeless People Off the Streets.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative July, 2021 news and views.

 

July 31

Top Headlines

• New York Times, Where the Delta Variant and Low Vaccination Rates Are Colliding
• Washington Post, Ban on evictions expires as renters face rising covid cases, lack of aid
• Washington Post, Analysis: Newly revealed notes drag congressional Republicans into Trump’s election-subversion effort, Philip Bump
• Washington Post, Jan. 6 panel faces choice of whether to call GOP lawmakers to testify
• Palmer Report, Opinion: Merrick Garland: how do you like me now? Bill Palmer
• New York Times, Biden Promised to Restore the Iran Nuclear Deal. Now It Risks Derailment 

 

Virus Victims, Responses

• New York Times, Vaccinated People With Rare Breakthrough Cases Can Spread Virus, C.D.C. Reports
• New York Times, New Rule Raises Question: Who’ll Pay for All the Covid Tests?
• Washington Post, Disney, Walmart mandate workers to be vaccinated as cases spike nationwide
• Washington Post, Vaccine holdouts relent as delta variant takes hold
• Washington Post, ‘We can’t take another blow’: Some restaurants may not survive renewed mask mandates
• Washington Post, 190.5 million U.S. vaccinated
• Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 629,065
• Washington Post, French police clash with anti-vaccine protesters amid tensions over ‘health pass’ plans,

 

2020 Tokyo Olympics

• New York Times, Olympic Soccer Live Updates: U.S. Women’s Team Beats Netherlands in Shootout‘
• Washington Post, The Tokyo Games went on. But American viewers aren’t coming along 
• Washington Post, The Tokyo Olympics schedule, day by day 

 

U.S. Politics, Governance

• Palmer Report, Opinion: Tucker Carlson over the edge
• New York Times, Carl Levin, the Senate Scourge of Corporate America, Dies at 87

 

Jan. 6 Pro-Trump Insurrection

• Daily Beast, NFL Star’s Ex Brought Knife to Capitol, Got Framed as Antifa

 

World News, Corruption, Human Rights

• New York Times, Hong Kong Protester Is Sentenced to 9 Years in First Security Law Case
• Washington Post, Beijing police detain Chinese Canadian pop star Kris Wu on rape allegations

 

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative July, 2021 news and views.

 

July 3

Top Headlines

• Washington Post, U.S. military vacates main air base in Afghanistan, underscoring withdrawal expected within days
• New York Times, As Afghan Forces Crumble, an Air of Unreality Grips the Capital
• Washington Post, Massive ransomware attack on widely used IT tool hits hundreds of companies
• Washington Post, Hours-long standoff between police, heavily armed men in Massachusetts ends with 11 arrests
• Washington Post, Craving freedom from virus, U.S. heads into July 4 with sharply divided risk 

 

Trump Probes, Jan. 6 Insurrection 

• HuffPost, 6 Months After Deadly Capitol Riot, Pipe Bomb Suspect Still Eludes Authorities
• Washington Post, Trump’s company cloaked him in gilded fame. Now it faces felony charges, debt and a tainted brand
• New York Times, In Case Against Trump’s Company, Echoes of His Father’s Tactics on Taxes
• Washington Post, FBI launches flurry of arrests over attacks on journalists at Capitol riot
• New York Times, As president, Donald Trump is said to have called an Arizona official who was being pressured to investigate election fraud claims
• Washington Post, Alleged Oath Keeper arrested in Capitol riot turned over firearm
• Washington Post, Trump seeks to use indictments as a political rallying cry as he tries to survive latest legal threat
• New York Times, Editorial: The Supreme Court Abandons Voting Rights
• Washington Post, Opinion: Nancy Pelosi has backed Kevin McCarthy into a corner, Greg Sargent
• Washington Post, As prosecutors indict the Trump Organization, Trump indicts himself, Dana Milbank
• Washington Post, Opinion: The Trump case may be unusual. But if true, it’s brazen tax fraud, Ruth Marcus

 

Virus Victims, Responses, Jobs 

• Washington Post, Facing the delta variant wave with few vaccine doses, African countries suffer — and bristle with anger
• Washington Post, Johnson & Johnson says its coronavirus vaccine is effective against delta variant
• Washington Post, 182.1 million U.S.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative July, 2021 news and views.

 

July 31

Top Headlines

• New York Times, Where the Delta Variant and Low Vaccination Rates Are Colliding
• Washington Post, Ban on evictions expires as renters face rising covid cases, lack of aid
• Washington Post, Analysis: Newly revealed notes drag congressional Republicans into Trump’s election-subversion effort, Philip Bump
• Washington Post, Jan. 6 panel faces choice of whether to call GOP lawmakers to testify
• Palmer Report, Opinion: Merrick Garland: how do you like me now? Bill Palmer
• New York Times, Biden Promised to Restore the Iran Nuclear Deal. Now It Risks Derailment 

 

Virus Victims, Responses

• New York Times, Vaccinated People With Rare Breakthrough Cases Can Spread Virus, C.D.C. Reports
• New York Times, New Rule Raises Question: Who’ll Pay for All the Covid Tests?
• Washington Post, Disney, Walmart mandate workers to be vaccinated as cases spike nationwide
• Washington Post, Vaccine holdouts relent as delta variant takes hold
• Washington Post, ‘We can’t take another blow’: Some restaurants may not survive renewed mask mandates
• Washington Post, 190.5 million U.S. vaccinated
• Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 629,065
• Washington Post, French police clash with anti-vaccine protesters amid tensions over ‘health pass’ plans,

 

2020 Tokyo Olympics

• New York Times, Olympic Soccer Live Updates: U.S. Women’s Team Beats Netherlands in Shootout‘
• Washington Post, The Tokyo Games went on. But American viewers aren’t coming along 
• Washington Post, The Tokyo Olympics schedule, day by day 

 

U.S. Politics, Governance

• Palmer Report, Opinion: Tucker Carlson over the edge
• New York Times, Carl Levin, the Senate Scourge of Corporate America, Dies at 87

 

Jan. 6 Pro-Trump Insurrection

• Daily Beast, NFL Star’s Ex Brought Knife to Capitol, Got Framed as Antifa

 

World News, Corruption, Human Rights

• New York Times, Hong Kong Protester Is Sentenced to 9 Years in First Security Law Case
• Washington Post, Beijing police detain Chinese Canadian pop star Kris Wu on rape allegations

 

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative June, 2021 news and views (Part 2).; The month’s news prior to June 17 is in Part 1 of this report.

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June 23

Top Headlines

• New York Times,Democrats Show New Urgency on Crime, Signaling a Shift
• Washington Post, Senate Republicans block debate on elections bill, dealing blow to Democrats’ voting rights push
• Washington Post, Nearly 900 Secret Service members were infected with the coronavirus. A watchdog blames Trump
• New York Times, Saudi Operatives Who Killed Khashoggi Received Paramilitary Training in U.S.
• Washington Post, Defense secretary backs removing sexual assault prosecutions from military justice system
• Washington Post, For military’s top man, navigating the Trump-Biden transition is his biggest test yet

 

Jan. 6 Insurrection Day, White Nationalist Watch

• Proof via Substack, Investigation and Commentary: A Comprehensive Overview of All Five of Donald Trump’s January 6 War Rooms, Seth Abramson
• Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: Trump’s connection to the KGB highlighted in full-page ads in 1987, Wayne Madsen’
• Washington Post, Officer in Colorado killed in ‘ambush’ by man who ‘expressed hatred’ of law enforcement, officials say
• Palmer Report, Opinion: It’s all happening at once now, Bill Palmer
• New York Times, Indiana Woman Is First Person to Be Sentenced in Capitol Riot
• Washington Post, Indiana grandmother set to be first defendant sentenced in Capitol riots

 

Virus Victims, Responses

• Roll Call, White House concedes it will fall short of Biden’s July 4 vaccination goal
• Washington Post, Live Updates: Jill Biden tours the South to encourage vaccination as cases among the young mount
• Washington Post, Dozens of Texas health workers quit, fired after refusing to get vaccinated
• Washington Post, 177.9 million U.S. vaccinated
• Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 617,875

   

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative June, 2021 news and views

 

June 2

Top Headlines

• Washington Post, Biden promises to combat GOP efforts to restrict voting rights
• Washington Post, VMI has tolerated ‘racist and sexist culture’ and must change, investigation finds
• Washington Post, JBS, world’s biggest meat supplier, says its systems are coming back online after cyberattack
• Washington Post, A student was barred from graduation for wearing the wrong shoes. So a teacher gave him the shoes off his own feet
• Washington Post, Israel opposition says it’s ready to vote on ousting Netanyahu

 

Virus Victims, Responses

• Washington Post, Analysis: The pandemic is getting worse, even when it seems like it’s getting better, Ishaan Tharoor
• Washington Post, 168.5 million U.S. vaccinated
• Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 610,436
• Washington Post, Opinion: We need to investigate the lab-leak theory — without inflaming anti-Asian hate, Leana S. Wen
• Washington Post, Inside Fauci’s spring 2020 emails with a Chinese official, Pence’s chief of staff, regular citizens
• New York Times, Opinion: The End of the C.D.C. Eviction Moratorium Means Trouble, Peter Hepburn

 

U.S. Crime, Courts, Race

• Washington Post, Tampa man pleads guilty to felony in Jan. 6 Capitol riot; his sentencing could set bar for others
• Vice, QAnon Has a Disturbing Takeover Plot to ‘Eliminate’ Elected Officials, David Gilbert 
• Washington Post, Supreme Court will not take up Johnson & Johnson challenge of $2.1 billion cancer case award 

 

U.S. Politics, Governance

• Washington Post, Republicans aren’t ‘looking forward.’ They’re stepping into a Jim Crow past, Dana Milbank
• Anchorage Daily News, Biden administration suspends oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
• Washington Post, Administration suspends oil and gas leases in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 
• Palmer Report, Opinion: Last night’s House special election just revealed the trajectory the Democrats are on for the 2022 midterms, Bill Palmer
• Washington Post, What lawmakers, White House officials have said about UFOs
• Washington Post, Analysis: At least 20 Republican senators didn’t meet with Brian Sicknick’s family, Jacqueline Alemany
• Washington Post, This Senate is the oldest in American history.

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Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative May 2021 news and views

 

May 2

Top Headlines  

• Washington Post, India sets pandemic record with more than 400,000 new cases
• Washington Post, Democrats House majority threatened by retirements
• Washington Post, Democrats signal they’re open to concessions on infrastructure

 

U.S. Election Rigging, Capitol Riot, Domestic Terror 

• Proof via Substack, Investigation & Commentary: Trump’s Insurrection Is in Arizona Now, Seth Abramson
• New York Times, G.O.P. Seeks to Empower Poll Watchers, Raising Intimidation Worries
• Washington Post, Perspective: The politicians who tried to overturn an election — and the local news team that won’t let anyone forget it, Margaret Sullivan
• Washington Post, Newsmax apologizes to Dominion employee for falsely alleging he manipulated votes against Trump
• Palmer Report, Opinion: This is a huge gift, Bill Palmer

 

 Virus Victims, Responses

• New York Times, Global Virus Cases Reach New Peak, Driven by India and South America
• Washington Post, U.S. aid arrives in India as vaccine shortages hinder response
• Washington Post, 144.9 million vaccinated in U.S.
• Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 590,707
• New York Times, Europe’s Economy Shrinks, Sliding Back Into Recession
• New York Times, How Can the Olympics Protect 78,000 Volunteers From the Coronavirus?

 

More U.S. Politics, Governance   

• Washington Post, Harris-led effort to stem migration relies on tactics that experts say have flaws
• New York Times, From the Past, a Warning About Today’s Extremists
• New York Times, With 23 Candidates, Special Election in Texas Is Headed for Runoff
• New York Times, Why Kristi Noem Is Rising Quickly as a Republican Prospect for 2024 

 

World News

• Washington Post, Taliban warns of counterattacks as original May 1 deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal passes

 

U.S. Crime, Courts, Race

• Washington Post, Chauvin’s ‘particular cruelty’ should mean harsher sentence, AG argues

 

Top Stories

Indian leader Narendra Modi (File photo)

Washington Post, India sets pandemic record with more than 400,000 new cases, Joanna Slater, May 2, 2021 (print ed.).…

 
 

Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative April 2021 news and views

 

April 3

Top Headlines

• Washington Post, Derek Chauvin’s use of force against George Floyd was ‘totally unnecessary,’ senior officer testifies
• Washington Post, Officer killed, suspect fatally shot after vehicle rams barricade near Capitol
• Washington Post, U.S. Capitol Police officer William ‘Billy’ Evans killed in the line of duty
• New York Post, Suspect who smashed into barrier at US Capitol identified as Noah Green
• Washington Post, MLB will move its All-Star Game out of Atlanta as backlash to Georgia voting law continues

 

U.S. Governance, Politics

• Washington Post, Biden jobs plan seeks $400 billion for caretaking services as nation faces surge in aging population
• Washington Post, Editorial: Democrats should end Iowa and New Hampshire’s political monopoly
• Washington Post, Border officials say more people sneak past them as agents are overwhelmed
• New York Post, Matt Gaetz and Florida pols played Harry Potter-themed ‘sex challenge’ game: report

 

Virus Victims, Responses

• Washington Post, 101.8 million vaccinated in U.S.
• Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 567,610

 

Top Stories

 

George Floyd, above left, and former police officer Derek Chauvin, whose trial began Monday.

 Washington Post, Derek Chauvin’s use of force against George Floyd was ‘totally unnecessary,’ senior officer testifies, Holly Bailey and Robert Samuels, April 3, 2021 (print ed.). Capping a dramatic first week of testimony in Chauvin’s murder trial, Lt. Richard Zimmerman questioned the reasoning and technique behind Floyd’s restraint, saying the man no longer appeared to be a threat.

Derek Chauvin used force that was “totally unnecessary” when he knelt on George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds while Floyd was handcuffed and no longer a threat, the longest-serving officer in the Minneapolis department testified Friday.…