From DNC Nominations to Secret Coronavirus Reports
August 21, 2020 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief, a weekly selection of news stories from journalism outlets operating outside traditional corporate systems and news organizations. The Headlines U.S. Election ‘We Can and Will Overcome This Season of Darkness in America’: Joe Biden Accepts Democratic Presidential Nomination (Common Dreams) It’s Official: Senator […]
Read the White House’s Secret Coronavirus Red Zone Reports
The White House Coronavirus Task Force issues weekly reports to governors about the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic but doesn’t make those reports public, keeping key county-level data and federal advice to states out of sight. The Center for Public Integrity is collecting the weekly reports for all 50 states in a new document […]
Banks Have Made $18 Billion From “Paycheck Protection Program” Processing Fees Alone
Whether or not a single job or company is saved through the CARES Act’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), lenders will be paid hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money. As of mid-July, PPP lenders, including JPMorgan Chase Bank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, had racked up $18 billion in fees—more than was allocated to other programs […]
Bannon, Biden, the darkness, and the light
EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING, Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart and the Trump campaign, was drinking coffee on the deck of a $35-million yacht off the coast of Connecticut—as populist rabble-rousers are wont to do—when federal agents came on board and arrested him. Bannon stands accused of defrauding hundreds of thousands of people who gave money to We Build the […]
Private Border Wall Fundraisers Have Been Arrested on Fraud Charges
When we asked Brian Kolfage last month to explain how his group We Build the Wall had spent the $25 million it had raised, plus address concerns of corruption when the private sector takes over the building of border walls, he scoffed. “How is there corruption?” Kolfage, a decorated Iraq War veteran, told ProPublica and […]
GOP Is Waging a War on Voting. Here Are 8 Ways You Can Protect Election 2020.
The 2020 presidential election will not be decided by the popularity of candidates or their ideas. It will not be decided by how many people intend to vote for each candidate. The usual dramas of polls, debates and running mates are irrelevant. The election will be decided by how many people try to vote and how many […]
DeJoy Says USPS Won’t Reinstall More Than 600 Removed Mail Sorting Machines
Embattled Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testified before the US Senate on Friday that he will not reinstall more than 600 mail sorting machines that have been removed under his leadership. Postal workers say the removal of these machines has contributed to major mail delays that could affect whether mail ballots are counted in the 2020 election. Earlier this week, DeJoy announced that he […]
Not All Criticism of Kamala Harris Is Created Equal
After the twists and turns of a drawn-out process, on Tuesday, August 11, 2020, the Biden campaign chose Kamala Harris to be his vice presidential running mate, which will make her the first Black woman and South Asian–American person to appear on a major political party’s presidential ticket. Writing in The Nation (8/12/20), Joan Walsh described the […]
Kopmala’s Padlocks and the Games Politicians Play
The Big Business-backed Harris earned a reputation as a friend of the police and an agent of racially disparate mass incarceration. “It’s an old game in American politics: Democrats posing as populists and progressives when they are owned by the nation’s imperial ruling class.” Within just moments after Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden announced […]
From VP Nominee Harris to Preventing Future Pandemics
June 19, 2020 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief, a weekly selection of news stories from journalism outlets operating outside traditional corporate systems and news organizations. The Headlines PCIM Original Watch: Journalism Voices on Pandemic and Protest (The Park Center for Independent Media) U.S. Election Kamala Harris Reading Guide: The Best Reporting […]