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President Biden hosted a summit of world leaders at the White House yesterday, at which he marked the “tragic milestone” of Covid claiming 0ne million American lives. President Joe Biden appealed to world leaders at a COVID-19 summit Thursday to reenergize a lagging international commitment to attacking the virus. … ‘This pandemic isn’t over,’ Biden… Read more.
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Here is how the BBC updated this unfolding international farce today: __________ The Serb star remains in immigration detention [at a hotel] in Melbourne after being denied entry on Wednesday. A court challenge is due on Monday, a week before the Australian Open begins. … Djokovic, who has said he is opposed to vaccination, had… Read more.
The Hitz Report cleared the CIA of injecting crack cocaine into cities across America. Well, suspicions abound that big pharma CEOs are manufacturing Covid variants to sell vaccines. And it might take another congressional report to clear them. Pharma CEOs Pushing Covid Vaccines A colleague vented this suspicion about big pharma during a Zoom on Tuesday. Everyone on… Read more.
Covid is clearly far more infectious than the flu. And, with a death toll of over 750,000 in the United States and over 5 million worldwide, it is clearly far more deadly. But you’ve probably noticed medical pundits all over the media lately drawing all kinds of comparisons between Covid and the flu. Their apparent… Read more.
The 2020 Tokyo Paralympics get underway with the Opening Ceremony tonight. If you live in the United States, however, you probably had no clue (unless you’re related to someone from Team USA, or you experienced the Google shower of Paralympic pictograms on your computer screen). Of course, media coverage of the Paralympics is scant in… Read more.
Nero fiddled. Obama danced. Legend has it that Nero fiddled while “a great fire ravaged Rome.” But history can fairly record that Obama danced while a great pandemic ravaged America. Here is how TMZ, the tabloid of record in the celebrity world former President Barack Obama now inhabits, reported the first draft on August 8:… Read more.
Nobody has been more critical than I of the diabolical way Fox News has spent years propagating anti-American propaganda. You’d never know it today, but Fox News used to be de-facto state TV -before Trump’s dystopian presidency made being so politically inconvenient. Specifically, no cable network provided more jingoistic coverage of the American military or… Read more.
Publisher’s Note Anthony Livingston Hall is easily one of the most prolific thinkers of our times. What’s more, his views defy conventional wisdom. The Covid-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests, and US presidential election figure most prominently in this volume. But Hall also comments on the other global events of 2020. Among his many controversial… Read more.
Here in part is what I wrote months ago in “Covid Vaccine: Fear Not Blacks, a Black Woman Developed It,” December 12, 2020: ________ The legacy of racism in America manifests in many cruel ways. And sometimes the cruelty is replete with irony. Case in point is the racist way the US government treated Blacks… Read more.
