Coronavirus – UnChain our Democracy

KochNet – $1 billion to cut CDC

March 30, 2020March 30, 2020FrankLeave a Comment

From The Intercept – thanks Ann J. Charles Koch Network Pushed $1 Billion Cut to CDC, Now Attacks Shelter-in-Place Policies for Harming BusinessLee Fang March 26 2020, 3:20 p.m. Americans for Prosperity, the pro-corporate pressure group founded and funded by billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, wants employees to return to work despite desperate pleas from public […]

Coronavirus & the Far Right

March 17, 2020February 2, 2023FrankLeave a Comment

In her March 14 “Letters from an American,” Political blogger and Boston College American historian Heather Cox Richardson unsparingly draws the links between Donald Trump’s and the present administration’s inadequate response to the growing pandemic and the four-decades-long assault by big-monied reactionary forces—think “Koch network”—on FDR’s New Deal and the American social safety net it […]

Incompetence or Sabotage?

February 26, 2020March 1, 2020FrankLeave a Comment

Consequences: Heather Cox Richardson Feb 25 … And yet, the U.S. seems to be unprepared (for the Corona virus). In May 2018, under then-National Security Advisor John Bolton, the administration got rid of the official in charge of overseeing a U.S. response to a pandemic and disbanded his global health security team. Today Acting Deputy […]