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by David Swanson / December 31st, 2020 Before Antony Blinken can become Secretary of State, Senators must approve. And before that, they must ask questions. Here are some suggestions for what they should ask. 1. Second to the war on Iraq, which of the disasters you’ve helped facilitate do you most regret, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, or something else? And what have you learned that would improve your record going forward? 2. You once supported dividing Iraq into three nations. I’ve asked an Iraqi friend to draw up a plan to divide the United States up into three nations. Without yet seeing the...

Even US has struggled with its vaccine delivery, despite the infra India is getting its priority list ready, focus will soon move to delivery Hopes of a quick approval by India's drug regulator are running high, with UK authorising the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to be administered to public. This is the first-ever authorisation to the AstraZeneca vaccine, touted as an affordable alternate, which is also easy to administer. India's regulator DCGI will now possibly look to run correlations between UK and Indian data, and hopefully clear the vaccine in India within days. AstraZeneca-Oxford had r...

Antiwar.com Blog Edward Hasbrouck Posted on Applicants for Federal financial aid for higher education will no longer be required to have registered with the Selective Service System for a possible military draft or answer questions about their Selective Service registration status or compliance. Among the provisions included in the 2000+ page coronavirus pandemic relief and Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, which was signed into law by President Trump on Sunday, is a section (Title VII, Section 701 et seq.) which effectively repeals the 1982 "Solomon Amendment" that has required men to ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 21, the House and Senate passed a $2.3 trillion omnibus appropriations and COVID-19 relief package, H.R. 133, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “Act”). President Trump signed the Act into law on December 27 after initially criticizing the amount of direct payments to individuals and other aspects of the Act late last week. The massive, 5,593 page document includes a $1.4 trillion appropriations package to fund the government through September 30, 2021, a long-debated $900 billion COVID-19 relief and stim...

As COVID-19 cases continue surging in Maine and the first vaccination doses offer some hope, Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, spoke to health reporter Rose Lundy of The Maine Monitor to reflect on the state’s pandemic response, and outline challenges and opportunities in 2021. The Maine Monitor, formerly known as Pine Tree Watch, is a local journalism product published by The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civic news organization based in Augusta. Here is a transcript of the Dec. 14 interview, edited sli...