NINA SCHMIDT – Ultimately, The Blue Road to Trump Hell is both a memorialization and a warning: a chronicle of Democratic Party leadership’s mistakes and the political and economic conditions that produced them. The book stands as an act of resistance to complacency and collective amnesia, offering a moment of accountability, while being in and of itself an artifact of cautious optimism about a party’s ability to learn from its failures.
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Conflict of Interest: The Washington Post and the CIA
NORMAN SOLOMON – News media should illuminate conflicts of interest, not embody them. But the owner of the Washington Post is now doing big business with the Central Intelligence Agency, while readers of the newspaper’s CIA coverage are left in the dark.
Nader: Postal Crisis “Manufacturedâ€
INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY – Reuters reported this week that President Obama has endorsed a plan to “rescue†the Postal Service, including by reducing service one day a week.
Bloomberg reports: “A measure that may put the U.S. Postal Service under a control board, end to-the-door mail delivery and close post offices using the same process as military-base shutdowns was approved by a U.S. House panel. The bill, sponsored by Representatives Darrell Issa, a California Republican, and Dennis Ross, a Florida Republican, was approved today with Republican support and Democratic opposition.