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Editor's Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative September 2021 news and views. This is Part 2 of our excepts during a heavy news month.
Sept. 23
Top Headlines
New York Times, In Push to Tax the Rich, White House Spotlights Billionaires’ Tax Rates- Washington Post, House Jan. 6 panel issues subpoenas for Meadows, Scavino, others
- Washington Post, Congress is hurtling toward debt showdown despite public’s waning interest in the issue
- Washington Post, White House tells U.S. agencies to get ready for first government shutdown of pandemic
- New York Times, F.D.A. Authorizes Pfizer Booster Shots for Older and At-Risk Americans
- Washington Post, EPA finalizes first new climate rule under Biden, targeting refrigerants
- Washington Post, Hospitals overwhelmed by covid are turning to ‘crisis standards of care.’ What does that mean?
- Washington Post, Pope jokes he is ‘still alive’ despite some bishops wishing him dead
- Washington Post, Biden White House leans toward releasing information about Trump and Jan. 6 attack, setting off legal and political showdown
- Palmer Report, Opinion: President Biden’s big cleanup operation has made more progress than you think, Ron Leshnower
#MeToo Mass Rape Horrors
- Washington Post, In Larry Nassar’s shadow, a larger sex abuse case at the University of Michigan
- Washington Post, Opinion: Two miscarriages of justice reveal a sickening disparity, Ruth Marcus
- New York Times, R. Kelly’s Trial Is Captivating a Black Audience Online. Here’s Why, Troy Closson
Virus Victims, Responses
- New York Times, Live Updates: C.D.C. Is Set to Decide Who Qualifies for Booster Shots After F.D.A. Approval
- New York Times, For Parents of Disabled Children, School Mask Wars Are Particularly Wrenching
- New York Times, Pressure Grows on U.S. Companies to Share Covid Vaccine Technology
- New York Times, People with serious conditions are waiting weeks for non-Covid surgeries as hospitals are inundated once again
Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 699,748- Washington Post, 212.5 million U.S. vaccinated
U.S. Terrorists, Election Fraudsters, Apologists, Money Sources
- New York Times, Arizona’s Criticized Election Review Nears End, but Copycats Are Coming
- Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: Covid and Trumpism lead to coups and rumors of coups, Wayne Madsen
- Washington Post, Tucker Carlson is taking aim at his own book publisher
- HuffPost, ‘Outrageous’: Judge Lays Into Trump-Loving Deputy Who Wore ‘Sheriff’ Patch On Jan. 6
U.S. Crime, Courts, Police, Immigration
- Washington Post, Republicans, Democrats unable to reach deal on bill to overhaul policing tactics
- Washington Post, Editorial: It’s hard to hold police accountable. For federal agents, it’s all but impossible
- Washington Post, Federal appeals court vacates gun rights ruling on sales to people under 21
- New York Times, One Dead and a Dozen Injured in Shooting at Tennessee Grocery, Police Say
- Washington Post, Charges of racism swirl as Haitian Americans and allies unite to protest Biden’s border crisis
- Washington Post, Man ‘snapped’ before killing 4 people found in Wisconsin cornfield, prosecutors allege
New York Times, Gabby Petito’s Death Ruled a Homicide, F.B.I. Confirms- Washington Post, As the Petito case grips the nation, families of color say their missing loved ones matter, too
- Palmer Report, The real reason Eric Trump is panicking, TR Kenneth
U.S. Governance, Politics, Elections
- New York Times, Live Political Updates: Senior U.S. Diplomat to Haiti Resigns, Citing ‘Inhumane’ Deportations
- New York Times, Regulators Racing Toward First Major Rules on Cryptocurrency
Washington Post, Analysis: Republicans usually lose shutdown fights. So why go there again? Aaron Blake- Washington Post, Former treasury secretaries tried defusing debt-ceiling bomb in talks with Yellen, McConnell
- Washington Post, Fed projects new interest rate hikes in 2022, signals upcoming easing of supports if economy continues to heal
World News
New York Times, Days Before Vote, Merkel Is Where She Didn’t Want to Be: On the Stump- New York Times, Thousands of Boko Haram Members Surrendered. They Moved In Next Door
- New York Times, Afghan Uyghurs Fear Deportation as Taliban Cozy Up to China
- Washington Post, Biden, Macron to meet next month amid dispute over Australian submarine deal
U.S. Media
New York Times, R. Kelly’s Trial Is Captivating a Black Audience Online. Here’s Why, Troy Closson- New York Times, Melvin Van Peebles, Champion of New Black Cinema, Dies at 89
- New York Times, Wikipedia’s Next Leader on Misinformation: ‘Neutrality Requires Understanding’
Top Stories
New York Times, In Push to Tax the Rich, White House Spotlights Billionaires’ Tax Rates, Jim Tankersley, Sept. 23, 2021. A White House analysis using an unconventional methodology says the wealthiest Americans pay far less in taxes than others.President Biden is leaning into his push to increase taxes on the rich as he seeks to unify Democrats in the House and Senate behind a $3.5 trillion bill that would expand federal efforts to fight climate change, reduce the cost of child care, expand educational access, reduce poverty and more.
“I’m sick and tired of the super-wealthy and giant corporations not paying their fair share in taxes,” Mr. Biden wrote on Twitter on Wednesday, amplifying an argument that Democratic strategists believe will help sell his economic agenda to the public and potentially lift the party’s candidates in midterm elections. “It’s time for it to change.”
To buttress that argument, White House economists published on Thursday a new analysis that seeks to show a gap between the tax rate that everyday Americans face and what the richest owe on their vast holdings.
The analysis suggests that the wealthiest 400 households in America — those with net worth ranging between $2.1 billion and $160 billion — pay an effective federal income tax rate of just over 8 percent per year on average. The White House is basing that tax rate on calculations using data on high earners’ income, wealth and taxes paid from the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances.
The analysis, from researchers at the Office of Management and Budget and the Council of Economic Advisers, is an attempt to bolster Mr. Biden’s claims that billionaires are not paying what they actually should owe in federal taxes, and that the tax code rewards wealth, not work.
Washington Post, House Jan. 6 panel issues subpoenas for Meadows, Scavino, others, Tom Hamburger, Jacqueline Alemany and Carol D. Leonnig, The committee said it is seeking records surrounding the planning of the Jan. 6 rally that was held ahead of the attack on the Capitol and any interactions the individuals had with President Donald Trump.The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has issued subpoenas to two top Trump White House officials, former Chief of Staff
Mark Meadows, right, and former deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, as well as to Kash Patel, who was serving as chief of staff to the acting defense secretary that day. An additional subpoena targets longtime Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon.The subpoenas were announced Thursday evening by the committee, which has moved its inquiry in to a new more aggressive stage after requesting White House records last month and sending preservation requests for records to telecom and social media companies.
Even before the subpoenas were made public Thursday, Trump and his team condemned the select committee’s inquiry, vowing to fight its demands for documents and interviews with claims of executive privilege. A debate about a former president’s ability to restrict access to information and individuals has already begun in Washington — and is likely to become dramatically more intense now that these first subpoenas have been issued.
Biden White House leans toward releasing information about Trump and Jan. 6 attack, setting off legal and political showdown
The executive privilege questions will be especially focused on Meadows and Scavino due to their roles in the White House and access to Trump at the time of the attack. Questions to Patel would likely deal with the committee’s concerns over Trump’s communications with the Pentagon and efforts to stay in office after Jan. 20. Bannon was a leading advocate of making Jan. 6 a key moment in Trump’s efforts to stay in office.
Along with asking the Meadows, Scavino, Patel and Bannon to hand over certain records, the committee is instructing the four men to appear for depositions in mid-October.
Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: The billionaire wanted by China who funded insurrection propaganda and a near Sino-U.S. nuclear war, Wayne 
Madsen, left, Sept. 23, 2021. Guo Wengui, a Chinese billionaire wanted by the government of China for bribery, kidnapping, money laundering, fraud and rape, sits comfortably in New York City in his penthouse in the Sherry-Netherland Hotel overlooking Central Park, sipping $1 million-a-kilogram rare tea, all the while under the umbrella of U.S. political asylum protection status.Meanwhile, through his GTV Media Group conglomerate, Guo is simultaneously funding propaganda supporting the January 6th insurrection in Washington and
the overthrow of the government giving him political asylum. Specifically, Guo funds, through his Guo Media company, Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast and "Real America's Voice" ...
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