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Naomi Klein: Healthcare Industry Sees "Potential Bonanza" of Profits in COVID-19 Crisis
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "We are seeing power grabs, anti-democratic power moves around the world, including by governments that are very close to the Trumps and the Kushners, like Netanyahu, who has used the cover of the pandemic to resolve the fact that he hasn't managed to win any of the elections he has run in. Now he has a coalition government."
Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, leaves the federal court following a status conference with Judge Emmet Sullivan, in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. (photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
Court Asks Retired Judge to Oppose Justice Dept Effort to Drop Flynn Case and Examine if Ex-Trump Adviser Committed Perjury
Spencer S. Hsu, Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Michael Flynn's sentencing judge Wednesday asked a former federal judge to oppose the Justice Department's request to dismiss the former Trump national security adviser's guilty plea and examine whether Flynn may have committed perjury."
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An employee from a disinfection service company sanitizes the floor of a market in Seoul, South Korea. (photo: Reuters)
In South Korea and China, Loosening Restrictions Brings Coronavirus Resurgence
Emily Feng, Anothony Kuhn and Colin Dwyer, NPR
Excerpt: For months, South Korea has been praised as a model and a beacon of hope for the world in its desperate fight to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Despite reporting its first confirmed case the same day as the U.S., the country has reported less than 300 deaths linked to COVID-19 - and since its peak in February, South Korea's intensive response had reduced its tally of new cases to a trickle."
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY., will be co-chairwoman of the climate change committee along with former Secretary of State John Kerry, who was a visible Biden surrogate. (photo: AP)
Biden Taps Progressive Committee Leaders in Unity Effort With Sanders, Including Ocasio-Cortez on Climate
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Joe Biden and the last rival he bested to become the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Bernie Sanders, on Wednesday announced the members of joint task forces their campaigns will use to promote party unity by hammering out consensus on six top policy issues."
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Sen. Mitch McConnell. (photo: Reuters)
Mitch McConnell Wants to Give FBI the Power to Collect Americans' Web-Browsing History Without a Warrant
Aaron Holmes, Business Insider
Holmes writes: "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pushing forward with an amendment that would let the FBI collect records on Americans' web-browsing and search histories without a warrant this week."
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A sign for Navajo Drive is seen against a cloud-darkened Sentinel Mesa in Oljato-Monument Valley, Utah on the Navajo Reservation on April 30, 2020. (photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP)
Doctors Without Borders Dispatches Team to the US to Assist With Navajo Nation's Coronavirus Crisis
Christina Capatides, CBS News
Capatides writes: "Doctors Without Borders is best known for sending medical professionals into international conflict zones in the midst of medical crises. The organization has teams in Afghanistan, Iran, Sierra Leone, Venezuela and 66 other countries. It did not, however, have a medical presence in the U.S. - until now."
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Amazon rainforest. (photo: Filipe Frazao/Shutterstock)
Earth's Lungs Amazon Forests Saved: Indigenous Group Wins Case Over Illegal Tree Logging
Shreya Chauhan, India Times
Chauhan writes: "After two decades of federal court dispute against illegal logging interests, the Ashaninka indigenous community in Brazil has won."
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