Source: SFGate
“A Georgia man who opened fire on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, shooting dozens of rounds into the sprawling complex and killing a police officer, had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Saturday. The 30-year-old shooter also tried to get into the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta but was stopped by guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street and opening fire late Friday afternoon, the official said. He was armed with five guns, including at least one long gun, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation. DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose was mortally wounded while responding.” (08/09/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/georgia-authorities-identify-suspect-in-cdc-20810084.php
Source: The Fifth Column
“Angry Indians, the Socialist Right, TikTok’s Propaganda War.” (08/08/25)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/518-angry-indians-the-socialist-right
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“Let’s give John Maynard Keynes his due: maybe he wasn’t wrong about everything. His vision for a global currency called bancor, which he proposed at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference, might have been a masterstroke. But it was thwarted by a rising hegemon. Envisioned as a neutral, supranational currency tied to a basket of stable commodities, the bancor aimed to stabilize global trade and curb economic imbalances. With the rise of BRICS, the dollar’s decline, and moving geopolitical fault lines, reviving this idea — but reimagined with distributed ledgers — could deliver a more resilient financial system.” (08/08/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/keynes-wasnt-wrong-about-everything
Source: CNN
“The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, CNN has exclusively learned, marking the latest effort by the White House to shape higher education and extract significant concessions from universities. … A draft of a proposed agreement sent to the school Friday and obtained by CNN requires UCLA to pay the federal government $1 billion over multiple installments, along with a $172 million claims fund for people impacted by violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.” (08/08/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/politics/ucla-trump-administration-settlement
Source: The Intercept
“‘A Purely Manmade Famine’: How Israel Is Starving Gaza.” (08/08/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/08/08/intercept-briefing-podcast-gaza-aid-food/
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Rachel Chiu
“The federal government has financed public broadcasting for decades. Over that time, Republicans argue, this broadcasting has become increasingly biased. Taxpayers, they claim, should not be forced to fund media outlets that they disagree with. They are right — the federal government does not need to be in the news business. Subsidies shouldn’t be keeping entire segments of an industry afloat, and the argument that local newsrooms need a lifeline has been used repeatedly to justify a profusion of preferential treatment, including antitrust exemptions that would enable news companies to cartelize. If this news subsidy ever served a useful purpose, it has long outlived it, especially given the evolution of media. ” (08/08/25)
https://fee.org/articles/do-americans-still-need-public-media/
Source: Fox News
“President Donald Trump is weighing whether to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, according to a report. Trump told attendees at a $1 million-a-plate fundraiser at his New Jersey golf club earlier this month he was interested in making a change to the plant’s classification, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. This comes after cannabis companies have committed millions of dollars to the president’s political groups, according to the report. The guests at Trump’s fundraiser included Kim Rivers, chief executive of Trulieve, one of the largest marijuana companies. Rivers urged the president to make the change and expand medical marijuana research, the newspaper noted. The potential move to remove marijuana from the list of Schedule I controlled substances and make it a Schedule III drug would make it significantly easier to buy and sell cannabis and make the industry more profitable.” (08/09/25)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-considers-reclassifying-marijuana-less-dangerous-drug
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Tariffs on Gold, Gambling in 401(k)’s — Signs of A Crack-Up Boom?” (08/08/25)
https://rumble.com/v6xbemc-tariffs-on-gold-gambling-in-401ks-signs-of-a-crack-up-boom.html
Source: The American Conservative
by Ted Snider
“The former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces penned an article and posed for Vogue Ukraine in late July. Though the article appeared in the magazine’s 2025 Leaders edition, Valery Zaluzhny nowhere declared an intention to run for Ukraine’s leadership, nor has he declared an intention to run at any other time. But, perhaps, he did not need to. … After over a year of capably but quietly serving as ambassador in London, Zaluzhny has burst back onto the Ukrainian scene with an article and photo shoot that reintroduced him to his compatriots, not as the rough general of Ukraine, but as a relatable man of the common Ukrainian people who, unlike Zelensky, is capable of wearing a tailored suit, rather than military fatigues.” (08/08/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/why-zelensky-should-fear-his-own-former-general/
Source: The American Prospect
by Whitney Curry Wimbish
“America’s two biggest private prison companies have made even more money from Trump’s mass deportation campaign than executives’ wildest hopes. In second-quarter earnings calls this week, executives at both GEO Group and CoreCivic announced revenue increases of over 100 percent compared to the same period last year, described buybacks of millions of dollars’ worth of stock, and outlined plans for the day after Trump achieves his goal of deporting one million immigrants this year, which they paradoxically expect will net even bigger piles of cash. Both revised their outlook for the rest of the year upwards. At GEO Group, the largest contractor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), executives reported total revenue for the period of $636.2 million, about a 5 percent increase from the second quarter of 2024. Net income was $29.1 million for the period, compared to a net loss of $32.5 million last year.” (08/08/25)
https://prospect.org/justice/2025-08-08-private-prisons-cash-in-trumps-mass-deportations/
