International Peace Movement

Sources & Organizations

American Friends Service Committee

American Humanist Association

Specific Information

International Peacebuilding – AFSC

Promoting Peace – AHA

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Election Protection

Sources & Organizations

Alliance for Youth Action We want to create a world where our democracy works for everyone and where all people – no matter where they come from, what they look like, or how they identify – live in loving, safe, and thriving communities. And we believe that when young people lead to create the world we want to see, we all win.

Ballotpedia

Democracy For America

Fair

Just Strategy

Oakland Green Party

Specific Information

Ballot Access – B

Elections — F

Fair Elections – OGP

Get Money Out of Politics -DFA

Government Support of Religion – ATSCS

Take Action – AYA

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Tulsa, Oklahoma Segregation Massacre

The Tulsa race massacre (known alternatively as the Tulsa race riot, the Greenwood Massacre, the Black Wall Street Massacre, the Tulsa pogrom, or the Tulsa Massacre) took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It has been called “the single worst incident of racial violence in American history.” The attack, carried out on the ground and from private aircraft, destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the district—at that time the wealthiest black community in the United States, known as “Black Wall Street.”

More than 800 people were admitted to hospitals, and as many as 6,000 black residents were interned in large facilities, many of them for several days. The Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics officially recorded 36 dead.  A 2001 state commission examination of events was able to confirm 39 dead, 26 black and 13 white, based on contemporary autopsy reports, death certificates and other records.  The commission gave several estimates ranging from 75 to 300 dead. Tulsa race massacre – Wikipedia

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Tulsa Race Massacre – HISTORY

How the Tulsa Race Massacre Was Covered Up – HISTORY

2021-01-25 Sen. Lankford to stay on Tulsa Race Massacre commission Earlier in January, Lankford apologized in a letter to Black Tulsans for not realizing contesting the Electoral College results in swing states would be seen as questioning Black voters’ legitimacy.

2020-12-09 100 Years Later, Tulsa Memorializes its 1921 Race Massacre .

Hall of Shame – United States

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Friends Who Like Bernie Sanders

Note: Back during the 2016 primary election, I created the group Friends Who Like Bernie Sanders on Facebook.  It was meant to be a file-oriented group where posts about the election were categorized into files.   This was done because of the scroll system of Facebook causes posts to disappear into the past with difficulty to find and retrieve later.   The file system helped keep posts available in smaller scrolls and thus easier to find by subject.  It was a great deal of labor on my part, so I stopped my efforts after the 2016 election.  I became a Jill Stein promoter after Bernie conceded to Hillary prior to the Convention in Philadelphia. You can visit the Facebook group, but I no longer file posts.   The group’s complete files I created are below for your viewing

File Index

Bernie Sanders

Sanders’ Activism –   Sanders -Long Time Activist

Sanders’ Agenda –   Sanders’ Agenda

Sanders’ Bern Report –   Sanders’ Bern Report

Sanders’ Cabinet/Government –   A Sanders’ Cabinet/Government

Sanders’ Campaign Ads –   Ads for Sanders

Sanders’ Campaign Process –   Sanders’ Campaign Process

Sanders’ Campaign Rallies –   Campaign Rallies

Sanders’ Campaign Staff –   Sanders’ Campaign Staff

Sanders’ Canvassing –   Sanders’ Canvassing

Sanders’ Contact Information –   Sanders’ Contact Information

Sanders’ Real Time Contributions –   Sanders’ Real Time Contributions

Sanders’ Election Calendar –   Sanders’ Election Calendar

Sanders’ Delegate Status –   Sanders’ Delegate Status

Sanders’ Delegates-   Help Bernie Delegates to Democratic Convention

Sanders’ Democrat Tailcoats –   Sanders’ Democrat Tailcoats

Sanders’ Donations –   Sanders’ Donations

Sanders’ Endorsements –   Endorsements for Sanders

Sanders’ –   Pro-Sanders Events

Sanders’ FB Outreach Program –   Sanders’ FB Outreach Program

Sanders’ Family –   Sanders’ First Lady and Family

Sanders’ Financial Plan –  How Bernie pays for his proposals

Sanders’ Health –   Sander’s Health

Sanders’ Issues –   Bernie Sanders on the Issues (policy positions)

Sanders’ Master Link –   Sanders’ Master Link List for All Things Bernie

Sanders’ Movement –   Sanders’ Movement moves Democrats to Left

Sanders’ Movement –   Movement Behind Sanders

Sander’s Movement –   Where does the Movement Go Discussion

Sanders’ Official Internet Sites –   Bernie Sanders Official Internet Sites

Sanders’ Official Web Site –   Bernie Sanders Official Web Site

Sanders’ Phone Bank –   Sanders’ Phone Bank

Sanders’ Press Releases –   Sanders’ Press Releases

Sanders’ Safety –   Sanders’ Safety

Sanders’ Spirituality –   Sanders’ Spirituality

Sanders –   Sanders Supporters Inspired to Run For Office

Sanders’ Support Videos –   Sanders’ Support Videos

Sanders’ Texting Outreach –   Sanders’ Texting Outreach

Sanders’ Twittering –   Sanders’ Twittering

Sanders’ Vice President Candidates –   Sanders’ Vice President Candidates

Sanders’ Volunteers –   Sanders’ Volunteers  

Sanders’ Work Ethic –   Sanders’ Work Ethic

Sanders –   Bernie Actually Won the Primary

Sanders –   Bern: The Bernie Sanders Movie

Sanders –   If Sanders Doesn’t Win the Primary

Sanders –   Before Sanders!

Sanders –   Beyond Sanders, The People’s Movement

Sanders – Beyond Bernie -Berniecrats

Sanders –   A Sanders’ Cabinet/Government

Sanders –   Sanders Manipulated by Hillary

Sanders –   Sanders Drop Out

Sanders –   Is Sanders Electable?

Sanders –   Sanders Fights to the Democrat Convention

Sanders –   Sanders at the DNC Convention

Sanders –   Sanders vs Corporate Media

Sanders –   Lobby Super Delegates for Sanders

Sanders –   Sanders & Hillary Negotiations

Sanders –   Sanders/Hillary Negotiations Not working

Sanders –   Sanders Not A Democrat (Neo-con)

Sanders –   Sanders More Democrat Than People’s Movement

Sanders –   Sanders on Green Party Ticket

Sanders –   Where does the Movement Go Discussion

Sanders –   One Percent Attacking Sanders

Sanders –   Other Pro-Sanders Groups

Sanders –   Help Sanders Supporters get to Philadelphia

Sanders –   Sanders Outspoken Supporters

Sanders –   Sanders Runs as an Independent for November Election

Sanders –   Sanders on Why Run as Democrat

Sanders –   Single Issue Candidate?

Sanders –   Sanders Visits Pope Francis

Sanders –   Why Vote for Sanders

Sanders –   A Bernie Sanders Write-In Campaign

Sanders and Latinos –   Sanders and Latinos

Sanders vs. Hillary –   Sanders vs. Hillary

Sanders vs. Trump –   Sanders vs. Trump

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Jill Stein

Jill Stein –   Why Support Jill Stein Now

Jill Stein –   Voting the Lessor Evil

Jill Stein –   Jill’s VP Ajamu Baraka

Jill Stein –   Ajamu Baraka

Jill Stein –   Jill Compares Well to Bernie

Jill Stein –   Recount by Green Party not Democrats

Jill Stein –   Jill on Dakota Pipe Access

Jill Stein –   Jill Stein on Environment

Jill Stein –   Jill Stein on Foreign Policy

Jill Stein –   Jill Stein on Science and Medicine

Jill Stein –   Jill Stein Fundraising

Jill Stein –   Jill and Millenniums

Jill Stein –   All Things for Promotion of Jill

Jill Stein –   Jill Letter to Editor Campaign

Jill Stein –   Jill Stein Interviews

Jill Stein –   Jill Stein Townhall

Jill Stein –   2012 Anti-Democratic Presidential Debates

Jill Stein –   Music for Jill

Jill Stein –   Green is the New Blue

Jill Stein –   Jill Stein Memes

Jill Stein –   Jill Stein at the DNC Convention

Jill Stein –   Occupy Inauguration

Jill Stein –   Jill Stein Spoiler of Hillary & Trump Evil

Jill Stein –   Jill Stein – Ballot Access

Jill Stein –   Voter Integrity Conference

Jill Stein –   Write-In Bernie Campaign is DNC Scam

Jill Stein –   Jill Stein Media Censorship

Jill Stein –   Polling Bias Against 3rd Parties

Jill Stein –   Open the Presidential Debates

Jill Stein –   Presidential Debates

Jill Stein –   Green Party National Convention

Jill Stein –   Jill Stein for President Advertisements

Jill Stein –   Jill Stein vs Hillary

Jill Stein –   Jill Stein on Hillary vs. Trump

Jill Stein –   Jill Stein – Green Party

Jill Stein –   Other Green Party Candidates

Jill Stein –   Jill Stein or Bust

Jill Stein –   Groups for Jill Stein

Jill Stein –   Sanders on Green Party Ticket

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary –   Hillary, The War Monger

Hillary –   Is Trump Just a Clinton Plant

Hillary –   Bosnia Sniper Fire Lies

Hillary –   Hillary has Abusive Supporters Too!

Hillary –   Some things about Hillary

Hillary –   Gaslighting: Selective Manipulating Spin

Hillary –   Huma Abedin

Hillary –   Huma E-mails Reopens Hillary E-mail Scandal

Hillary –   Hillary and Children’s Defense Fund

Hillary –   Hillary’s Corporate World View

Hillary –   Hillary’s Foreign Policy

Hillary –   Hillary Cult

Hillary –   DNC/Hillary Need Sanders’ Supporters

Hillary –   Hillary Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote

Hillary –   Hillary Endorsers

Hillary –   Hillary Electable?

Hillary –   Hillary Defends A Pedophile Rapist

Hillary –   Hillary’s 1% Support

Hillary –   Hillary Disdain for Sanders Supporters

Hillary –    Hillary E-mail Private Server

Hillary –   Hillary Interview with FBI

Hillary –   State Dept Reopens Hillary E-Mail Investigation

Hillary –   Congress Questions FBI Director James Comey on Hillary E-Mail Investigation

Hillary –   FBI Recommends No Charges of Hillary

Hillary –   Hillary lied to Congress

Hillary –   Hillary’s Foreign Policy

Hillary –   Hillary on Palestine / Israel

Hillary –   ISIS, Terrorism and Hillary

Hillary –   Hillary’s Kremlin Connection

Hillary –   Money Influences Hillary

Hillary –   Sanders/Hillary Negotiations

Hillary –   Neoliberalism

Hillary –   Hillary’s Personality

Hillary –   Hillary is NO Feminist

Hillary –   Hillary Won’t Debate Sanders for NY Voters?

Hillary –   Rigged Debates

Hillary –   Hillary vs Obama 2008

Hillary –    Hillary Clinton Supporters

Hillary –   Obama and Hillary

Hillary Victory Fund –   Hillary Victory Fund – Money-Laundering Scheme

Hillary vs. Trump –   Hillary vs. Trump

Hillary –   Why Would You Vote for Hillary?

Hillary Primary Loss –   If Hilary Doesn’t Win Primary

Hillary & Super PAC –   Hillary & Super PAC Sleaze

Hillary Transcripts –   Hillary Wall Street Speech Transcripts

Hillary –   Which Hillary?

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General Information

Candidates for Office –  Political Parties and Candidates for Office

Congressional Elections –   Congressional Elections

Early Primary States –   The Early Primary States

National Conference of State Legislatures –   National Conference of State Legislatures

Party Control of State Governments –    Party Control of State Governments

Political Parties –   Political Parties and Candidates for Office

Primary Schedules –   Primary Schedules

U.S. Presidential Election –   U.S. Presidential Election

Voting –   Where, When, How to Vote

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The Campaign Battle

$15 Minimum Wage –   Minimum Wage

1994 Crime Bill –    1994 Crime Bill

99% –   The 99% vs the 1%

Abortion Rights –   Abortion Rights

Actions Petitions –   Actions Petitions

Actions to Take –   Actions to Take

Ads for Hillary –   Ads – Hillary

Ads for Sanders –   Ads for Sanders

Advise/Ideas –  Advise/Ideas for Sanders

Affirmative Action –   Affirmative Action

African American –   African American

Aids –   Aids

AIPAC –   AIPAC

Alabama –   Alabama

Alaska –   Alaska

Alternative Media –   Alternative Media on Sanders

America Samoa –   America Samoa

Analysis on Election –   Lance Grÿ Analysis on Sanders & Election

Animal Rights –   Animal Rights

Anonymous –   We are Anonymous

Anthropocene –   Anthropocene: Planet Earth has entered new epoch

Apartheid –   Apartheid South Africa

Archive –   Sanders Voting & Archive Promotion

Arizona –   Arizona

Arkansas –   Arkansas

Artists –   Artists

Aspartame –   Artificial Sweetener, Aspartame, as Carcinogenic

Banks –   Too Big To Fail

Banks Breakup –   So-called Blotched Interview

Bankruptcy –   Bankruptcy

Bernie Delegates –   Help Bernie Delegates to Democratic Convention

Bernie or Bust –   Bernie or Bust

#BernieMadeMeWhite –   #BernieMadeMeWhite

Beyond Sanders – Beyond Bernie -Berniecrats

Beyond Sanders –   Beyond Sanders, The People’s Movement

Big Money –   Getting Big Money Out of Politics and Restoring Democracy

Bill Clinton –   Bill Clinton Administration

Bill Clinton –   Bill Clinton Campaigns for Hillary

Bill Clinton –   Bill Clinton Sexual Indiscretions

Bill Clinton –   Bill Clinton Meets Loretta Lynch

Birdie –   A Little Birdie told me!

Black Box Voting –   Black Box Voting

Black Lives Matter –   Black Lives Matter

Black Panthers –   Black Panthers

Blotched Interview –   So-called Blotched Interview

Brand New Congress –   Brand New Congress

California –   California

California –   Missing California Primary Votes

Campaign Music –   Campaign Music

Campaign Rallies –   Campaign Rallies

Campaign Strategy –   Campaign Strategy

Cancer –   Cancer

Cartoons –    Photos and Cartoons – Sanders

Caucus System –    Caucus System Crazy

Child Development –   Early Child Development

Children –   Children

CIA –   CIA – Overthrowing Governments

Citizen United –   Citizen United

Civil Liberties –    Civil Liberties

Climate Change –   Combating Climate Change to Save the Planet

Clinton Attacks –   Clinton Attacks on Sanders

Clinton Chronicles –   Clinton Chronicles

Clinton Foundation –   Clinton Foundation

Clinton’s Corruption –   The Clinton’s Corruption

Clinton’s Shell Companies –   Clinton’s Shell Companies

College Tuition –   It’s Time to Make College Tuition Free and Debt Free

Colorado –   Colorado

Communication –   Communication Privacy and Control

Commutation –   Commutation of Sentence

Congress –   Brand New Congress

Congress –   Creating a New Congress

Congress –   Sanders on Congress

Congressional –   Congressional Black Caucus

Congressional –   Congressional Bills Analysis

Congressional –   Congressional Elections

Connecticut –   Connecticut

Canova –   Tim Canova Vs. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Conservatives –   Conservatives for Sanders

Contested Election –   Contested Election

Corporate Censored News –   Corporate Censored News

Corporate Media –   Corporate Media Consolidation

Corporate Media –   Corporate Media for Hillary

Corporate Media –   Corporate Media Ignoring/Attacking Sanders

Corporate Media –   Corporate Media as Infotainment

Corporate Media –   Corporate Media Lie about When Super Delegates Vote

Corporate Media –   Good-bye to Corporate Media Corruption & Lies

Corporate Media –   Corporate Media Praise for Sanders

Corporate Media –   Corporate Media vs. Internet

Corporate Media –   Sanders vs Corporate Media

Corporate Revolving Door –   Corporate/Government Revolving Door

Corporate Tax –   Corporate Tax Dodgers

Corporate Tax –   Grand Daddy of Corporate Tax Loop Holes

Correct The Record –   Correct The Record Super PAC

Corruption –   Corruption Black Box Voting

Corruption –   Corruption Hillary Campaign/DNC

 Corruption –   Corruption in America

Crime –   Crime

Criminal Justice –   Criminal Justice

Chronic Pain Suffers – Chronic Pain Suffers

Cuba –   Cuba

Dakota Access Pipeline –   Standing Rock Sioux vs Dakota Access Pipeline

Death Penalty –   Death Penalty

Debates –   Republicrat’s Debates Refuse Third Party Participation

Debates –    Sanders and the Debates

Deep State –   The Deep State Shadow Government

Delaware –   Delaware

Delegate Count –   Elected Delegate Count

Democracy, Freedom and Humanity –   Democracy, Freedom and Humanity

Democracy Spring –   Democracy Spring

Democratic Convention –   Sanders Fights to the Democrat Convention

Democratic Convention –   Help Bernie Delegates to Democratic Convention

Democratic National Convention –   Democratic National Convention

Democratic National Convention –   Occupy Democratic Convention

Democratic National Convention –   Road to Philly Resources

Democratic National Convention –   Two Very Different Conventions in Philadelphia

Democratic National Convention –   Philadelphia Events

Democratic Party –   The Democratic Party Establishment Against Sanders

Democratic Party –    Future of Democratic Party

Democratic Party –    Democratic Platform Committee

Democratic Socialism –   Sanders and Socialism

Diebold Voting Machines –   Diebold Voting Machines & Fraud

Disability Rights –   Fighting for Disability Rights

DNC –  DNC Hacked Emails

DNC –   Class Action Lawsuit Against DNC

DNC –   DNC Committee

DNC –   DNC Hacked

DNC –   DNC – Debbie Wasserman Schultz

DNC –   DNC Attack on Sanders

DNC –   DNC & Hillary Election Collusion

DNC –   DNC/Hillary Need Sanders’ Supporters

DNC –   DNC Lobby Donation Rule

DNC –   DNC Platform

Dodd-Frank –   Dodd-Frank

Donations –   Sanders’ Donations

Drone –   Drone Assassination Program

Drug Prices –   Fighting to Lower Prescription Drug Prices

Drug War –   Drug War

Economic Justice –   Economic Justice

Economics –   Trickle Down Economics

Economy –   Improving the Rural Economy

Economy –   Sanders on the Economy

Education –   Education

Electable? –   Is Sanders Electable?

Elected Delegate –   Elected Delegate Count

Election –   Contested Election

Election –   Election Fraud

Election Fraud –   Black Box Voting

Election Fraud –   Justice Served * Racketeer Lawsuit and More

Elections –   Rigged Elections

Elections –   Public Financing of Elections

Elizabeth Warren –   Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren –   Elizabeth Warren vs. Trump

En Español –   Bernie Sanders Official Website En Español

Endorsements –   Endorsements for Sanders

Endless War –   Endless War

Environment –   Oil Pipeline Spills

Environmental Justice –   Environmental Justice

Establishment Politics –   Sanders on Establishment Politics

Ex-Pats –   Ex-Pats Americans Overseas

Facebook –   Facebook Political Corruption?       (FB Block?)

Family –   Real Family Values

FB Political Corruption –   FB Political Corruption

FBI –   FBI Recommends No Charges of Hillary

FBI –   Hillary Interview with FBI

First Amendment –   Non-Violent Speech & Advocacy as a Crime

Flint Michigan –   Flint Michigan Water Crisis

Florida –   Florida

Food Stamps –   Food Stamps

Food –   Bad Food – Tastes Good?

Foreign Policy –   Foreign Policy

Fossil Fuels –   Fossil Fuels

Fracking –   Fracking

Free Trade –   Free Trade

Fukushima –   Fukushima Nuclear Accident

Fundraising –   Fundraising Sanders vs Hillary

Gaslighting –   Gaslighting: Selective Manipulating Spin

Gentrification –   Gentrification

Georgia –   Georgia

Glass Steagall –   Glass Steagall

GMOs – Food –   GMOs – Food

Government Regulations –   Government Regulations

Green Party –   Green Party National Convention

Green Party –   Jill Stein – Green Party

Green Party –   Jill Stein on Hillary vs. Trump

Groups –   Other Pro-Sanders Groups

Guantanamo –   Guantanamo

Gun Control –   Sanders & Gun Control

Hate Groups –   Domestic Hate Groups

Hawaii –   Hawaii

Health Care –   Health Care in America

Homelessness –   Homelessness

Honduras –   Honduras Coup 2009

House –   House & Senate Challengers

House Parties –   Sanders House Parties

Huma Abedin –   Huma Abedin

Huma Abedin –   Huma E-mails Reopens Hillary E-mail Scandal

Human Rights –   Latin American Indigenous Rights

Humor –   Humor with Sanders

Idaho –   Idaho

Illinois –   Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel

Illinois –   Illinois

Immigration –   A Fair and Humane Immigration Policy

Incarceration –   Mass Incarceration

Income –  Income and Wealth Inequality

Independent Voters –   Independent Voters

Indiana –   Indiana

Individuals Attacking –   Individuals Attacking Sanders

Internet –   Internet Campaign

Internet –   Internet Privacy

Internet –   Save the Internet

Integrity –   Integrity

Iowa –   Iowa Primary

Iran –   Iran Coup 1953

Iran –   People of Iran

Iran Deal –   War Should Be the Last Option: Why I Support the Iran Deal

Israel/Palestine –   Israel/Palestine Conflict

Israel/Palestine –   Sanders on Israel/Palestine

ISIS –   ISIS, Terrorism and Hillary

Issues –   Issues Facing This Country

Jobs –   Creating Jobs Rebuilding America

Julian Assange –   Julian Assange

Justice System –   Justice System

Kansas –   Kansas

Kentucky –   Kentucky

Kissinger –    Henry Kissinger

Labor Rights –   Labor Rights

Latin American –   Latin American Indigenous Rights

Latinos & Latinas –   Latinos & Latinas – Sanders

Left Hatred –   Hatred of Sanders from Left?

LGBT Equality –   Fighting for LGBT Equality

Libertarian Party –   2016 Libertarian Party

Libertarians –   Sanders on Libertarians

Libya –   Libya

Living Wage –   A Living Wage

Loretta Lynch –   Bill Clinton Meets Loretta Lynch

Louisiana –   Louisiana

Maine –   Maine

Maryland –   Maryland

Mass Incarceration –   Mass Incarceration

Mass Surveillance –   Mass Surveillance

Massachusetts –   Massachusetts

Marijuana –   Marijuana

Media –   Alternative Media on Sanders

Media-   So-called Blotched Interview

Media –   Media Interviews with Sanders

Medicare for All –   Medicare for All

Memes –   Memes

Michigan –   Michigan

Military –   Military Assault on Environment

Military –   Military-Industrial Complex

Militia –   Right-Wing Militia Occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

Millennials –   Millennials View of Hillary

Millennials –   Millennials for Sanders

Minimum Wage –   Minimum Wage

Minnesota –   Minnesota

Missouri –   Missouri

Monsanto –   Monsanto

Montana –   Montana

Muhammad Ali –   Muhammad Ali: The Original Activist-Athlete

Music –   Songs for Sanders

Mumia Abu Jamal –   Mumia Abu Jamal – Political Prisoner

Muslims –   Sanders on Muslims

NAFTA –   NAFTA

Native Americans –   Native Americans

Native Americans –   Sacred Stone Camp to Block North Dakota Pipeline

Nebraska –   Nebraska

Neoliberalism –   Neoliberalism

Nevada –   Nevada

Nevada –   Nevada Convention DNC Coup  

New Hampshire –   New Hampshire

New Jersey –   New Jersey

New Jim Crow –   Prison Slavery

New Jim Crow –   New Jim Crow Slavery

New Mexico –   New Mexico

New World Order –   New World Order Post WWII

New York –   New York

North Carolina –   North Carolina

North Dakota –   North Dakota

Nuclear War –   Nuclear War over Syria

Nuclear Weapons –   Nuclear Weapons

Obama –   Learning from Barak Obama

Obamas & Clintons –   Obamas & Clintons

Occupy Inauguration-   Occupy Inauguration

Ohio –   Ohio

Oligarchy –   Two Party Oligarchy

Oklahoma –   Oklahoma

Oregon –   Oregon

Organizations –   Organizations Attacking Sanders

Orlando Mass Murder –    Orlando Mass Murder

OurRevolution.org –   OurRevolution.org

OurRevolution.org –  Concerns Over OurRevolution.org

Panama Papers –   Panama Papers

Panama Trade Deal –   Panama Trade Deal

Party Competiveness –   Party Competiveness – House, Senate & Governors

Patriot Act –   Sanders on the Patriot Act

Pay Day Lenders –   Pay Day Lenders

Pennsylvania –   Pennsylvania

People’s Convention –   People’s Convention in Philadelphia

People’s Summit –   People’s Summit

Pharmaceutical Industry –   Pharmaceutical Industry

Photos –    Photos and Cartoons – Sanders

Police –   Brotherhood of Police

Police –   Killed by Police

Police Brutality –   Sanders on Police Brutality

Police Brutality –   Injustice Boycott

Political –   3rd Political Parties

Political Satire –   Political Satire

Polls –   The Polls

Polls –   Polling Bias Against 3rd Parties

Pope Francis –   Sanders Visits Pope Francis

Post Office –   Post Office

Poverty –   Sanders on Poverty

Presidential Polls –   Presidential Polls

Press Freedom –   Press Freedom

Primaries –   The Primaries

Primary –   Alaska, Hawaii & Washington Primary

Primary –   Fl, NC, IL, OH, MO March 15 Primary

Primary –   North East Super Tuesday

Primary –   Top 2 Primary

Prisoners –   Prison Slavery

Prisoners –   Against Prison Solitary Confinement

Prisoners –   Commutation of Sentence

Prison –   Prison Industry Reform

Prisons –   Prisons

Privacy –   Communication Privacy and Control

Pro-Choice –   Pro-Choice

Progressive Independent Party –   Progressive Independent Party

Progressives –   Progressives to Support

Progressives –   Who is a Progressive?

Public Financing of Elections –   Public Financing of Elections

Puerto Rico –   Puerto Rico

Q and A –   Q and A with Public

Qualifications for President –    Qualifications for President

Racial Justice –   Racial Justice

Racism –   Racism in Society

Racism –   Trying to End Racism

Rwanda –   Rwandan Genocide

Refugee –   Refugee Attack Hoaxes 

Republicans –   Republican National Convention

Republicans –   Sanders vs Republicans

Republicans –   Sanders Criticizes Republicans

Religion –   Sanders on Religion

Reparations –   Reparations  

Revolution –   Revolution with or without Sanders Victory

Revolution –   Revolution Coming: Peaceful or Not

Revolution –   World Wide Revolution Against Inequality

Rhode Island –   Rhode Island

Rightwing –   Rightwing Hatred of Hillary

Rightwing –   Rightwing Hatred of Sanders

Robots –    Robots – Good or Bad

Russia –   War with Russia

Sacred Stone Camp –   Sacred Stone Camp to Block North Dakota Pipeline

Science –   Science

Selective Service for Women –   Selective Service for Women

Senate –   House & Senate Challengers

Seniors –   Seniors

Shadow Government –   The Deep State Shadow Government

Single Payer Health Care –   Medicare for All

Social Programs –   Social Programs

Social Security –   Strengthen and Expand Social Security

Socialism European Style –   Socialism European Style

Socialism –   Sanders and Socialism

Songs –   Songs for Sanders

South Carolina –   South Carolina

South Dakota –   South Dakota

Standing Rock Sioux –   Hillary and DNC on Standing Rock Action

Standing Rock Sioux –   Standing Rock Sioux vs Dakota Access Pipeline

Standing Rock Sioux –   Tar Sand Pipeline Direct Action

Stolen Lives –   Stolen Lives

Student Debt –   Student Debt

Sugar Industry –   Sugar Industry

Super Delegates –   Lobby Super Delegates for Sanders

Super Delegates –   Super Delegates

Super Delegates –   Corporate Media Lie about When Super Delegates Vote

Super Tuesday Primaries –   Super Tuesday Primaries

Super Predator –   Super Predator to Heel

Supreme Court –   Supreme Court – Anthony Scalia

Supreme Court –   Obama Nominates Merrick Garland To Supreme Court

Supreme Court –   Supreme Court Vacancy

Sustainable Society –   Building a Happier, More Sustainable Society

Syria –   Syria

Take Back Democracy March –   Take Back Democracy March on DC October 23, 2016

Tar Sand Pipeline –   Tar Sand Pipeline Direct Action

Tax Avoidance –   Panama Papers

Tax Reform –   Real Tax Reform Policies of Sanders

Tax Returns –   Tax Returns

Tennessee –   Tennessee

Terrorism –   ISIS, Terrorism and Hillary

Terrorist Attacks –   Brussels Terrorist Attack 3/22/2016

Texas –   Texas

Third Party –   3rd Party Debates

Third Parties –   Third Parties

Third Parties –   Sanders on Third Parties

Time Magazine –   People’s Time Magazine Person of the Year

TPP –   TPP

Trade Deals –   Sanders and Trade Deals

Trump –   All Things Trump

Trump –   Is Trump Just a Clinton Plant

Trump –   Trump Closing the Internet

Trump –   Trump on Election Reform

Trump –   Trump Tax Returns

Trump –   Sanders vs. Trump

Trump –   Fascism -Trump Style

Trump –   Trump University Fraud

Twitter –   Twitter Censorship

Twitter –   Twitter Support Groups

Unions –   Unions

UNITED PROGRESSIVE PARTY –   UNITED PROGRESSIVE PARTY

Utah –   Utah

Vatican –   Vatican’s Progressive Pope Francis

VA  –   VA Ignores Suffering Veterans

Vegans –   Vegans

Verizon Strike –   Verizon Strike

Vermont –   Vermont

Veterans –   Caring for our Veterans

Veterans For Peace –   Veterans For Peace

Vice-President Candidates –   Sanders’ Vice-President Candidates

Vietnam War –   Vietnam War

Virginia –   Virginia

Voter –   Voter Registration Information

Voter –   Voter Suppression

Voting –   Corruption Black Box Voting

Voting –   Right To Vote

Voting –   Ballot Count Monitoring

Voting –   Voter Integrity Conference

Voting –   NY Right to Vote Lawsuit

Voting –   Voting Generation Gap

Voting –   Why Vote for Sanders

Wages –   A Living Wage

Wall Street –   Wall Street Bailouts

Wall Street –   Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CFMA)

Wall Street –   Dodd-Frank

Wall Street –   Glass Steagall

Wall Street –   Reforming Wall Street

Walmart –   Walmart: Sanders & Hillary

War –   Endless War

War and Peace –   War and Peace

War on Drugs –   War on Drugs – Sanders

War on Terror –   War on Terror

Wasserman Schultz –   Tim Canova Vs. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Washington –   Washington

Washington D.C. –    Washington D.C.

Water –   Water Privatization

Wealth –  Income and Wealth Inequality

Wealth –   Wealth – Candidates

Welfare –   Sanders on Welfare

West Virginia –   West Virginia

Whistleblowers –   Whistleblowers

Wisconsin –   Wisconsin

Women’s Health –   Protect Women’s Health and Rights

Women’s Rights –   Fighting for Women’s Rights

Worker Rights –   Labor Rights

Working Class –   Working Class

World Opinion –   World Opinion

World War III –   World War III

Wyoming –   Wyoming

Young People –   Young People – Sanders

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White House Domestic Policy Council

Susan Rice

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2020-12-11 Biden introduces Susan Rice, others for key administration Posts During an afternoon event in Wilmington, Del., Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris presented Susan Rice as the White House domestic policy adviser. Biden specifically praised Rice, who served as national security adviser and ambassador to the United Nations during the Obama administration, as a “policy heavyweight” who’d be serving in a “big and critical role” in his own White House.

2020-12-10 Susan Rice finds a home in Biden White House without facing Republican senators Susan Rice, who was vilified by conservatives during the Obama administration’s Benghazi scandal, has been tapped by President-elect Joe Biden to lead his White House Domestic Policy Council.

The move gives the longtime Washington insider a senior place within the coming Biden administration without requiring Senate confirmation. She had been said to be on his vice presidential shortlist, although it was unclear to experts how she helped him electorally. Ms Rice also was rumored as a secretary of state nominee, but with a razor-thin majority for whichever party ultimately controls the Senate, her confirmation fight would have been contentious and uncertain.

2020-12-10 Biden taps Susan Rice for top White House domestic policy job Democrats had concerns about Rice’s ability to get confirmed in a Republican-controlled Senate, and the director of the Domestic Policy Council is not a Senate-confirmed position. The Biden team had been looking to find a high-profile role for Rice, but the top domestic policy job comes as a surprise given her expertise and experience in foreign policy.

In her position, Rice, 56, will play a large role in implementing Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, a wide-ranging set of policy proposals that would invest trillions of dollars in American infrastructure and manufacturing, clean energy, caregiving, education and racial equity. A person familiar with Biden’s thinking said he chose Rice for the role because of her deep experience in crisis management and interagency processes

2020-12-10 By tapping Susan Rice, Biden embraced worst corruption of Obama years (right wing)

2020-08-10 Susan Rice Was a Diplomatic Disaster

2020-08-07 Progressives alarmed by Rice’s vast financial investments Now, with the multimillionaire Rice in contention to be Joe Biden’s running mate, that investment is again drawing fire from progressives. They say her extensive past holdings in an array of industries at odds with liberal causes — particularly the Keystone investment — could make her ill-suited to be vice president in a Democratic administration.

2020-07-31 Twenty Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Susan Rice (right wing)

2020-05-20 Susan Rice responds to ‘dishonest accusations’ after email about Obama meeting on Flynn declassified Allies of President Donald Trump are seizing upon newly declassified portions of an email written by former national security adviser Susan Rice as evidence that an investigation into her incoming successor, Michael Flynn, was politically motivated, while Rice says the same email proves the previous administration’s concerns were legitimate. 

Rice sent herself an email on the day of Trump’s inauguration that recounts a Jan. 5, 2017, Oval Office meeting she attended along with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates. She described the meeting as a “follow-on conversation” after a briefing by intelligence community leaders on Russian interference in the 2016 election.  

“President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities ‘by the book,'” Rice wrote. “The President stressed that he is not asking about, intimating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.” 

2019-11-23 Susan Rice: ‘Domestic divisions are the greatest threat to our national security’ “Today our domestic political divisions constitute the greatest threat to our national security,” Rice argues in her book. That is in part because of the unlimited role of big money in politics, partly because of relentless gerrymandering of congressional districts, but also because “our adversaries have demonstrated both the will and capacity to weaponise our divisions to use against us”.

The US is making it easy for its enemies “because we now have a leader in the White House whose express intent is to exacerbate those divisions”.

“We never had a president before who actively demonizes large segments of the population. And who denigrates the freedom of the press and the institutions of the state that are there to serve him and the country.” Rice said.

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Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)

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2020-12-23 The Most Important Biden Appointee No One Has Heard Of One role that remains unfilled will be vital to enacting Biden’s policy agenda: the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). Although many Americans have never heard of OIRA, the office is well known among corporate lobbyists, who take full advantage of its ability to stop regulations in their tracks. Since the Reagan administration, OIRA has earned a reputation as “the death row of well-meaning legislation.”

A division of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), OIRA was created to review agency regulations in an effort to streamline the federal rulemaking process. Its broad mandate gives it the ability to change, stall, or kill regulations written by every federal agency other than a few that are independent by statute, such as the SEC. OIRA can interfere in the technical details of agency decision-making that are best resolved by the agency’s experts.

OIRA is tasked with weighing the benefits of regulation against the costs in order to “maximize the welfare” of society. In practice, OIRA often deploys a myopic economic framework that prioritizes the cost to industry over the well-being of people. The creators of this cost-benefit analysis sought to promote societal welfare through a narrow and inaccurate vision of “economic efficiency” over all other concerns, including climate change, racial discrimination, and health crises. The result has largely benefited those who are already profiting off an economy that is deeply unequal and discriminatory.

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Treasury Secretary Top Aid

Wally Adeyemo

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Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo (born May 20, 1981) is a Nigerian-American economic and political advisor. He was the first president of the Obama Foundation and is President-elect Joe Biden‘s nominee for United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. During the Obama administration, Adeyemo was the Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics from 2015 to 2016 and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council.

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2021-01-10 Kamala Harris Picks Member of World’s Largest Asset Firm as Top Economic Adviser In March 2016, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink began hiring a “shadow government” of Democratic operatives and economic policy wonks. The reasoning was transparent: this coterie of revolvers would safeguard BlackRock’s interests in Washington whether or not Larry Fink was ultimately named Treasury Secretary, a role to which he long aspired and for which Barack Obama had already considered him.

Though Clinton ultimately lost the election, Fink continued hiring Democratic operatives and remained personally involved in party politics. Now, as Joe Biden prepares to enter the White House, members of the BlackRock “shadow government” are queued up for major policy roles. They include Brian Deese, who will be the next National Economic Council director, and Wally Adeyemo, who will be a top aide to Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen. Yet the BlackRock figure set to join the administration with the deepest ties to both the firm and the neoliberal economic policies it benefits from won’t be serving in the White House at all, but rather as the top economic aide to Biden’s potential successor.

2021-01-02 Two Biden aides will recuse on BlackRock issues as past ties pose questions The world’s largest asset manager has much at stake as the new president’s team takes office. n 2013, the asset management firm BlackRock unleashed a lobbying blitz to carpet-bomb a new Treasury Department agency, pushing federal regulators away from tightening requirements on its massive business lines. In 2019, the company won again when the Trump administration cemented an approach that would essentially exempt large companies such as BlackRock from more scrutiny.

Now, however, the New York firm — with $7.8 trillion in assets under management — could face its biggest threat yet, with Democratic control of the White House and influential figures on the left bent on breaking Wall Street apart.

But BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is entering this era in a unique position: Two of President-elect Joe Biden’s senior economic advisers worked there in the years after they left the Obama administration.

2020-12-03 Who is Adewale Adeyemo? Mini-biography and facts of Nigerian-born US deputy treasury secretary appointee

  1. Adewale ‘Wally’ Adeyemo was born in Nigeria to Nigerian parents in the year 1981 but his family migrated to the US when he was a baby.
  2. He grew up with his younger brother and sister in the east of Los Angeles, California.
  3. Adeyemo obtained his first degree from the University of California, UC Berkeley.
  4. He also holds a J.D from Yale Law School; this degree gives him a general overview knowledge about United States law.
  5. In 2013, Adewale Adeyemo worked as a senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to the 76th United States secretary of the treasury, Jack Lew.
  6. He was the first chief of staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under Elizabeth Warren.
  7. Under President Barack Obama, Adewale Adeyemo was the deputy national security advisor and deputy director of the National Economic Council.
  8. He served as the senior advisor to the vice chairman at BlackRock Inc. between May 2017 and December 2019 and was recently at the President Barack Obama Foundation.
  9. Wally Adeyemo represented  President Barack Obama at some G7 summit and the G20 international forums as well.
  10. US 2020 President-elect, Joe Biden, picked Adewale Adeyemo to serve as the deputy treasury secretary He will be the first black deputy at the treasury.

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National Economic Council Director

Brian Deese

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2021-01-22 Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki and National Economic Director Brian Deese

2021-01-22 Biden’s economic chief Deese warns of ‘very serious economic hole’ Conservatives concerned about the ballooning national debt have said they are unwilling to pass the huge bill, which comes on the heels of a $900 billion bailout Congress passed just last month.

“Our economy is at a very precious moment,” Deese said in the James S. Brady briefing room. “We are 10 million jobs short still of where the economy was when this pandemic started last year,” he said. “If we don’t act now, we will be in a much worse place and we will find ourselves needing to do much more to dig out of a much deeper hole,” he went on.

2021-01-21 National Economic Council Director Brian Deese Remarks at U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting Brian Deese, the director of the National Economic Council, discussed President Biden’s COVID-19 economic relief plan at the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ winter meeting. Also speaking at the virtual event was White House Intergovernmental Affairs Director Julie Chavez Rodriguez. Following opening remarks, mayors took part in a question and answer session with the Biden administration officials

2021-01-12 Who is Brian Deese? President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Brian Deese, global head of Sustainable Investing at BlackRock Inc. (BLK), as director of the National Economic Council (NEC).1https://183c3e75caee86abc7d378c6112873df.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html

In his new role, Deese will be responsible for the coordination of policy-making on both domestic and international economic issues. THE NEC provides economic policy advice to the president, ensuring that policy decisions and programs are in line with the president’s economic goals.2

As head of BlackRock’s Sustainable Investing division since 2017, Deese advised clients on how to achieve investment returns that meet environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria.3

Immediately prior to joining BlackRock, Deese was a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He served as a White House senior advisor to President Barack Obama from 2015 to 2017. Between 2009 and 2015 he held several positions at the White House, including as special assistant for economic policy to President Obama following the 2008 financial crisis, as deputy director of the NEC, and as deputy director and acting director of the Office of Management and Budget

2021-01-10 Kamala Harris Picks Member of World’s Largest Asset Firm as Top Economic Adviser In March 2016, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink began hiring a “shadow government” of Democratic operatives and economic policy wonks. The reasoning was transparent: this coterie of revolvers would safeguard BlackRock’s interests in Washington whether or not Larry Fink was ultimately named Treasury Secretary, a role to which he long aspired and for which Barack Obama had already considered him.

Though Clinton ultimately lost the election, Fink continued hiring Democratic operatives and remained personally involved in party politics. Now, as Joe Biden prepares to enter the White House, members of the BlackRock “shadow government” are queued up for major policy roles. They include Brian Deese, who will be the next National Economic Council director, and Wally Adeyemo, who will be a top aide to Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen. Yet the BlackRock figure set to join the administration with the deepest ties to both the firm and the neoliberal economic policies it benefits from won’t be serving in the White House at all, but rather as the top economic aide to Biden’s potential successor.

2020-12-03 Biden Names BlackRock’s Brian Deese As His Top Economic Aide President-elect Joe Biden has tapped former Obama aide Brian Deese as director of the National Economic Council, his top economic adviser at the White House. Deese helped former President Barack Obama rescue the auto industry during the 2009 economic crisis and played a key role in negotiating the Paris climate accords.

But the pick raised the ire of some progressive groups even before it was made official Thursday because of Deese’s work for BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager. After his service in the Obama administration, Deese became the global head of sustainable investing at BlackRock. Progressive groups say the investment firm holds financial stakes in energy companies that contribute to climate change.

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Chief Economist to Vice President

Michael Pyle

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2021-01-10 Kamala Harris Picks Member of World’s Largest Asset Firm as Top Economic Adviser The American Prospect reported on Wednesday that Mike Pyle, global chief investment strategist at BlackRock and one of the original members of Fink’s “shadow government,” will become Vice President Harris’ chief economist.

In March 2016, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink began hiring a “shadow government” of Democratic operatives and economic policy wonks. The reasoning was transparent: this coterie of revolvers would safeguard BlackRock’s interests in Washington whether or not Larry Fink was ultimately named Treasury Secretary, a role to which he long aspired and for which Barack Obama had already considered him.

BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, managing just under $8 trillion of assets as of September 2020, much of which is invested passively in the world’s largest companies in everything from oil to green energy to cybersecurity to infrastructure development.

Though Clinton ultimately lost the election, Fink continued hiring Democratic operatives and remained personally involved in party politics. Now, as Joe Biden prepares to enter the White House, members of the BlackRock “shadow government” are queued up for major policy roles. They include Brian Deese, who will be the next National Economic Council director, and Wally Adeyemo, who will be a top aide to Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen. Yet the BlackRock figure set to join the administration with the deepest ties to both the firm and the neoliberal economic policies it benefits from won’t be serving in the White House at all, but rather as the top economic aide to Biden’s potential successor.

2021-01-06 Another BlackRock Veteran Will Join the Biden Administration

The Prospect has learned that Michael Pyle, currently the global chief investment strategist at leading asset management firm BlackRock, will become part of the Biden-Harris administration in the coming days. Pyle, an Obama administration veteran who also worked on economic policy in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, will become the chief economist to Vice President–elect Kamala Harris, according to sources familiar with the transition.

Pyle would be the third former BlackRock official to join the administration. Brian Deese, who was global head of sustainable investing at the firm, has been named as Biden’s national economic director. And Wally Adeyemo, former chief of staff to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, is the nominee for deputy Treasury secretary. Neither Deese nor Pyle would require confirmation by the Senate.

If anything, Pyle has a deeper relationship to BlackRock than his colleagues. He’s been there longer, since at least 2014. And his role as chief investment strategist is more central to BlackRock’s operations; he frequently comments on behalf of the firm in the media. BlackRock has drawn criticism for its contributions to climate change and its ability to use its influence inside governments to win favorable policies for its bottom line. It has been accused of self-enrichment while managing the Federal Reserve’s corporate-debt buying during the pandemic.

Pyle was seen as a likely candidate to re-enter the government four years ago. BlackRock recruited him from the Obama administration, where he served as a senior adviser to Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs Lael Brainard. Pyle also worked at the National Economic Council and the Office of Management and Budget. He was an unpaid adviser to the Clinton campaign on financial policy, and seemed destined for a spot if Clinton won the election.

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Justice Department’s Antitrust Division Head

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2021-01-18 Big Tech Critics Alarmed at Direction of Biden Antitrust Personnel Renata Hesse, who has worked for Google and Amazon, is the leading candidate to run the Justice Department’s antitrust division.

Renata Hesse, a former Justice Department official under President Barack Obama, worked alongside Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) defending Google a decade ago, helped shepherd through the Amazon/Whole Foods merger, and represented several pharmaceutical companies and other clients in antitrust cases. She is the leading contender for the assistant attorney general for antitrust position, multiple sources told the Prospect and The Intercept on Friday. Sources also said that Juan Arteaga, another Obama Justice Department veteran who defended JPMorgan Chase and several other financial firms in fraud cases and represented AT&T in its merger with Time Warner, was also being considered but was more likely to be appointed deputy assistant attorney general in the antitrust division. Reuters on Sunday reported that Hesse and Arteaga were the leading candidates for AAG.

The Big Tech ties have progressives particularly exercised by the possible Hesse pick, though Arteaga’s long track record of working on behalf of consolidation is also alarming. There are active anti-monopoly cases at the antitrust division against Google and Facebook, the biggest such cases in 20 years. Hesse’s work for Google would likely force her to recuse from the former.

There is bipartisan support for reining in Big Tech and a blueprint for how to do it in an exhaustive report from the House Antitrust Subcommittee. Picking a Big Tech lawyer would open up Biden to criticism from the left and right, aside from the unusual circumstance of the top attorney in the division recusing herself from the most important case under her watch.

“Bringing in anybody from Big Tech to a leadership role in antitrust is a political, policy, and managerial disaster,” said Zephyr Teachout, author of “Break ’Em Up” and a frequent Big Tech critic, referring to Hesse. “We know how the revolving door works. The ideology of big companies shapes the ideology of government.”

2021-01-13 Biden Must Close the Revolving Door Between BigLaw and Government This week, Politico reported that Susan Davies, a corporate antitrust lawyer who has represented Facebook, was a leading contender to head Biden’s Department of Justice Antitrust Division. This news came on the heels of reports that David Frederick, a corporate lawyer who has defended oil giant Royal Dutch Shell, was under consideration to become Biden’s solicitor general. These stories have disturbed many who hope (particularly after the Democrats’ Senate victories in Georgia) that the Biden administration will represent a shift away from the corruption and self-dealing of the Trump administration.

Davies and Frederick are not the first corporate lawyers rumored to be joining the Biden team. Their private-sector work and potential nominations are emblematic of a deeper divide in the Democratic Party, seen in the criticism of figures like Neal Katyal, a well-known Democratic figure who recently fought to shield corporations for abetting child slavery while representing Nestlé in the Supreme Court. This divide boils down to one question: Should a lawyer’s previous clients be a factor in whether or not they receive a political appointment in the new administration?

Quite simply, the answer is yes. High-level legal appointees, including Biden’s picks for attorney general, deputy attorneys general, and solicitor general, will be some of the most powerful people in the nation, and their decisions in these roles will have a wide-ranging impact on the lives of the American people. These individuals should therefore be held to the highest ethical standards and face the strictest scrutiny during their hiring process. Their integrity and commitment to the public good should be impeccable.

While progressive groups have called on Biden to scrutinize potential appointees’ ties to the corporate sector, many corporate lawyers and Obama alumni have pushed back against these efforts. They claim that judging lawyers based on their clients is not merely unfair but threatens our entire legal system.

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Eric Holder articulated the latest version of this argument in an article published last month in which he comes to the defense of Katyal. Holder claims that just as Katyal should not be held accountable for the crimes committed by the clients he defended in Guantanamo Bay, he should be immune from criticism of his defense of Nestlé’s actions.

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