In a CNBC clip, which slipped between the cracks last week, Alibaba founder Jack Ma, who has been busy trying to get into Donald Trump's "circle of trust", spoke in Davos and blamed the problems of the United States on the United States itself, as a country which has spent trillions of dollars to wage war, instead of investing in infrastructure and its own people.
Trump's crackdown on Obamacare is accelerating.
Just over 7 hours after his inauguration, late on Friday, the president signed an executive order concerning the 2010 healthcare law, telling reporters the action was meant "to ease the burden of Obamacare as we transition from repeal and replace" and urging U.S. agencies to "waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation" of provisions deemed to impose fiscal burdens on states, companies or individuals.
In one of the first international phone conversations by the new US president since his inauguration, Israel PM Netanyahu is set to call Trump on Sunday afternoon: the civil war in Syria, the Palestinians and the nuclear agreement with Iran will be on the agenda Netanyahu told his weekly Cabinet meeting.
PM Netanyahu: This evening there will be a telephone conversation between President Trump and myself.
— PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) January 22, 2017
The US government has been given the green-light to aggressively push HIV drugs that hasten the onset of AIDS to millions of African Americans. Public health officials are urging doctors to prescribe PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) onto patients who are at greatest risk of contracting the HIV virus – namely gay men and African Americans.
Submitted by Robert Parry via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Whenever The New York Times or some other mainstream news outlet holds itself out as a paragon of professional journalism – by wagging a finger at some pro-Trump “fake news” or some Internet “conspiracy theory” – I cringe at the self-delusion and hypocrisy.