In this week's Basic Brief, Republicans' block the Jan 6 committee, Sanders wants a Pentagon audit, UBI pilots, Biden's Tulsa speech, Texas
🥣THE BASIC BRIEF – JUNE 4TH, 2021🥣
In early March, our own writer James Beins dove into the growing polarity of US Politics writing. “This begs the question, is the duopoly truly as bad as we think? Is the dysfunction and polarization remarkable or is it just the perception of our time? As it turns out…it really is that bad.” If it was bad in March it hasn’t gotten better by June. In this week’s Basic Brief, we’ll look at Senate Republicans blocking a bipartisan commission into the events of January 6th as well as Democrats in Texas walking out to prevent a bill with sweeping restrictions on voting.
An important story in this week’s Basic Brief was Biden visiting Tulsa as Ahmed Baba writes, “Today, Joe Biden became the first president in American history to visit Greenwood to commemorate the Tulsa Massacre. Biden met privately with the victims of the massacre and their descendants, delivered a speech highlighting the brutality of the massacre, and announced new actions his administration is taking.” President Joe Biden said, “Only with truth can come healing and justice and repair.” I’d like to start this piece by discussing that truth.
We continue to highlight stories about UBI getting put into action. This time in Ireland. As well as how the stimulus checks were such a key aspect in relieving hardship for people. If one-time checks could mean so much then it indicates UBI would be that much more potent.
BASIC BRIEF ITEMSSENATE REPUBLICANS USE FILIBUSTER TO KILL JAN. 6 COMMISSION
ABC 5/28/21
By Allison Pecorin and Libby Cathey – Senate Republicans on Friday blocked the Senate from debating a bill to establish a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
SWEEPING TEXAS VOTING BILL DIES AFTER HOUSE DEMOCRATS WALK OUT OF FINAL VOTE
KERANEWS 5/31/21
Ashley Lopez reporting: Senate Bill 7 would have added restrictions to in-person voting and mail-in ballots and created a slew of new criminal penalties for voters and election workers in Texas.
CYBER CENSORSHIP GOES GLOBAL
DAILY POSTER 5/31/21
Rishika Pardikar reporting: Content depicting COVID-related dissent in India and protests in Columbia and Palestine have been taken down with little explanation. … “There is a growing trend of internet shutdowns, takedown of social media content, particularly around political speech in India over the last few years,” said Vidushi Marda, global AI research and advocacy lead at ARTICLE 19, an international freedom of expression organization that has been tracking the deleted content.
SEN. SANDERS WANTS TO AUDIT THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
THEREALNEWS.COM 5/20/21
by Kenny Stancil – The Department of Defense remains the only federal agency in the US that has been unable to pass an independent audit, despite the fact that the Pentagon gobbles up more than half of the nation’s discretionary budget.
STIMULUS CHECKS SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED HARDSHIP, STUDY SHOWS
NEW YORK TIMES 6/02/21
Jason DeParle – Researchers found that sharp declines in food shortages, financial instability and anxiety coincided with the two most recent rounds of payments.
BASIC INCOME PILOT SCHEME FOR ARTISTS COULD START IN JANUARY 2022
THE IRISH TIMES 6/02/21
Deirdre Falvey – Government to develop three-year trial of full scheme that would cost €27.4m a year
ISRAELI POLITICIANS SAY THEY HAVE REACHED A DEAL THAT WOULD OUST NETANYAHU
NPR 6/02/21
Oded Balalty – The agreement, which came moments before a midnight deadline In Israel, still needs to be approved by the Knesset in a vote that’s expected to take place next week.
IN TULSA TODAY, JOE BIDEN DARED TO TELL THE TRUTH | AHMED BABA
INDEPENDENT 6/01/21
Ahmed Baba – It’s not unpatriotic to right historical wrongs
BIG PHARMA MAY FINALLY LOSE THIS ONE
DAILY POSTER 6/03/21
By David Sirota: Decades after Bernie Sanders first ran bus trips to Canada, President Biden has a bipartisan opportunity to end drugmakers’ scam locking Americans out of lower-priced medicine.
RELEVANT PEOPLE’S BASICS CONTENTDIVIDED WE FALL: BEING AN INDEPENDENT IN THE AMERICAN POLITICAL DUOPOLY – THE PEOPLE’S BASICS
THE PEOPLES BASICS 3/04/21📷Photo by DonkeyHotey | Public Domain
By James Beins: It’s common for people to believe their lived time period is the worst, their generation the best, or that some other aspect of their contemporary temporal situation is extraordinary. This begs the question, is the duopoly truly as bad as we think? Is the dysfunction and polarization remarkable or is it just the perception of our time? As it turns out…it really is that bad.
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