Valerie Plame Is Running for Congress

02 December 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Valerie Plame Is Running for Congress Jada Yuan, The Washington Post Yuan writes: "Valerie Plame angled her face toward the sun. As someone who spent so much of her life in shadows, concealing her identity as an undercover operative for the CIA, she seemed to have gotten used to the golden light of New Mexico, energized by it, even. Energized enough - or perhaps foolish enough - to give up the privacy that was once so brutally ripped from her to run for Congress." READ MORE Michael Bloomberg. (photo: Getty Images) Trump Campaign Bans Bloomberg News Reporters Ginger Gibson, Reuters Gibson writes: "President Donald Trump's re-election campaign said on Monday it will no longer issue press credentials to reporters working for Bloomberg News, the agency owned by Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg." READ MORE Joe Biden. (photo: Frank Franklin II/AP) How Biden Helped Create the Student Debt Problem He Now Promises to Fix Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK Pilkington writes: "In 10 weeks' time Joe Biden will lay 'Joe's vision for America' at the feet of Iowa's caucus-goers in the hope that the first voters in the Democratic presidential race will put him on the road to the White House." READ MORE 'Even if advanced dementia patients survive such ordeals, they suffer difficult recoveries in combination with existing maladies.' Doctors Are Torturing Dementia Patients at the End of Their Life. And It's Totally Unnecessary. Geoffrey Hosta, The Washington Post Hosta writes: "About 1 in 4 elderly people will develop dementia. Many of them will be tortured by doctors. I should know: I am one of those doctors." READ MORE ACT UP lays out what the future of HIV/AIDS looks like as we continue to make strides, but still have much work remaining as we enter our fourth decade of fighting. (photo: Getty Images) After Three Decades, Our Work to End HIV Isn't Over ACT UP NY, The Advocate Excerpt: "As AIDS activists entering our fourth decade of direct action movement work against HIV, ACT UP New York offers a view of 'what's next' in the fight to end the epidemic." READ MORE Kazakhstan's Interim President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev during a meeting with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in, in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, April 22, 2019. (photo: Reuters) Kazakhstan Ends Bank Bailouts, Cancels Debt of 3 Million Struggling Poor teleSUR Excerpt: "Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Tuesday that his new government will stop bailing out private banks and write off bad loans held by about 30 percent of the central Asian country's population." READ MORE Afghan Militia. (photo: Getty) William J. Astore | American Exceptionalism Is Killing the Planet, the Many Abuses of Endless War William J. Astore, TomDispatch Astore writes: "Ever since 2007, when I first started writing for TomDispatch, I've been arguing against America's forever wars, whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, or elsewhere." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation