Department of Defense officials trade stock from Chinese companies, EPA officials hold oil and gas shares, and almost 2,000 federal employees trade stock with Big Tech groups.
Republican members of Congress are demanding the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health to stop awarding grants to EcoHealth Alliance, the nonprofit foundation connected to COVID-19 research in Wuhan, China.
The Biden administration’s excessive use of executive orders, regulatory rulemaking power, and lawfare against state governments and other “intermediary institutions”; its dictatorial pandemic decrees; and its ongoing efforts to delegitimize the Republican Party as an organization of dangerous neo-fascists, lawless election deniers, and insurrectionists are all manifestations of this country’s continuing drift toward “democratic despotism,” which didn’t start with President Joe Biden and will not end with him.
Last week the New York Times ran a shocking article claiming that the US intelligence community believes the Ukrainian government to be responsible for the August attack that killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of a prominent Russian philosopher.