TheAltWorld Manufactured Crisis: What’s Really Behind Debt-Ceiling Negotiations?
- Rania Khalek
- Sunday 14 May 23
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Ahead of the “debt ceiling” deadline, President Joe Biden held talks with Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and other leaders in both parties.
According to Walter Smolarek, Editor of Liberation News, by hosting negotiations, Biden is paving the way for significant cuts to social programs and legitimizing the right wing’s tactic of threatening a government default to gain concessions.
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.
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