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DESCRIPTION:BOOK TALK: "Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability 
 for Those Who Caused the Crisis"\n\nSPEAKER: John Nichols, author & 
 journalist\n\nINTERVIEWER: Congressman Ro Khanna, 17th District South Bay 
 \n\nWednesday, January 26, 2022, 6:00 pm PST\n\nRSVP: 
 https://citylights.com/events-category/john-nichols-in-conversation-with-congressman-ro-khanna/\n\n\n"Coronavirus 
 Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the 
 Crisis" is a furious denunciation of America’s coronavirus criminals. 
 Hundreds of thousands of deaths were caused not by the vicissitudes of 
 nature but by the callous and opportunistic decisions of powerful people, 
 as revealed here by author, John Nichols.\n\nOn March 10, 2020, president 
 Donald Trump told a nation worried about a novel coronavirus, “We’re 
 prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just 
 stay calm. It will go away.” It has since been estimated that had Trump 
 simply taken the same steps as other G7 countries, 40 percent fewer 
 Americans would have died.\n\nAnd it was not just the president. His inner 
 circle, including Mike Pence and Jared Kushner, downplayed the crisis and 
 mishandled the response. Cabinet members such as Betsy DeVos and Mike 
 Pompeo undermined public safety at home and abroad to advance their 
 agendas. Senators Ron Johnson and Mitch McConnell, governors Kristi Noem 
 and Andrew Cuomo, judges such as Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Rebecca 
 Bradley all promulgated public policies that led to suffering and death. 
 \n\nMeanwhile, profiteer Pfizer (and anti-government propagandists such as 
 Grover Norquist) fed at the public trough, while the billionaire Jeff Bezos 
 added pandemic profits to a grotesquely bloated fortune.\n\nJohn Nichols 
 closes with a call for a version of the Pecora Commission, which took aim 
 at what Franklin Delano Roosevelt called the “speculation, reckless 
 banking, class antagonism, and profiteering” that stoked the Depression. 
 \n\nThere must be accountability.\n\n\nJohn Nichols is the national affairs 
 correspondent for The Nation magazine, and the author or co-author of more 
 than a dozen books on media and democracy. He is a regular guest on radio 
 and television programs, and has been featured in a number of documentaries 
 based on his writing and reporting. A co-founder of the media reform group 
 Free Press, he has twice keynoted world congresses of the International 
 Federation of Journalists. Of Nichols, author Gore Vidal said, “Of all 
 the giant slayers now afoot in the great American desert, John Nichols’s 
 sword is the sharpest.”\n\nRo Khanna is a Member of the U.S. House of 
 Representatives from California’s 17th congressional district since 2017. 
 He has also served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary in the United States 
 Department of Commerce under President Barack Obama from August 8, 2009, to 
 August 2011. He is one of only six members of the U.S. House of 
 Representatives, and ten members of Congress, who do not take campaign 
 contributions from political action committees (PACs).\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/03/18847062.php
SUMMARY:COVID Criminals & Pandemic Profiteers: Book Talk w/ author John Nichols & Rep. Ro Khanna
LOCATION:Online event
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/03/18847062.php
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