Reese Erlich

  -by Reese Erlich I’m pissed. I’m pissed at Donald Trump for trying to shut down the vote count early and at Republicans seeking to steal the election using conservative-appointed federal judges. But I’m also mad at Joe Biden and the Democratic Party big shots who got Biden elected but failed to win the Senate and lost House seats. It  should have been a blowout.

  -by Reese Erlich Imagine the following nightmare: The US faces a close vote in the presidential election. Trump claims voter fraud and seeks backing from the nation’s military, who then stage a coup to keep him in power. Farfetched? The Trump Administration already did it in Bolivia last year.

  -by Reese Erlich @ReeseErlich The four countries with the most confirmed COVID-19 infections in the world are all led by rightwing populists: the US, India, Brazil, and Russia.

  -by Reese Erlich In a surprise ceremony on Wednesday, embattled President Alyaksandr Lukashenko was reportedly sworn in for a sixth term after Belarus’s contested elections in August.

-by Reese Erlich@ReeseErlichPresident Donald Trump has convinced Republican isolationists and hawks that he supports their views.

An important behind-the-scenes battle is being fought over the Democratic nominee’s conservative positions.-by Reese Erlich@ReeseErlichLast spring, the Biden campaign decided to hit back hard against accusations of being soft on China. So the campaign produced a blistering ad [above] attacking Trump’s failure to confront China in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.The Biden ad was xenophobic and racist.“Trump let in 40,000 travelers from China into America,” says the ad’s narrator as ominous music plays in the background.

The Challengers by Nancy Ohanian-by Reese ErlichCode Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin hasn’t forgotten a 2017 meeting with members of Senator Kamala Harris’s staff to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Iranian civilians are endangered by recent sabotage carried out  against both military and civilian targets. Here a woman sells spices in the bazaar. Photo: Reese Erlich-by Reese Erlichauthor, The Iran Agenda Today: The Real Story Inside Iran and What's Wrong with U.S. Policy.During the past month, Iran has suffered a half-dozen explosions and fires at military and civilian sites.

Two refugee children in Kabul. Photo: Reese Erlich-by Reese ErlichOn June 26, in a major front page story, the New York Times wrote that Russia paid a bounty to the Taliban to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan last year.

-by Reese Erlich@ReeseErlichI arrived at the airport in Tripoli, Libya, on assignment for CBS Radio with my paperwork in order.