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Nine Things Obama Could Do Before Leaving Office to Reveal the Nature of the National Security State
How the rich get richer: Evade taxation, grease trillion-dollar tax breaks, jack interest rates,...
In class and status-conscious, materialistic America (was it ever otherwise?), scoring net worth is easier than figuring out messy election results.
Obama’s Ugly Show of Presidential Petulance
The President has "worked himself into such a tizzy over the TPP." While his progressive friends in Congress are questioning the secret trade agreement, Obama is lashing out at them in a pathetic show of presidential petulance.
GOP tax cuts won’t pass this year – or maybe even next
In Part 1 of a two-part interview, former Reagan economic adviser Bruce Bartlett says Trump is lying about tax reform: it will benefit the super rich and hurt everyone else.
Republican chauvinists won this battle against women, but won’t win the war
But the good news is that women are going to make them pay a terrible price for their treachery in the very near future.
The propaganda of war
There are multiple efforts at present to strengthen and revive the peace movement in the United States, and this is a critical necessity.
“The ideas that I am fighting for now didn’t come to me yesterday”: Bernie...
"What distinguishes my candidacy from the others is I have been fighting for the working families of this country for many, many decades."
Middle East – How America shot itself in the foot
The U.S. needs to learn the art of diplomacy instead of spending a lot of time constantly demonizing and threatening other countries.
Why spend $54 billion more on the Pentagon? To start a war, obviously.
The president apparently wants to put the U.S. on a permanent war footing to sustain his unpopular presidency.
Russia was never the real scandal
The thing is, evidence of much more serious “collusion” – with corporations and the wealthy – has always been hiding in plain sight.