Monday, August 31, 2026

Tag: naval war

The US kicks off world’s largest naval war games: RIMPAC, China,...

The newest escalation of U.S. preparations for war on China will further militarize the Pacific and normalizing the prospect of conflict through increasingly large-scale exercises and an ever-expanding web of alliances and military bases.

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The second worst MAGA Trump calamity – more than equal to its Constitutional concussion

Robert S. Becker on the deeper, still-unfolding costs of Trumpism beyond its constitutional violations.
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Breaking up hospital and drug monopolies could save families $6,000 a year, report finds

A 26-group coalition of pharmacists, physicians and patients says consolidation, not coverage gaps, is driving the crisis.
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House Democrat presses Trump Jr.’s venture firm on Pentagon-linked deals

A blocked March subpoena over a rare earth company's Pentagon loan set the stage for a new letter demanding records by September 9.
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How Do We Stop a Coup? We Organize

With a thousand DOJ monitors ordered to polling places this November and troops not ruled out, a People's Action coalition of 500 groups is organizing a Labor Day mobilization to defend the vote.
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The Trump Administration’s Plan for Protecting Consumers? Politely Ask Companies to Behave.

Rather than investigate a buzzy fintech startup for throwing users’ accounts into chaos, the Russell Vought-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau trusted that the company was “back on track.” Customers soon learned the hard way that this wasn’t true.