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The Moral Shame of US Foreign Policy

Neither major party candidate represented a challenge to U.S. complicity in Israel’s horrific war on the people and land of Gaza. “A new study has found that almost half of children in Gaza wish to die, as a result of the trauma they have been forced to endure. Every single supplier of …

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Economic fallout from Trump mass deportations could eclipse Great Recession: Report

President-elect Trump’s mass deportation proposals threaten to gut the U.S. economy, shrinking growth and the labor force while juicing inflation, according to a report released Thursday by Democrats in the Congressional Joint Economic Committee (JEC). Sourcing data from the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the report found that deporting 8.3 million immigrants in the country illegally …

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Will Donald Trump Stop Domestic Spying?

During the course of an FBI written response to a Freedom of Information Act request asking about the trade names and suppliers of surveillance software the FBI had purchased, the government has yet again quietly acknowledged its antipathy to constitutional provisions that all of its employees have sworn to uphold. …

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Do World Trade Organization laws still exist?

It is time to ask: For the U.S., does the international law of the World Trade Organization still exist? As part of an escalating tit-for-tat of trade restrictions between the U.S. and China, the Chinese government has banned the export of several critical materials that have both commercial and military …

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The fragility of nuclear deterrence

History will not be kind to those who play with the future of humanity for the sake of their own political vanity. The danger of nuclear escalation is real. The international balance has hitherto been based on deterrence as an instrument of ‘guarantee’. But if this changes or fails, what …

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