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| Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Making of a Pariah Nation |
By Tom Engelhardt 2017-06-14
America Last: Will Trump Set a Record for the History Books? --
While, in the Trump era, a drive to cut domestic spending of every sort is evident, more money is still slated to go to the military, already funded at levels not reached by combinations of other major powers. |
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| Trump’s Betrayal of Rural America: Deep Cuts in Payments to Counties |
By GEORGE WUERTHNER 2017-06-12
Under the Trump plan, the rural western counties would receive 39% less than they receive under current payment plans. It is particularly ironic that the counties most likely to be negatively impacted by any reduction in federal payments are the very counties that helped elect Donald Trump. |
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| 5 Things The Anti-Sharia Movement Gets Dangerously Wrong |
By Carol Kuruvilla 2017-06-11
Catholics were once the victim of the kind of religious discrimination now fomented against Muslims. Many of the Founding Fathers were wary of Catholicism. The American statesman John Jay actually wanted Catholics to “renounce the pope and foreign authorities” before they could serve in the government. |
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| The Koch Brothers: The Men Who Sold the World |
By Richard Eskow 2017-06-11
The Koch network of funders spent an estimated $1 billion over the last few election cycles telling the Republican Party what to do. "It is, perhaps, the most astounding example of influence-buying in modern American political history,"... |
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