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| | | | This is how nations decline. You don't always turn into Nazi Germany. You turn into Russia, or Hungary, or other creaky and corrupt strongman states where everything is kind of a scam and everyone is hustling to please the gangster in charge. That, my friends, is the path we are on here. America's basic problem is that we have an economic system that concentrates great wealth in few hands and we have a political system in which money is allowed to buy political power in a straightforward way and now, on top of that, we have a President who fully embraces-who lives for-the opportunity to make the world bow to him by exploiting those systems. | |
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| | | | Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. In 2018, the Pentagon failed its first audit. In 2024, it failed its seventh audit in a row. The Pentagon has been "punished" for failing seven audits - and losing track of roughly $2 trillion in gear, weapons, and similar "assets" -... | |
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| | | | Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have something in common. They both embrace colossal Pentagon budgets and both celebrate the "lethality" of the U.S. military, which, they agree, must be the strongest, bestest, in the world. They also agree on giving a blank... | |
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| | The Dominion trial against Fox News is now set to begin Tuesday, a landmark defamation case that will determine whether the network can be held financially liable. |