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A manufactured crisis: Beijing resents when a democracy like Taiwan gets too close to America

A manufactured crisis: Beijing resents when a democracy like Taiwan gets too close to America

Posted by | Sep 2, 2022

In early August, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a Democratic delegation commanded headlines when they traveled to Taiwan, an independently governed East Asian country made up of 168 islands on which about 24 million people live, and which China claims. Since 1979 the U.S. has helped to maintain the defensive capabilities of the democratically governed area, although it has been vague about whether it would intervene if China attacks Taiwan. Pelosi’s visit made her the highest-ranking U.S. politician to visit Taiwan since 1997, when Republican speaker Newt Gingrich visited the self-ruled island. Pelosi and a delegation of House Democrats...

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An autocratic realignment: What if Trump’s conspiracy plot went well beyond what the public knows?

An autocratic realignment: What if Trump’s conspiracy plot went well beyond what the public knows?

Posted by | Sep 1, 2022

There was, it increasingly appears, a conspiracy involving some in the most senior levels of the Trump administration to end American representative democracy and replace it with a strongman oligarchy along the lines of Putin’s Russia or Orbán’s Hungary. This would be followed, after the January 20th swearing-in of Trump for a second term, by a complete realignment of US foreign policy away from NATO and the EU and toward oligarchic, autocratic nations like Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, and Hungary. As the possibility of this traitorous plan becomes increasingly visible, the GOP, after a frantic two weeks of not...

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Obstruction of Justice: Behind Trump’s concealment of classified documents stolen from the government

Obstruction of Justice: Behind Trump’s concealment of classified documents stolen from the government

Posted by | Sep 1, 2022

President Joe Biden’s record is unexpectedly strong going into the midterms, and he is directly challenging Republicans on the issues they formerly considered their own. On August 30, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, he challenged the Republicans on their claim to be the party of law and order, calling out their recent demands to “defund” the FBI and saying he wants to increase funding for law enforcement to enable it to have more social workers, mental health care specialists, and so on. He noted that law enforcement officers want a ban on assault weapons and that he would work to pass...

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Paid for by Big Pharma: Mandela Barnes hits at Ron Johnson for selling out to big corporate donors

Paid for by Big Pharma: Mandela Barnes hits at Ron Johnson for selling out to big corporate donors

Posted by | Aug 31, 2022

The campaign of Wisconsin Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, who is running to unseat U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, declared on August 16 that the Republican incumbent “is bought and paid for by Big Pharma.” That charge came in response to Johnson’s comments on August 15 about Medicare negotiating the cost of certain prescription drugs, which is included in the Inflation Reduction Act that U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law on August 16. Appearing on “The Brian Kilmeade Show,” Johnson told the Fox News host that “when you start punishing the pharmaceutical industry, you’re gonna have less innovation; you’re gonna...

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Statutory Corruption: When saving trillions of dollars and millions of American lives is not enough

Statutory Corruption: When saving trillions of dollars and millions of American lives is not enough

Posted by | Aug 31, 2022

Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Lindsey Graham had a debate on Fox Nation on June 13. Sanders asked: “In the United States, Lindsey, we spend twice as much per capita on health care compared to the people of any other country, while major countries like Canada, the U.K., Germany manage to supply health care to all their people. Why is that?” The simple answer is the same reason we have an ongoing climate crisis and a student loan crisis that Republicans refuse to let Congress address: the legal bribery of politicians like Lindsey Graham. How much money would it...

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Expanded plan by Governor Evers aims to help working families with tax cuts offset by massive budget surplus

Expanded plan by Governor Evers aims to help working families with tax cuts offset by massive budget surplus

Posted by | Aug 29, 2022

Governor Tony Evers announced a new plan on August 23 to provide support to working families and address rising costs due to national inflation. The governor’s announcement comes in anticipation of new revenue projections, set to be released by the Wisconsin Department of Revenue (DOR), which are expected to far exceed estimates from the beginning of the year. Wisconsin will end the fiscal year with more than $5 billion in state coffers, including having the highest-ever positive GAAP balance in state history of $1.2 billion for the 2021 fiscal year, and the state’s “rainy day” fund at the highest...

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