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Pushing Back and Pushing Forward in the First Six Months of the Trump Era.

Why was this Chicago-based group defunded by the Countering Violent Extremism task force?

Giving workers the power to improve their jobs and unrig the economy

The United States is in the process of building a vast nuclear arsenal that appears to be aimed at having the ability to fight and win nuclear wars. The fact that the concept of fighting and winning a nuclear war is completely divorced from the realities of nuclear weapons effects has not deterred the United States from moving forward as if such an objective is possible.

There are more parallels between an unfinished 1950s war in Northeast Asia and an ongoing 16-year-old war in the crossroads between Central and South Asia than meet the eye. History has shown there is no military solution to either conflict, yet the Trump Administration has chosen bluster over diplomacy. The current US/South Korea military exercises, “a nuclear war game for the first time,” and more bombs for Afghanistan are just more steps along the path of endless war.

"The public is struggling to pay for health care," said Sen. Chris Pearson (P/D-Chittenden). "To see that the CEO of our hospital is getting $2 million ... it's just way out of whack with the Vermont economy."

This event, then, tied, in a sinister but clear way, Trump’s infrastructure plan with the racist, anti-Semitic, and neo-fascist members of Trump’s base movement .

Daniel Kammen decries Trump’s attitude and policies on human rights and sustainability

Even when sensible adults finally take back government, “back to normal” is not what we want.

Americans should build this pivotal post–Civil War era into the new politics of historical memory.1877