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Courting War

Barry R. Posen Boston Review
Despite claims to the contrary, the Trump administration wants regime change in Iran and is risking a full-scale war in order to get it.

Friday Nite Videos | March 13, 2020

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Six Key Issues Where Sanders Continues to Fight. Trump’s Coronavirus Address, Blooper Reel Included. Sorry We Missed You | Movie. Italy: Solidarity in Song. Katie Porter Secures Free Coronavirus Testing for All Americans.

Trump's Travel Ban Skips Over His Golf Courses

Ryan Heath Politico
The United Kingdom, which is home to Trump Turnberry and Trump International Golf Links, and Ireland, which is home to another Trump-branded hotel and golf course at Doonbeg, are exempted from the European travel ban

Trump’s Company Paid Bribes to Reduce Property Taxes, Assessors Say

Heather Vogell and Katherine Sullivan ProPublica
Two former city employees, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told ProPublica and WNYC that they accepted money from middlemen representing the Trump Organization to lower assessments on 40 Wall St. after Trump took over the skyscraper in 1995

Tidbits - Mar. 12, 2020 - Reader Comments: Coronavirus Pandemic and GOP Attack on Social Security, Medicare, CDC; Three-Fourths of Democratic Delegates Still to be Voted On; Sanders, Biden, Warren; Coronavirus Factsheet in 20 Languages; more....

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Reader Comments: Coronavirus Pandemic and GOP Attack on Social Security, Medicare, CDC; Three-Fourths of Democratic Delegates Still to be Voted On; Sanders, Biden, Warren; Coronavirus Factsheet in 20 Languages; more resources, announcements;

Donald Trump Is Using the Coronavirus Crisis to Attack Social Security

Nancy J. Altman Independent Media Institute
The proposal to cut the payroll contribution rate would either undermine Social Security’s financing or employ general revenue, both of which would set the stage for future demands to cut Social Security. And it likely would not be temporary.
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