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November 4, 2021

Tidbits - Nov. 4, 2021 - Reader Comments: Virginia election, CRT and Slavery; Military Spending; Covid Vaccines; Facebook Fraud; New York's Taxi Drivers Win; How to Strike and Win; Children of the Holocaust; The Young Lords; Stanley Aronowitz; more

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Reader Comments: Virginia election, CRT and Slavery; Build Back Better; Military Spending; Covid Vaccines; Facebook Fraud; New York's Taxi Drivers Win; Resources: How to Strike and Win; Children of the Holocaust; The Young Lords; Stanley Aronowitz;

October 28, 2021

Tidbits - Oct. 28, 2021 - Reader Comments: GOP Congress Members & White House Plotted Jan. 6 Insurrection; Military Spending Higher than Ever; Kyrsten Sinema; Trump Tax Cuts; Critical Race Theory; Larry Itliong; New film - Cuba in Africa; more

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Reader Comments: GOP Congress Members & White House Plotted Jan. 6 Insurrection; Military Spending Higher than Ever; Kyrsten Sinema; Secret Conservative Group Pushed Trump Tax Cuts; Critical Race Theory; Larry Itliong; New film - Cuba in Africa;

October 30, 2021

Schumer, Jeffries Urged to ‘Hold the Line’ for the Working Class

Joe Maniscalco LaborPress.org

“Stop funding wars, and stop funding the rich, and stop funding [big] tech. Stop giving away our money to the billionaires — tax the rich and give us a dignified living. We want what we need and we want it right now."

October 25, 2021

Why Is U.S. Military Spending Increasing to New, Outlandish Levels?

Lawrence S. Wittner History News Network

Critics of the Biden administration’s Build Back Better plan to increase funding for U.S. education, healthcare, and action against climate catastrophe say the U.S. can’t afford it, there are no such qualms about ramping up funding for the military.

September 26, 2021

How Huge Military Contractors Will Get Even Richer Off The Australian Submarine Deal

Charles Tiefer Forbes

To make these submarines, including Australia’s, we are talking about commitment to a very long-term and large-scale program involving funds, funds, and more funds.

August 8, 2021

How Trump Stiff-armed Congress — and Gaslighted the Courts — to Build His Wall

David Rogers Politico

Congress’ power of the purse was ignored, but lawmakers remain divided over how to respond.

August 2, 2021

Pivoting to America: Let’s Reinvent the U.S. Military for Real National Defense

William Astore Tomdispatch

We need to a new “people’s” military as a force that could truly defend the American republic, focused above all on supporting the Constitution, freedom of speech, the press, and assembly, the right to privacy and due process, justice for all.

July 26, 2021

An All-American Horror Story: Three-Quarters of a Century of Nuclear Follies — And That's Just Where to Begin

Tom Engelhardt Tomdispatch

In the pandemic year 2020, 76 years after two American atomic bombs left the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in ashes, the world’s nuclear powers increased spending on nuclear weapons by $1.4 billion more than they had put out the previous year.

July 2, 2021

24 House Dems Say Infrastructure Bill Shouldn't 'Throw Money at the Pentagon'

Jake Johnson Common Dreams

"Wasteful spending at the Pentagon will do nothing to help our country recover from this pandemic."

June 18, 2021

Bernie Sanders: Washington’s Dangerous New Consensus on China

Bernie Sanders Foreign Affairs

Americans must resist the temptation to try to forge national unity through hostility and fear. Developing a mutually beneficial relationship with China will not be easy. But we can do better than a new Cold War.

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