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gop tax law pushes budget deficit to $779 billion, highest since 2012

The US deficit ballooned to $779 billion this year, the highest since 2012, driven by Trump's tax law and the budget deal. ... The US deficit jumped to $779 in year 2018, the highest level since 2012, according to Treasury Department. ..

for justice, not apartheid, in palestine

His government’s settlement expansion, which both Kerry and US negotiator Martin Indyk have said was a key reason for the breakdown of talks, has killed hopes for that solution by carving the West Bank into noncontiguous bantustans. ... Trump has recognized Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem,..

global zero and its nuclear globaloney

The End of Nuclear Warfighting Moving to Deterrence-Only Posture -- that calls for the disarmament of more than two-thirds of the US and the adoption of Chinese strategy including placing most US warheads storage bunkers far removed from the missiles that could carry them.. China and..

a war of minds: beyond 2001-18

In what proved to be campaign, the US airforce and navy engaged in intensive bombing while special forces and CIA worked to supply, pay and otherwise encourage forces Afghanistan mainly under the command of Northern Alliance warlords to act, in effect, as US ground troops.. ... ..

brazil in danger: three time bombs

This loss of control presented two dangers to US security the challenging of unrestrained access to the vast natural resources, and the increasingly troubling presence, on the continent, of China, country that way before Trump had been viewed as the new global threat to the unipolarity the..

please remember not to vote!

So, it’s three weeks before the US midterm elections, and it looks like we have got ourselves a horse race! ... Now, your choices this year are particularly exciting, despite the fact that they are exactly the same as in every other US election since approximately the 1970s. ..

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