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house defense bill's liberal provisions face the ax in the senate

“We can’t let Trump and his warmongering Cabinet drag us into another costly and destabilizing war in the Middle East,” Rep. ... Lawmakers also approved amendments banning Trump from selling arms to Saudi Arabia and ending U.S involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen. . ..

july 12th ups & downs

Pennsylvania GOP appears to have new chair, Republican for Governor moves up President Trump's administration, and Philadelphia Councilwoman has the chance to grab headlines at Netroots Nation Philly. ... Sources told PoliticsPA that Tabas was expected to best Comfort and the joint statement,..

the forgotten man

On Murray Rothbard, philosophical harbinger of Trump and the alt-right . . . ... Trump, who it seems has never cracked a book, must distill his own frenzy and pull his ideas not from the air, but from somewhere else entirely. ..

leaked uk cables: a sign of a government in disarray

Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt have claimed, perhaps disingenuously, not to share Darroch's assessments of Trump and his administration, is normal ambassadorial duty.. ... By his failure so far to turn words into warfare, Darroch has been disappointed by..

it's always about the oil

While President Trump was hobnobbing with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at G-20 summit Japan, brushing off U.N report about the in the murder of Washington Post Jamal Khashoggi, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was Asia and Middle East, pleading with foreign leaders to support. ..

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