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This agreement simply restores the pre-war status quo without resolving any of the underlying issues.
“How will we pay for it?” is the first question asked when people propose universal healthcare, affordable housing, debt-free education, or modern infrastructure but never for war!
The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Cost of the American Empire
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Ths is flying under the radar, but Russ Vought is advancing a new scheme to give Trump's cronies total control of nearly $179B in federal grant funds.
Billions for lifesaving disaster relief and medical research would be subject to Trumpian loyalty oaths.
Make no mistake: this is fascism.
What could the United States - and the world - look like if even a fraction of that money had gone toward healthcare, education, development, and peace-building instead? Co-authored with the leading Prof @usempire.bsky.social
Dr Bamo Nouri
"The test will be a simple one: Are you sufficiently loyal to the president? If the answer is no, it will result in the
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“How will we pay for this?” – a question unheard of when it comes to waging wars and routinely asked when funding healthcare, education or housing crises.
1/2 Here’s a radical idea. How about blaming the rioters? Or at least the politicians who egged them on, rather than the ones who didn’t?
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... - open access - Liberal Crisis Machine - Hewlett Foundation in age of crisis- These networks consciously organize elite consensus and disorganize or downplay mass movements’ roles in driving radical change.
‘Then the firing started’: the Soweto uprising remembered 50 years on
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After freezing payments and demanding sensitive client data, the Trump administration has escalated its pressure campaign against lawyers representing unaccompanied migrant children.
This paper shows that the Hewlett Foundation, contra its legal status, its non-political self-concept and conventional scholarly claims to third-sector or technocratic neutrality, acts as a liberal...
1/2 I recently hosted UNISON care workers in parliament, supporting their Fair Visa campaign.
These are people who came to the UK to care for the most vulnerable, but the Government’s proposals risk leaving them in limbo.
