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[ad_1] Democrats are licking their chops. The midterm elections are approaching and with them the prospect that Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives and perhaps even the Senate. Even with a majority only in the lower chamber, the Democrats would have the power to torment President Trump. “November is going to be a disaster,” Republican Sen. John Cornyn told the New York Times. Trump is “going to have the most miserable two years of his life in the last two years of his term.” Now a lame duck, partly thanks to the president endorsing his rival in…

[ad_1] The Hidden History of Conspiracy Theory, by Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, Princeton University Press, 674 pages, $42.95 “Homer conceived the power of the gods in such a way that whatever happened on the plain before Troy was only a reflection of the various conspiracies on Olympus,” Karl Popper told an Oxford lecture hall in 1948. “The conspiracy theory of society,” the philosopher added, simply replaces those deities with “sinister pressure groups.” That passage, which Popper then revised and incorporated into the second edition of The Open Society and Its Enemies, is sometimes cited as the moment the expression “conspiracy theories” entered…

[ad_1] By Thomas Kennedy This article was originally published by Truthout After using $1 billion to brutalize immigrants, Alligator Alcatraz has been emptied. Its victims still need justice. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), announced last week that all persons detained at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration jail were transferred to other facilities, and that the site’s giant tents and cages had been emptied. The reason given to the public was the risk posed by Florida’s hurricane season, with the agency offering this statement: “As we enter hurricane season, ICE and the state…

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[ad_1] US-allied South African troops conduct search and destroy operation in Namibia in 1980s Photo: Wikipedia The 60-day extension of the ceasefire between the United States and Iran may lead to lasting peace or it may be over within a week, doomed by the dysfunctional alliance between the US and Israel. If it holds, it could mark the beginning of a transition away from the doctrine of “low-intensity conflict” that has shaped U.S. foreign policy for decades. Talks between the US, Iran, Pakistan and Qatar began in Switzerland on June 21st. But Iran was firm that it holds the United…

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[ad_1] The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the authority “to regulate Commerce…among the several States.” In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Interstate Commerce Clause should be construed so broadly as to allow the federal ban on marijuana to be enforced against medical marijuana patients whose use was perfectly legal under state law and whose cultivation and consumption of the plant had occurred entirely within the confines of a single state. The final vote in that controversial case, Gonzales v. Raich, was 6–3. The most forceful of the dissents was written by Justice Clarence Thomas. “If Congress can regulate…

[ad_1] “For decades, he preached that the self-interest of the predator was the invisible hand of the common good,” Yanis Varoufakis said after the man who led the US central bank under four presidents died aged 100. Alan Greenspan, whose policies during nearly 20 years as US Federal Reserve chair fueled soaring economic inequality and helped create the conditions for multiple economic crashes, died Monday at age 100 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. While many corporate media outlets published hagiographic obituaries lionizing the “Maestro” who presided over nearly two decades of low inflation, rising stock prices, and American economic confidence, critics focused…

[ad_1] It is so obvious that I shouldn’t have to say it, but at this perilous moment in U.S. history, I will: Alliances matter. The willingness of other countries to work with and alongside America to counter threats and solve big problems matters. There are times when the Trump administration seems to forget this timeless truth. So, it was heartening this week to see President Trump gather in France with leaders of the world’s other major democracies at the G7. President Trump said the leaders “found a great deal of unity” at the meeting. He joined the other countries in…

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