Author: Eric ZUESSE

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Trump’s Budget Bill Culminates America’s Change Since July 25, 1945, The Cold War’s Start

UPDATE: The Democratic Party’s most trustworthy policy-nerd, David Dayen, headlined on July 3rd, “Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare. Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.” And he reported that, Because of a statutory requirement to automatically impose […]

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Mercouris Explains Possibility Of Russia And China Becoming Iran’s Protector

https://theduran.com/iran-israel-round-2-diplomacy-and-war-preparations/  Trump’s decision to bomb Iran on June 12th committed America to Israel’s regime-change war against Iran. The debate now in Iran is whether or not to accept the full protection — including their nuclear umbrellas — that Russia and China have offered to Iran. Trump’s decision could thus turn […]

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Germany’s (And The EU’s) Economic Suicide

Ever since the U.S. Government placed intensified primary and secondary economic sanctions against Germany’s biggest — and by far cheapest — fuels-source, Russia, in 2022, Germany’s economy, which had been the best-performing one in the EU, started declining, because of the soaring fuel prices that resulted from the German Government’s […]

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Understanding Hitler

The three distinguishing features of Hitler’s ideology — the nazism which he embodied in his Nazi political Party — were: 1. racism; 2. racial supremacism; and 3. imperialism. Racism is a commitment to unequal rights for different ‘racial’ groups; Racial supremacism is a commitment to “our” ‘race’ having rights that no other ‘race’ has; and Imperialism is a commitment to winning and […]

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The Profits From Taking Gaza

On 26 February 2025, Fox News headlined “Trump posts AI video of Gaza as luxury resort”, which showed clips from a promotional video that Trump had had done to show how he would like Gaza to be after the Gazans are eliminated from there and replaced by a world-class tropical beach-resort […]