COMMON DREAMS: Week in Review: Trump's Republican Party Plans War on Working Class

 

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Saturday, April 13, 2024 ■ The Week in Review GOP Confirms 2025 Tax Plan If Trump Wins: More Giveaways to the Rich "There are 20 years of data showing trickle-down economics doesn't work, yet today will still be a whole lot of revisionist history and wishful thinking on the singular largest failure of fiscal policy in recent memory," said Rep. Richard Neal. By Brett Wilkins • Apr 12, 2024 Vietnam Sentences Billionaire to Death for White Collar Fraud The trials of Tru'o'ng Mỹ Lan and 84 others are part of an anti-corruption campaign led by the head of Vietnam's Communist Party. By Common Dreams Staff • Apr 11, 2024 2 Maine Republicans Say Lewiston Mass Shooting Was God's Retribution for Abortion Rights "Viewing mass shooters as instruments of God seems like it's the perfect next step for Republicans," said one critic. "It combines everything that drives the modern Republican Party." By Julia Conley • Apr 11, 2024 MAINE GOP LUNATICS! excerpt: Two Maine state Republican lawmakers on Thursday were formally censured for saying during a legislative debate that the deadliest shooting in the state's history was the result of God's wrath over abortion, and issued apologies—but rights advocates said their views should not be treated as an aberration in the GOP. "Viewing mass shooters as instruments of God seems like it's the perfect next step for Republicans," said writer Mark Sumner. "It combines everything that drives the modern Republican Party." State Rep. Michael Lemelin (R-88) invoked last year's shooting in Lewiston, Maine on Wednesday night during a debate over L.D. 227, a proposal to protect healthcare providers from being targeted by other states' restrictions on gender-affirming and reproductive care. 'History Will Judge': Sanders Says US Must Stand With Gaza Children, Not Netanyahu "Our new position must be simple and straightforward: Not another nickel for the Netanyahu government if its present policies continue," wrote Sen. Bernie Sanders. By Jake Johnson • Apr 11, 2024 Three-Day Sanders Institute Event Details the Case: 'Housing Is a Human Right' "We can't address the housing crisis by chopping the weed off at the top. We have to pull it out by the roots," said one panelist at the intimate event in Los Angeles that looked at the issue from the local, state, and federal level. By Jon Queally • Apr 9, 2024 Jayapal, Sanders, and Khanna Say US Housing Crisis Must Be 'At the Top of Our Agenda' "We really need a revolution in housing and how we deal with housing," said Sen. Bernie Sanders at a gathering on the issue. By Jake Johnson • Apr 9, 2024 Progressives Unveil 10-Point Agenda to 'Prevent Fascist Takeover' in 2024 "With our support and voice, progressives may persuade and enable President Biden to achieve more progressive policy objectives during his second term and prevent a fascist takeover." By Jake Johnson • Apr 8, 2024 'Whole Thing Is an Epic Fraud': RFK Jr. Official Admits Goal Is to Elect Trump "As the saying goes, when people show you who they are, believe them," said a Democratic National Committee spokesperson. By Julia Conley • Apr 8, 2024 'Very Serious Crime': Biden Urged to Demand Immediate Release of Ecuador's Former VP Ecuador's raid of the Mexican embassy in Quito "threatens the security of embassies and diplomats throughout the world," said one expert. By Jake Johnson • Apr 8, 2024

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■ Opinion As Surgeons, We Have Never Seen Cruelty Like Israel’s Genocide in Gaza We urge anyone who reads this to publicly oppose sending weapons to Israel as long as this onslaught continues. By Feroze Sidhwa,Mark Perlmutter • Apr 11, 2024 Stopping the Dance of Death: Building a 21st Century Anti-War Movement Foreign policy analysts Phyllis Bennis, Jackson Lears, and Jeffrey Sachs discuss how to win a cease-fire in Gaza, prevent a nuclear war, and shift U.S. policy and funds away from imperialist wars. By Phyllis Bennis,Jackson Lears,Jeffrey D. Sachs • Apr 10, 2024 If Trump Wins, the GOP Is Ready to Wage War on the Working Class Project 2025 offers a plan to thoroughly dismantle more than a century of workers’ achievements in the struggle for both dignity and simple on-the-job survival. By Rebecca Gordon • Apr 9, 2024 Americans Pay a High Price for the GOP's Fiscal Irresponsibility Republicans keep wasting our money on their ideological boondoggles that are typically unsuccessful and do nothing to help real people. By Dan Brook • Apr 6, 2024 Complaint of the Great Salt Lake I’m down to 900 square miles now; I’ve been told that if things stay this way, I’ll be gone in five years. By John Raby • Apr 6, 2024

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