War Is A Crime

Report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers says corporate tax cuts will lift workers’ wages, it draws on several economic studies that find similar results – The New York Times

Press release: CEA report: Corporate tax reform and wages: Theory and evidence – whitehouse.gov

CEA report (Full text): Corporate tax reform and wages: Theory and evidence – whitehouse.gov

VIDEO: White House chief economist Kevin Hassett: Corporate tax cuts will boost wages – CNBC

Schumer slams WH report on corporate tax cuts, says it is using ‘fake math’ – newsmax.com

Detractors pile on a White House study that foresees incomes getting a boost of $4,000 a year if the corporate tax rate is cut to 20% from 35% – MarketWatch

I got issues with the new CEA report – Jared Bernstein

Press release: Report: Corporate tax cuts boost CEO pay, not jobs – Institute for Policy Studies

IPS report (full text): Report: Corporate tax cuts boost CEO pay, not jobs – Institute for Policy Studies

Summers says Trump officials are making things up about their tax plan – Bloomberg

VIDEO: Ex-Treasury Secretary Summers: White House tax plan ‘indefensible’ – CNBC

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Karen Greenberg first arrived at TomDispatch in January 2005 in tandem with defense attorney Joshua Dratel.  Their book The Torture Papers was just being published and they were asking read more

October 14, 2017

Mordechai Vanunu was imprisoned in Israel for eighteen years because he blew the whistle on Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program. He felt he had “an obligation to tell the people of Israel what was going on behind their backs” at a supposed nuclear research facility which was actually producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. His punishment for breaking the silence about Israel’s capacity to manufacture nuclear weapons included eleven years of solitary confinement.

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Larry Flynt,

Your grounds for impeachment #s 2 through 6 (plus that of the paragraph that follows them) are already documented by overwhelming, incontrovertible evidence. What is required is to recognize that and to remove from the list the impediment of the ground you have placed as #1 which helps create the illusion of requiring more information, which risks increased militarism, and which could derail this entire impeachment project due to the lack of evidence for any of its central claims.

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In The Secure and the Dispossessed, Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes have collected an unflinching survey of a species gone mad. The book’s subtitle is “How the Military and Corporations Are Shaping a Climate-Changed World.” In short, the Authoritarian Exceptionalist Military Corporate Complex is flamboyantly recognizing the hole it is in, and exponentially increasing the rate of digging, while hiring PR firms to redefine “digging” as “robust engagement in advanced resilient green read more

Harvey Weinstein, I’ve just read, is “the disgraced Pulp Fiction producer.” But isn’t someone who encourages millions of people to think of murder and torture as super cool and fun already pre-disgraced? Doesn’t he arrive in the locked office with the actress cowering in the corner already publicly disgraced and intent on disgracing himself in private?

This is a man whom we have to thank for Reservoir Dogs, Gangs of New York, Kill Bill, Rambo, Inglorious Basterds, Django read more

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“Bring the war home”: once, a long, lost time ago — in October 1969, to be exact — that slogan represented a promise made by the most radical wing of the vast movement against the war in Vietnam.  Wearing football helmets and wielding lead pipes, that tiny crew of extreme leftists carried out what they read more

In a meeting with Trudeau, Trump says NAFTA talks ‘tough’ and failure possible: ‘If we can’t make a deal, it’ll be terminated and that will be fine’ – digitaljournal.com

Trump says separate trade pacts with Canada, Mexico could replace NAFTA – Fox Business

VIDEO: Trump says ‘we’ll see what happens’ regarding NAFTA – YouTube

VIDEO: Trudeau remains optimistic for a positive outcome to NAFTA negotiations – YouTube

VIDEO: Canada’s Justin Trudeau takes questions on NAFTA, US relations – YouTube

‘Mexico’s bigger than NAFTA’, will only remain in the trade pact if good for national interest: FM sends dire warning to US – RT America

Mexico warns that abandoning NAFTA could end broader cooperation with US against drug trafficking and illegal migration – The Guardian

Mexican senators lay out six ‘red lines’ for NAFTA renegotiation – WSJ

Mexican Senate chief backs complete withdrawal from NAFTA – panampost.com

Mexican business leaders say no NAFTA better than bad deal – Reuters

Mexican Peso drops amid NAFTA talk troubles – Fox Business

Chambers of Commerce from all 50 States urge Trump administration to modernize NAFTA, ‘Do no harm’ – U.S. Chamber of Commerce

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This week on Talk Nation Radio we discuss the United States provision of weapons to dictatorships. We’re joined by Rich Whitney, who is an attorney from Carbondale, Illinois, now working as an appellate public defender. He is one of the founding members of the Illinois Green Party, currently serves on its Executive Committee, and in 2006 served as that party’s first-ever candidate for governor, winning over 360,000 votes, about 10.5 percent of the total. He is currently serving as read more