War Is A Crime

NAFTA round closes with talks bogged down by conflict – The New York Times

NAFTA talks hit wall as Mexico, Canada push back on U.S. demands – Reuters

Trump administration blasts Mexico, Canada for limited NAFTA ‘headway’ – Fox Business

USTR Lighthizer Statement on the conclusion of the 5th Round of NAFTA renegotiations – United States Trade Representative

Official: Canada, Mexico make no counteroffers on key U.S. NAFTA demands, including on autos and dispute settlement mechanisms – Reuters

Freeland calls U.S. proposals ‘extreme’, says Canada ‘prepared for the worst’ amid squabbles over NAFTA – CBC News

VIDEO: Freeland asked about Canada’s NAFTA negotiating tactics – CBC News

U.S. ‘poison-pill’ demands make prospect of reaching NAFTA agreement remote: Scotiabank report – Financial Post

Canada warns U.S. businesses to speak up or lose NAFTA – Bloomberg

Canada, Mexico push US to explain NAFTA auto plan – PLANT

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Who even remembers that, back in September 2002, Lawrence Lindsey, then President George W. Bush’s chief economic adviser, offered an upper limit estimate on the cost of a future war in Iraq at $100 billion to $200 billion?  He also suggested that the “successful prosecution” of such a war “would read more

            Edward Samuel Herman, who died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 92 on Nov. 11, didn’t just cry out “fake news” like so many politicians and media pundits do today referring to stories that they object to. Rather, he explained why so much of the news in the US is and has long been fake and how the seemingly independent system of news organizations go about creating it, almost as if they were operating under the direction of some government of propaganda.

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Speaking of the situation on the Korean peninsula, he predicted that there would be “the greatest slaughter.”  He later requested 34 nuclear weapons for possible use in connection with the Korean situation.  He would later claim read more

What the hell do I mean I’m against Thanksgiving? Can’t I find something worse to be against? How about famine, cholera, war, slavery, rape, murder, torture, environmental collapse, refugee crises, evil heartless lying scheming governments, oil spills, slick propaganda, mass incarceration, entrenched apathy, bigotry, greed, or sadism? Indeed, I’m certainly against all of those things and thousands of others, and more so than I am against Thanksgiving.

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POLL: Tax reform & Obamacare: Poll finds voters want them dealt with separately – National Review

POLL: 60 percent to blame Trump, GOP for ObamaCare problems – TheHill

House Republicans are divided over Obamacare individual mandate push in tax plan – The Washington Post

Republican U.S. senators to watch in the debate on the tax bill, two of them have qualms about including repeal of the Obamacare individual mandate in the tax bill – Reuters

Pro-Obamacare group ads target swing Republicans on taxes – POLITICO

Trump met Senate Republicans on ObamaCare fix, The importance of the Alexander/Murray bipartisan bill has increased  given that Senate Republicans are now proposing to repeal ObamaCare’s individual mandate in their tax bill  – TheHill

Senate Committee clears GOP tax bill to set post-Thanksgiving table – US News

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Starting with Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly and film producer Harvey Weinstein, they’ve fallen like so many dominoes in the glare of publicity and grim public testimony from the women (and, in a few read more

By Dave Lindorff

            Maybe having a president in the White House who acts like an impulsive child is a good thing — at least if it convinces the Senate, a body that has for decades surrendered its vital Constitutional power over war and peace to the Executive Branch, to wrest it back.

            This is particularly important in the case of nuclear weapons. As things stand, going back all the way to Harry Truman, the only read more