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America’s Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is.

America’s Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is.This article was adapted from Nuclear War: A Scenario, published March 26, 2024, by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright 2024 by Annie M. Jacobsen. Nuclear war is madness. Were a nuclear weapon to be launched at the United States, including from a rogue nuclear-armed nation like North Korea, American policy dictates a nuclear counterattack. This response would almost certainly set off a series of events that would quickly spiral out of control. “The world could end in the next couple of hours,” Gen. Robert Kehler, the former commander of US Strategic Command, told me in an interview. We sit on the razor’s edge. Vladimir Putin has said he is “not bluffing” about the possibility of using weapons of mass destruction should NATO overstep on Ukraine, and North Korea…


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The Ego Has Crash-Landed

The Ego Has Crash-LandedDonald Trump dominated the news cycle this weekend. Everybody’s talking about the outrageous things he said at his rally in Dayton, Ohio—above all, his menacing warning of a “bloodbath” if he is defeated in November. To follow political news is to again be immersed in all Trump, all the time. And that’s why Trump will lose.At the end of the 1980 presidential debate, the then-challenger Ronald Reagan posed a famous series of questions that opened with “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”Why that series of questions was so powerful is important to understand. Reagan was not just delivering an explicit message about prices and wages. His summation also sent an implicit message about his understanding of how and why a vote was earned.As a presidential candidate that year, Reagan arrived as a hugely famous and important person. He was the champion of the…


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How Hur Misled the Country on Biden’s Memory

How Hur Misled the Country on Biden’s MemoryFirst impressions stick. After a big story hits, the initial conclusions can turn out to be wrong, or partly wrong, but the revisions are not what people remember. They remember the headlines in imposing font, the solemn tone from a presenter, the avalanche of ironic summaries on social media. Political operatives know this, and it’s that indelible impression they want, one that sticks like a greasy fingerprint and that no number of follow-ups or awkward corrections could possibly wipe away.Five years ago, a partisan political operative with the credibility of a long career in government service misled the public about official documents in order to get Donald Trump the positive spin he wanted in the press. The play worked so well that a special counsel appointed to examine President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, Robert Hur, ran it again.In 2019, then–Attorney General…


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Biden campaign says it raised $25 million at a New York gala

Biden campaign says it raised $25 million at a New York galaViewJoe Biden raised more than $25 million for his presidential campaign during a New York City fundraiser that also featured appearances from former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, the Biden campaign said Thursday.The fundraiser at the Radio City Music Hall set a record for a political event, according to the campaign.The gala followed weeks of Biden campaign appearances in battleground states across the country, where the president reiterated a unity message from the State of the Union address and highlighted administration accomplishments.President Biden’s guests were headliners: former President Barack Obama met with President Biden in Washington to make the trip to New York, while former President Bill Clinton was expected to join them at the gala.Thousands of attendees were expected at the fundraiser, where artists including Queen Latifah, Lizzo and Ben Platt were performing. Talk show host Stephen…


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Volkswagen Chattanooga Workers Request Union Election With UAW

Volkswagen Chattanooga Workers Request Union Election With UAWThe union is hoping to parlay its strike against the “Big Three” into a historic organizing success in the U.S. South. ….. Read More.HUFFINGTON POST – Business | Business & CommerceMon, March 18, 20242 weeks ago


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European Union plans to expedite financial aid to Egypt, bypassing usual safeguards

European Union plans to expedite financial aid to Egypt, bypassing usual safeguardsThe European Union intends to fast-track some of its aid money to Egypt using an urgent funding procedure that bypasses parliamentary oversight and other safeguards, according to the president of the bloc’s executive branch.The $1.1 billion intended for this is part of a larger package of $8 billion in financial assistance to the North African country that the EU announced on March 17.Egypt has for years relied on cash handouts, often from wealthy Gulf Arab states, as concerns mount that economic pressure and regional conflicts could drive more migrants from the region to Europe’s shores.EUROPEAN UNION SIGNS 7.4B EURO AID PACKAGE FOR EGYPT TO ADDRESS MIGRATION CONCERNS AND MOREThe EU package includes three year’s worth of grants and favorable loans for the Arab world’s most populous country. Most of the funds — $5.4 billion — are known as macro-financial…


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