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Susan Collins: How to Back Trump’s War on Iran and Campaign Against It !

Susan Collins: How to Back Trump’s War on Iran and Campaign Against It !

I am Scott Ritter. Having served as a Marine intelligence officer in the Gulf War and having spent seven years as a UN weapons inspector in Iraq, I resigned from UNSCOM when Washington refused to enforce the mandates it had written. Consequently, I know the architecture of a lie dressed as intelligence. Accordingly, Trump’s war on Iran is an illegal war of aggression: it has no domestic authorization and no international legitimacy. Notably, Susan Collins supported it when it began. At that time, she did not call it illegal; likewise, she did not call it unconstitutional. Instead, she supported it.…
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Inside Trump’s Federal Shutdown: How the MAGA Movement Pushed America to the Brink of Collapse

Inside Trump’s Federal Shutdown: How the MAGA Movement Pushed America to the Brink of Collapse

In today’s socio-politically fractured United States, the federal government has remained paralyzed since October 1st, while Donald Trump’s erratic governance is generating an unprecedented crisis of institutional severity. This budget impasse, a paroxysmal expression of a destabilization strategy, jeopardizes the economy, the welfare state, and national cohesion. Institutional Paralysis As of Friday, October 31, the United States remains mired in a prolonged federal government shutdown that began at midnight EDT on October 1. This now month-long paralysis has suffocated essential public services, leaving roughly 730,000 federal employees still working without pay and another 670,000 on unpaid administrative leave—a moral and…
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