"Mail ballots are people's votes," said a Harris County elections administrator who is "very concerned" about the anti-democratic effects of the Texas GOP's new voter suppression law.
"This really isn't a conversation about providing relief to a small, niche group of people," said the congresswoman. "It's very much a keystone action politically."
"Abandoning diplomacy for confrontation is not a step over a line, it is a dive over a cliff," said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. "Do not fail the cause of peace."
All those trillions of dollars consumed in wasteful wars have helped foster a creeping pessimism in Americans—a pessimism spawned by corporate elites increasingly consumed by greed.
Giving them back half of the money that is rightfully theirs in the form of "aid"—instead of returning it to the banking system—is not only a band-aid that doesn't solve the country's liquidity problem—it's nearly impossible to do anyway, given the sanctions still in place.
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