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How’s the GOP’s Golden Age Treating You?

Glen Canyon Dam, near Page, Arizona. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.

It’s late July in Montana, which should be the perfect time to be casting a fly to rising trout on Montana’s once-famous blue ribbon streams. Only every day more and more of those streams join the restricted or closed list because there’s so little water left and it’s too hot for trout.

In the meantime, the Iran War drags on, despite Trump’s claim it has already been won 38 times — surely enough to garner the Nobel Peace Prize the “no new wars” president covets.

But not only hasn’t the war been won despite the estimated $100 billion drained from the Treasury, Trump is now asking Congress for an additional $60 billion in war funding. It’s now expanded to Yemen, where the Houthis have decided to close the Strait of al Mandeb – which was the only sea route still open to ship Gulf oil to the world — and just blew up a couple Saudi oil tankers to show they’re serious.

When more dead........

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