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Starbase: the Future Trump and Musk Want for America

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Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: Don’t Call Them ‘Potential Conflicts Of Interest’ – OpEd

Words matter. When the media points out Trump’s “potential conflicts of interest,” as it has in recent days when describing Trump’s growing crypto...

06.05.2025 6

Eurasia Review

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Robert Reich: George Washington Would Have Thrown Up – OpEd

Trump is planning a giant military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., to coincide with his 79th birthday on

05.05.2025 6

Eurasia Review

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Dear Media, Call It What It Is: Corruption

05.05.2025 30

Common Dreams

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'Mayday! Mayday!': It's May Day

'Mayday! Mayday!': It's May Day
01.05.2025 9

Common Dreams

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The Most Important Lesson Of Trump’s First Hundred Days – OpEd

The Most Important Lesson Of Trump’s First Hundred Days – OpEd

Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first hundred days, “the first hundred days” of a presidency has become the first test

01.05.2025 6

Eurasia Review

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Robert Reich: How You May Find Yourself On The Front Line Of Trump’s Immigration Crackdown – OpEd

Robert Reich: How You May Find Yourself On The Front Line Of Trump’s Immigration Crackdown – OpEd

The most important constraints on the Trump regime during its heinous first hundred days have been (1) federal courts, (2)

30.04.2025 10

Eurasia Review

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Robert Reich: The First 100 Days, Why We Must Mobilize – OpEd

Robert Reich: The First 100 Days, Why We Must Mobilize – OpEd

Today is the start of the 14th week of the odious Trump regime. Wednesday will mark its first 100 days.  The U.S. Constitution is in peril. Civil...

29.04.2025 20

Eurasia Review

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At This Rate, We Won't Survive Trump's Next 100 Days

At This Rate, We Won't Survive Trump's Next 100 Days
28.04.2025 2

Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: Ineptitude, Incompetence, Stupidity, And Chaos – OpEd

Robert Reich: Ineptitude, Incompetence, Stupidity, And Chaos – OpEd

Some Democrats fear they’re playing into Trump’s hands by fighting his mass deportations rather than focusing on his failures on

26.04.2025 6

Eurasia Review

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Robert Reich: The Secession Of The Billionaire Class – OpEd

Robert Reich: The Secession Of The Billionaire Class – OpEd

Billionaire Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the drop in the stock market is nothing to be concerned about because Americans

25.04.2025 6

Eurasia Review

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Robert Reich: Trump’s Playbook Is Viktor Orbán’s – OpEd

A few days ago I had breakfast with my old friend John Shattuck, who, as president of Central European University

16.04.2025 9

Eurasia Review

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American Oligarchy Petrified by Economic Chaos But Won't Criticize Trump Directly

14.04.2025 4

Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: 12 Small Reasons For Modest Hope – OpEd

My heart leapt last Saturday when I saw how many people turned out for the Hands Off protests: More than

13.04.2025 3

Eurasia Review

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Robert Reich: The Real Reason We’re In A National Emergency – OpEd

It’s hard to remember that only 10 weeks ago, the American economy was quite good, our foreign relations were on

09.04.2025 7

Eurasia Review

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The Contemptible Cowardice of Big Law Firms Bowing to Trump

08.04.2025 3

Common Dreams

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Trump Himself Is the Real National Emergency

07.04.2025 3

Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: This Week’s Small Reasons For Modest Optimism – OpEd

In many ways this was another horrific week. Like a terrible hurricane, the Trump dictatorship is sweeping more people into

06.04.2025 10

Eurasia Review

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Robert Reich: Trump’s Crypto Inc. – OpEd

I know it’s almost overwhelming — the continuous cacophony of catastrophes brought on my the crackpot in chief. But I

04.04.2025 3

Eurasia Review

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Voters in Florida and Wisconsin Have a Chance Today to Stick It to Trump and Musk

01.04.2025 3

Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: Trump’s Car Taxes On Americans – OpEd

Trump said worldwide automobile taxes, er, tariffs, will come into effect next week, on April 3, alongside Trump’s so-called reciprocal

30.03.2025 3

Eurasia Review

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Robert Reich: Why Social Security Is In The Worst Crisis Since Its 1935 Founding – OpEd

Financial services executive Frank Bisignano, Trump’s pick to become permanent commissioner of Social Security, faced lawmakers this morning in a

27.03.2025 7

Eurasia Review

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Robert Reich: If Trump Can Disappear Them, He Can Disappear You – OpEd

Let’s say you don’t like what the Trump administration is doing, or you don’t like Trump. You express these views

25.03.2025 4

Eurasia Review

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Robert Reich: Trump’s Attack On The American Mind – OpEd

Trump is dismantling much of the Department of Education. He has ordered wrestling executive-turned-Education Secretary Linda McMahon to shut most

21.03.2025 6

Eurasia Review

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Robert Reich: How To Fight The Trump Regime’s Use Of Fear And Intimidation – OpEd

The major weapon of the Trump-Vance-Musk regime is fear that causes people to be intimidated into silence and submission.  The

18.03.2025 8

Eurasia Review

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Trump Plays Very Dangerous Game by Saying 'F You' to Judicial Orders

18.03.2025 20

Common Dreams

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Tell Your Senators: Don’t Give Trump and Musk a Blank Check to Continue Their Pillage

13.03.2025 7

Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: The Trump Slump Is Now – OpEd

The message we’re getting from stock and bond markets deserves your attention.  Recall that Trump was elected largely because Americans

12.03.2025 4

Eurasia Review

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Trump, a Fascist Tyrant, Targets Universities and the Media

10.03.2025 3

Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: More Reasons For Modest Optimism – OpEd

Your anxiety is entirely justified. We are going through one of the most stressful times in American history. It is

10.03.2025 5

Eurasia Review

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Robert Reich: The Biggest Ponzi Scheme In History – OpEd

I remain optimistic about the longer term, but I still awaken each morning with a sense of dread. I’m sure

07.03.2025 4

Eurasia Review

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Dems Should Not Attend Trump’s State of the Union But With Fury in Their Hearts

04.03.2025 20

Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: 10 More Reasons For Modest Optimism – OpEd

Since I offered you 10 reasons for modest optimism last week, discontent with the Trump-Musk regime has surged even further.

02.03.2025 10

Eurasia Review

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Boycott Major Retailers to Show Them We Have the Power

28.02.2025 6

Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: It’s The Oligarchy, Stupid – OpEd

One of the unacknowledged advantages of the horrendous era we’ve entered is that it is revealing for all to see

27.02.2025 4

Eurasia Review

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The Essence of Tyranny: Trump Is Rapidly Gaining a Monopoly on the Use of Force

26.02.2025 6

Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: Ten Reasons For Modest Optimism – OpEd

If you are experiencing rage and despair about what is happening in America and the world right now because of

23.02.2025 10

Eurasia Review

Robert Reich

The Trump-Vance-Musk-Putin Plan – OpEd

Trump’s startling remarks this week that Ukraine’s leadership “should have never started” the war in Ukraine, that Ukraine’s President Zelensky...

21.02.2025 6

Eurasia Review

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10 Reasons for Modest Optimism in the Fight Against the Trump-Vance-Musk Regime

They want a dictatorship built on hopelessness and fear, but we can take courage from the green shoots of rebellion now appearing across America...

21.02.2025 20

Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: Bribery Unbound – OpEd

Trump has ordered the Justice Department to stop enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for the next six months and

20.02.2025 4

Eurasia Review

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A Right-Wing Supreme Court Won't Save Us From This Right-Wing President

17.02.2025 6

Common Dreams

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Robert Reich: Say What This Is, A Coup – OpEd

I want to talk today about the media’s coverage of the Trump-Vance-Musk coup.  I’m not referring to coverage by the

16.02.2025 20

Eurasia Review

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Robert Reich: Profiles In Courage – OpEd

Sometimes it takes a crisis to reveal one’s true character. This is especially true of people who occupy positions of

15.02.2025 10

Eurasia Review

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Corporate Media Failing to Call This What It Is: A Coup

14.02.2025 4

Common Dreams

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Message To The US And Russia: Don’t Think About Nuclear War – OpEd

By Jonathan Power War over Ukraine? It mustn’t be. Some of us believed that at the end of the Cold

13.02.2025 5

Eurasia Review

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Robert Reich: Fraud And Musk – OpEd

The Trump-Musk regime is accusing federal civil servants of fraud, based on no evidence, while at the same time allowing

13.02.2025 5

Eurasia Review

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Robert Reich: The End Of Law? – OpEd

He is the most lawless president in American history. He’s allowed Musk’s rats unfettered access to the Treasury’s payments system.

12.02.2025 6

Eurasia Review

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Robert Reich: This Is What Dictatorship Looks Like – OpEd

It’s a coup. As Trump talks about taking over Gaza (“beautiful shoreline”), Greenland (“great minerals”), Panama (“very strategic”), and making

06.02.2025 7

Eurasia Review

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Robert Reich: How Musk Is Messing With Your Social Security, Your Religion, And Everything Else – OpEd

Elon Musk vowed this week to unilaterally cancel hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of government grants after he and

05.02.2025 30

Eurasia Review

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Trump's Trade War, Authoritarian Power, and the Oligarchs

04.02.2025 20

Common Dreams

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