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Democracy Now! speaks to William Hartung about his new book "The Trillion Dollar War Machine" and who profits from the United States' runaway military spending that fuels foreign wars. Hartung says that U.S. policy is "based on profit" and calls for a rethinking of our foreign entanglements. "We haven't won a war in this century. We've caused immense harm. We've spent $8 trillion," he says.
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Saul Loeb, Mandel Ngan/AFP/GettySenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called his party's presidential nominee, Donald Trump, a "stupid," "ill-tempered," and "despicable human being," according to his own records.
McConnell made the withering assessments in a series of private "personal oral histories" that he gave to Michael Tackett, the deputy Washington bureau chief of the Associated Press, who has a forthcoming biography about the Kentucky senator called The Price of Power. The AP conveniently reported the book's juicy details.
McConnell's remarks were made after the 2020 election that Trump lost, and the senator was apparently elated to see the backside of the former president, musing, "it's not just the Democrats who are counting the days" until he leaves office.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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