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Trump’s Medical Marijuana Threat Contradicts the Law and His Own Position

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“Trump is not only trying to usurp the congressional power to decide how taxpayers’ money will be spent; he is threatening to interfere with the autonomy that states are supposed to have under the 10th Amendment. He is also contradicting his own position both before and after his election.”

Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/08/trumps-medical-marijuana-threat-contradi

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Trump announces trade war with Canada, retroactive 20% tax on lumber

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“Claiming the U.S. has been ‘taken advantage of’ under the Clinton-era NAFTA trade deal, President Trump Monday night opened a trade war with Canada, announcing a retroactive 20 percent ‘tax’ on lumber imports, and promising a similar tax on Canadian milk.  ‘Canada has treated us very unfairly,’ the president said in impromptu remarks at a reception for conservative journalists. ‘We have been taken so advantage of,’ he said, speaking it the Roosevelt Room.  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who accompanied the president into the reception, said that the ‘countervailing duty’ would be retroactive 90 days.”

Read more: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-announces-trade-war-with-canada-retroactive-20-tax-on-lumber/article/2621146

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One Man’s Quest to Prove Saudi Arabia Bankrolled 9/11

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“This New York lawyer says he has found a link between Saudi officials and the hijackers. The U.S. government refuses to do anything about it.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/saudi-arabia-911-lawyer-214996

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Justin Raimondo: Behind Trump’s Syria Turnabout

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“It’s easy to explain, once you understand that there is no such thing as foreign policy: all policy is domestic.”

Read more: http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2017/04/11/behind-trump-syria-turnabout/

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Jacob Hornberger: Trump’s New War for America

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“With President Trump’s undeclared attack on Syria, a sovereign and independent nation, he has confirmed, once and for all, that he is just another foreign interventionist, no different from his predecessors Barack Obama and George W. Bush. That means, of course, another four years of war, bombings, assassinations, shootings, terrorism, war on terrorism, travel restrictions, walls, surveillance, incarceration, POW camps, torture, out of control federal spending and debt, and everything else that comes with an imperialist and interventionist national security state.”

Read more: http://www.fff.org/2017/04/07/trumps-new-war-america/

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Congress and POTUS Agree: The President Can Bomb Whomever, Whenever

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“The Trump administration’s justification for its airstrikes on Syria manages somehow to be even weaker than Obama’s Libya arguments. The time to push back is running out for Congress. If they can’t do it with a deeply, widely unpopular president who in his first three months in office has antagonized not just members of the opposition party but members of his own as well, they may never be able to.”

Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2017/04/07/congress-and-potus-agree-the-president-c

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The 45 times Trump said attacking Syria was a bad idea and might start WWIII

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“In October, Trump blasted then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton‘s position on Syria — that the U.S. military should take out al-Assad’s airfields, the exact type of strike Trump ordered Thursday — by saying attacking a Russian-backed government could start World War III.”

Read more: https://mic.com/articles/173471/trump-world-war-iii-attacking-syria-wwiii-ww3

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The cost to replace the 59 Tomahawk missiles Trump fired on Syria

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“It could cost about $60 million to replace the cruise missiles that the U.S. military rained on Syrian targets Thursday night.  The missiles used on Thursday likely cost the U.S. military around $1 million, but the latest versions of the missile that would replace those could be more costly, depending on size of the order and other factors, said Loren Thompson, a consultant and chief operating officer of nonprofit Lexington Institute.”

Read more: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-how-much-it-will-cost-to-replace-the-tomahawks-used-in-syria-2017-04-07

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Trump approves Pentagon warfighting authority expansion

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“Week by week, country by country, the Pentagon is quietly seizing more control over warfighting decisions, sending hundreds more troops to war with little public debate and seeking greater authority to battle extremists across the Middle East and Africa.  This week it was Somalia, where President Donald Trump gave the U.S. military more authority to conduct offensive airstrikes on al-Qaida-linked militants. Next week it could be Yemen, where military leaders want to provide more help for the United Arab Emirates’ battle against Iranian-backed rebels.”

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/under-trump-pentagon-seizing-more-control-over-warfighting-135021268.html

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Trump said Obama needed war authority from Congress. Will he ask for it now?

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“A senior administration official told reporters on Friday that the president acted pursuant to his authority under Article 2 of the Constitution, which makes him commander in chief. And, the aide said, top officials including Vice President Mike Pence are in ‘constant contact with congressional leaders.’  On Thursday night, Trump laid out conventional U.S. rationales for unilateral military action in a way that suggests he does not see a need for formal authority from Congress.”

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-said-obama-needed-war-authority-congress-will-ask-now-212131733.html

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