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Yikes:  Iranian attacks ‌have knocked out 17% of Qatar's liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity, causing an estimated $20 billion in lost annual revenue and threatening supplies to Europe and Asia, QatarEnergy's CEO and state minister for energy affairs told Reuters on Thursday. Saad al-Kaabi said...
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Paul Waldman observes that Donald Trump's war of (very bad) choice is costing fortunes, but for Republican wars money is never a constraint: Speaking to Sky News last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked if there was some point at which the Iran war could...
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I grew up in Springfield, Oregon, not Portland (though I was born there). One thing that has happened here (I am here now) is that as housing prices have skyrocketed, even in this working class town, is that the large backyards created when this area was...
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La Lucha Sigue

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Cesar Chavez, the head of the United Farm Workers Union, calls for the resignation of Walter Kintz, the first legal counsel for the state Agriculture Labor Relations Board, in Sacramento, Calif., on Sept. 16, 1975. Chavez's efforts in California culminated in landmark legislation that protected the...

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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas.

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