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Washington’s Benevolent Mask Is Disintegrating
Paul Craig Roberts
Via Ted Galen Carpenter of The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Via Federico Pieraccini of The Strategic Culture Foundation,
The best-case scenario has come about, which is to say the end of a world facing the specter of a mushroom cloud. With Hillary Clinton's defeat, we avoided a nuclear denouement stemming from a direct clash with Russia in Syria and an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. Unfortunately the good news ends here.
Several days after Goldman Sachs explained in theory why hopes for a quick "repeal and replace" of Obamacare are now extinguished, and even "repair and rename" is looking bad, overnight state governors meeting in Washington got the bad news in practice, when a presentation from Avalere Health and McKinsey warned that the policies proposed by Republican congressional leaders to repeal and replace Obama's signature healthcare law would lead millions of people to lose their health coverage, while states lose billions in Federal funding.
Submitted by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation,