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  Death Dealers: Parasitical Profiting Off of War By David Starr As if nothing could get more immoral, disgusting, and criminal, individuals are betting on what the outcomes of wars would be. This goes hand-in-hand with the moral bankruptcy of the Trump regime. It has allowed– and Trump and his cronies have participated in–the most corrupt and fraudulent actions. Here are  three recent examples  in June published by  representUs :  June 16, 2026 – “Earlier this spring, the Trump administration gave a no-bid contract to a firm tied to a long-time supporter of the president to clean the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. Since work was completed, the pool has seen green algae blooms that have turned the water green.” June 16, 2026 – “Records reveal that taxpayer dollars will fund half the costs of the White House ballroom, despite earlier assurances from the president that private donors would pay for the construction.” June 3, 2026 – “Peter Navarro, the president’...

  U.S. Racism: a Major Influence on the Nazis By David Starr If one researched the history of U.S. racism up to the present time, and compared it with the racism of Nazi Germany, one would find disturbing similarities.  U.S. racism is a strain of U.S. ultranationalism, a precursor to the Nazi version. Particularly, in the 1890s going into the 1900s, U.S. ultranationalism erupted on the world stage characterized by the eugenics movement, the Spanish-American War, and the Philippine-American War. All three were brutally barbaric, reflecting the accusations made by the perpetrators who, ironically, thought of people of color as “barbaric.”  In the U.S., although slavery was officially abolished after the Civil War, residues of slavery continued in the form of racism against people of color by ultranationalist whites, i.e., those who thought they were the “true Americans.” A book review  by Rebecca Brenner Graham in  Black Perspectives  looks at  Hitler’s ...