Tyra@lemmy.mltoNews@lemmy.world•Former CIA officers warn Trump's administration is reviving the Lavender Scare, endangering national securityEnglish
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22 hours agoOfftopic but wtf:
Their history begins with Carmel Offie, a gay intelligence officer who helped move German scientists and diplomats out of the Soviet occupation zone near the end of World War II.
The U.S. pays roughly $3 billion a day just in interest on its debt, and another ~$3 billion a day on its imperial war machine. It could easily afford what it owes the UN. But withholding UN funds as a political weapon to enforce “reforms” (e.g. attacking Palestinians, China, and other Global South countries that dare not bend the knee) is a long-standing US tradition, dating back decades. Long before Trump.