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“I look back at the Clinton administration as eight years of a fundamental transformation in the direction of the country - toward favoring big business, and toward almost frontal assaults on the most underprivileged members of the society. It was much more than cutting the social safety net. Clinton followed that by the abuse of those at the lowest rungs of our society - in ways that I don't think Bush, for all of his manifest faults, has done to the same degree.”

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Jeffrey St. Clair
Jeffrey St. Clair

Jeffrey St. Clair is an American journalist known for his in-depth reporting on political and social issues. Born in 1959, he has been active in the news industry since the 1980s. St. Clair's work often appears in the magazine 'CounterPunch', where he is also a co-editor. His reporting covers a wide range of topics, including environmental issues, political corruption, and war. more

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