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Capitalism profits from terror: Trump $2 billion richer after assassination attempt
Shares of Truth Social, insurance companies, private prisons, gun makers, and cryptocurrency are all up – Wall Street is cashing in.
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PW archives 1981: CPUSA leader Gus Hall on the attempted assassination of Reagan
Recalling the Marxist observation that the ruling ideas of any era are those of the ruling class, Hall pinpoints monopoly capital’s pursuit of profits at all costs as the root cause of the violence erupting in society.