Op Ed News
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Paying Attention to Climate Change Before It's Too Late
Oil covered wildlife. Sludge clogging waterways and snaking down suburban streets. The potential for disaster, especially with a transcontinental pipeline, have never been greater.
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This Memorial Day, Let's Remember Women in War
Now that women can enter combat officially, it's a good time to remember the many roles women have played during wartime, whether military or civilian.
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
There are plenty of legitimate criticisms to level at the current administration, starting with the ongoing illegal terror wars, un-investigated corporate abuses of labor, drone strikes, closing GITMO, etc. But there will never be a serious investigation as long as the "morans" are running the place, Just this endless sea of pointless hearings and time-wasters.
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My Big Fat Greek Minister
Fat Bastard -- or Theodoros Pangalos, leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Party (PASOK), Greece's equivalent to UK's Labour Party -- thinks the little Greek kiddies should stop belly-aching. Pangalos, as you can see from the photo below, is not bent over with hunger pains. In fact, he looks more likely to be bent over with labour pains, but in truth he probably just can't bend over at all.
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Ten Years After US Invades Iraq, Israel Eager to Take...
At a cabinet meeting Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel was prepared to attack Syria for the third time this month. Why not? He got away with it before, using the "self defense" righteous rationale that empires employ as they increase their power one step at a time. This is the way empires grow. It is also the way they die, one pyrrhic victory after another.
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Enough Is Enough! No More Looting of Somalia's Oil!
In reading Katrina Manson's article "Oil Thrown on the Fire" at the Financial Times website, I saw again that, with every passing year, Somalis are losing more and more control of their own country to international criminals all over Africa and Europe. Kenya and Norway are the latest entrants in the scramble for Somalia's resources.
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Global Capital and the Nation State
Google, Amazon, Starbucks, every other major corporation, and every big Wall Street bank, are sheltering as much of their US profits abroad as they can, while telling Washington that lower corporate taxes are necessary in order to keep the US "competitive." Baloney. The fact is, global corporations have no allegiance to any country; their only objective is to make as much money as possible.
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Does Woodward Know Watergate?
Republicans are hyping the flap over Benghazi talking points by calling it "worse than Watergate," a false narrative that Bob Woodward has helped along by ignoring new evidence connecting Richard Nixon's sabotage of Vietnam War peace talks in 1968 to his political spying in 1971-72.
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Watch At the Sausage Factory
One of the first, and most important, things I learned when I started covering Washington many years ago was that there was not one, but two Washington's. There was the elected Washington, and unelected Washington. One was temporary, the other permanent.
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Obama and Nixon: A Historical Perspective
Republican legislators have apparently been ordered by their leadership to hold scandal-mongering hearings but to stall any legislation for genuine reform. The real scandal is the Republican party's devotion to grandstanding over governance and its preference for slime over substance.
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On "42:" A Movie About Racism
At one level, the movie 42, about Jackie Robinson, is a "baseball movie." But to my mind much more importantly, it's a movie about racism in the United States. Since our nation is still so heavily burdened with this way of thinking, engineered and promoted by the corporate and political interests which it serves, I regard it as an important statement and lesson for the present, as well as very well done history.
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The Peculiar Politics of Karl Rove's 'Outrage' Over the...
The threat to democracy that the president described would be complete -- as sincere activists on the right and the left would be shunted to the sidelines of a new political landscape where corporate cash decides the day and the boss is not a CEO but a cynical political operative named Karl Rove.
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H&M Responds Slowly to Bangladesh Factory Collapse...
H&M (Hennes & Mauritz), a major Swedish "fast fashion" retailer, led 30 international companies this week to commit to a new $3 billion fund to improve the safety of garment factories in Bangladesh. Watchdog organizations say the companies acted only because of external pressure by activists and workers.
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No Bear Market In Gold
The misinformation that Soros had sold his gold holdings came from misinterpreting the reason Soros' holdings in the GLD gold trust declined. Soros did not sell the shares; he redeemed the paper claims for physical gold. Watching the gold ETFs, such as GLD, being looted by banksters, Soros cashed in some of his own paper gold for the real stuff.
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Rise Up or Die
We stand helpless before the corporate onslaught. There is no way to vote against corporate power. Citizens have no way to bring about the prosecution of Wall Street bankers and financiers for fraud, military and intelligence officials for torture and war crimes, or security and surveillance officers for human rights abuses.
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The Historic Conviction of US-Supported Guatemalan...
An interview with investigative journalist Allan Nairn, on the historic conviction of US supported Guatemalan Strongman, Rios Montt, for Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide, and the continuing legal battle to sustain the verdict, and expand the genocide investigation for indigenous justice in Guatemala.
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The Problem with Partition: Human Rights Provide an...
The article reviews solutions to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. It concludes that Human Rights can help both sides to resolve their conflict.
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Pakistan Energy Crisis: Immediate Attention Needed!
Energy Crisis is the single most important issue the incoming Govt will have to deal with.This paper points out issues & suggests solutions.
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Rebecca Solnit, What Comes After Hope
I worked for years as an editor at Pantheon Books. Its publisher, maybe the most adventurous in the business, was Andr-- Schiffrin. Among his many accomplishments, he "discovered" Studs Terkel (already a well-known Chicago radio personality), published his first oral history (Division Street: America), and made him a bestseller.
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Nearly 600,000 Wounded Vets Claims for Disability...
There's a big controversy concerning the Dep't of Veterans Affairs where nearly 600,000 wounded vets of the Iraq & Afghanistan wars are having their claims for disability compensation "backlogged" for over 125 days. These wounded vets don't want to hear about the antiquated system now overwhelmed by their claims. They expect their claims be acted on swiftly & w/o red tape. They are right.
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Second Thoughts about Pope Bergoglio: A Liberation Pope...
Last week the pontiff made some surprisingly critical remarks about capitalism and ethics to a group of new ambassadors to the Vatican. Is he showing his true colors? Or is this just more blah, blah?
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African Safari Trip of a Lifetime
No matter how much foreign travel you have done, going on an African safari trip will be a uniquely spectacular experience. Learn from my recent trip.
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The Week's Homophobia Hits New Highs, But Hate Was...
Homophobia hit new highs last week, with the murder of a New York man named Mark Carson. However, the vigil for Carson was a strike back - in the right direction.
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CIA: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone
There's a contradiction built into every campaign promise about transparent government beyond the failure to keep the promises.
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Lincoln's buried bank note veto applies today
Lincoln's most important veto is buried and forgotten. Yet, it saved the union, and it still applies today.
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"Terrorism" and the Plans for Absolute Tyranny within...
This article diagnoses the structural causes of the momentum toward tyranny within the US in terms of the global war-system. It shows why the global war-system necessarily destroys freedom and democracy everywhere. It shows what is required for a global peace-system. It is only such a global peace system, under the Earth Constitution, that can protect freedom, democracy, and the rule of law within the US or anywhere else.
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Fracking is EDF's Friend
Is the Environmental Defense Fund in an ill-conceived relationship, or has it simply sold out?
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The White Paper on Drones: The Tail Wagging the Dog
Debates over the legality of targeted killing using drones ignore some very important legal arguments that clearly lead to the conclusion that killing subjects with drones violates legal and domestic law. There is, in fact, a United Nations law expressly prohibiting drones under any circumstances. Therefore, Obama and all those involved in targeting and firing drones are war criminals.
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Dissecting Bob Woodward's Comparison Of Benghazi To...
There's no small irony to Woodward injecting himself into what has become a scandal driven by deceptively edited emails passed off to reporters, given the recent attention he received after using a similar method to support his ridiculous accusation that a White House aide threatened him.
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Divide and Conquer the Congress?
"Bipartisanship" is when the owners prompt their official lackeys to screw over humanity again. The best we can hope for is a mud wrestling impeachment.
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Mainstream Media Acrostic
It's pretty clear-cut, so long as one knows what an acrostic is!
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Guatemala's R--os Montt Genocide Conviction Omen for US...
Presiding Judge, "he knew about everything that was going on and he did not stop it, despite having the power to stop it from being carried out." US President Ronald Reagan also had the power, greater power, to stop the massacres being perpetrated by dictator General and President R--os Montt, instead visited him in Guatemala City and praised Rios Montt as "a man of great personal integrity and commitment. Who was more guilt
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"The worst crimes in UK history'
UK member of parliament and US citizen expose the crimes of the west
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Racism and the American Right
From the start of the Republic to today's Republican ranting against Barack Obama, racism has been a central element of the American Right. But this ugly feature of U.S. history has often come concealed behind words praising traditions, liberty and states' rights.
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All This Mangling of a Once-Beloved Historical Event:...
Who's in the Tea Party, who's not, and a gray line the Gray Lady didn't clarify.
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Japan's Sham Currency War - The Hidden Objective Behind...
US$ dollars have been flooding the financial markets ever since Bernanke launched quantitative easing, allegedly to turn around the US economy. These huge amounts of US$ toilet papers are mainly in financial markets (and in central banks) outside of the United States. A huge chunk is represented as reserves in central banks led by China and Japan. The issue is why has the US$ not collapsed as it should have by now?
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May 27, 1942 -- Highest Ranking Nazi Killed in WWII -...
May 27, 1942 -- Highest Ranking Nazi Killed in WWII - Reinhard Heydrich -- Seventy- One Years Later: Could Author Joanie Schirm Have Uncovered the Secret Cause of Death about the real demise of the highest ranking Nazi officer assassinated during WWII from a friend of her father at the Hospital when Heydrich died
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Vermont's new choice for death with dignity
"Why do we treat our dying pets with more mercy than we treat our dying people?"
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Inequality and Growth
The inequality and growth debate is a red herring. It just doesn't matter. The problem is inequality, and its solution is simple.
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Let's Not Sacrifice Our Privacy on the Altar of...
An op-ed opposing CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.
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UN General Assembly vote reflects shift in Syrian public...
Over the past four months it has become increasingly clear that public opinion in Syria is shifting for reasons that include the following: While inflation at the grocery stores in probably the most common complaint heard from a cross-section of society here, the population is adapting somewhat to higher prices and it appears to credit the government for efforts control inflation and reduce the impanct of US sanctions
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Why Obama Can & Should Close Guantanamo NOW
Obama, however, as people rightly point out, has promised to close Guantanamo. For his own reasons, whatever they may be, he repeats what most of the world thinks, that the continued existence of the illegal prison in Guantanamo, set up to avoid U.S. law by the Bush regime, doesn't serve the U.S. public image as the land of freedom and democracy.
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Growing Old With Joy
How do you feel about growing old? I guess I am one of the lucky ones. It doesn't bother me at all.
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Health Insurance in America: Legalized Extortion
Just got a letter informing me that our health insurance premium is going up 25%. We will now be paying $34,934.88 per year . . . more than we pay for our mortgage, two cars and tuition for graduate school. HELP!!
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If Our Re-elected Prez is WarCriminal, What Are We? King...
Cornel West, most outspoken anti-imperialist and defender of Black and minority civil rights since Martin Luther King now says Obama is a war criminal, a black puppet of corporate plutocrats, head of the US killing machine. Will West tell us that King said America, Americans, are responsible for the atrocity wars, being capable of making them unacceptable and inoperable through non-participation and conscientious objection?
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Keystone XL, Through Transcanada, Uses Eminent Domain to...
Landowners are losing their rights as fracking and Big Energy, in collusion with government, is seizing private property to advance the interests not of the public but of private business.
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Obama A Big Hypocrite? Ask Legal Schnauzer, Roger Shuler
Obama's "look forward" statement made no sense and it makes even less sense now, coming after he expressed outrage the other day over disclosures about the IRS targeting conservative groups for political reasons.In a news conference,he said he would not "tolerate" such actions."But his inaction toward the DOJ shows that he WILL tolerate targeting of political opponents, and that he will not take steps to fix the problem.
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Pandering To The Bankers Obama And The Housing Boondoggle
The uptick in delinquencies suggests that Obama's blundering mortgage modification fiasco, dubbed HAMP (The Home Affordable Modification Program), was actually a sop to Wall Street, that is, the program was designed as a holding tank for underwater borrowers so the banks could evict them at a time that was convenient for them and their bottom lines.
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Why the Public Should Yawn Over Alleged Obama Scandals
The mostly media driven scandal talk involving President Obama has so far stirred barely a yawn among the public. There are good reasons
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Simpson-Bowles Austerity Gang: Go Home
"Go big or go home," bellow Bowles and Simpson, and for once they're right. Go home, all of you, and take the sequester with you. Then the grown-ups can start working on real ways to fix the economy, with jobs and growth and other things that really work.
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Women of the Wall
Under state doctrine, Israel is the Nation-state of the Jewish people. Under Zionist doctrine, the Jewish people and the Jewish religion are one and the same. Israelis are a nation, and the State of Israel belongs to this nation. Every citizen, male or female, should be able to pray to whoever he or she wants, in any public place, including the Western Wall.
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Fracking the Suburbs: An Explosive Combination?
he widespread push against exploitative resource extraction in North America -- such as the Tar Sands Blockade, protests against the Keystone XL Pipeline, and movements to stop fracking -- has forged collaborations unlike anything that had existed before. Everyone needs to speak up and support the movement. Because it's a human issue.
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Are the Liberal Leanings of Gov't Bureaucrats an...
David Weigel, conservative-leaning columnist on Slate.com, thinks the answer is yes. I say: Maybe, or maybe not. The ethic of fairness may be dead on the right, but it is alive in liberal circles, even to the point of going to excess in a bogus kind of even-handedness in an America where the pathologies are far from symmetrical.
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Washington Signals Dollar Deep Concerns
Quantitative Easing has been underway since December 2008. During these 54 months, the Federal Reserve has created several trillion new dollars with which the Fed has monetized the same amount of debt. One result of this policy is that most real US interest rates are negative. Another result is that the supply of dollars has outstripped the world's demand for dollars.
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I Long For A Better World (Music)
I hope that you find this piece as meaningful as I meant it to be.
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One Terrorist, A Million Psychopaths, Eight Million...
This morning, I found a little green caterpillar crawling on my arm, in bed, as I was waking up. I took it outside so it could become a butterfly or moth. If it had been a mosquito or tick, I would have killed it so it wouldn't hurt me or my family later. One shoe bomber terrorist inspired the US to invest billions in airport security, required hundreds of millions of shoes to be removed.
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This IRS Story Doesn't Pass the Smell Test.
THE IRS STORY - backstory - and just who benefits - slipping the Right Wing "social service" orgs smoothing the way for more Rovian Citizen United Teflon Roots Orgs - Koch Bros. must be laughing - They were shocked shocked at the reaction!
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The Future of American Health Care
Discusses the likely changes in American health care citizens will experience in the very near future.
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Catfight -- and it's US vs EU
All bets are off on the winner of this monstrous catfight. EU member-states may vote against their own interests; but another thing entirely would be an overwhelming eruption of anger by already beleaguered European citizens. This new saga of Western turbo-capitalism has all the elements to be, well, quite revolutionary.
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Daschle for Obama
Daschle was Obama's very effective campaign chairman in 2008. He is fiercely loyal to the president and Obama's vision of the presidency expressed in the historic 2008 campaign. He has long friendships and working relationships with key White House aides and the stature to privately speak truth to power, which is profoundly important to all presidents.
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Reagan and Argentina's Dirty War
The 87-year-old ex-Argentine dictator Jorge Videla died Friday in prison where he was serving sentences for grotesque human rights crimes in the 1970s and 1980s. But one of Videla's key backers, the late President Ronald Reagan, continues to be honored by Americans.
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Sleep Loss and Suicide: New Study Shows Relationship
A recent study has found a causal link between moderate to high risk of suicide and sleep deprivation. It furthered that for every one-hour increase in quality sleep, there was a 72-percent decrease in suicidal ideation.
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Barack Obama--and the Sick, Twisted Dynamic of Racism
Perhaps the edgiest progressive political analysis you'll ever see published, a scathing--and penetrating analysis of the deep evil (a "vampire's kiss") that happened when Barack Obama met his "fairy godmother" Penny Pritzker. Little "bad language," but CERTAINLY for adults only ...
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The Cosmic Story: 3rd Uranus/Pluto Square--May 20, 2013
Since the 60s, we have been traveling down the road of evolution and revolution. Hopefully we are heading toward greater compassion and enlightenment. The 3rd square between the planets that brought us the 60s is upon us. To make lasting changes in our society, we have to see and acknowledge the corruption of our corporate governments (Pluto in Capricorn) and then be brave enough to take a stand for change (Uranus in Aries).
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Uranus Square Pluto Round Three: Fight Your Own Fight,...
In this corner: Uranus in Aries! In this corner: Pluto in Capricorn! Squaring off May 20 in the third round of their historic seven-round bout, these two titlists are punching for change and battling for dominance until their final round in early 2015. It's the barnburner of the century, with no way to know who will walk away as champ after the final round.
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The IRS and the Real Scandal
Now, when the Supreme Court has deemed corporations "people" under the First Amendment and when income and wealth are more concentrated at the top than they've been in over a hundred years, has enabled America's financial elite to further entrench their wealth and power and thereby take over much of American democracy.
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Washington Gets Explicit: Its 'War On Terror' Is...
Each year of endless war that passes further normalizes the endless rights erosions justified in its name. Those powers of secrecy, indefinite detention, mass surveillance, and due-process-free assassination are not going anywhere. They are now permanent fixtures not only in the US political system but, worse, in American political culture.
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Religious Truths? Don't Be So Sure.
Are there religious truths? If we claim that our beliefs are truer than the others, how do we prove our claim?
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Boston Suspect's Writing on the Wall
Hiding and near death, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly scrawled on the inside of a boat that he did what he did to avenge innocent Muslims killed by U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a rare look at the why behind "terrorism."
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Dems to DOJ: "Very Troubled," "Inexcusable," "No Way to...
Our Constitution outlines a separation of powers between the branches of government. The separation was not designed to encourage partisan division but to assure that there would always be a checking and balancing of power--regardless of party affiliation or allegiance. Rarely has the partisanship been more intense, more bitter, than now.
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The case of the missing photographs
Just because a photo is ubiquitous on the internet, that doesn't mean that a columnist has permission to use that particular picture
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Alan Hart and What It Takes to Struggle On -- An Analysis
Thirty years ago you could not critically raise the subject of Israel in public, and thus the Zionists had a monopoly on the entire history of this issue. That is emphatically not the case today. Despite Alan Hart's unfortunate experience, the fact is that, at a popular level, the Zionists have lost control of the Palestine narrative.
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It is due to kindness (Poem)
What is true is that in a so long period you are acquaint with my heart.
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How To Really Conquer Homelessness
How I ended my homelessness. some I met staying in homeless shelters would actually find ways to go to jail so they would have a place to stay. Many I met at these places have been homeless for a very long time. Their souls appear to be dead or dying. You can feel this atrophy of their essence when with them at times.
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Weaving People and Communities Together: The Joyfully...
Through an Envision This! interview with Lillian Lake, the article takes the opportunity to place our individual lives in the context of universal process while also highlighting the miraculous ecological and community building work this woman does in Maine.
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Republicans Aren't Christians
Whether it's fiscal austerity, Benghazi, or opposition to gun control, the Republican Party is remarkably disciplined. Day after day, press conference after press conference, Republican members of Congress speak from the same hymnal. But it's not a Christian hymnal. While the Republicans claim to be true believers they actually eschew the moral teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
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The News That Isn't In An Age of Missing Information
How accurate are all the Scandal Stories we are reading. New Dissector Danny Schechter asks: "What's Missing?"
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Last Chance - Stop Florida's HB 87 and ForeclosureGate II
Governor Scott must veto the big bank friendly foreclosure bill, HB 87. Florida is #1 in foreclosures and about to get out of control if this bill stands.
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La Terreur Moderne
prose poetry
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National Short Story Month: Five Questions with Four...
In celebration of National Short Story Month, Seamus Scanlon, Erika Wurth, Matt Mendez and Sterling Holywhitemountain answered five questions about short stories for me.
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Grassroots Activism Brings San Onofre to the No Nukes...
In January, it seemed the restart of San Onofre Unit 2 would be a corporate cake walk. With its massive money & clout, Southern California Edison was ready to ram through a license exception for a reactor whose botched $770 million steam generator fix had kept it shut for a year. But a funny thing has happened: a No Nukes groundswell has turned this routine rubber stamping into an epic battle the grassroots might win
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Raping the World -- Sexual Assault In The US Military
Political correctness has mandated a sexually integrated military, with women (and openly gay men) living and working alongside testosterone-soaked heterosexual men who have come to believe they are exempt from the rules us lowly civilians must live by. Is it any wonder that rape is part of the military culture?
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Patriotic Yardsticks for Unpatriotic Giant Corporations
Mega corporations have abandoned U.S. workers by entrenching "pull-down" trade agreements that make it easier than ever to ship jobs and whole industries to fascist and communist regimes abroad which keep their workers near serfdom. Having wages that go backwards into the future means workers cannot afford the basic necessities of life for themselves and their children.
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The Hushpuppy's Lukomorie
This is my review of the movie Beasts Of Southern Wild
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Republicans' New Benghazi Killer Meme
Washington has a new meme in town, trying to give fresh impetus to the Benghazi Blowback Bandwagon still circling the White House in hopes of finding something worse than Watergate, or at least as bad as Iran-Contra.
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Postcard from the End of America: Scranton
Within a generation, Scranton has lost hundreds of factories of all kinds, with the only manufacturer left the General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems plant. This jibes perfectly with our national policy, for we have stopped making anything that anyone can use or wear, only mega weapons that will blow up the entire planet.
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Hypocrisy, Neocon Style
It would be easier to find the outrage in the twin IRS and AP "scandals" if the very same Neocons had never justified the Bush Crime Family's illegal snooping over and over again. Or poo-poo the violations of privacy by illegal wire taps with the oxymoronic mantra -- "freedom isn't free?"
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Pyromaniacs on the Potomac: The Problem With Obama's...
Obama is allowing the fires to dominate because he has not defined his core agenda. During the 2012 campaign it appeared to be restoring jobs, rebuilding the middle class, and reversing the scourge of widening inequality. Since then, though, the core has evaporated -- leaving him and his administration vulnerable to every pyromaniac on the Potomac.
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Cynicism Gets Us Nowhere. It's Time To Fight Back with...
Is sequestration just the One Percent's way of trying to hit the American people with an austerity program? I think it is. and I also think it is time to give voice to our extreme displeasure on the impasse in Washington. Tea Party types say they fear the "tyranny of the Majority," but they seem to have no problem with a tyranny of a minority, as long as they are the minority. Let's end this NOW!
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A Dark, Very Troubling Period in America's History
We are certainly living in the midst of a very dark period in American history. This is a nation that is not advancing, it is regressing; it is no longer growing, it is rapidly declining. This is a country that possesses monumental wealth but, at the same time, is plagued by a myriad of critical problems that seem to be insurmountable.
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Obama Needs Congress to Close GTMO, but Not to Use...
When the Senate finally held a hearing on drones, Obama refused to send a rep. He says he can't close GTMO because of Congress, yet he's killed thousands with drones without Congressional approval.
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It Wasn't Conservatives That Were Being Investigated by...
The President Obama of 2013 who is feigning outrage over the IRS adding extra scrutiny to nonprofit applications being filed with the words Tea Party in their title is not the same man who singled out Americans for Prosperity in a speech in 2010. Promising to resist their insidious power grab back then, now the President folds like a cheap suit.
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No Koch News: A Movement to Unsubscribe
Wow are people outraged!
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Fundamental IRS Change Called For
President Obama got it right and wrong when he stated, "If you've got the IRS operating in anything less than a neutral and nonpartisan way, then that is outrageous, it is contrary to our traditions." He was incorrect in saying "it is contrary to our traditions" for the IRS has for decades gone after organizations and individuals that take stands in conflict with the government at the time. Fundamental change is called for.
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The AP Seizures and the Frightening Web They've Uncovered
The Justice Department seizure of AP phone records is horrible but what's behind it and what could horrible is a lot worse.
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Our Collective Shame
Are you and I satisfied going through life- doing absolutely nothing to rectify its ills or make it a better place for humans and animals alike? Maybe this post will help you decide.
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Seizing AP phone files a major abuse of power
The Obamam administration seems to be obsessed with leaks and "national security."
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Israeli blood diamond agreement scuppered by BDS...
Attempts by the Israeli diamond industry to get diamond buyers from Dubai to attend a diamond fair in Israeli were scuppered by BDS activists who highlighted the links between Israeli diamonds and the funding of Israeli war crimes in Palestine.
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24 TED Talks About Food Worth Watching
We've decided to highlight 24 TED talks specifically around food issues that we found compelling and worth sharing.
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Drone Pilots Expose Politicians' Lies
... drone pilots have begun talking to the media. And they describe policies that bear a lot closer resemblance to reporting from the areas where the missiles strike. These pilots should be brought before Congress.
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Military and Press "Baffled" by Suicide Facts a...
Once again the military and mainstream press are searching for all the reasons for troop suicides except for the quadrupling of drugs being prescribed that cause suicide.
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Andy Kroll: A Democracy of the Wealthy
Once upon a time, the election season began with the New Hampshire primary in early March and never really gained momentum (or much attention) until the candidates were chosen and the fall campaign revved up. Now, the New Hampshire primary is in early January, and by then, the campaign season has already been underway for a couple of years.
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Police State Tactics of Obama's Justice Department
The Justice Department's seizure of Associated Press reporter's phone records reveals the Obama administrations true intent which is to intimidate & cow truth tellers from exposing secret gov't actions & wrongdoing to investigative reporters. These are police state tactics, not something unilaterally exercised by the Executive branch in a Constitutional democracy.
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Why Should Any of These Groups Have Tax-Exempt Status?...
The IRS & taxes is a real bucket of snakes for most Americans. That said, why aren't they more enthusiastic about going after political & corporate fat cats?
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Upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership Looks Like Corporate...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, an expansion of the 2005 Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, is being negotiated as we speak. As Yogi Berra said,"It's deja vu all over again." Is it another NAFTAesque corporate boondoggle, or will it turn out to be a real windfall for working families as its over 600 corporate promoters suggest?
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The Day the Obama Administration Went All Nixon On Us
Obama seems to be morphing into Nixon on steroids.
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Justice Department Attacks the Press
Whatever the government's rationale for this extreme action, it sends an unmistakable signal: When government officials talk to journalists about matters of compelling public interest, the Justice Department will go to extreme lengths to find out who they are and prosecute them, even if it this requires the kind of government surveillance of journalism that is incompatible with a free press.
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Holder Says Leak Required "Very Aggressive Action"......
Bank crime doesn't seem to appear on the Obama Administration's radar, and it doesn't seem to interest the Holder Justice Department. Law enforcement spends a lot more time evicting homeowners -- including the victims of illegal foreclosure -- than it does arresting lawbreaking bankers. They're wiretapping reporters and jailing leakers, while letting executive-suite criminals go free.
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Hawking And A Brief History Of Boycotts
On the very day that Hawking's decision to boycott the conference was announced, the "civil administration" in Israel agreed to the construction of 296 new housing units in the illegal settlement of Beit El, thus entrenching military occupation and ethnic cleansing.
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WHO In Boston: Bombing Story Mysteries
What about the Boston Marathon bombing, in which innocent people died seemingly at the hands of anti-American monsters? It's important to ask the tough, even unpopular questions. The Boston story, as we previously noted, is full of question marks and high-stakes implications -- all the more reason to dig beneath the screen of official handouts.
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The Major Sea Change In Media Discussions Of Obama And...
Leave to the side how morally grotesque it is to oppose rights assaults only when they affect you. The pragmatic point is that it is vital to oppose such assaults in the first instance no matter who is targeted because such assaults, when unopposed, become institutionalized. Once that happens, they are impossible to stop when they expand beyond the group originally targeted.
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Tea Party Welfare Queens Cry IRS Foul
IRS "scandal" derives from two Supreme Court decisions that gave money more constitutional importance than individual speech.
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In the preparation of life
The stability of the life All the leaves fell and Since the time I know life.
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Highest Ranking Catholic Patriarch condemns lies and...
High-ranking member of the Catholic hierarchy speaks out against U.S. actions in Syria.
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How The One-Dollar Coin Can Cure The Economy
This article, written for those well-informed re monetary policy, supports a longstanding proposal to replace all Federal Reserve one dollar bills with one dollar United States coins. It quotes at length a related lawsuit against the Treasury now before the Ninth Circuit court of appeal. The complaint and briefs on appeal are available under the Treasury menu at commondada.com.
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Wrong is Wrong, No Matter Who Does It
This kind of behavior is just plain wrong. What really bothers me is what the PTB did to the Occupy movement. If there are so-called "Progressives" that wish to defend Obama and his cronies, they might just wish to take a minute to reflect on how they crushed the most promising populist movement in the 21st Century.
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Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a "Terrifying"...
Highlighting the Obama administration's targeting of government whistleblowers, Hedges says: "Talk to any investigative journalist who must investigate the government, and they will tell you that there is a deep freeze. People are terrified of speaking, because they're terrified of going to jail."
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The Real Benghazi Scandal
The Republican fixation on Benghazi "talking points" has obscured the bigger scandal of last September's fatal attacks, the CIA's use of the consulate as an operational base without sufficient insufficient security. That failure underscores a series of other unexamined intelligence failures.
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Governance as Sadomasochism: Obama from the IRS to the...
The Obama administration is sadomasochistic. It enjoys the pain inflicted on it by Republicans and the conservative media (see the controversy over the IRS and the Tea Party) so much, that it voluntarily ups the pain (see AG Holder's criminal investigation of the IRS). And it revels in meting out punishment to whistleblowers and civil servants caught doing their jobs.
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Collusion Course: Machinations of the Double-Headed Beast
While continuing a fierce vigilance against the relentless encroachments of an unhinged, unrestrained and openly murderous government, let us also recognize that the "free market" is, and always has been, a rigged game where vicious predators seek tyrannical control, by hook, crook and vast corruption in every way possible to squeeze out more unjust advantage for themselves.
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Terrorism and Extreme Patriotism as Mental Illness
A common thread runs through many of the nation's tragic mass murders: severe and untreated mental illness.
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Freedom Rider: When Cops and Prosecutors are Criminals
The ironically named criminal justice system in this country is good at prosecuting and creating many criminals but not very good at producing any justice. The USA would not have the largest prison population of any other country on earth if it did not also have the harshest prosecution and sentencing system of any other country. America's addiction to racism and violence creates outright criminality among police & prosecutors
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President Obama Slays Business Killer Myth
There are two pesky myths about Democratic presidents. One is that they are inherently dovish on foreign policy and they are anti-big business in their domestic policy. The GOP myth that Democratic presidents were chronic foreign policy pushovers got some traction in the early going with the GOP attacks on Democratic presidential candidate Obama and for as short time immediately after his election as President.
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NRA 'Charity' Ransacks 'Enlightened Self-interest'
Where else would the NRA look to justify its non-profit status but public service? And what higher American morality is their than Enlightened Self-interest? Who knew what a modern lobbyist must do to justify its existence on a higher plane?
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Hit and Stay
The CIA has been so busy consulting on Zero Dark Thirty, not to mention funding Hamid Karzai, bribing Russians, lying about weapons, and conducting humanitarian drone murders, that it didn't have any time at all to help out with Hit and Stay, and yet arguably the latter turned out to be the better film despite such a severe handicap.
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Angelina Jolie's Double Mastectomy: Privilege, T*ts and...
Angelina's double-mastectomy, undertaken because she carries the BRCA1 gene which doctors have estimated gave her an 87% chance of having breast cancer, and a 57% chance of having ovarian cancer, is pretty radical news. So now, thanks to Jolie, we're MORE aware. And guess what? There are really, really expensive tests you can get which tell you beforehand how likely you are to get cancer and die!
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Patterns of Psychopaths/Sociopaths; The "Psychopathic...
These people are predators. They don't feel emotions like other people. They don't feel empathy or compassion. Researchers study callousness as a parameter of their emotional makeup. sychopaths have a predatory pattern of interaction they use to take advantage of and use people-- to form "the psychopathic bond."
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Why Canada's Indigenous Uprising Is About All of Us
When a new law paved the way for tar sands pipelines and other fossil fuel development on native lands, four women swore to be "idle no more." The idea took off.
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No, Facebook is Really Not Your "Friend"
The wonders a concerned billionaire can work in a mere month! It seems like only yesterday (March, exactly) that the Facebook wunderkind was hosting fundraisers for Chris Christie and musing about dipping his toes into the warm, inviting political waters to which all billionaires are drawn, if only by their consciences and an acute understanding of their own importance.
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The Common Good, The Planet, and Humankind
Sojourners editor Jim Wallis' newest book asks us to consider an ancient concept called the common good in order to help with the political, environmental, and social ills of our day. As we face terrifying news about climate change what more do we need to understand the concept of interconnectedness and the common good?
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Bush Used the IRS, FBI, CIA and Secret Service to Go...
In terms of partisanship, Republicans now screaming bloody murder over the IRS allegations clearly don't care about the principles of equal protection, nonpartisan public services or impartial governance. We know this because most of them had nothing to say about the Bush administration's actions against the GOP's ideological opponents.
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Fannie's Settlement Agreement Conceals Dirty Laundry
After a 9-year lawsuit that produced nothing, Fannie's conservator settles rather than allow some inconvenient facts to emerge.
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Justice Department's Pursuit Of AP's Phone Records Is...
What makes the DOJ's actions so stunning here is its breadth. It's the opposite of a narrowly tailored and limited scope. It's a massive, sweeping, boundless invasion which enables the US government to learn the identity of every person whom multiple AP journalists and editors have called for a two-month period.
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The Right's "Scandal" Funhouse Mirror
Official Washington is captivated by the image of Obama "scandals," including Benghazi talking points and extra IRS questions posed to Tea Party groups, but journalists are peering into the Right's funhouse mirror which for decades has made big scandals small and small scandals big.
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The Israeli Design for the Palestinians
the US is not serving its long term interests in the Middle by only supporting one side.
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Nuclear Industry Re-Energizing after Fukushima
Reconstructing nuclear confidence in the post-Fukushima world is a long and painful process. But real-life energy demands, especially in the developing countries, predetermine a significant share of nuclear energy in their national energy consumption structure. Russian experience in this field can offer some interesting solutions to the decision-makers.
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If The President Does It, It Isn't Illegal?
The Republicans, however, will grasp at anything -- birthers, deathers, Acorners ... they will throw everything at him, no matter how ridiculous, until something sticks. Now things are legitimately sticky. Many of us would feel better about this mess if he were to be impeached over drone strikes, but from day one it did seem inevitable that the Neocons would get him somehow.
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The Triumph of Progressivism: Graduation 2013 and 1968
We have just begun. Widening inequality, a shrinking middle class, global warming, the corruption of our democracy by big money -- all of these, and more, must be addressed. To make progress on these -- and to prevent ourselves from slipping backwards -- will require no less steadfastness, intelligence, and patience than was necessitated before.
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Hawking Stuns Israel With Conference Boycott
Stephen Hawking has not been known for political activism. His story unfolded in a different arena. It is a story of his enormous personal courage and significant achievement as a physicist and cosmologist. Hawking has to be the most high-profile invitee yet to boycott an Israeli Presidential conference, an event which in the past has attracted little media attention. Hawking has changed that.
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To Save the Democratic Party, We Must Risk Destroying It
A desperate plea that in our desperate circumstances--cicumstances CONFIRMED desperately by the popularity of alarmist writers on OpEdNews--we must risk splitting (and thereby possibly destroying) the Democratic Party for the sake of at last giving REAL progressive values a voice in our government. Before it's too late!
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Antiwarriors Belatedly Cry Meaninglessly, "Hands Off...
Antiwar leaders do not call for the prosecution of US homicidal crimes against humanity ALREADY committed in Syria, nor of crimes committed in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Grenada, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Cuba, Lebanon, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Guatemala, Congo, Korea and Greece. Crimes committed without fear of arrest, arraignment, indictment, punishment, imprisonment, or hanging.
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Heart which define the life's relativity
To process a heart, Heart which define, The life's relativity.
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DOJ Investigation of AP Part of Larger Pattern to...
As part of a new leak investigation, the Justice Department has secretly obtained the call records for twenty phone lines owned by the Assocated Press (AP), which could put sources for as many as one hundred reporters at risk. We agree. It's time to stop looking at all of these leak investigations and prosecutions as ancillary to press freedom; they are a direct attack on it. This should be an important wake-up call ...
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Elizabeth Warren, a Great Investment
Student loans amounting to more than $1 trillion exceed the total outstanding credit card debt in the U.S. Students actually spend their loan money on surviving as consumers in a tight economy, while learning skills needed for the economy of the future. On the other hand, the already too-big-to-fail banks have used the government's free money to become even more obscenely powerful.
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National Short Story Month: Five Questions with Stephen...
Five Questions with Blackfeet author, Stephen Graham Jones.
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'Round the Clock Surveillance: Is This the Price of...
We no longer live in a free society. Having traded our freedoms for a phantom promise of security, we now find ourselves imprisoned in a virtual cage of cameras, wiretaps and watchful government eyes. All the while, the world around us is no safer than it was a decade ago. Indeed, it well may be that we are living in a far more dangerous world, with the government itself having become the greater threat to our freedoms.
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Tamerlan-- Namesake for a Sociopathic Narcissist Mass...
Imagine a mass murderer who killed people to make a point... This monster wannabe was attempting to re-enact the role of a previous monster/mass murderer... I"m talking about the man Tamerlane Tsarnaev may have been named after.
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Patience is a disease
New poem by TCBH resident poet
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New Study Shows How Microlending has Gotten Off Track:...
Microlending was supposed to focus on the poorest women in a society, but as profit motives have entered in and the money has increased, women are being left out, writes TCBH@! journalist Dave Lindorff
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Do We Need Religion?
Religion is getting a bad rap today. Do we need it or can we do just fine without it?
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How Your Town Can Stop Drones
Local resolutions have helped advance many issues, including war opposition, when they've been passed in large numbers.
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Benghazi Talk: Call It Out for What It Is
The Republicans are about one thing: getting more power for themselves, regardless of how much that pursuit degrades the country. Two items in the news of yesterday reminded me of the need for us to keep this consistent pattern in mind, and to respond to it appropriately-- i.e. like we're in a battle in which the stakes are as high as they can be.
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David Vine: Baseworld Profiteering
Every now and then, news about U.S. military bases abroad actually gets a little attention. The most recent example: Afghan President Hamid Karzai's announcement that the U.S. will be able to keep nine bases after the 2014 withdrawal of its combat troops.
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Pakistan's elections: Turning over a new leaf
This looks at the window of opportunity Pakistan has to transform the region as the US prepares to withdraw
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The Elections in Pakistan, The Potential Effect on U.S....
The Pakistani's held their parliamentary elections over the weekend and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is poised to return to power. What that holds for U.S. policy and actions in Pakistan could be severely tested.
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The Myth Of Christian Persecution: Why Beating A Dead...
Is America getting tireD of Right Wing Christians screaming "PERSECUTION"!?
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Destroying The Lair Of The Budget Balancing Cretins
If the value of the dollar were lower we would export more and import less, bringing our trade closer to balance. If the deficit hawks were really concerned about our children's future, they would be focusing on the over-valued dollar, not yelling about budget deficits.
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SCANDAL ABC: Whose Side Are You On - Olivia Pope's,...
Who will stand up for us, for the people? Is there anyone who is going to out this crime of the century? Remember, way back when, Cyrus said to Olivia that the White House has been stolen before and it will be stolen again. Was he referring to Bush W. 2000? Are there any truth tellers in this whole hot mess of characters?
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FaceBook Founder Gets an Earful After Promoting XL...
Mark Zuckerberg's complaint box is filling up.
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Hitchhiking Across the Plain of Megiddo
We know it's stupid to damage the resources we depend on to survive. We would all agree not to poison the air, water, or land. We won't poison our food. If or when we find out that some of the things we do harms the environment ... we don't "regulate" those activities ... we stop doing them.
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The Deepening Shame of Guantanamo
For more than a decade, the Guantanamo Bay prison has been a blot on America's conscience. President Obama vowed to close it but acceded to congressional demands to keep it open. Now, an emerging humanitarian crisis -- a mass hunger strike -- is drawing only scant attention.
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Watergate and Iran Contra combined?
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R/Redneck) has an itch to scratch and it's shaped like the word IMPEACHMENT. He and his fellow Republicans are grasping for something -- anything -- to throw at Obama that would possibly stick long enough to impeach him. If they keep attacking these straw men, one day they'll huff and they'll puff and they'll blow their re-election chances right down!
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(POEM) Even Our Life
Even our life Is not present Is not past Is not future
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Is Genocide The Agenda in The United States?
While it is true regarding Reagan's apparent approval of genocide in Guatemala, the same can be said of those presidents following him. Whether they can be considered accessories or more is to be determined in a court of law.
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Murder Is Our National Sport
The electorate, or at least the white electorate, routinely and knowingly puts murderers into political office. Murder is a sign of strength. Murder is a symbol of resolve. Murder means law and order. Murder keeps us safe. Strap the criminal into the gurney. Plunge the needles into veins. Haul away the corpse. It is our Christian duty. God Bless America!
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Getting to Know Best-Selling Author Jacquelyn Mitchard,...
Being a reporter, I learned that you can ask anyone about anything and, generally, that person is going to tell you even more than you want to know and certainly more than you would ever write down. Being a reporter also taught me to never waste a word, to write lean.ost importantly, it taught me to get it right. People can say about my stories, oh that was so clunky and stupid. But they can't say it's wrong.
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Legalized Robbery; Woody Guthrie Was Right
Business/consumer fraud alert! Scam artists using legal tricks to scam businesses out of big money for no goods or services!
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If We Love Our Children, Why Are We Dooming Them?
This article questions our failure to do anything to significantly reverse catastrophic climate change and prepare for its resulting disasters.
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Will Colbert Nation save the galaxy?
Christ marshaled apostles to venture the world to do good, sans guns. Why don't we follow in his sandles? Who can build that peaceful clan of do-gooders? Only someone who can preach to the world. Is Stephen ready to lead the Colbert Nation to a better world? Ask him what he's doing about this letter that crossed his pixels a couple days ago. More info from our monks at the worldservicecorps . us web site.
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America is Dying (But don't blame me, I'm just the...
I thought this was the home of the brave and land of the free! Why do we seem content to roll over for this crap? For some time now, I have seen this fundamental shift quickly escalate. I have watched my fellow citizens eagerly give-up huge swaths of liberty and freedom in exchange for vague promises of increased security. Why? Have we lost all common sense along with our druthers?
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Patriotism, Patriotism, Wherefore Art Thou Patriotism?
Were you born an American? Does that make you a patriot? Do you think you love the United States? Really? Because a couple of random sets of chromosomes got together to produce you by chance in the United States, should that give you a claim on citizenship?
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Video a Cop Doing Wrong-- Keep It Short and Upload FAST!
More and more often citizens using smartphones to videotape police doing wrong are making a difference. This article offers some tips on how to raise your chances of successfully recording a video and getting it out virally.
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WPost Revives Its Plame-gate Smear
The Washington Post not only swallowed George W. Bush's lies about Iraq's WMD but the neocon newspaper spat on Americans who dared challenge those lies, especially ex-U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his CIA wife, Valerie Plame.
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Gangster State America
Since January 1, more than 400 tons of gold have been drained from COMEX and gold ETF holdings in order to satisfy world demand for physical possession of bullion. Again we see that institutions of the US government are acting 100% against the interests of US citizens. Just who does the US government represent?
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The Weakening Case for Austerity
There have been a slew of articles discrediting austerity as the pathway to economy recovery. But there have also been many articles denouncing stimulus. I have written a few articles against austerity citing its failure under SAPs in Africa, and in the EU in countries like the U.K., Greece and Spain. Flawed research and condemnation of Keynes have been used to support austerity arguments.
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Robinson Jeffers: America's Neglected-At-Our-Peril...
"If we are ever to grasp our fleeting Zeitgeist, we need the whole round picture--politics, the Arts, slang, sexuality, food--the whole cascading shebang! The American poet who best provides that, for his time and ours, is Robinson Jeffers, who died one year before JFK was killed, but at 75, had lived to see terrible presentiments."
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Global Economic Crisis and the Coming/Current Depression
Obama's Director of National Intelligence has warned that the deepening world capitalist crisis poses a paramount threat to US national security, & that its continuation could trigger a return to the violent extremism of the 1920s and 30s. Clearly underlying his remarks are fears within our massive US intelligence apparatus, as well as among the more conscious layers of America's ruling elite, that this could lead revolution.
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U.S.-Russia Relations under New Scrutiny
From the Boston Marathon bombing to escalating violence in Syria, the state of U.S.-Russia relations looms large.
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A Requiem for Wolf 527
Hopefully, one day soon we will live in harmony with the animals. They are God's creatures as we. Isaiah fortells a time when the lion and kid will be friends. Right now, I am only hoping that man will be kinder to his fellow animal inhabitants.
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"Woe Unto the Empire of Blood" -- Transform Now...
Report on trial and Sabotage conviction of Transform Now Plowshares in Knoxville, Tenn. for walking into the Y-12 nuclear weapons complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn. unarmed and undetected until they reached the "Fort Knox" of bomb-grade uranium. They face 30 years imprisonment for the nonviolent action exposing the inherent insecurity of U.S. Nuclear Weapons.
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Pakistan elections do not augur well for President...
Many surprises sprung by Saturday's elections in Pakistan will have grave repercussions for the political spectrum with the Pakistan People's Party confined to Sindh, the Awami National Party facing a split and President Asif Ali Zardari denied a second term in office, says Shaheen Sehbani of The News.
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Sharewashing is the New Greenwashing
The idea of a "sharing economy" is an important one, and urgently needed today, but the word "sharing" is increasingly being roped into a sharewashing agenda. The key difference between the promise of the actual sharing economy, and the flood of sharewashing companies seeking to hide under its mantle, is that the latter inescapably involve monetary exchange, for profit.
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Syria: how the violence began, in Daraa
Contrary to many reports, the armed rebellion in Syria did not grow from peaceful protests. Armed attacks on police and civilians in Daraa took place during the political reform marches in Daraa, in March 2011.
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What "global' financial crisis?
There is and never was a 'global' economic crisis. The world is increasingly wealthy and multipolar, and this is the Real Spring that is being ignored by the imperially dominated media, and deliberately so.
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(The Climate Change Poem) Moon, I Have Begun A Journey
And yet I cannot tell Existence and concept of life. Perhaps if you were closer to me Moon, I would talk to you
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Ideologues Don't Make Corrections
The Credibility Litmus Test
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General News
Analysis of American policy towards Syria, and the claims by the U.S. about Syria's use of chemical weapons.
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Krugman dead wrong!
Paul Krugman's ideas for more borrowing and spending won't work. Read my article to learn why.
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Why Do Our Problems Persist and Multiply?
In our economy of problems, we'll never have a recession.
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Corporate America is Stronger Than the NRA. Why Doesn't...
Even the NRA bans visitors with guns at its headquarters despite being in a "conceal and carry" state and having a firing range on site, according to published reports. "They might be worried about deranged antis trying to kill them," or lack the proper "insurance," say NRA defenders online, citing the same reasons the organizations they blast for "gun free zones" use. Who can say hypocrite?
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Nick Turse: Israel, Iran, and the Nuclear Freight Train
Has a weapon ever been invented, no matter how terrible, and not used? The crossbow, the dreadnought, poison gas, the tank, the landmine, chemical weapons, napalm, the B-29, the drone: all had their day and for some that day remains now. Even the most terrible weapon of all, the atomic bomb, that city-buster, that potential civilization-destroyer, was used as soon as it was available.
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Why We Allow the Destruction of Our Planet
It's not enough to point out that our political system is completely corrupted by money, including money from coal and oil and nukes and gas. Of course it is.
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Charles Ramsey Stood Racial Stereotypes on their Head
A week after the great debate over whether Charles Ramsey is an American hero or another American casualty of media induced racial stereotyping or both after helping save the lives of the three kidnapped Cleveland women, one thing is now clear. Ramsey has done the seemingly impossible. He's turned racial stereotyping on its head.
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Working Mother's Day
In 1966, only 20 percent of mothers with young children worked outside the home. By the late 1990s, 60 percent. For married women with children under age 6, the transformation was even more dramatic: from 12 percent in the 1960s to 55 percent by the late 1990s.
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Ronald Reagan: Accessory to Genocide
More than any recent U.S. president, Ronald Reagan has been lavished with honors, including his name attached to Washington's National Airport. But the conviction of Reagan's old ally, ex-Guatemalan dictator Rios Montt, for genocide means "Ronnie" must face history's judgment as an accessory to the crime.
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Mother's Day Thoughts on Breastfeeding Tweets & Veganism
On Mother's Day, a salute to the life-changing experience of breastfeeding, its relationship to veganism, & associated controversies on twitter.
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The Basel Committee and The Lamborghini
Yes it will not be easy ,sometimes, to tell the difference between poor judgment and corrupt one, but this should not mean we let corrupt bank executives get away with it
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Grow Up Already
Twice in recent weeks newscasters have said what my 3-year-old calls "bad words" (where's George Carlin when you need him?) on television accidentally, and both times they have been fired, because apparently we are all still striving to reach puberty.
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(Poem) Neither I have seen the road
Like the morning sun I have The road Is it possible In the extreme feel of life
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Shameful Days in Washington
Although political polarization has been decades in the making recent actions by Congress and President Obama highlight shameful days of a dysfunctional government that further divides the public.
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