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Snowden and Stasi America hyperbole
Just try to imagine that the NSA/CIA contain some right wing nuts (just try) and one of them had decided to provide Pakistan Intelligence with advance information on the OBL raid so as to damage the Obama administration. Would that be freedom of speech? A matter of choice? What, you…
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Getting serious
The House of Commons recently held an impressive discussion of the Iraq War and how the UK became involved and, basically, how could such a massive screwup be permitted to take place. Caroline Lucas: I thank the hon. Gentleman for making such a powerful speech, but when it comes to…
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Why Democrats increasingly can’t stand progressives
This may be the worst time in American history to be a person of conscience employed in the machinery of government. –Truthdig 2013 Perhaps when President Wilson was segregating the civil service and forcing out black employees a person of conscience might have been a little bothered. Maybe when the…
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The United States has never been a nation of laws
“America is a nation of laws, not men”, says Ron Paul fan Ed Snowden explaining his disdain for the Obama Administration (which seems to have been following a law he dislikes). Snowden was just echoing the sentiments of Glenn Greenwald whose God-like status among the liberal pundit and opinion makers…
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Martin Luther King’s radical common sense economics
I want to highlight a small part of a speech Martin Luther King made nearly 50 years ago because King’s ability to go to the core truths in just a few words is still kind of breathtaking. In this work, Dr. King teaches us that the moral problem of how…
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Greenwald’s civil liberties surreal fiction
None of the whistleblowers persecuted by the Obama administration as part of its unprecedented attack on whistleblowers has done any of that: not one of them. Nor have those who are responsible for these current disclosures. They did not act with any self-interest in mind. The opposite is true: they…
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Maiden Lane and the financial crisis
“Maiden Lane" is both a street in the Financial District of New York and the name of three different bailout funds that the Federal Reserve Bank created as the financial crisis reached flood stage. "Some critics of the government action in the crisis described those bailouts as monstrous, criminal thefts…
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That hopey changey thing at the Department of Justice
In Meridian Mississippi, where 4 of every 10 kids lives below the poverty line the public schools have been routinely jailing black children for offenses like: wrong color socks. In Meridian, when schools want to discipline children, they do much more than just send them to the principal’s office. They…
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Cynicism
For someone sitting on the very edge of survival, hope is extremely important. Often it is only hope, sometimes even false hope, that allows him to make it to the next day… Cynicism is deadly for someone on the edge of survival. Even in the darkest night, he cannot afford…
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