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Dear Israel, This Is What Apartheid Looks Like by Abby Zimet, staff writer Palestinian workers board a bus. Photo by Moti Milrod In what critics dubbed “a shameful and racist measure” – yes, another – Israel’s so-called defense minister launched a pilot program preventing thousands of Palestinian laborers from riding the same buses as … Continue reading Present Day Israel is No Better Than 1940s Germany
Published on Monday, May 5, 2014 by TruthDig.com The Post-Constitutional Era by Chris Hedges Activist Lauren DiGioia is arrested Jan. 3, 2012, during a demonstration in New York City’s Grand Central Station held to call attention to the National Defense Authorization Act, signed by President Barack Obama on the previous New Year’s Eve. (AP/Mary Altaffer)The … Continue reading Get Thou Ass Into the Streets!
Published on Friday, January 3, 2014 by Common Dreams by Ralph Nader U.S. President George W. Bush addresses the nation March 19, 2003 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. Bush announced that the U.S. military struck at “targets of opportunity” in Iraq March 19, 2003 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty … Continue reading ‘The Country You Destroyed’: A Letter to George W. Bush
December 23, 2013 Interrelatedness of Evil by NORMAN POLLACK Comparative structural-political typologies are interesting to study, for in that way one learns modesty when the temptation arises to assert patriotic nobility and superiority over all others. Is drone murder more righteous than Gulag imprisonment? Is the CIA morally preferable to the KGB (or for that … Continue reading Obama Run Amuck
German Expose of America’s “Secret War” Attracts Quick, Strong US Rebuttal Sunday, 17 November 2013 10:43 By Matthew Schofield, McClatchy Newspapers | Report (Photo: Philip Scott Andrews / The New York Times) Berlin — To appreciate the scope and impact of a joint investigative series by the highly regarded German … Continue reading NSA: The Curse That Keeps on Giving
Campaign 2016: The Dumb Season Starts Early By Matt Taibbi POSTED: November 13, 2:20 PM ET Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg via Getty Images Thanks in part to a Beltway gossip network that loves chattering about the Clintons and just can’t wait until 2016, and thanks in part … Continue reading Upcoming Silly Season: Clinton vs Warren
I could get behind the idea of a President Warren, but she’s got a lot to do to convince me that voting for yet another Democrat will get this country anywhere close to where it needs to go. I need to see more of her in action before I am sure that … Continue reading Warren vs Clinton?
Published on Monday, September 2, 2013 by Truthdig The Last Chance to Stop the NDAA by Chris Hedges I and my fellow plaintiffs have begun the third and final round of our battle to get the courts to strike down a section of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that permits the military to seize … Continue reading Power 2 CHRIS HEDGES!
The Guardian / By Jeff Jarvis August 22, 2013 As a Democrat, I Am Disgusted with President Obama I voted for Obama reluctantly, but I never thought he would become another Nixon. Photo Credit: ChameleonsEye/Shutterstock.com What are you thinking, Mr President? Is this really the legacy you want for yourself: the chief executive who trampled … Continue reading Mr. President: Do What We Elected You to Do
DOJ Compounds Stat Screwup by Whitewashing Old Eric Holder Speech By Matt Taibbi POSTED: August 14, 11:30 AM ET U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during the America Bar Association annual meeting in San Francisco. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Courtesy of old friend Paul Thacker, former Hill staffer and currently a fellow at Harvard’s Edmond J. … Continue reading Did DOJ Holder Learn How to Lie From His Boss?
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