Politics
Tuesday, 21 May 2013 09:16
I’ve been reading a few articles on the “alternative” media which really have me thinking. One, by Chris Hedges entitled “Rise Up or Die” made me think about just how bad things really are nowadays here in the USA. The other article by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, “You are The Hope” was also a particularly dark piece.
Tuesday, 21 May 2013 09:06
Interestingly enough, it is Latin America that just might end up leading the world, including the United States, out of the drug-war morass in which most countries have plunged during the past 40 years. After four decades of death, economic destruction, political corruption, ruination of lives, torture, gang wars, drug cartels, drug lords, bribery, asset forfeiture, mandatory-minimum sentences, militarization of the border, attacks on privacy, police-state tactics, no-knock raids, warrantless searches, and constant assaults on the Bill of Rights, there just might be light at the end of this dark tunnel, one that unfortunately the U.S. government is, in large part, responsible for.
Read more: Will Latin America Lead Us Out of the Drug War Morass?
Tuesday, 21 May 2013 08:59
History reinventors support despots. Social democrats are vilified. Crimes of war, against humanity and genocide are sanitized. They're whitewashed. They disappear in plain sight.
Wall Street Journal columnist Mary O'Grady tried reinventing Guatemalan history. She failed.
Tuesday, 21 May 2013 08:47
by Patty Culhane
This week has been pretty scandal-ridden by Washington standards. In all, four different stories are taking up all the oxygen on cable TV. Here's a quick rundown for those who perhaps think it is more important to know what is going on in Syria, Iraq or anywhere where lives, rather than just political capital, are on the line.
Monday, 20 May 2013 13:30
by M.J. Rosenberg
I would not have expected to be so pleased by Professor Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott a major conference in Jerusalem in solidarity with the Palestinians. But I was.
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Educational Apartheid & Social Inequity |
| Gideon Polya | |
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America's Greatest Challenge |
| Timothy V. Gatto | |
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Will Latin America Lead Us Out of the Drug War Morass? |
| Jacob Hornberger | |
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Reinventing Guatemalan History |
| Stephen Lendman | |
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Remembering Perot: Last Chance for Americans against Globalization |
| Ben Tanosborn | |
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Benghazi smoke screen |
| Will Durst | |
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65 Years of Palestinian Nakba |
| Elias Akleh | |
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Women of the Wall |
| Uri Avnery | |
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Alan Hart and What It Takes to Struggle On |
| Lawrence Davidson | |
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