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Debunking the pervasive myth of left-leaning media institutions in the US, from the analytical perspective of a business marketing strategist.
Described by the Electronic Frontier Foundation as "Digital Big Brother," CISPA is a sweeping proposal to bypass existing privacy law to enable corporations to spy on personal communications and to pass sensitive user data to the government.
Saturday night's historic vote for the Icelandic Parliament, and the Pirate Party who pulled out a small victory at the very end.
"To be completely honest, I can sleep a little sounder at night knowing someone is working to prevent the sale of 'an absolute death machine' to terrorist organizations or rogue States that could turn them on the U.S. or our troops."
Ask me about my sense of patriotism, and you will receive only silence" because what does not exist cannot speak. But ask me about my sense of affinity with the whole of humanity--about the golden fire of our imagination that binds us to all things, about the cathedral of our bones that binds us to the sorrows of the earth--only if you desire to risk having your ear bent beyond repair by my soliloquies.
For Marx the end of history was a classless society. How romantic. Instead, in the second half of the 20th century, capitalism married Western liberal democracy till death do them part. Well, death is now upon them both. The Red Dragon, as in China, has joined the party and come up with a new toy; single-party neoliberalism.
Memo to the US DOE: All energy options are on the table, as long as they are fossilized.
American terrorism -- how's that working out for us?
By Glenn Greenwald
Bradley Manning Is Off Limits At SF Gay Pride Parade, But Corporate Sleaze Is Embraced
Bradley Manning Is Off Limits At SF Gay Pride Parade, But Corporate Sleaze Is Embraced
Apparently, the very high-minded ethical standards of Lisa L Williams and the SF Pride Board apply only to young and powerless Army Privates who engage in an act of conscience against the US war machine, but instantly disappear for large corporations and banks that hand over cash. What we really see here is how the largest and most corrupt corporations own not just the government but also the culture.
By Dan DeWalt
Heading towards a police state: Destroying Ourselves
The government is pushing our fear button in order to justify wholesale over-riding of the Constitutional rights we have, says TCBH! contributor Dan DeWalt
Heading towards a police state: Destroying Ourselves
The government is pushing our fear button in order to justify wholesale over-riding of the Constitutional rights we have, says TCBH! contributor Dan DeWalt
By Suzana Megles
One of a Kind -John Muir
Last year I had enjoyed watching a documentary on John Muir. This year I was happy to read about him in the Guidepost. I was now more enambored of his gifts because of this.
One of a Kind -John Muir
Last year I had enjoyed watching a documentary on John Muir. This year I was happy to read about him in the Guidepost. I was now more enambored of his gifts because of this.
If "corporations are people" then a merger constitutes a marriage. But a corporation has no gender so that would constitute a "same-sexless" marriage. Perhaps it's time we applied the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to corporations.
The White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday night provided President Barack Obama with a chance to take some shots at those things in Washington that rub him the wrong way -- Congress, the media, his critics -- all under the guise of "humor." For starters, Obama took on his biggest nemesis in the U.S. Senate: Mitch McConnell. "Some folks still don't think I spend enough time with Congress. "Why don't you get a drink with Mitch McConnell?' they ask," Obama said. "Really? Why don't you get a drink with Mitch McConnell?"
The tenth annual Interfaith Walk for Peace is Sunday, April 28 in Philadelphia. It's an opportunity to meet people from other backgrounds, people with other beliefs, and take a stand together for cross-cultural friendship.
Mark Zuckerberg's new political group, which bills itself as a bipartisan entity dedicated to passing immigration reform, has spent considerable resources on ads advocating a host of anti-environmental causes -- including driling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and constructing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
Two bills aimed at protecting residents living near the state's 29 salt domes, written after the appearance of a 13-acre sinkhole in the idyllic bayous of Assumption Parish, cleared the House Committee on Natural Resources Wednesday.
Should we feel guilty about the elimination of whole native populations, slavery, confiscation of lands? Should the spoils always go to the victors? What about their descendants?
The dedication this week of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum was more than an opportunity for the five living U.S. presidents to compare notes on what Stefan Lorant called "the glorious burden" of the office. Bush's ultimate goal -- already hawked by his former political advisor Karl Rove -- is to become another Harry S. Truman, a regular-guy commander in chief whose stock rose sharply about 20 years after he left office.
By Kevin Anthony Stoda
Who was the best CIA-president ever?
Let us use description for CIA-president as a president whose actions follow the
Who was the best CIA-president ever?
Let us use description for CIA-president as a president whose actions follow the
By David Model
Wars and Climate Change
While the United States wastes trillions of dollars on wars and defense, much of it in the pursuit of energy security, the cost of building an sustainable energy infrastructure without nuclear energy as well would cost a small fraction of the money wasted on the continued use of fossil fuels. This absurdity exposed by this comparison should spur people to more vigorous action to persuade the government to change course.
Wars and Climate Change
While the United States wastes trillions of dollars on wars and defense, much of it in the pursuit of energy security, the cost of building an sustainable energy infrastructure without nuclear energy as well would cost a small fraction of the money wasted on the continued use of fossil fuels. This absurdity exposed by this comparison should spur people to more vigorous action to persuade the government to change course.
US and British accusations that the regime in Damascus may have used chemical weapons are a "barefaced lie," Syria's information minister told Russian television Saturday. "First of all, I want to confirm that statements by the US Secretary of State and British government are inconsistent with reality and a barefaced lie," Omran al-Zohbi said in an interview published on the Kremlin-funded RT's website. "I want to stress one more time that Syria would never use it -- not only because of its adherence to the international law and rules of leading war, but because of humanitarian and moral issues."
"Associate Justice Stephen Breyer underwent reverse shoulder replacement surgery for a proximal humerus fracture this morning at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital," court spokesperson Kathleen Arberg said. "The fracture was sustained in his right shoulder in a fall from his bicycle on Friday afternoon, April 26, near the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. He was taken by ambulance to the hospital following his injury."
Congress headed home this weekend for a nine-day break, leaving behind much of the trouble it was elected to help ease.
The twin bombs that turned the finish line of the Boston Marathon into a scene of devastation and carnage also sent shockwaves through the US media. In the rush to fill the airwaves and column inches, claims about the identities and motivations of the bombers told us more about the mainstream media and its audience than the events on the ground in Boston. In what way did the mainstream media, hungry for sales and ratings, struggle to appear on top of a story that was yet to take shape? And with one of the suspects silent in death and another tight-lipped in custody, was it right for the media to fill the gap with speculation?
A January report from Public Campaign Action Fund, found that, "Companies that lobbied against bringing jobs back to America and ending tax breaks for offshoring have given McConnell one million dollars to win his elections and look out for their interests." In other words: don't hold your breath.
Our leaders and news media clowns all try to convince us that "The terrorists hate us for our freedoms." But those of us who did our homework know better. You can't have a foreign policy objective that dictates marching around the globe with jackboots taking (by force) whatever you want to satisfy stockholders, without some blow-back.
The new Israeli government will not be interested in compromise on any front, though it is somewhat divided on when and how to attack Iran (or how to get the United States to do the job for it). It will exhibit much of the racist extremism that has characterized Israeli politics of late.
The recovery continues to be wildly lopsided. The only thing really keeping it going is the rip-roaring stock market. But the stock market only boosts the wealth of the richest 10 percent of Americans, who own 90 percent of stocks (including 401-K retirement accounts). But no economy can maintain momentum just on the spending of the richest 10 percent.
current gun crime methodology is right out of an old episode of Columbo , Baretta or Miami Vice , before desk computers, thanks to the NRA. Let's get those bad guys.
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Terrorism has no religion, race or color. We must stand together to defeat it.
Terrorism has no religion, race or color. We must stand together to defeat it.
Barry Lamar Bonds
This article had to be written because of the inherent hypocrisy of the participants involved. There's enough moral ambiguity to this story to drive legions through... it's a friggin' joke, and I'm tired of the phony, selective morality play that pushes it.
This article had to be written because of the inherent hypocrisy of the participants involved. There's enough moral ambiguity to this story to drive legions through... it's a friggin' joke, and I'm tired of the phony, selective morality play that pushes it.
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