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There's
the old saying that if the government fears the people, there is
liberty, but if the people fear the government there is tyranny. The
criminals in Washington not only do not fear us, they do not respect us.
Washington looks upon Americans as stupid sheeple.
The
Detroit bankruptcy is looking suspiciously like the bail-in template
originated by the G20's Financial Stability Board in 2011, which
exploded on the scene in Cyprus in 2013 and is now becoming the model
globally.
A
Quinnipiac Poll measuring "thermometer" of voters' attitudes towards
political figures found Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton tied at
44.2 each, leading all other Democrats, among independents.
Conservatives
love to hate public schools and try to blame public schools for low
educational outcomes compared to other countries. But a closer look
shows that poverty, now public schools, are to blame for the problem.
The
current system is not working. Congress is mired in partisan gridlock.
The current President turned out to just be more of the same. Despite
promises and claims, the economy is not really recovering. Cities, towns
and counties file for bankruptcy, future leaders are assessed more for
their celebrity appeal than any actual experience or ability.
If
evangelicals desert electable Republicans (as many did Romney),
withholding cash, activism, and votes, that only amplifies intact
demographic party predicaments
This
10-point plan would significantly reduce terrorist threats, save
taxpayers billions of dollars and make Americans more loved and admired
in the world. After a decade of wielding the military stick, it's time
for some carrots.
Profit is the lifeblood of our economic system. But that doesn't mean we have to like it.
A humble request to the new Pope for honor, respect, and balanced equality for women all over the world.
In
an email exchange with Daniel Ellsberg, I shared my recent acceptance
speech for the Pillar award, for the work Opednews and I have done
supporting Whistleblowers. It proposed that whistleblowers are like
Prometheus. Dan asked if there were other myths about people who told
the truth-- mythic whistleblowers. I went to my go-to expert on
mythology, Pamela Jaye Smith, and this was her answer.
The
truth is out there. There is plenty of information available about the
Koch Brothers and the inner-workings of their anti-American propaganda
machine. The question is -- will these deluded, brainwashed drones
remove the teabags from their eyes before they voluntarily walk off the
cliff?
Rapidly
declining net energy means that POST World War II society is over. We
must seize the initiative if there is to be a decent future.
By Abdus-Sattar Ghazali
Jailbreaks new phenomena in political struggle? Last week, Pakistan elected little-known Mamoun Hussain as the 12th president to replace Asif Ali Zardari, whose term expires next month. Hours before the election of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's loyalist (read crony) the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) sent a strong message to the ruling elite about the precarious security situation in the strife-torn country with a military-precision raid on the Dera Ismael Khan prison.
By Jim Kavanagh
It's Not Unusual: The Left-Right (S)Mashup in American Politics The leadership of both parties, along with the corporate and media elite, is trying desperately to maintain for the public a coherent story, with all the characters fixed in their proper roles, and the conflict structured in terms that they control. In fact, it's becoming harder to ignore that there are deep and enduring alliances between both parties, and serious and growing fractures within each of them.
By David Swanson
Now Two States Pursue Truly Affordable Education Maryland may soon join Oregon in exploring solutions to the crisis of student debt and unaffordable education.
By Nicola Nasser
Kerry's Success Worse than His Failure According to Albert Einstein, "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" is "insanity," but that is exactly what John Kerry seems to have achieved after six tours of shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East since he was sworn in as the U.S. Secretary of State
Bradley Manning's Maximum Possible Sentence Cut To 90 Years
FORT MEADE, Md. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's possible sentence for disclosing classified information through WikiLeaks was trimmed from 136 years to 90 years Tuesday by a military judge who said some of his offenses were closely related.
Jeff
Bezos isn't likely to become the Post's Perry White. He'll probably
stick to being the publisher. He could become an important one. The best
kind of publisher any editor could want is the kind who backs his team
when the pressure's on -- from the government, from powerful business
interests, from anyone who doesn't want the truth to be told.
Of
course, Limbaugh and Clear Channel could hold their ground, refuse to
budge on Cumulus' demands and walk away from the radio giant with AM
stations from coast to coast. That is an option, but it's also an
unpleasant one in terms of what it would mean to Limbaugh's once
unvarnished reputation as the AM talk gold standard.
America's
spying on European allies, and its pressure to get Snowden sent back to
be punished, could backfire badly, says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff,
who compares the US to a bad drunk.
With
little fanfare, the agency best known for airport screenings has vastly
expanded its reach to sporting events, music festivals, rodeos, highway
weigh stations and train terminals. T.S.A. officials say that the
random searches are "special needs" or "administrative searches" that
are exempt from probable cause because they further the government's
need to prevent terrorist attacks.
Corporations
want corporate tax reduction to be the centerpiece of "tax reform" come
the fall. The President has already signaled a willingness to sign on
in return for more infrastructure investment. But the arguments for
corporate tax reduction are specious.
On
Aug. 6, 1945, the world changed. Though war had plagued humankind for
millennia, the U.S. atomic bomb on Hiroshima showed how all life might
end, a threat that remains as nuclear-armed states keep their arsenals,
thus creating incentives for non-nuclear states to join the doomsday
club, as Peter G. Cohen notes.
We
have never been very good at challenging our nation's own reprehensible
behavior, but if we don't take proper measure of the immense
extermination wrought by two small and primitive nuclear weapons as
compared with today's arsenals, we lose the point as to why they must be
banned.
A
generation of Americans see no future for themselves -- a generation
who see themselves as doomed. Recently, in a Bloomberg article about
Detroit's bankruptcy, the most common explanations given for Detroit's
financial woes by the audience were: Democrats, Unions and Black mayors.
Post-racial America"give me a break.
By earl ofari hutchinson
Rangel Need Offer No Apology for Tea Party Racial Blast Harlem Democratic congressman Charles Rangel predictably took much heat when he flatly called the Tea Party "white crackers." He said this is the bunch that fought civil rights. By that Rangel meant the civil rights, and voting rights bills in the 1960s, and affirmative action programs from the 1970s to the present.
By Tom Engelhardt
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Spying for Us Hey, let's talk spying! In Surveillance America, this land of spookery we all now inhabit, what else is there to talk about? Latest Articles
Censorship
Anti-censorship poem.
I'm
on my way to Madison, Wisconsin, and I hope you are too, and not just
for the beer and (veggie) bratwursts. Here are seven other good
reasons:
Instantly,
we also have US and Western corporate media falling in love with the
Terra Terra Terra meme all over again. And woe to those who think this
has anything to do with Islamophobia. You thought that Terra was gone?
No, Terra is omnipresent, omniscient, lurking everywhere. Terra Wants
You. Trains and boats and planes -- you're nowhere safe.
News
of the Washington Post's sale to Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos for
$250 million sent ripples across US media on Monday, with many already
wondering whether the billionaire's personal politics may affect the
paper's coverage in the future.
In
June, 2011, Alice Walker was among 38 people aboard the ship, Audacity
of Hope, one of the ships which tried, and failed, to sail from Greece
to Gaza to break the Israeli maritime siege of Gaza. Israel prevailed on
Greece to prevent the ships from sailing.
FEMA: Always TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE
Upon reviewing the history of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, over the past few years, the inevitable conclusion is that the agency is riddled with incompetence -- and that does a major disservice to America and all Americans. The FEMA National Advisory Council does not seem to have improved matters any, but it does a good job of applying whitewash to FEMA incompetence
Republicans
turned the filibuster and other procedural rules from rarely-invoked
options into routinely deployed paralyzing maneuvers. Republicans under
Mitch McConnell have transformed the Senate from a collegial body into
an armed camp, and effectively changed it from a body which employs
majority rule into one in which a minority can block any piece of
legislation.
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