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Is the Idea of Europe Doomed? By Deena Stryker Europe is imiploding under the assualt of hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East and Africa. Never imagining that following two major wars in one century their almost perfect world, would find itself once again unable to act cooperatively, it dithers while thousands suffer. Read More >>

Ms. Davis and Relgious Freedom By Hal O'Leary This article has been written in the hope that the case of Kim Davis versus the government may force a final solution to the question of church/state relations. Read More >>

The Way of Trump: Building Walls By Kevin Tully Are national boundaries as absolutes healthy for us moving forward? I think a perusal of the history of the rise of the city state in medieval Europe would be enlightening considering "GOP Presidential Front-runner," chatty Misogynist and shallow Nationalist, Donald Trump, is proposing a really big wall on our southern border with Mexico. Read More >>

It's time to re-open the American and Iranian embassies and promote reconciliation By Franklin Lamb The rationale for opening both Iran's and America's embassies is compelling and goes back to the reasons for The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 of which 190 countries are signatories. Embassies contribute to the achievement of international peace and security and facilitate the work, cultural exchanges, business, travel, and development of both countries. Read More >>

Growing Labor Pains: Religion -- Guns - Victim Mentality By Marcello Rollando Understanding, like drought in California and Labor pains in Wisconsin, any state's pain is America's pain, and all Americans need to be solutions to our collective growing pains. Read More >>

The Profits Of Martyrdom By Rev. Dan Vojir Just what kind of benefit will Rowan County Clerk get for her incarceration? Maybe not as much as you think. Read More >>

America Beware By Timothy Gatto Lately I've seen a dramatic change in the attitude of the American people.This article will not be a political rant or a tirade against this modern American facsimile of the American "New Roman Empire", rather it will delve into the mindset of the American public. Read More >>

The current domestic "tranquility", the calm before the storm? By Dave Lefcourt Chris Hedges writes, "The Real Enemy Is Within", that "Militarists & war profiteers are our greatest enemy...there will be no genuine democratic, social, economic or political reform until we destroy our permanent war machine". The question; is how the destruction of our permanent war machine is to be done? That's the conundrum. It isn't that people don't know the evils Hedges speaks of. Many do; it's how to destroy it. Read More >>

Six Republican presidential candidates back defiance of gay marriage ruling By Patrick Martin Only a handful of the Republican candidates have adhered to a traditional constitutional position, that the Supreme Court interpretation of the law was binding, and that Davis, as a public official, had to carry out the law and not her personal religious beliefs. Others sought to square the circle, giving lip service to the separation of church and state while seeking to appease the Christian fundamentalist right. Read More >>

'Free' Cash, The Irresistible Offer Trump Can't Refuse By Robert S. Becker Did it ever make sense that Trump, pitching his savvy, selfish money-making genius would suddenly embrace a total charity model for politics, especially when the price tag for winning explodes? Let's consider assumptions to explain this switcheroo. Read More >>

The "Radioactivity is Good for You" Push By Karl Grossman The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering a move to eliminate the "Linear No-Threshold" basis of radiation protection that the U.S. has used for decades and replace it with the "radiation hormesis" theory -- which holds that low doses of radioactivity are good for people. Read More >>

Aurora Juliana Ariel: A New Frontier In Personal and Planetary Transformation By Burl Hall This is an article regarding an interview the author did with his wife regarding the work of Dr. Aurora Ariel. Dr. Ariel focuses on life altering healing systems and advanced protocols in neuroscience, psychology and health. Read More >>

INTERVIEW: Dr. Joseph Kiniry, WORLD-CLASS COMPUTER GURU AND ACTIVIST By Marta Steele Interview of the world-famous computer scientist and electronic elections expert Dr. Joseph Kiniry. Read More >>

Jim Crow Re-Visited: Part II of Traitor to My Race: The Abolition of White Privilege By Jack Carney From the end of Reconstruction in 1876 until present times, Jim Crow was instituted and has adversely impacted the lives of Black men and women and their children in both the North and the South. By the early part of the new century, as many Black men were under criminal justice supervision as had been slaves in 1860. This second of three articles outlines how this occurred and what has been and can be done to address it. Read More >>

Italian court: 'Stunning flaws' led to Amanda Knox conviction Italy’s highest court acquitted Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, her former boyfriend, of the 2007 murder of the British university student Meredith Kercher, because there were “stunning flaws” in the investigation that led to their convictions, according to judges’ legal reasoning.A panel of judges at the court of cassation in Rome found that the state’s case against the pair, who were definitively ... Read More >>

Five Principles for a Twenty-First Century Liberalism By Anis Shivani Twentieth-century liberalism lives on in forms of the social contract that are outmoded for the twenty-first century's globalized, technological world. Liberalism today is entirely reactive, fending off attempts by conservatism to erode the social contract... Read More >>

Perusing the News with Editor, Mark Karlin By Joan Brunwasser Either we are destined to accept an inevitability of privilege for some,hate for "the other" as the lens through which we see our nation - or we must move forward with an understanding that we are inextricably interconnected and equal as humans, we must respect each other, and advance economic fairness.I believe that it it is our only hope to avoid a dystopian future in which our soul as a nation becomes irretrievably lost. Read More >>

The Real Refugee Problem -- And How To Solve It By Ron Paul The reason so many are fleeing places like Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, and Iraq is that US and European interventionist foreign policy has left these countries destabilized with no hopes of economic recovery. This mass migration from the Middle East and beyond is a direct result of the neocon foreign policy of regime change, invasion, and pushing "democracy" at the barrel of a gun. Read More >>

Jailed Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Asks Court to Block Governor's Order Kim Davis, jailed for her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses continued her legal fight Monday, asking a federal appeals court to free her as she seeks ways around orders that she do her job despite her religious opposition to gay unions. On Sunday, Davis' lawyers appealed the contempt ruling with the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Monday, they announced a parallel maneuver: they asked the appeals court to set Davis free while they fi ... Read More >>

John Thompson: Shame on the "Liberals" and Democrats Who Stand Against Unions;by Diane Ravitch Historian John Thompson reminds us of why unions are necessary to protect workers against predatory, greedy, heedless bosses.'Virtually every remnant of the social safety net is now at risk. Middle and working class families are just one medical crisis away from poverty."  He tells about the jobs where workers risk their lives and where more would die without the protections that unions insist upon. He reminds us that neither Arne Dunca ... Read More >>

Why Bernie Sanders is an Atypical Career Politician Unfortunately, the life-blood of politics is what we try to Read More >>

A Modest Proposal: An 'anti-Labor Day' A Labor Day satire that suggests A Do Nothing Day once a month when everyone will not work at all.  This will drive many do-something people insane. The author, Edward Curtin, suggests a solution to this dilemma and finds Jonathan Swift's proposal not workable.  Read More >>

Bernie Sanders: The Mayor of Prosperity's Model for Rebuilding America By Elizabeth Balcar How would a Bernie Sanders presidency revitalize America? His mayoral legacy in Burlington, VT, offers a host of clues. In the 1980's, Bernie's visionary leadership transformed that city from a stagnant economic and cultural backwater into an economically vibrant and culturally dynamic community. I watched him do it. Read More >>

At Heart of Humanitarian Crisis, Israel Building Wall to Keep Syrian Refugees Out By Common Dreams Israel is not the only country to refuse entry to refugees. Its close ally the United States has admitted just 1,500 Syrian refugees since 2011, and in 2013, the last year for which Homeland Security statistics are available, granted asylum to a mere 36. Read More >>

How Neocons Destabilized Europe By Robert Parry The neocon prescription of endless "regime change" is spreading chaos across the Middle East and now into Europe, yet the neocons still control the mainstream U.S. narrative and thus have diagnosed the problem as not enough "regime change," as Robert Parry reports. Read More >>

Obama Slams Republican Lies On Labor Day, "They Don't Let Facts Or Evidence Get In The Way" President Obama called out Republicans for being wrong about every single prediction of doom that they have offered, being tied to an ideology that makes the economy worse, not caring about facts and reality, and pretending to care about the middle-class and workers when they are doing things that hurt the middle-class and workers. Obama demonstrated why he had been beating Republicans for years. He understands that Republicans don’t care a ... Read More >>

Netanyahu Rejects Calls for Israel to Accept Syrian Refugees Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected calls from opposition politicians for Israel to accept refugees from Syria, saying that Israel was “a very small country that lacks demographic and geographic depth.” He also said that plans to construct a fence along the eastern border with Jordan would go ahead. Israel has found itself in a somewhat paradoxical situation: Syria is an immediate neighbor, as are Lebanon and Jordan, ... Read More >>

We asked all 22 presidential candidates to define a US refugee policy. Few had clear answers Last week, the Guardian contacted the campaigns of every candidate for the White House – 17 Republicans and five Democrats – to ask two questions. Should the US be accepting more refugees? And, as president, how would each candidate define US policy toward those seeking asylum from war-torn and impoverished countries? But even as presidential candidates offer foreign policy pitches through a lens of moral leadership, just one of 22 co ... Read More >>

A Crisis of Public Morality, Not Private Morality By Robert Reich The final blow to public morality came when a majority of the Supreme Court decided corporations and wealthy individuals have a right under the First Amendment to spend whatever they wish on elections. Public morality can't be legislated but it can be encouraged. Glass-Steagall must be resurrected. Big banks have to be broken up. Read More >>

Tom Petty Releases New Song on Refugee Crisis By David Swanson Iraq wasn't really hiding WMD baby Read More >>

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Remembering Some Special Dogs on Labor Day I think animals need to celebrate a Labor Day too. Its too bad that we don't let them out of their cages, crates, and factory farms. But sadly, it's always about us. This post is about dogs who I find to be so loving and loyal. Could we but learn from them, this world would be a better place. Read More >>

Activists Want the U.S. Institute of Peace to Favor Peace The World may be shocked to learn United States government has an Institute of Peace; Orwell would not have been. Read More >>

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