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Guantanamo Force-Feeding Constitutes Torture
Around 130 of 166 Guantanamo detainees refuse food. They're hunger striking for justice. Comment?
Permanent war is longstanding policy. America deplores peace. Throughout its history, it's waged war annually at home and/or abroad. Comment?
"Terrorism" and the Plans for Absolute Tyranny within the US: Our...
Every sphere of life within the US is being transformed by the post-911 momentum toward tyranny. Comment?
Fracking is EDF's Friend
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The Environmental Defense Fund, of which speaker Dan Grossman[1] is regional director, would reconcile climate and energy issues. Comment?
The White Paper on Drones: The Tail Wagging the Dog
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If there are possible legal grounds for drone assassinations based on the White Paper, then these are post hoc ergo propter hoc confirmations of a fait accompli . Comment?
Dissecting Bob Woodward's Comparison Of Benghazi To Watergate
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The Washington Post 's Bob Woodward, based on a series of dubious factual errors, is now offering a flawed comparison between the Watergate scandal and the Obama administration's response to the September terror attack in Benghazi, Libya. Comment?
Divide and Conquer the Congress?
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Every time the word " bipartisan " makes it to print the world suffers. When the two rival political syndicates line up in a row in favor of something, it's because their masters feel so strongly about the issue that all other concerns are bulldozed away. Comment?
Guatemala's R--os Montt Genocide Conviction Omen for US Presidents and Their Hired Assassins
Presiding Judge, "he knew about everything that was going on and he did not stop it, despite having the power to stop it from being carried out." US President Ronald Reagan also had the power, greater power, to stop the massacres being perpetrated by dictator General and President RA os Montt. Comment?
"The worst crimes in UK history'
In a time of peace the West is permanently at war. Massive standing armies are continuously fed their natural fare. Comment?
Racism and the American Right
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Racism has been a consistent thread weaving through the American Right from the early days when Anti-Federalists battled against the U.S. Constitution to the present when hysterical Tea Partiers denounce the first African-American president. Comment?
All This Mangling of a Once-Beloved Historical Event: Why the Tea Party?
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I wanted to write an op-ed attributing the rise of the Tea Party to the " the skills-based gap [. . .] because they [the Democrats] don't want to tell the working classes that they're losing ground because they didn't study hard enough." In other words, I wanted to say that the progressive [not in the political sense] declining emphasis on higher ... (more) Comment?
Japan's Sham Currency War - The Hidden Objective Behind Japan's Massive Kamikaze Quantitative Easing
US$ dollars have been flooding the financial markets ever since Bernanke launched quantitative easing, allegedly to turnaround the US economy. Comment?
May 27, 1942 -- Highest Ranking Nazi Killed in WWII - Reinhard...
May 27, 1942 -- Highest Ranking Nazi Killed in WWII - Reinhard Heydrich -- Seventy- One Years Later: Could Author Joanie Schirm Have Uncovered the Secret Cause of Death? Of all the stories told to me by my Czech-American father as I grew up, the most fascinating tale was about the real demise of the highest ranking Nazi officer assassinated during ... (more) Comment?
Vermont's new choice for death with dignity
On May 13, the Vermont state legislature passed a bill that legalizes physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients whose suffering has become unbearable but who are capable of making an informed consent on their own behalf. Comment?
As the recession that began in late 2007 drags through its sixth year, people are finally starting to ask if maybe inequality is to blame. Comment?
UN General Assembly vote reflects shift in Syrian public opinion
Opinion in Damascus and surrounding areas I visited this past week, confirms my experience the past five months of a sharp and fairly rapid shift in opinion that now strongly favors letting the Syrian people themselves decide, without outside interference, whether the Assad regime will stay, and indeed, whether, the Baathist party will continue to ... (more) Comment?
Why Obama Can & Should Close Guantanamo NOW
While promoting the message to Close Guantanamo that we are raising funds to publish in The New York Times , we have been hearing, especially in the Twitterverse, that people think, because Obama promised to close Guantanamo, and says that Congress is not allowing him to do that, the main problem is with Congress. Comment?
My title may jolt some people - growing old with joy, but I know that there are people out there just like me too. Comment?
Health Insurance in America: Legalized Extortion
Included in yesterday's mail were two ominous envelopes, one addressed to me, the other to my wife. Comment?
If Our Re-elected Prez is WarCriminal, What Are We? King would have asked
Cornel West, professor of African American Studies at Princeton and of Religious Philosophy and Christian Studies at the Union Theological Seminary in New York, the most outspoken anti-imperialist lecturer and writer, the most well known defender of Black and minority civil rights since Martin Luther King Jr. Comment?