By Mickey Walker-April 21, 2013
The world as we know it has become a weird series of incomprehensible twistings of truth, reality, and meaning. We put our trust in people like Laffer who had a “Curve” to tell us how to borrow and spend to create jobs and prosperity. It didn’t. Alan Greenspan had his own formula he just “knew” would be the economic medicine for a healthy America. We overdosed. And later, Greenspan admitted that he...
By Harry Targ - Tuesday, April 21, 2013
A whole generation of activists has “grown up”conversant with the central place of empire in human history. Children of the Cold War and the “Sixties” generation realized that the United States was the latest of a multiplicity of imperial powers which sought to dominate and control human beings, physical space, natural resources, and human labor power. We learned from the Marxist tradition, radical...
Read MoreBy Donald B. Ardell - 04.21.13
Suppose Islamists in time became the dominant religion in this country, and suppose once they had enough political power to do so, they organized to have their religious slogan on the currency. Imagine Allahu Akbar (if not their Prophet’s mug) on coins of the realm and notes of all denominations? How would that be any different from “In God We Trust?” Wouldn’t that be just as but not more...
STEVEN JONAS MD, MPH - 04.14.13 - Originally published on BuzzFlash@Truthout, Thursday, 10 January 2013
I used to think that the Teabaggers were a wholly-owned subsidiary of the GOP. They were very convenient to the not-so-Grand, but very old in its ways, party. From the time they were first organized in 2009 by old Republican hands like Dick Armey to when they marched into the House of Representatives in...
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By Donald B. Ardell - 04.14.13
Introduction: Deju Vu Anyone?
Does this sound familiar?
“We, the people of the State of North Carolina in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance adopted by the State of North Carolina in the convention of 1789, whereby the Constitution...
Read MoreBy Loren Adams, 14 April 2013
The day will soon come when political issues that appear so important at this time will fade into obscurity. They will pale in comparison to what’s-to-be. The entire planet will bow in unison to survival of the species.
The most popular cable “news” networks promote a particular political agenda for which the respective viewers are bombarded with such drivel day-in and day-out ad nauseam. Government gridlock and...
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