By Mickey Walker-November 24, 2013
Who could have ever imagined that OIL would control the machinery of mankind and its evolution toward our own destruction? Black Gold. Texas Tea. Beverly Hillbillies stuff. You could rise to prominence as a somebody just because you had mineral rights to the oil under your feet. And you could pollute the planet and not care if you are so positioned to pay off government to leave you and your smokestacks alone. ...
Read MoreHarry Targ – 09.29.13
Mitch Daniels knows a few things about finances and managing a budget. He was director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George W. Bush, president of Eli Lilly and Company's North American Pharmaceutical, governor of Indiana, and currently president of Purdue University. …
Daniels spoke about the harmful impact of unbridled spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security during an on-camera interview with FreeEnterprise.com following his remarks on the...
Read MoreBy Donald B. Ardell – 11.24.13
In 2013 in one of the most progressive counties in the State of Florida, it is an “open secret” that racial and religious discrimination is practiced in many if not most area hospitals. Seems hard to believe, but when black or other minority hospital personnel report discrimination to management, they discover that a quiet, unpublicized policy allowing racial and religious discrimination exists. The policy can be found in what officials call a "hospital-wide directive."...
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By Loren Adams, 11.17.13
With the advent of Ted Cruz, America is cruising towards a new Jonestown USA – unless the far right is effectively resisted and rejected by the less passionate majority that shows a weak compulsion to hold its own, much less mount an all-out assault on the crazies. Of course, Cruz is not the only false prophet to lead the nation to the brink (along with its metastasized cult). The trend has been in progress for at least 40 years. But Cruz has become the latest personification of the religious right’s dominionist...
Read MoreBy Michael Faulkner - 11.17.13
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.” V.I. Lenin. The State and Revolution.
“The Politics of the Unpolitical” was the title of a collection of essays written in the 1940s by the English anarchist poet and art critic, Sir Herbert Read. He was the only anarchist to receive a...
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