The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
FYI…From two friends… As someone who once took an oath in the military to protect the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, I have to wonder why a group that preaches taking over the government using “spiritual warfare” isn’t a domestic enemy. Where is the line between freedom of religious expression and sedition? The …
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Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN The New York Times, August 7, 2011 The contemporary American classroom, with its grades and deference to the clock, is an inheritance from the late 19th century. In her galvanic new book, Now You See It, Ms. Davidson asks, and ingeniously answers, that question. One of the …
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Trending today– Lakoff: How to Rescue the American Dream from the GOP’s Nightmare The Republicans are redefining “democracy”–but it’s time to remember what the real dream of democracy meant. George Lakoff and Glenn Smith AlterNet, 28 July Read the article… And here is the advertisement slated to start running in various newspapers. The American Dream. …
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Best of TomDispatch: Chalmers Johnson, Dismantling the Empire Chalmers Johnson (RIP) TomDispatch.com, 7 August 2011 EXTRACT Three Good Reasons to Liquidate Our Empire and Ten Steps to Take to Do So 1. We Can No Longer Afford Our Postwar Expansionism 2. We Are Going to Lose the War in Afghanistan and It Will Help Bankrupt …
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To Rebuild the American Dream, Put Pressure On Democrats EXTRACT It would be great if progressive change could be achieved solely by pressuring Republicans, but that’s not how it works. It’s not just Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Congressmember Michelle Bachmann, and the Tea Party that hold back change – it’s the many Democrats who betray …
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Christopher Schaefer (PhD), gives us both a short essay below recommending two books, and at the link, a five-page essay, “Mind the Gap: Wealth Disparities, the Deficit, and our Economic Future.” CREATING COMMON WEALTH Christopher Schaefer It is now clear that the present global economic crisis is also a political and moral crisis raising fundamental …
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Just reading Cotton and Race in the Making of America, written by an old friend several years ago. I think most would find it fascinating and worthy of review.. http://genedattel.com/ “Gene Dattel has written a very important and necessary book, by locating the expansion of cotton production as a driving force not only in the …
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