The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
There are two Justices that I think never should have been put on the Supreme Court, and whose behavior once on the court in my view constitutes unacceptable ideological hackery. This essay make the case on one of them. Scalia’s Delusional Hackery: From ‘Originalism” to Shilling for the Tea Party PAUL ROSENBERG – Salon Supreme …
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Here is a wonderful story of how a single couple has been able to take on a destructive industry and win. The Real Secret to Beating the Koch Brothers: How Our Broken Political System Can Still be Won LINDSAY ABRAMS, Assistant Editor – Salon You probably haven’t heard of Helen Slottje, or, for that matter, …
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Net Neutrality: A Guide to (and History of) a Contested Idea If net neutrality is so important, why is it so controversial? It’s complicated. Alexis C. Madrigal and Adrienne LaFrance Apr 25 2014 EXTRACT But this debate isn’t just about the specific wording of the possible FCC rules (though those are important). People have been talking …
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This is the truth that the mainstream corporate media will not address. Only citizen action is going to reverse this decline into oligarchy and, frankly, I’m not sure the American people have it in them any longer to rise up against the destruction of our democracy. We’ll know from the 2014 elections. American Democracy No …
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Why Are Americans Paying to be Searched, Spied On, Shot At, and Robbed Blind by the Government [and the Oligarchs Behind the Government]? John Whitehead OpEdNews, 7 April 2014 The State Department wants $400,000 to purchase a fiberglass sculpture of a camel looking at a needle for its new embassy in Pakistan. They’ve already spent …
The Age of the Oligarchs Exclusive: The concentration of power in the hands of billionaire “oligarchs” may be most alarming in places like Ukraine but the United States is moving in the same direction as wealth is consolidated at the top — and both elections and media are up for sale, says Robert Parry. By Robert Parry …
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Drew Gilpin Faust Closure, or does the Suffering just still go on … ?, March 12, 2014 By Herbert L Calhoun “paulocal” Quietly, this is an amazing book about the back side of war — the side we pretend not to know is really there at all — the ugly side, the painful side. It …
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