The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Richest 0.01 Percent of Americans Gave 42 Percent of Political Donations in 2012 It should come as no surprise that policymakers look after the ultra-wealthy instead of the rest of us. By Stephen Wolf / DailyKos EXTRACT Candidates devote 80 percent of their time to begging rich people for money. Any extremist Republican can …
Huh? CODE RED: Jonathan Simon’s Hail-Mary for Democracy I have been witness to and participant in more than a decade of strenuous but essentially fruitless efforts to challenge the passivity with which America has collectively accepted an “upgrade” that gave us a concealed, computerized, privatized vote counting process–a Trojan Horse which the forensic evidence we …
Is Flawed Terrorism Research Driving Flawed Counterterrorism Policies? More than thirteen years after the U.S. intelligence community named the prevention of terrorism its number one goal, it seems to have little understanding of what drives terrorism, or how to counter it. And, if the recently increasing criticism is correct, the government’s investment in academic terrorism …
Gary Hart: Billion-dollar Clinton campaign should ‘frighten’ Americans The two-time Democratic presidential candidate is alarmed by current ‘dynastic’ politics. The prospect of a billion-dollar Clinton campaign “ought to frighten every American,” he said in an interview with POLITICO, and Democrats would be better served by a competitive primary that forced her to speak in more …
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As you read this think about what has happened to the United States from the time of the Marshall Plan when people around the world looked to the U.S. as an exemplar of what a modern society should be, until today when we are the most feared nation in the world, the number one threat …
IVN Steele on Electoral Reform Part 13: Overview of the Action Plan Independent Voter Network, 16 April 2012 Occupy is in my view a huge good thing, and it changes everything. Stabs at electoral reform have been taken in the past, with legislation submitted nine times (four of those times by Ron Paul). In each …
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The question has been asked: Can we really do this? Below is one answer. A national conversation should yield both many more answers, and public confidence that it can indeed restore integrity to the US electoral process, to all three branches of the federal government, and eventually to all state and local governments — while …
