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- When turkeys keep voting for Christmas - Buenos Aires Times When turkeys keep voting for Christmas Buenos Aires Times
When turkeys keep voting for Christmas. Democracy works well enough in countries in which most people understand that they share responsibility for the ...
- “Socialism From Above” and the Capitulation to Fascism - Jacobin magazine “Socialism From Above” and the Capitulation to Fascism Jacobin magazine
In 1930s Europe, Hendrik de Man's bid to replace class struggle with state planning led to a deadly embrace with fascism. His attempt to graft nationalism onto ...
- The Clock Strikes 13 at the NRA - Blue Virginia The Clock Strikes 13 at the NRA Blue Virginia
This will be my newspaper op/ed for the coming week in my very red congressional district (VA-06). *******************. The NRA and its CEO Wayne LaPierre ...
- Unifor convention gives centre-stage to Trudeau, Freeland and the Liberal re-election campaign - World Socialist Web Site Unifor convention gives centre-stage to Trudeau, Freeland and the Liberal re-election campaign World Socialist Web Site
Unifor is spearheading a massive union drive to keep the big business, pro-austerity, pro-war Trudeau Liberal government in power.
- WGA West Board Member Luvh Rakhe Offers History Lesson On Union Solidarity - Deadline WGA West Board Member Luvh Rakhe Offers History Lesson On Union Solidarity Deadline
WGA West board member Luvh Rakhe has offered a history lesson on the power of solidarity – and the price that unions pay when they're divided during strikes ...
- Guaido Was a Bust, But US Attacks on Venezuela Will Continue - ghionjournal.com Guaido Was a Bust, But US Attacks on Venezuela Will Continue ghionjournal.com
Over the span of only a few months, beginning roughly in January, the illegal U.S.-backed coup that the U.S. has attempted to activate through Juan Guaido and ...
- Bernie Sanders Is Serious About Saving The Planet - The Ring of Fire Network - The Ring of Fire Network Bernie Sanders Is Serious About Saving The Planet - The Ring of Fire Network The Ring of Fire Network
Senator Bernie Sanders has unveiled a $16 trillion plan to save the environment and get the American economy rolling again. This ambitious plan is exactly ...
- Notes on Inauthenticity in a Creeping Fascist Nuthouse - CounterPunch Notes on Inauthenticity in a Creeping Fascist Nuthouse CounterPunch
Among the suggestions I would have made to the Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley had I been an editor of his important book How Fascism Works: The ...
- Here's What's Wrong With Treating Schooling Like A Factory Or Garden - The Federalist Here's What's Wrong With Treating Schooling Like A Factory Or Garden The Federalist
Schools aren't simply 'factories' or 'gardens.' Educational philosophy should address the needs of the group as well as their individual humanity.
- Sanders And Bezos's Shared, Debilitating, Basic Premise - CounterPunch Sanders And Bezos's Shared, Debilitating, Basic Premise CounterPunch
There have been a number of articles recently which have highlighted liberal displeasure over the ways in which major mainstream corporate media outlets are ...
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- Are Terrorist Watch Lists Expanding Under Trump?
My wife, Joyce, and I recently traveled to Vienna for a week, where she had been invited to perform on Austrian state radio. Passing through Heathrow on our way home, we were separated by an automated security gate. The gate, which required you to scan your boarding pass, allowed Joyce through, but when I ran …
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- The smiling turtle
The smiling turtle looks like he’s About to break into a laugh He’s been Waiting a long time for the punch-line But I am not smiling My mirror has misted up I feel the closeness of the swamp I think we are sinking Into the muck of our business We have to call off the …
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- Did the US Really Intend to Destroy the Soviet Union with its Nuclear Monopoly?
74 years ago by the United States dropped the only two atomic bombs exploded in war on cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today, recalling those events, remember that the US still refuses to renounce a strategy of first-strike use of its nuclear arsenal. This has me pondering two questions that should raise enormous doubts in …
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- US bombings on Hiroshima & Nagasaki less about ending WWII than scaring Stalin
Almost three-quarters of a century ago on August 9, 1945, the United States dropped a 22-kiloton plutonium bomb called the “Fat Man” on Nagasaki. The total destruction of that city, and the instant incineration of 40,000 mostly civilian people, occurred just three days after the destruction of Hiroshima by a 15-kiloton uranium bomb, which instantly …
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- There is a word for me and you
I am relieved to know Finally there is a word for me You too Aren’t you? I see you are On the list Of those who Will receive a word (Albeit a lower list) We could share If you are willing This relief of knowing That Out of the blue There is something To replace …
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- Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Spies Who Kept a Criminal US with a Nuclear Monopoly from Making More of Them
Cambridge, UK, Aug. 6 — Seventy-four years ago today, the US dropped the first ever atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, a non-military target of several hundred thousand, instantly vaporizing some 70,000 people, mostly civilians, and causing the painful, slower death of another 70,000 who died of burns and radioactive damage to their bodies …
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- Dave Lindorff Discusses the Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud on KMUD Radio
This past April, TCBH! founder Dave Lindorff won an “Izzy” award from the Park Center for Independent Media for a Nation cover story published last December exposing how the Pentagon has been brazenly and unconstitutionally lying for over two decades about its spending, and how Congress, unable to do any oversight because of this massive …
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- Back
I just got back From a beautiful requiem. I’m not sure what died But I’m back now. And I am remembering how, As a teenager I would come home late, Drunk as a skunk and, Quiet as a moth walking up the screen Toward the light, I would tiptoe up the stairs and Collapse on …
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- Stuck in a Rut of their Own Making, Progressive Democrats Need to Be Honest
Until progressive Democratic candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren forthrightly declare that Yes! socializing health care by making the government the single insurer of every American will require a hike in taxes, but that everyone will benefit in the final analysis, they will never succeed in winning over American voters one what polls show …
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- Let’s Just Let Trump Spend the Whole War Department Budget on Building Walls
Liberals are upset that the new Supreme Court, packed with conservatives, has decided President Trump can have $2.6 billion of the Pentagon’s new FY 2020 $738 billion budget to build some wall along the Mexican border. But I think they’re thinking all wrong about this. Instead of complaining and fighting a losing battle against Trump’s nutty …
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