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The Actual State of the Union, or FDR's Four Freedoms Become Obama's Four Questions

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Originally published by Telesur

President Barack Obama used his final State of the Union speech to claim that “America is leading the fight against climate change,” while in reality the United States is far and away the worst offender, per capita, in the ongoing mad race to render the earth’s climate uninhabitable. We “cut our imports of foreign oil,” Obama brags, as if earth cares what flag its pollution belches into the air under. “Gas under two bucks a gallon read more

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A Homeland Is a Country That Allows Domestic Use of Military

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Have you seen Dahr Jamail’s report on U.S. military plans for war games in Washington state? I’m sure some observers imagine that the military is simply looking for a place to engage in safe and responsible and needed practice in hand-to-hand combat against incoming North Korean nuclear missiles, or perhaps to rehearse a humanitarian invasion of Russia to uphold the fundamental international law against Vladimir Putin’s existence.

But if you look over the history of domestic use read more

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Iniquity, the 0.000006%, and Who Pays $300k to Hear Hillary

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The United States’ 20 wealthiest people (The 0.000006 Percent) now own more wealth than the bottom half of the U.S. population combined, a total of 152 million people in 57 million households. The Forbes 400 now own about as much wealth as the nation’s entire African-American population — plus more than a third of the Latino population — combined; more wealth combined than the bottom 61 percent of the U.S. population, an estimated 194 million people or 70 million households.

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Limits of Liberal War Opposition

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Robert Reich’s website is full of proposals for how to oppose plutocracy, raise the minimum wage, reverse the trend toward greater inequality of wealth, etc. His focus on domestic economic policy is done in the traditional bizarre manner of U.S. liberals in which virtually no mention is ever made of the 54% of the federal discretionary budget that gets dumped into militarism.

When such a commentator notices the problem of war, it’s worth paying attention to exactly how far they’re read more

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The Awesome Samaritan

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And, behold, a certain debate moderator stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

And he said unto him, Thou hast made this stuff up. There thou goest again.

But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who read more

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Mayor of Roanoke Va. Shows Off Ignorance and Bigotry

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This statement by the Mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, surely takes the prize for government-sanctioned ignorance and bigotry in 2015.

Is he aware that comparing World War II participating armies to a group like ISIS is ridiculous, that World War II killed upwards of 50 million people, primarily through the activities of the largest, wealthiest militaries on earth?

Is he aware that the United States was forced to apologize for and pay reparations to the victims of the internment camps used against Japanese read more

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