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It’s a simple concept: The U.S. Constitution guarantees Americans privacy in their homes, papers, and privileged communications with their attorneys, doctors, and other professionals. Along comes one terrorist incident of highly murky origin and POOF! the Fourth Amendment is gone.
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Access to institutions of higher education for poor and working people is a course of daunting hurdles in the United States; free or even affordable college tuition is a thing of the past. The federal government created a system of student loans, purportedly to make education “affordable.” Instead, it just increased the amount institutions could demand as tuition, knowing students could borrow the money.
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Chris Hedges‘ 4/19/10 article, titled: Noam Chomsky Has Never Seen Anything Like This, opens with the following statement, which is significant for all who seriously seek social change and a better future:
“Noam Chomsky is America’s greatest intellectual. His massive body of work, which includes nearly 100 books, has for decades deflated and exposed the lies of the power elite and the myths they perpetrate.”
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Investigative journalist Greg Palast and Eva Golinger, Editor of the English language Venezuelan newspaper, “Correo del Orinoco,” expose the persistent lies of the U.S. State Department and corporate media about Hugo Chavez.
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By Shamus Cooke
01 July, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — There should be no doubts about the U.S.’ decisive role behind the now-crumbling military coup in Honduras. As commander and chief of the U.S. armed forces, the blame for this intervention lies solely on President Obama.
The White House, however, would like you to believe that they “attempted to convince the Honduran military not to intervene.”
Rubbish.
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Insurance lizards slobbering poisonous saliva and feeding money to rotten prostitutes in Congress (except a noble few) dare debate with disgusting aplomb whether insurance-pig-snakes’ bank accounts are more important than the lives of thousands of men, women, and children dying every year for lack of healthcare. [Continue Reading…]
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A burst of voices and laughter heralds recess. Kids bullet out of the classroom to find their favorite spot on the playground. Katie, Allie, and Sam like the sandbox, but so does Gunner and that’s always a problem. Gunner is territorial, piles up the toys on “his side,” tells Katie, Allie, and Sam what to do, and gets aggressive if they don’t play his game. When he starts throwing sand, the others protest but he keeps at it. Eventually they call the teacher. Now imagine the teacher supporting and even encouraging Gunner. Guest post by Viktoria Vidali. [Continue Reading…]
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world’s most tragic and long-lasting conflicts and a major source of world’s instability. Knowing the facts may save us all from catastrophe.
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Does History Repeat Itself?
by admin on March 18, 2011
in Islands & Icebergs,Nonfiction,Political
Neo-fascists and terrorists against liberty come in all shapes and sizes and in every human era. 9/11 = the burning of the Reichstag. What followed in both cases evidences that history does indeed repeat itself. But were most of us astute enough to see it happening again?
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