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Aug 3, 2011, 11:06 pm
The Racist Right
What were two Republicans thinking, calling Obama 'tar baby' and 'boy'?
Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado and commentator Pat Buchanan, a former candidate for president, both apologized Wednesday for using racially charged terms to refer to Obama.
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Aug 2, 2011, 5:44 pm
Fear The Radical Right and witness its assault on freedom
The Tea Party Doctrine - Kings of Patrimonialism
and Mujahideen Jihadist Theology
- Anders Brevik
- Jared Lee Loughner
- English Defense League
- Hutaree
- Christian Terrorism
- Lionheart (EDL expatriate)
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Jul 29, 2011, 11:15 am
Boycotting fascism?
Policies that have frustrated Palestinians for years are now being applied to middle-class Israelis, too.
Mark LeVine
--aljazeera--
During the last week angry young residents of Tel Aviv have been staging a sit-in, or, more accurately, a tent-in, along fashionable Rothschild... Comment - Like
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Jul 25, 2011, 12:28 pm
Brit pol: 'Right-wing nutters' stop debt deal
--politico.com--
By: Reid J. Epstein
July 25, 2011 06:35 AM EDT
A top British finance minister says the world’s biggest economic threat is from “right-wing nutters” in Congress who would send the U.S. government into default.
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Jul 25, 2011, 11:22 am
"Dispatches: Mark Thomas on Coca-Cola" a British Channel 4 documentary. Political activist and journalist Mark Thomas travels to South America, India and the US to investigate the way in which Coca-Cola and its suppliers operate and the extent to which they upholds moral and ethical obligations.
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Jul 25, 2011, 10:50 am
Forget Anonymous: Evidence Suggests GOP Hacked, Stole 2004 Election
By John Thorpe
Benzinga Staff Writer
July 21, 2011 1:07 PM
Three generations from now, when our great-grandchildren are sitting barefoot in their shanties and wondering how in the hell America turned from the high-point of civiliza... Comment - Like
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Jul 15, 2011, 4:55 pm
Rick Scott's dirtiest deeds
By Lisa Rab
published: July 14, 2011
--MiamiNewTimes--
"I've seen the mountaintop!" shouted a woman blowing a whistle and marching in combat-style boots down Okeechobee Boulevard in West Palm Beach.
"We shall overcome Rick Scott's tyranny!" added a man who followed closel... Comment - Like
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Jul 4, 2011, 12:55 pm
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole Americ... Comment - Like
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Jun 29, 2011, 3:38 pm
"I’m not saying that Caylee Anthony’s death is less horrible because so many other children are killed by the adults in their short, brutal lives. But I am saying that all children who are murdered deserve attention, not just certain children."
Why I Won’t Follow The Casey Anthony Trial
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Jun 29, 2011, 8:43 am
Is Clarence Thomas's Humble Georgia Museum a Huge Ethics Issue?
06/25/11 03:04 AM ET --ARTinfo---
A quaint historical museum in Pin Point, Georgia, that is set to open this fall has become the target of an exhaustive ethics examination by the New York Times. Why would the Times devote almost 3,000... Comment - Like
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Jun 29, 2011, 8:41 am
Friendship of Justice and Magnate Puts Focus on Ethics
By MIKE McINTIRE
6/18/2011 --NYtimes.com--
PIN POINT, Ga. — Clarence Thomas was here promoting his memoir a few years ago when he bumped into Algernon Varn, whose grandfather once ran a seafood cannery that employed Justice Thomas’s mother a... Comment - Like
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Jun 24, 2011, 4:21 pm
US police smash camera for recording killing
Miami man hid phone memory card in his mouth to preserve footage in battle over recording tools.
Chris Arsenault Last Modified: 21 Jun 2011 16:34
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Jun 17, 2011, 9:31 am
40th Anniversary of the War on Drugs - June 17, 2011
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s declaration of a “War on Drugs.” To highlight the impact that the drug war has on communities around the world, more than a dozen SSDP chapters are organizing candlelight vigils in cities a... Comment - Like
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Jun 7, 2011, 9:18 pm
With Humala's win, Peru turns to the left
With a former army officer winning the presidency, Peru joins Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela in tilting to the left.
Greg Grandin Last Modified: 07 Jun 2011 18:43
--thenation--
Add Peru to the list of Latin American countries that have turned left. On Su... Comment - Like
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May 28, 2011, 1:27 pm
40th Anniversary of the War on Drugs June 17, 2011
Friday, June 17th, marks the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s declaration of a “War on Drugs.” To highlight the impact that the drug war has on communities around the world, more than a dozen SSDP chapters are organizing candlelight vigils ... Comment - Like
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May 28, 2011, 12:07 pm
Dem lawmakers to Obama: Use executive tools to aid immigrants
By Mike Lillis - 05/25/11 01:19 PM ET
A group of liberal Democrats is urging President Obama to put his money where his mouth is regarding immigration reform. The lawmakers, led by Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), say the president has pr... Comment - Like
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May 20, 2011, 7:46 am
Marine Survives Two Tours in Iraq, SWAT Kills Him
Tim Cavanaugh | May 16, 2011
--reason.com--
"Please send me an ambulance and you can ask more questions later, please!"
Guerena tells the dispatcher that her husband had returned home about 6:30 a.m. after work and was sleeping.
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May 16, 2011, 1:36 pm
May 14, 2011
Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater’s Founder
By MARK MAZZETTI and EMILY B. HAGER
--NYtimes.com--
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Late one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital. Whisked through customs by... Comment - Like
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May 16, 2011, 1:34 pm
Santana blasts Ga. for 'cruel law'
Politico
May 15, 2011 06:45 PM EDT
Iconic guitarist Carlos Santana didn’t exactly ask the leaders of Georgia and Arizona to change their evil ways but he came awfully close.
Santana on Sunday used the occasion of baseball’s annual Civil Rights Game at Turner... Comment - Like
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May 9, 2011, 3:24 pm
Your High Excellencies
President Obama, Président Sarkozy, Bundeskanzlerin Merkel, Prime Minister Cameron,
by Kevin Galalae
It is with a heavy heart and a deep sense of responsibility that I deem it necessary to write to you on my 28th day of hunger strike at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, ... Comment - Like
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May 6, 2011, 2:20 pm
Video shows Phoenix officer slam teen into wall
By AMANDA LEE MYERS
--AP--Friday, May 6, 2011 10:44 AM MST
The Phoenix Police Department has launched a criminal investigation into one of its officers after learning of a YouTube video that shows the on-duty officer slamming an unarmed 15-year-old gir... Comment - Like
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May 6, 2011, 12:59 pm
Nine percent of Americans blame President Barack Obama and the U.S. government for this year's spike in gasoline prices, according to a new Washington Post/Pew Research Center poll.
DAN BERMAN | 5/6/11 9:04 AM EDT
--politico--
An additional 5 percent cited "not drilling enough" as an answer to the ... Comment - Like
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May 1, 2011, 3:45 am
May Day, support Workers Rights, support Labor, support Unions
The happy idea of using a proletarian holiday celebration as a means to attain the eight-hour day was first born in Australia. The workers there decided in 1856 to organize a day of complete stoppage together with meetings and entertainm... Comment - Like
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Apr 28, 2011, 10:40 pm
MLB Speaks Out
Players, managers, and officials across Major League Baseball have been been courageously speaking out against SB 1070:
Carlos Beltrán (New York Mets–OF)
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Apr 28, 2011, 7:57 pm
2011 Readout of the President's Meeting with Stakeholders on Fixing the Broken Immigration System
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release April 19,
In a meeting in the State Dining Room this afternoon, the President and members of his Cabinet and senior staff met with a ... Comment - Like
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Apr 28, 2011, 6:50 pm
Workers must unite for better immigration policy
By Richard Trumka - 04/28/11 09:22 AM ET
--thehill.com--
Arizona and Wisconsin may seem like a world apart. But they have more in common than you think. In these states and many others, working people – immigrant and native-born alike – are und... Comment - Like
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Apr 28, 2011, 6:41 pm
State ignorance confused for State rights
--politico--
SCOTT WONG | 4/27/11 3:13 PM EDT Updated: 4/28/11 12:38
“It is a mistake for states to try to do this piecemeal. We can’t have 50 different immigration laws around the country,” Obama said Tuesday in an interview with Atlanta-based WSB-TV.... Comment - Like
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Apr 27, 2011, 4:05 pm
Thanks to the controversy surrounding the Arizona immigration law that allows authorities to ask for proper documentation if a person appears to be in the country illegally, some Major League Baseball players - many of whom are Hispanic - have said they will boycott the All-Star game if the situati... Comment - Like
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Apr 26, 2011, 8:48 pm
Boehner gas gaffe creates opening
By: Jonathan Allen and Darren Goode
April 26, 2011 07:45 PM EDT
Democrats think Speaker John Boehner stepped in a tar pit when he tried to dance around a question about taxing Big Oil, and now a White House concerned about its own vulnerability to rising gas price... Comment - Like
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Apr 26, 2011, 1:37 pm
The Daily Show - Moment of Zen - Tooth Fairy's Birth Certificate
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Apr 25, 2011, 11:26 pm
Kevin Galalae Hunger Strikes for Freedom of Education
19 April 2011
Mr. Thomas Hammarberg
Council of Europe
Commissioner for Human Rights
F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex
FRANCE
commissioner[at]coe.int
press.commissioner[at]coe.int
Dear Mr. Hammarberg,
A week has gone by since I first have hand deliver... Comment - Like
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Apr 25, 2011, 8:12 pm
Boehner opens door to cutting U.S. oil tax breaks
--reuters--
The U.S. Congress should "take a look" at multibillion-dollar subsidies to oil companies amid rising concern over skyrocketing gas prices, House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Monday. Comment - Like
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Apr 25, 2011, 6:50 pm
Standard and Poor's Ethics in Question
Written by Dean Baker
Tuesday, 19 April 2011 05:30
--Center for Economic and Policy Research--
S&P managed to capture the headlines yesterday when it announced that it had a negative outlook for the credit rating of the United States. After all, an actua... Comment - Like
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Apr 24, 2011, 1:34 am
Not because it was ugly but because it showed his terrible flaw so clear: reminding him it was not Moldweorp he hated so much as a perverse idea of what is clean; not the girl he sympathized with so much a her humanity. Fate, it occured to him then, chooses weird agents.-- Thomas Pynchon, Under the... Comment - Like
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Apr 23, 2011, 9:38 pm
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Apr 23, 2011, 11:14 am
Address of the International Working Men's Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America --marxist.org--
Written: by Marx between November 22 & 29, 1864
First Published: The Bee-Hive Newspaper, No. 169, November 7, 1865;
Sir:
We congratulate the American people upon your... Comment - Like
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