No-Account Accountability, Bald-Faced Lies, and the High Cost of Trusting Government Leaders: Part I

By Mickey Walker-June 8, 2014

Sometimes an old buddy of mine and I digress and descend to debate the inequities in the human race.  You know, trying to make sense out of paradox.  Neither of us has ever denied that great Orwellian proclamation:  “Some animals are more equal than others.”  Yet even though the speaker was a pig (as is the case with most dictators and self-declared Deciders) the truth of the matter is that it is hard to argue the point.  If you are the ruler in charge (or even his brother-in-law sometimes), the Decider, the one...

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Marching On Moscow

By Conn Hallinan - 05.27.14

British Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery had three laws of war:

One, never march on Moscow;
Two, never get in a land war in Asia;
Three, never march on Moscow.

So why are the U.S., the European Union (EU), and NATO on the road to the Russian capital? And exactly what are they hoping to accomplish?

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THE MANY FACES OF FASCISM – THEN AND NOW

By Michael Faulkner - 06.08.14

The rise in Europe of parties of the xenophobic right, with which this column was concerned last month, has prompted some discussion in sections of the media about the use of the term “Fascism” to describe some of them. The readers’ editor of The Guardian writes, in a piece on how to describe the far right in modern Europe, that “fascist is a word that should be used with pin-point accuracy if the voters throughout Europe are to retain focus in the gloop of far-right rhetoric.” This is sensible...

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DEMOGRAPHICS IS ONLY A DREAM

By Loren Adams, 6.08.14

The Democratic Party bases its vision of the future on demographics while Republicans mount a proactive, preemptive strike by instituting voter suppression (voter ID, eliminating days/hours for voting, “consolidating” polling places to tip the scales in favor of their core constituents, the wealthy). It’s the same old story: Cheaters win if guardians fail.

Meanwhile, Mid-term 2014 fast approaches. Is the Democratic leadership ready to lose big-time like 2010? ...

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An Education-Based Alternative to Reparations for Slavery

By Donald B. Ardell - 06.04.14

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In a first season episode of the hit TV series “The West Wing,” there was an exchange between a black nominee for appointment to the post of assistant attorney general (played by Carl Lumbly) and a top staff aide to the president. The appointee explained to the aide why he favors this controversial view, noting his agreement with those who claim the government owes black people a trillion dollars in slavery reparations.

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Perusing Creation.com

By STEVEN JONAS MD, MPH - 06.08.14

Recently, while preparing a review of the movie Noah, knowing that the Christian Right had their collective noses bent out of shape by the movie, I sought to gather some background on creationism. And so, I thought, what better place to go than the website that bears that name Creation.com. And what a fascinating visit it turned out to be.

Now, I should think that there are those of you who might have only a foggy remembrance of the creation story from the Judeo-Christian Bible (JCB). Be that as it may, you should know that there are almost as many variants on the JCB creation story as there are translations of the...

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