Historically, the embrace of free speech has gone hand in hand with progressive politics. Public figures who tested the boundaries of free speech were invariably counter-culture heroes. Throughout recorded time humor, art, music and literature were understood to be inherently uplifting and liberating, because they were True expressions of human freedom and creativity. …and any […]
America’s educational system is a fraud. The lie begins in elementary school and continues through graduate school. But why complain? Our whole society is built on massive fraud. This is because the neocons took over college administrations just as they took over local governments and local schoolboards. The “educated” elite never cared about doing anything good […]
The term “conspiracy theory” was invented and inserted into the public domain by the CIA in 1964 to discredit the many skeptics who challenged the Warren Commission’s ridiculous and illogical conclusion that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald. UT Political Science professor Lance deHaven-Smith coined the term ‘State Crimes […]
I support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, but I don’t see it having any real impact on US-Israeli relations. Passing laws which boycott companies doing business with Israel is an important short-term objective, but history shows that these measures are of little consequence. American firms have routinely subverted trade sanctions from the days of […]
Most westernized countries treat their citizens to a far higher standard of living than the US. In addition, and they have much more freedom of choice, despite what most Americans believe. In the EU they have free healthcare, free college, paid sick leave and mandatory vacations, faster, free internet, better newspapers, better magazines, better cars, […]
That headline should have been plastered across America’s newspapers last week. If we still had newspapers. Earlier this month, the National Conference of State Legislators – a bipartisan government watchdog organization – declared that the reform efforts of individual states in the wake of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) had been a miserable failure. According […]
Neoliberalism is an insidious form of class warfare. Just ask the middle class how they feel about their fragile economic state while the 1% keep amassing more and more wealth. Society is supposed to function to improve the lot of everyone, not just a tiny minority at the very top of the financial food-chain. I […]
THEY’RE COMING TO TAKE YOUR GUNS!!! Along with the ridiculous “good guy with a gun” concept, this is the dumbest argument put forth by the gun-humpers. Your collection of puny little pea-shooters doesn’t guarantee you will be protected from the state. They don’t need your guns. Their guns are bigger than yours: WAY bigger. The […]
The Dome of the rock sits on the most controversial piece of land in the world. The Dome itself is situated on a disputed area in the middle of Jerusalem in the very center of Israel. Centuries of conflict have enveloped this tiny sanctuary. The Dome is at the center of a current, ongoing military and religious conflict. Just […]
In the years following World War II the United States had many economic ties with Cuba. Most involved human exploitation and criminal activity in some way. The Mob moved in and legalized gambling in an attempt to lure American tourists. Prostitution and illegal narcotics were also promoted on the island. The tourist industry flourished. The […]
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