There is a real infectious, raving madness abroad in the country today.  I am mystified by the intensity of it, the amount of press and pundit attention it is getting and the absence of any logic or evidence behind it.  Of course the behavior of Fox News, Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, etc, etc, who have been gleefully fanning the flames, is unconscionable.  The thought that ratings/dollars may be the big motivator for these demagogues is enough to make one vomit. FULL STORY...

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Labor unashamedly rated as just another resource

Another first Monday in September to signal the end of summer for most everyone here in the United States; while for a small minority of Americans, Labor Day continues to mark the annual set-aside time to pay tribute to the working men and women in the labor movement who so bravely fought to bring a measure of economic and social justice not just for the union rank and file, but for the rest of us who parasitically have benefited from their struggle. FULL STORY...

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Exposing Racist Zionist WW2 crimes

On 1 September 1939 German forces invaded Poland and on 3 September Britain declared war on Nazi Germany. Iran’s pro-peace, anti-drug, anti-racist President Ahmadinejad is correct that we need more research and education about WW2 – the racist Zionists (RZs) were involved in Nazi collaboration, Holocaust denial and the Holocaust. FULL STORY...

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On Labor Day we celebrate those who work - as opposed to those who inherit family wealth and those whose financial investments work so they don’t have to. Many workers who deserve to be honored on this special day have come from across the border. In a global economy, workers who strive for justice in their own country must, by necessity, unite with workers around the world. FULL STORY...

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Greed versus Science

Politicians sometimes state their policy goals in quantitative terms and responsible scientists are then obliged to inform the public about what those policies will actually mean. This is particularly vital in relation to climate change that now acutely threatens the planet. FULL STORY...

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Justice, peace and well-being... all unconditionally surrendered

Klutziness by Obama in trying to marshal public support for health-care reform is now erasing the last remaining dash of hope held by the true progressive crowd; and even the most loyal and patient among them appear ready to throw in the towel.  FULL STORY...

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Australia is Downunder to Northern Hemisphere folk but when it comes to its pro-coal, pro-pollution climate change policies, world leading per capita greenhouse gas polluter Australia is truly upside-down and anti-science. FULL STORY...

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In less than two weeks, Afghanistan will hold its second presidential elections since the United States occupied that country in November 2001.  Democratic elections, we deem them to be, although many Afghans and foreigners alike consider the process more of an American coronation of another vassal-monarch from that celebrated dynasty: the House of Dollar. FULL STORY...

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Honoring President Obama’s request that the controversy involving a black Harvard University professor and a white Cambridge police officer become “a teachable moment,” here’s my contribution to an old lesson that we white people tend to be slow to learn. FULL STORY...

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The World has been horrified by latest Gaza Massacre inflicted by Apartheid Israel on what the Catholic Church describes as Gaza Concentration Camp - over 1,300 Palestinians killed (one third being children) and over 5,000 wounded in response to zero Israeli deaths from Gaza missiles in the preceding year. FULL STORY...

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