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Archives: Politics&Culture
ADL Director Pledges to Sign Up For Muslim Registry
In his opening remarks at the Never is Now! Anti-Semitism Summit in New York, Anti-Defamation League National Director Jonathan Greenblatt pledged today that he would register as a Muslim should the Trump Administration…
8 Plutocrats out-earned 3.6 mn Working Poor & 7 Other Headlines You won’t see in MSM
(By Paul Buchheit) The following are all relevant, fact-based issues, the "hard news" stories that the media has a responsibility to report. But the business-oriented press generally avoids them. 1. U.S. Wealth…
Christian Sharia Law: Iowa Governor’s Proclamation Destroys Separation Of Church And State
(By Josh Kilburn) Christian Sharia Law: Iowa Governor’s Proclamation Destroys Separation Of Church And State (Video) (via Americans Against The Tea Party) The astroturfed pandemic of Christian self-righteousness continues to plumb…
Standing on the Titanic: Meaningless Iraq Campaign Posters Provoke Satire, Ridicule on Facebook
(By Kholoud Ramzi, Baghdad, for Niqash) Election posters have become a joke to cynical Iraqi voters. Election campaign posters are telling cynical Iraqi voters nothing – there is barely any information on…
CBS Taps Colbert To Replace Letterman, Limbaugh Bursts Into Flames
SATIRE: CBS Taps Colbert To Replace Letterman, Limbaugh Bursts Into Flames (via Liberaland) This could be the single event that our grandchildren — well, the privileged ones who know how to read…
BP Permitted back into The Gulf Despite all the Damage Done
(By Sarah Lazare) Four years after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, oil still washes up on the Gulf Coast shore, and residents and cleanup workers face health hazards from the millions of gallons…
What Ukraine Means to the U.S. 1% and to the 99% (Editorial Cartoon)
(By Paul Jamiol) Courtesy Jamiol's World
Climate Change Is Increasing Extreme Heat Globally
Climate Change Is Increasing Extreme Heat Globally (via Climate Central) By Brian Kahn Follow @blkahn Despite reports of a global warming "hiatus," a new study shows that the number of areas being…
The US isn’t a Police State, but it is a Managed Democracy
Source: SecurityDegreeHub.com ------ Related video: TheRealNews: "Obama Expands Militarization of Police" )
Renewable Energy Boom coming to the Middle East
Middle East North Africa Area To See Renewable Energy Boom (via Clean Technica) The trade association behind the DESERTEC Concept of the same name has said that the Middle East and North…
President Obama zings Zach Galifianakis on “Between Two Ferns”
President Obama on funnyordie.com plugging the Affordable Health Care Act: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama from President Barack Obama ----- Related video: The Young Turks: "Anger Over Obama…
By the Way, Your Home Is On Fire: The Climate of Change and the Dangers of Stasis
(By Rebecca Solnit via Tomdispatch) As the San Francisco bureaucrats on the dais murmured about why they weren’t getting anywhere near what we in the audience passionately hoped for, asked for, and…