US politics

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Jeb Bush gave a maiden foreign police speech in Chicago yesterday in which he mixed up Iran with Iraq and alleged with science fictional inaccuracy that Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) has 200,000 men under arms. The actual number of fighters is probably 20,000. His office later admitted that […]

Barack Obama

Obama Says: U.S. At War With Terrorism, Not With Islam

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By RFE/ RL | – U.S. President Barack Obama has said the United States is not “at war” with Islam, but with people who distort the religion. Speaking on February 18 at the three-day White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, Obama said, “We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with […]

Corporate Surveillance

Not your Founding Fathers’ America: Permanent War, Permanent Election Campaigns, Guns, Drones and Surveillance

Tom Engelhardt

By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) I never fail to be amazed — and that’s undoubtedly my failing. I mean, if you retain a capacity for wonder you can still be awed by a sunset, but should you really be shocked that the sun is once again sinking in the west? Maybe not. The occasion for […]

Crime

NSA making all vulnerable online with Equation Viruses on your Computer

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TheLipTV | – “Malware in hard drive firmware is the latest, and most sophisticated spying tool the NSA is suspected of using, with Kaspersky Labs of Russia suggesting that the “Equation Group” of hackers have infiltrated the innermost workings of computers dating back to 2001. The “Equation Group,” have long been suspected of being intimately […]

Christianity

Fox News Contributor: Fifty Shades of Grey Heralds the End of the World

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Ana Kasparian | (The Young Turks) – “”Fox News contributor Robert Jeffress believes that gay marriage and the film release of Fifty Shades of Grey are signs that the apocalypse is nearing. Jeffress said “the Bible prophesized that in the End Times, there will be a lack of moral restraint. And I think we’re seeing […]

Republican Party

Bad News for US Biotech: GOP’s Scott Walker so anti-science he can’t affirm Evolution

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Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) – “Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks gives his final judgment on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s recent comments on evolution. Cenk finds it hard to believe that a leading candidate for the 2016 Presidential nomination can’t go on the record on evolution.” The Young Turks: “Final Judgement: Scott […]

Climate Change

Can Republicans succeed by running on Polluting Planet & New Cold War?

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By Michael T. Klare It’s a ritual long familiar to observers of American politics: presidential hopefuls with limited international experience travel to foreign lands and deliver speeches designed to showcase their grasp of foreign affairs. Typically, such escapades involve trips to major European capitals or active war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan. New Jersey Governor […]

Guns

The Chapel Hill Shootings & the Troubling Growth of Anti-Muslim Intolerance

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By Charles Kurzman | (ISLAMiCommentary) | – People from throughout the Triangle filled the UNC-Chapel Hill Pit Wednesday for the vigil for Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, of Chapel Hill; his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, 21; and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, of Raleigh. They were shot and killed on Tuesday night. Photo Austin Root/UNC General […]

African-Americans

Old White Men Dominate Sunday Political Shows Yet Again

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MediaMatters4America | – [A study of the Sunday political television shows demonstrates that 87% of the single-person interviews are done with white males, and 66% of all interviews are, though white men are only 32% of Americans. Women of color were interviewed 6% of the time, though they’re about a fifth of Americans. White women […]