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It seems that the main reason US folks reflexively dislike Venezuela is because it nationalized an oil company. That was…
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Getting that separation of church and state thingy right, the US founding fathers were hardly enlightened as only propertied men…
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At least ten injured at Simi Valley fireworks display mishap.
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Told ya.  Not because I'm prescient but because I took the time to consider the situation in Afghanistan, remember our…
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A people's coup?  Or The Egyptian Revolution 2.0? KSA might be sweating a  bit over this after the success of…
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That's so pre-9/11.  Plus Clapper isn't a woman and his lies have nothing to do with sex.
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Sort of absolves the President (that through the CIA, deploying troops without a declaration of war and the AEC) and…
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Not as long as the US remains #1 in the might makes right contest can we be a rogue state.…
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True: Just for starters, the lawyers on both sides of the case are full of shit. That's their job...to lie…
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That would seem redundant as the military exists by virtue of Congress' control of the purse.  Interesting though that Ike…
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Will add responses from international law experts as they become available.
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Universities no longer even pretend that the original term was "military-academic-industrial complex."  But with so many private intel companies sucking…
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...he will undoubtedly go along with the usual ploy of blaming the Palestinians for missing another opportunity, this one closing…
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Welfare "reform" energy dereg (direct line from that to Enron, etc.) telecom dereg (Murdoch and Faux "news" appreciated that) capital…
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Per his will, his slaves were to be freed at Martha's death.  (She either honored his bequest by freeing them…
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Well, at least he's consistent in his opinion of whistleblowers: ...But their motives are far from patriotic.   Rather, these…
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Effective AIDS meds weren't available early in Mandela's term of office and once they came to market they were expensive…
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A good rule of thumb is always to get primary source material whenever possible and form one's own impressions.  …
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There were black slave-owners in the US, but there were also men like John Adams that never owned slaves and…
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As Naomi Klein details in The Shock Doctrine, Mandela also had to accept the onerous economic conditions that the prior…
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