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Discard & Destroy: Walmart, H&M etc.

This week, it was revealed that retail giant Walmart and H&M took capitalist greed  to a new level by slashing and burning what they could not sell. For these pillars of capitalism, instead of taking unsold items to sample sales or donating them to people in need (and there are many, especially in these...
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Another Intelligence Screw Up

“We will not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don’t hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust. That is exactly what our adversaries want, and so long as I am president, we will...
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Fifth Columninsts: Republican Opposition and National Security

For all intent and purpose, it is safe to say that as long as Obama is president, he can rule out any contributions from most of the leadership of the Republican Party.  I will actually go further and say it right now, that the Republican Party and its supporters are Fifth Columnist who are...
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Save Their Families, Destroy Yours

Did you hear about the American soldier who got thrown in jail because she missed her deployment plane to go save families and people in other countries? Yes, she got jailed because she could not find someone to take care of her ten-month old son and missed the plane! While she was being asked...
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The Party of “NO”?

It's just over a year since President Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential elections. A full year, you would assume, for the Republican Party to lick its wounds, put country first and help the new president get the country up and running as it tries to recover from...the worst recession in many decades.
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Foreign Aid and The Mirage Of Poverty Eradication

The reality of aid… is that it continues to fail to promote human development for the eradication of poverty based on the core values of human rights, democracy, gender equality and environmental sustainability. This is despite the appearance of progress in the form of high-profile debt cancellations, new aid pledges, and the signing of the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness – Caterina Amicucci
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Guantanamo and the New Imperialism

So the United States wants to close down the “tainted” gulag called Guantanamo Bay Prisons but the ruling elite represented by the American congress does not want any of the prisoners “on our soil”. Let’s get the difficult question out of the way: if the U.S., who snatched these individuals from various corners of...
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Obama’s Holiday Greetings

President-Elect today sent the following greetings to Americans: Good morning. This week, Americans are gathering with family and friends across the country to celebrate the blessings of Christmas and the holiday season. As we celebrate this joyous time of year, our thoughts turn to the brave men and women who serve our country far from home....
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The Media’s Job

It goes without saying, the media is annoying. It is the media’s job to be annoying. – Campbell Brown Is it really true that, as Campbell Brown asserts, it is the media’s job to be annoying? I find that particularly hard to swallow unless Ms. Brown is trying to make a pitiful excuse for the...
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