Obama
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Learning the Difference between Neo-Liberalism and Progressivism in the Poverty Nation
There is a big difference to be made between the progressivism that once was the hall-mark of left-wing politics and the left-leaning wing of neo-liberalism. This article, focusing on how corporations–and I would add many colleges & universities–make use of… Continue reading
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Restore Honor and Pardon Edward Snowden | The Nation
…Julian Assange, no stranger to unrequited integrity, nailed it. “Today, the president of the United States validated Edward Snowden’s role as a whistleblower by announcing plans to reform America’s global surveillance program,” the WikiLeaks founder said in a statement posted… Continue reading
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This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is Gas Land
The Obama Administration has proposed new regulations for hydraulic fracturing on 756 million acres of public and tribal lands. The rules were written by the drilling industry and will be streamlined into effect by a new intergovernmental task force, established… Continue reading
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Lookout: Extreme Profiling
It should be clear to folks by now this was not a vendetta against Tea Baggers and those who rant & rave against Obama and/or Obamacare. This is just another form of surveillance by profiling. Obviously we should think of… Continue reading
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There is no fiscal crisis. And macroeconomics is not a morality play.
Nice overview of how things stand vis. the “fiscal cliff.” The Puritanism that surrounds how most people talk about debt–esp. government debt–really irritates and shows the lasting influence of Christian dogmatism on our sociocultural situation. Sometimes I cannot tell if… Continue reading
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Demographic Maps @ Patchwork Nation
Super nice demographic maps on this site. Very well worth the time & effort to study them. As the votes from the 2012 election have trickled in, the size of President Obama’s victory has grown – it’s now more than… Continue reading
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5 glaring contradictions that sank the GOP – Salon.com
What Obama’s win, alongside surging Democratic senators, disrupted was the dubious marriage between billionaires dying to own the government and fundamentalists dying to institutionalize universal morality. This election exploded Reaganite propaganda that “big government” is the problem by spotlighting the… Continue reading
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