In this Washington Post piece about their Orwellian task master Jeff Bezos and Amazon’s growing dominance over whathaveyou, the reporter refers offhand to America as a “nominally free” society.
Sounds right.
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Ban on Assault Weapon Sales Dies in Virginia Senate Committee
Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
Features our friends Stephen Zunes, Matthew Hoh, Lawrence Wilkerson, Mark Weisbrot,
Poison Idea – Religion and Politics
USA: Israel’s Big Stupid Donkey
“If it is possible to recruit the most powerful country in the world onto our side, why should we fight alone?” PM Netanyahu asked. “If I can harness a world power against Iran — which aims to annihilate us — why not?”
Cops Kill Lady
“Window Into Hell”: Mother of Five Dies After Four Days in Solitary Confinement
She was not charged with any crime. Just murdered.
But don’t worry about the state of the country needing your attention or anything. This particular individual in jail is of no direct relation to you and the fact that cops in America kill people every single day with no exceptions ever is just the way it is.
Year Zero 98: Isms and Regulatory Capture
In episode 98 Tommy takes on the idea that any one ism should be argued as superior over another. When people argue capitalism v socialism v communism v progressivism v fascism they are forgetting that they are arguing in favor of forced integration or forced segragation. In a society founded on liberty people would be able to choose the ism that best fits them and the coercion that enforces and props up their preferred ism would be null and void.
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“Ex Parte” Judicial Rigor
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