It’s telling that we have reached a point where only hyper-partisans are speaking up and attempting to make a “big deal” out of the fact that an election is happening and businesses are boarding their windows and doors in areas where a sizable portion of the...
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News Roundup 11/2/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 2, 2020 | News Roundup
US News A planned Wisconsin Foxconn factory, championed by Trump, has failed to produce the jobs it promised after receiving billions in subsidies. [Link] Trump approved the sale of F-22s to Israel. [Link] Legendary journalist Robert Fisk passed away at 74. [Link]...
The False Dichotomy of Voting
by Kollin Fields | Nov 2, 2020 | Featured Articles, Politics
A false dichotomy is when one is presented with two options as if those were the only options. American presidential elections present voters with a false dichotomy. This election, we are led to believe that Donald Trump and Joe Biden are the only real options for the...
The American People’s Justified Cynicism
by Jim Bovard | Nov 2, 2020 | Featured Articles, Politics
“The biggest threat to our democracy is cynicism,” declared former president Barack Obama two years ago. But as we enter the final days of another demagoguery-drenched presidential campaign, it is time to give cynicism the credit it deserves. In an era of clueless...
USA Police Training: ‘Be a Ruthless Killer’
by Scott Horton | Nov 1, 2020 | Blog
NYT: Kentucky Police Training Quoted Hitler and Urged ‘Ruthless’ Violence "Because the courts have ruled that government employees can never be held accountable for crimes you commit, so who cares?" was just implied, I guess. A slide show once shown to cadets training...
10/31/20 Nicolas Davies: Bolivia Repudiates Yet Another Western Coup Attempt
by Scott Horton | Nov 1, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Nicolas Davies joins the show for an update on the situation in Bolivia, where President Evo Morales was forced to flee the country last year after allegations that his party fixed the elections to give him another term. Davies argues that the elections probably were...
10/30/20 Matt Taibbi on Tech Censorship, Glenn Greenwald and the Hunter Biden Laptop Story
by Scott Horton | Nov 1, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Matt Taibbi discusses the controversial new developments surrounding possible corruption in the Biden family. Taibbi takes us back to the original controversy of Biden's supposed pressure on the Ukrainian government to dismiss prosecutor Viktor Shokin when Biden was...
On Tuesday, Antiwar Voters Might Decide the Presidential Election
by Hunter DeRensis | Nov 1, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
On Monday [two weeks ago], on the 19th anniversary of U.S. soldiers hitting the ground in Afghanistan, dozens of people gathered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, with the goal of ensuring that our men and women in uniform won’t be in Afghanistan for another anniversary....
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There’s No Free World
The late great economist Peter Bauer used to say there is no "Third World," i.e., no sharp line dividing developed from undeveloped countries. Rather, there is a development spectrum along which countries sit. Mutatis mutandis, there is no "Free World." So stop...
There's No Free World
The late great economist Peter Bauer used to say there is no "Third World," i.e., no sharp line dividing developed from undeveloped countries. Rather, there is a development spectrum along which countries sit. Mutatis mutandis, there is no "Free World." So stop...
News Roundup 7/7/17
In 2015, 15% of men aged 21-30 did not work. This is double the number of young men who did not work in 2000. [Link] An Amish farmer has been sentenced to six years in prison for selling herbal health products in defiance of the FDA. [Link] Los Angeles is planning to...
News Roundup 7/6/17
CNN uncovered the maker of a .gif that appeared in a Trump Tweet. In a statement released by CNN on the issue, CNN said it would reveal the identity of the user if he posted more content. [Link] South Dakota will allow people to braid hair without a license. [Link] A...
Iranian-Americans on the 4th of July: Please Don’t Bomb Our Home Country
I can only imagine the pure terror in the hearts of any conservatives who came upon Century Park East last night. Huge crowds of dark-skinned people swarmed around a central stage and a giant veiled object. What could all those Middle Easterners be so excited about?...
Iranian-Americans on the 4th of July: Please Don't Bomb Our Home Country
I can only imagine the pure terror in the hearts of any conservatives who came upon Century Park East last night. Huge crowds of dark-skinned people swarmed around a central stage and a giant veiled object. What could all those Middle Easterners be so excited about?...
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