What we have witnessed in the 21st century is a clear decision by political elites and the private interests that control them that gratuitous wars are more important than the elderly. In the budget deliberations it is not the trillion dollar annual budgets of the military/security complex that are seen as excessive. Instead, the focus is on cutting the sparse benefits for the elderly.
A 'state of the union' overview, a union conceived in violence and now ending in violence. It is the nature of the militarized economy and culture of the supposedly indispensable nation.
By Karl Wilson
Republican Spin: Impressive, Isn't It?
You've got to hand it to Republican Party operatives. After more than 30 years of constant effort, conservatives within the party, media, the judiciary, and in the corporate world, have managed to turn upside down much of what the public thought it knew about government, unions, taxes, and even teachers.
Republican Spin: Impressive, Isn't It?
You've got to hand it to Republican Party operatives. After more than 30 years of constant effort, conservatives within the party, media, the judiciary, and in the corporate world, have managed to turn upside down much of what the public thought it knew about government, unions, taxes, and even teachers.
On Tuesday, November 10, I was invited to discuss China's agricultural policy in a seminar arranged with some professors at Wuhan. About 40 graduate students showed up, most of whom spoke English although the discussion was mainly in Chinese.
Thanks to a leak, we get a preview of how really bad the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is. The text of the treaty had been kept from the public during two years of closed-door negotiations, and now we know why: It does not reflect any of the changes that Obama promised as a candidate. It's more Bush-era same-old, same-old.
If the insurers are successful with continuing to elect pro-repeal politicians using secret cash, it's likely we will continue to live in a country where up to 45,000 people die every year due to lack of insurance, and millions lose coverage due to so-called pre-existing conditions and other denials of care.
Earlier this year, U.S. news outlets began revising their false boilerplate that the United States believed Iran was building a nuclear bomb. They grudgingly recognized that U.S. intelligence didn't believe that. But now there are signs of backsliding.
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