Yes, Trump is a terrible president and worse, a terrible human being. But that doesn’t mean I will vote for Biden, because that illusion that we are stuck with only two possible choices is a part of what’s wrong with American politics.
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Category: Political
“If it happened once, it can happen again.”
“If it happened once, it can happen again.” – Primo Levi Not all wisdom is feel-good candy. Harsh truths can be the most important truths. The quote in the graphic above expresses one of the most important facts of our […]
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What Owen Jones Almost Gets Right, I Mean Left
Owen Jones is a columnist for The Guardian. His most recent piece, “To move on, Labour must learn lessons from the left’s failure worldwide,” is up to his usual standards but curiously leaves out the obvious conclusion to which his […]
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A Brief Exchange About What Israel Represents
I recently had this exchange with a Jewish friend about Zionism and Israel. In italics is his question/statement and below is my response. This brief exchange in no way solves the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, but it is the type of dialog […]
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Boris And The Home Stretch of The True Brexit Plan
Update on a story originally published on 13 Feb. 2019. The No-Deal Brexit Conspiracy is alive and well. All continues to unfold as planned. First, the earlier article that predicated much of what transpired February to July, then, where we […]
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Sam Pizzigati’s Interesting Proposal On Income Tax Rates
Sam Pizzigati is an author who writes extensively about wealth, taxation, and the struggles of working people. Recently he penned an interesting article for CommonDreams.com, How Progressives Can Fix the Progressive Income Tax. In his latest article, Pizzigati discusses the […]
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Dr. Cornel West on Justice
Dr. Cornel West on Justice Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public. – Dr. Cornel West African-Americans have been fighting for justice for a long, long time. Dr. West is one of the champions. I have […]
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Assata Shakur on Freedom
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has gotten their freedom, by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
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Gabriel García Márquez on War
Gabriel García Márquez on War “It is easier to start a war than to end it.” – Gabriel García Márquez . Born in Columbia in 1927, Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez grew up aware of the tradition of […]
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Freedom of Speech – what it means Freedom of speech means freedom to say whatever you want; it does not mean freedom from having to face the consequences of what you say. What you write or say comes with consequences. […]
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