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19 hours ago ago from One Citizen Speaking...

It’s a simple question: Is the current President of the United States trustworthy, willing and able to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America and is he an honest broker when it comes to the defense of our nation? While it is inconceivable that any President of the United States would act on behalf of international interests and the interests of sovereign nations other than the United States, never before in the history ...

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1 day ago ago from MyDD :: Direct Democracy for People-Powered Politics

Home Diaries Breaking Blue E-Wire 2008 The Forgotten Reason Behind Bush's Unpopularity by Inoljt , Sat Dec 19, 2009 at 08:41:41 PM EST By: Inoljt, http://mypolitikal.com/ Memory fades quickly in politics; less than a year ago George W. Bush was president, and already the man is halfway forgotten (something due in no small part to Bush's self-enforced media silence). Many, of course, remember that former President George ...

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Letting the Beast Out of the (Corporatist) Bottle: Obama Channels Bush on Bioweapons

10 hours ago ago from Uncommon Thought Journal

By Tom Burghardt of Anti-fascist Calling The Obama administration's recent declaration on bioweapons would simply be another run-of-the-mill example of our "change" president's duplicity were it not such an unmitigated disaster. Recapitulating sinister Cold War practices that informed American ruling class consensus when it came to secretly toying with nature's most deadly pathogens, (a) because they could , (b) because it was, and is, ...

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Cheney "Got In The President"s Face" Over Libby Pardon: "He Just Wouldn"t Give It Up"

22 hours ago ago from Economy News, Continent Economy

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Testing the New Union President: In a Trial By Fire Can a New Teacher Union President Turn Crisis into Opportunity?

3 hours ago ago from Ed In The Apple

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Thomas de Zengotita: Hollywood Politics: Up in the Air

43 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post

I feel so ambivalent about the way Hollywood packages progressive messages--messages I agree with, in substance. But the way they do it; it's like a symptom of a basic problem. The obvious cases are movies about the war in Iraq, from In the Valley of Elah to The Hurt Locker . Opposition to the war saturates the atmosphere of these films, but it's not explicit. The focus is on the personal price that's paid--as if the war were a condition of ...

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