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Chris Britt | GOP Snake Oil / www.usnews.com

Sat, 05/18/2013 - 13:50 — Dave Culver


 
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Guatemala's Ríos Montt Genocide Conviction

Sat, 05/18/2013 - 13:24 — Dave Culver

  • Omen For US Presidents And Their Hired Assassins
  • US Guilty of Genocide in Guatemala Should be Real Headline

 

Jay Janson, Countercurrents.org

 

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May, 2013 | Presiding Judge, "he knew about everything that was going on and he did not stop it, despite having the power to stop it from being carried out."  US President Ronald Reagan also had the power, greater power, to stop the massacres being perpetrated by dictator General and President Ríos Montt.   Instead visited him in Guatemala City and praised Rios Montt as “a man of great personal integrity and commitment. Who was more guilty?

 

José Efraín Ríos Montt began the his political and military career as a young officer taking part in the bloody successful CIA-organized coup against the first democratically elected president in Guatemalan history that was ordered by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954. Two years earlier he had attended what peace activists call, the 'US School for Assassins,' namely, the long infamous School of the Americas.  He ended his career a few days ago, convicted of genocide by the Guatemalan court he once controlled as president and dictator. 

 

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US Guilty of Genocide in Guatemala Should be Real Headline, Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report

  • Now that former Guatemalan president Efrain Rios Montt has been convicted of genocide, it’s time for the “hegemonic puppeteer,” the United States, to be put on trial
  • “If Efrain Rios Montt, and by extension the Guatemalan military, are guilty of the crime of genocide, the U.S. government and its officials are just as guilty.”
  • Federal Judge Orders Release Of Names Of SOA/ WHINSEC Graduates
 
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MD Gov. Deval Patrick | Gay Marriage and the Right to Be Ordinary

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 17:04 — Dave Culver

 

"Nine years ago Friday, same-sex marriages started happening in Massachusetts, and the time since then has proved wonderfully unremarkable. The sky has not fallen. The earth has not opened to swallow us up." 

 

Gov. Deval Patrick, Washington (DC) Post

 

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Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signing H.3810, 'An Act Relative To Gender Identity,' in the Senate Reading Room at the State House on Thursday. (photo: Eric Haynes/Governor's Office)

May 16, 2013 | I had an uncle whose second or third wife nobody in my family liked. I don’t really know why, and I didn’t have an opinion of my own. Yet no one uttered a contrary word in their presence. We may have been poor folk on the South Side of Chicago, but we had a Victorian sense of decorum. It was generally understood both that my family disapproved and that my uncle and aunt’s marriage was nobody’s business but their own.

 

When I was 10, around the same time I was coming to understand my family’s attitude toward my uncle’s marriage, the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional to prohibit blacks and whites from marrying. Now, that seems like another world ago. Interracial marriages are common today. Loving v. Virginia marked a seismic cultural shift. Yet what applied to my uncle’s marriage made sense here, too. Some things are private matters, nobody else’s business.

 

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The IRS Was Dead Right To Scrutinize Tea Party

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 20:13 — Dave Culver

  • This scandal does not stem from the IRS actually levying action that contravenes the law. It's simply about whom the IRS decided to scrutinize. And the IRS had abundant reason to look carefully at the applications for tax exempt status sent in by people who are prone to portray taxes as something as base as slavery.
  • Obama Did It for the Money

Peter S. Goodman, Huffington Post

 

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Walt Handelsman 

 

05/15/2013 | Lost in the latest political scandal is a simple fact: The Internal Revenue Service was acting in the public interest when it opted to train its auditing power on the Tea Party and affiliated groups.

 

In castigating government as the root of all evil while portraying taxation as a form of tyranny, the Tea Party is no less than a mass celebration of the evasion of the basic responsibilities of American citizenship. Common sense alone tells you that people drawn to its ranks may feel extra temptation to find ways to limit what they surrender to the rogue federal bureaucrats who have supposedly seized the nation.

 

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Obama Did It for the Money, Robert Scheer, Truthdig

  • The president has chosen to fill two key Cabinet positions dealing with business practices with people who specialized in financial rip-offs.
  • Robert Scheer on Penny Pritzker
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John Darkow | Held Captive / media.cagle.com

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 10:12 — Dave Culver

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Obama’s forgotten agenda

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 10:02 — Dave Culver

  • He talked about urgent action on minimum wage and climate at the start of this term. A few months later: Nada
  • Obama Did It for the Money

Alex Seitz-Wald, Salon

Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address, Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. (Credit: AP/Charles Dharapak)

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 | Two months ago this week, an emboldened President Obama laid out an ambitious agenda for a second term in his State of the Union address. Congress and the media have been consumed by important debates over a small array of those issues like gun control, immigration reform and the budget (which he’ll unveil today). But other items critical to the progressive agenda of his second term — especially raising the minimum wage and addressing climate change — have largely fallen out of view.

And while it’s still just a few months in, a look at these important but overshadowed goals, as he outlines his budget, does not suggest much progress — or urgency.

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Obama Did It for the Money, Robert Scheer, Truthdig

  • The president has chosen to fill two key Cabinet positions dealing with business practices with people who specialized in financial rip-offs.
  • Robert Scheer on Penny Pritzker

 

 
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