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The Media As Enablers of Government Lies | James Bovard »
Posted by: tadair919 1 week, 2 days ago in Political Opinion
Why do politicians so easily get away with telling lies? In large part, because the news media are more interested in bonding with politicians than ...
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Vermont: The First Populist Republic »
Posted by: populist 10 months ago in Political News
Few Americans are aware that Vermont, the fourteenth state admitted to the Union in 1791, was not a colony like the others; it was a ...
(read more)Read (62) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at populistamerica.com
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China's War on Google »
Posted by: Progressive 5 months ago in Political Opinion
In the wake of an Iranian uprising broadcast to the world through YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, the acquiescence of American search engines to Chinese censorship ...
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NY Foreign Policy Examiner: Egypt: Bloggers look to Obama for change in their own country »
Posted by: Sasha56 8 months, 1 week ago in Political News
President Obama has inspired many in the world with his rhetoric of change and hope. In the Middle East, Egypt is ruled by Hosni Mubarak ...
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Chinese 103-Year-Old Wall Street Emigrant Sees End of Communism - Bloomberg.com »
Posted by: gunnyreef 1 month, 3 weeks ago in News
Zhou Youguang was a child of 6 when a revolution toppled China’s last emperor in 1912. He was 43 when he says he left ...
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Medvedev Promises to Bring Democracy to Regions | News | The Moscow Times »
Posted by: calitennflo 1 week, 3 days ago in Political News
But the president, speaking during his second annual state-of-the-nation address, also warned the opposition not to use democracy as a cover to “destabilize the state ...
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Keeping the Faith on Obama Day »
Posted by: HOUSEMD 10 months, 1 week ago in News
Somewhere out there in the fruited plains of America are 59,934,786 million souls, many of whom must be down on this day of ...
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Breaking out of the Partition Straightjacket in Palestine »
Posted by: hyperbola 2 months ago in Religion
The desperate and desultory New York "summit" among Barack Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas and the evident capitulation of Obama to Israeli defiance of ...
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Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy »
Posted by: Neophile 10 months ago in Science & Technology
When Barack Obama proclaimed during his Inaugural Address that he would “restore science to its rightful place,” you could feel a dark cloud lifting like ...
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SORRY, SNOBS: TOWN-HALL RAGE IS REAL DEMOCRACY - New York Post »
Posted by: Tasine 3 months, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
THE best moment of almost every YouTube video of the raucous town-hall meetings on health care is the same: It's the nonplussed look on ...
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The Bubble That Must Burst »
Posted by: populist 8 months ago in Political News
But like all bubbles it cannot go on forever, because it is based on greed and gain extracted from other persons against their wills. It ...
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Baucus v. Democracy »
Posted by: rumple4skin 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Health & Fitness
"Does Senator Baucus have his head screwed on wrong, or what? Does he not know that the majority of Americans want single-payer? Now I don ...
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The More Things"Change"... »
Posted by: hyperbola 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Let’s start with the two political parties that supposedly “run” this country. The truth is that political parties don’t run this country, money ...
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Republic vs Democracy »
Posted by: populist 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
An awful lot of people who generally argue for freedom against statism take up the argument that America is actually a republic and not a ...
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Estonians plan to create virtual 'happiness bank' »
Posted by: ELISHEVA1 8 months, 1 week ago in News
"The main aim of the project... is to use modern technology to create a 'democracy machine' that will help increase understanding among people, bring the ...
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