US politics

Lester Holt | (NBC News video report) | – – “Hillary Clinton is trailing far behind Bernie Sanders amongst young women — a paradigm that appears to be a surprise to the Clintons in the 2016 election.” Polls Show Young Women Flocking to Sanders in New Hampshire | NBC Nightly News

African-Americans

Beyonce angers US Right by bringing up African-American Rights at Superbowl

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TeleSur | – – Beyonce and her powerhouse backup dancers are facing threats of a boycott for speaking out against police brutality. Social media has been awash with both criticism and praise for Beyonce’s halftime show at the Super Bowl Sunday. Critiques of the U.S. policing system and support for the Black Lives Matter movement […]

Republican Party

Would Trump or Cruz be worst President ever? & Why Jimmy Carter’s Answer will Surprise you

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By Ana Kasparian & John Iadarola | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Who would be worse for America as President, Donald Trump or Ted Cruz? Former President Jimmy Carter weighed in on the question of Trump vs Cruz. Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola (ThinkTank), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it […]

Militarization

After 14 Years it sinks in: Maybe US is just not Good at Asian Counter-Insurgency

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By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Here’s my twenty-first-century rule of thumb about this country: if you have to say it over and over, it probably ain’t so. Which is why I’d think twice every time we’re told how “exceptional” or “indispensable” the United States is. For someone like me who can still […]

Republican Party

Parable of the Elephant (GOP Pathologies)

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Paul Jamiol | ( Jamiol’s World Cartoon ) | – – Via Jamiol’s World . Wikipedia notes: “Rumi, the 13th Century Persian poet and teacher of Sufism, included it in his Masnavi. In his retelling, “The Elephant in the Dark”, some Hindus bring an elephant to be exhibited in a dark room. A number of […]

Featured

5 Worst Foreign Policy Moments of GOP New Hampshire Debate

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The New Hampshire GOP debate’s most charged moments were probably more domestic, as with Chris Christie putting Marco Rubio in his place as not having actually done anything and as overly reliant on his single script. But inevitably with this gang, war, torture and sundry mayhem […]

Torture

As GOP Candidates pledge return of Torture, Pentagon forced to release Bush-era Abuse Photos

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By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) ‘What the photos that the government has suppressed would show is that abuse was so widespread that it could only have resulted from policy or a climate calculated to foster abuse.’ The record-dump was the result of a Freedom of Information Act request and nearly 12 years of […]

Bernie Sanders

Who Won the 2/4 Democratic Debate, Sanders or Clinton?

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Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola & Jimmy Dore | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “Between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton who was the biggest winner of the Democratic Debate on MSNBC? The Young Turks panel of Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola (ThinkTank), and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show) break it down.” The Young Turks: […]

Plutocracy

Rubio wants to give each millionaire $220K by Eliminating Taxes on Stock Earnings

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Chuck Collins | Inequality.org | – – Bad tax policy ideas never die, they just get recycled. The latest retread is GOP candidate Marco Rubio’s proposal to entirely eliminate taxes on capital gains income. A preferential tax rate on capital gains has always been a staple of GOP tax policy. But only the brazen few […]