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SPUSA Presidential Candidate Alexander Comments on Obama “Gaffe”

Posted On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 By Editor. Under Context2012    
spusalogo_1Press Release courtesy of Alexander-Mendoza 2012. Contact media@stewartalexanderforpresident2012.org. Los Angeles, CA – July 26, 2012 – President Obama is facing a massive smear campaign by right wing forces for pointing out the interconnectedness of society and how those with the most are benefitting from society. The Socialist Party USA Presidential ticket of ...

Convincing proof against USAID

Posted On Saturday, July 28, 2012 By Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti. Under Foreign Policy, Politics & Policy    
USAIDJuan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti July 28, 2012 As hard as we try to expose all of the mechanisms of interventionism, these are so diverse that some of them slip through our fingers after we have had the evidence in hand. This is the curious story of how, after more than a year, ...

¿Is U.S. Policy toward Latin America Improving??

Posted On Saturday, July 28, 2012 By Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti. Under Editorial    
Peter Hakim, Xavier Becerra, Sam Farr and Chris Coons Peter Hakim, Xavier Becerra, Sam Farr and Chris Coons Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti July 23, 2012 With the title of Strengthening the Ties Between the United States and Latin America, an event took place in the Capitol of Washington, D.C. on June 20, 2012. The panelists were Senator Chris Coons and Representatives ...

BREAKING–Penn State Trustees Violate State Law (again)

Posted On Thursday, July 26, 2012 By Walter M. Brasch. Under Education, Sports and Games  Tags: Penn State, Penn State Trustees  
s-PENN-STATE-SCANDAL-large300STATE COLLEGE, Pa.--The Penn State Board of Trustees, still sanctimonious in its public moral outrage, continues to violate state law. The Board held a private three hour meeting, Wednesday evening to discuss the NCAA sanctions and the role university president Dr. Rodney Erickson played in accepting the sanctions. Erickson, according ...

Kindle Fire Temp = Fahrenheit 451

Posted On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 By kosmosben. Under Editorial, Media    
or Why I Don’t Own an E-Reader (yet) In the future there will be no need for Ray Bradbury’s book-burning firemen of Fahrenheit 451. The books will simply disappear before our eyes, or – perhaps worse – they will be edited to comply with the approved messages of the masters without ...

Fifty Shades of Bourgeois

Posted On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 By Thad McGregor. Under Arts & Culture, Reviews, Sexuality  Tags: BDSM, Books, Fifty Shades of Grey  
SONY DSCPerhaps we should be happy that twenty million readers worldwide have embraced their inner spanker and/or spankee. Perhaps we should accept that the vessel of truth is, in this case, highly imperfect. Written as a spin-off of Twilight fan fiction, entirely in present tense, with awkward inner monologues and lacking ...

“Nothing is Inevitable” — Muhammad Sahimi on Iran, Nuclear Development, Israel and the U.S.

Posted On Monday, July 23, 2012 By Matt J. Stannard. Under Foreign Policy, Interviews  Tags: Iran, Muhammad Sahimi  
iranMuhammad Sahimi is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and holds the NIOC Chair in petroleum engineering at the University of Southern California. He is also lead political columnist for the website PBS/Frontline/Tehran Bureau. His recent piece, "Intervention Proponents Try to Scuttle Nuclear Talks with Iran," takes media figures ...

Dialogue for Democracy: Virginia Needs to Stay Blue

Posted On Sunday, July 22, 2012 By Elaine Marie. Under Context2012  Tags: Democratic Party, Dialogue for Democracy, Green Party, Jill Stein, Obama, Virginia  
democracyI want a world where everyone has enough food, adequate housing, decent health care, feels personally safe, and receives a high-quality education. I want my government to play a role in providing that and as anyone can see, my government has let me down. Despite being reminded by campaigning democrats that ...

FSP among four contenders for Peace and Freedom Party nod

Posted On Saturday, July 21, 2012 By Editor. Under Context2012    
Clockwise from bottom left: Rocky Anderson, Peta Lindsay, Stephen Durham, Stewart Alexander. Background: May Day 2012, Fresno, Calif. Background photo by Mike Rhodes. Clockwise from bottom left: Rocky Anderson, Peta Lindsay, Stephen Durham, Stewart Alexander. Background: May Day 2012, Fresno, Calif. Background photo by Mike Rhodes. Yolanda Alaniz of the Freedom Socialist Party sent us the following press release:  The Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) campaign of Stephen Durham for president and Christina López for ...

Introducing Dialogue for Democracy: Democrats, Libertarians, and Alternative Left Parties Talking It Out

Posted On Saturday, July 21, 2012 By Editor. Under Context2012    
democracyEvery election year, animosity between Democrats and activists to the left of the Democratic Party greatly intensifies. In 2012, this animosity is supercharged due to the unprecedentedly stupid and myopic attacks on Barack Obama from the right, the lingering and systemic economic crisis, and controversial decisions by Obama concerning national ...
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