Category: U.S. Politics
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Is April 17, 2018 Important to the War Hawks?
Reading Time: 3 minutesPreviously I wrote about the occult speech that Christine Lagarde gave in 2014, and about how she provided misleading instructions for the calculation of the dates in her speech. I was thinking about how the starting dates for World Wars I and II happen to add up to the number 7, a number…
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One View of the Escalating Conflict in Syria
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOur one hope may be Putin’s call for an independent investigation on the alleged chemical attack in Syria. https://youtu.be/wHsfc49Y_Fk https://youtu.be/f8HRcISVwYM
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Turner, Gallego, Grijalva, Sanders in Phoenix
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve been trying to get back to the conversation since Donald Trump became our president. I thought the craziness of the election might have discredited the conversation as well as our political participation. I tried several times to address this but I couldn’t get it straight until I attended the Phoenix…
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Another View of the Conflict in Syria
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt turns out the Kurds in Afrin are not the responsibility of the United States. They are the responsibility of Russia. However the United Stated did inflame tensions by announcing the 30,000-strong ‘security force’. According to this video fighting ISIS was the easy part.
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Can We Get a Time-Out in Afrin?
Reading Time: 2 minutesUpdate: 2:28 PM, Jan. 25, 2018 I’ve rethought my tone of voice on this and the previous post. I apologize if it was offensive, I was afraid. In an attempt to be more impartial I’ve added a video below that speaks to the fears of Erdogan and Putin. I owe this change…
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The Low Standard: Pseudo-Intellectualism in Neo-conservative Thought
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the book, When Empire Meets Nationalism,[1]the authors expressed their hope for a ‘intellectual alternative’ to the neo-conservative worldview. The problem with this expression, in my opinion, is not its basic sentiment but its wording. It implies that the neoconservative worldview is intellectual. Whatever else might be said about neoconservative pronouncements, they…
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Do Neo Conservatives Understand Christmas?
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Neo Conservatives have used fundamentalist Christians to increase their popularity. This was necessary because without American Christians they would have had no political base in the United States. In my opinion, it is a problem that the neocons are not Christians. It is a bigger problem that they are Gnostics. Today…
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Movement for a People’s Party
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast week Nick Braña announced the next stage in his effort–the Draft Bernie movement has become the ‘Movement for a People’s Party’. In a recent interview on the Jimmy Dore Show, Braña explained that although progressives have the numbers, they are ‘too atomized’ to be successful at the polls. He hopes…