Many folks on the Vine are comfortable with the claim that the likely Republican candidate will be working hard and furiously for the 1%. It doesn't take a lot to realize that the same is also true of the Obama Administration. While one can make excuses for Obama, t …
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It's official; George W Bush is a war criminal. In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were yesterday (Fri) found guilty of war crimes. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld an …
Continued U.S. military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan and Obama's failure to close Guantanamo Bay in the face of vehement congressional opposition have dashed European support for Obama. In Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Barack …
"The Hunger Games" portrays a society in which the privileged classes alleviate their boredom through satiating their lust for violent entertainment. In a very disturbing opening scene, the audience observes children killing each other within a visual framing that is as gr …
Who will be the Third Party candidate of the 99%? I have been suggesting Rocky Anderson, but the seed here undermines the likelihood of that possibility. The other viable choice seems to be Jill Stein of the Green Party. Ralph Nader is conflicted; Rocky seems much more …
Why should the US in particular be prone to such attacks? They are far more frequent in America than elsewhere in the world (though appalling atrocities have occurred in Russia, Israel and a number of European countries). One factor, for many, defines America is access to gun …
"If it becomes known that you worked for the Americans, and you receive a death threat ... if you go to the US embassy, which, you know, just recently announced it's cutting its entire staff in half, and you tell them that you need help, you're running for you're life, they'll …
"This is the guidebook to getting false confessions, a system drawn specifically from the communist interrogation model that was used to generate propaganda rather than intelligence," Air Force Col. Steven Kleinman, a career military intelligence officer recognized as one of …
US officials "sexed up" Mr Janabi's drawings of mobile biological weapons labs to make them more presentable.
You walk into a store and see someone holding up the cashier. What do you do? If you're Zack Thome, an Iraq vet and someone who has trained in MMA, you slap a rear naked choke on the offender and choke him out.
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