No presidential debate on fundamental issues
Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger
09/24/12
The real shame of the Obama-Romney race will be the lack of debate on the fundamental issues facing our nation. Alas, the sad reality is that we have got a race between two statists who are battling over which one of them will make the better leader of a statist system...
http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-09-24.asp
Facts vs. American dream
Orange County Register
by Robert Samuelson
09/21/12
It s time to retire the American dream, or at least give it a long vacation. We ought to drop it from our national conversation. This would be a hardship for politicians and pundits, who use 'the American dream' as a rhetorical workhorse embodying goals embraced by almost all Americans. That s the problem. The American Dream has become so expansive in its meaning that it stifles honest debate and harms some of the very people it is intended to help. Who can oppose the American dream? No one. It captures our faith in progress, opportunity and striving. It reflects hopes for a large and stable middle class...
http://tinyurl.com/9uczwgg
American militarism
CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff
09/24/12
There is a massive deception campaign in the US, and in its global propaganda, which seeks to portray the United States as a poor set-upon nation that would like world peace but just has to keep a military stationed around the globe to 'police' all the world's 'trouble spots.' In fact, nothing could be further from the truth...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/24/american-militarism/
The hollow empire
Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo
09/24/12
If the US is an empire, as anti-interventionists (and the more honest interventionists) describe it, then it is a hollow one. Our much-vaunted military might is a myth. We haven t won a war in over sixty years: what is supposedly the mightiest war-making machine on earth has been out-fought and out-maneuvered by a rag-tag bunch of Taliban bandits and two-bit local warlords...
http://bit.ly/OWkwtg
The hubris of Romney and Obama
Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman
09/27/12
Mitt Romney, whose bid to unseat Barack Obama looks more desperate every day, senses he s found a weakness in his rival. In a foreign-policy speech the other day, he blasted Obama over the upheaval in the Arab world, saying, 'This is a time for a president who will shape events in the Middle East'...
http://www.fff.org/comment/com1209t.asp
The waning of American power in the Middle East
CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn
10/01/12
Are the days of American predominance in the Middle East coming to an end or is US influence simply taking a new shape? How far is Washington, after refusing to try to keep Hosni Mubarak in power in Egypt, facing the same situation as the Soviet Union in 1989, when the police states it had sustained in Eastern Europe were allowed to collapse?
http://tinyurl.com/9kh3oj9
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
American Elections Are Crooked
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/09/25/310-american-elections-are-crooked/
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Over 20 Million Adults Now Living With Their Parents; Massive Increase Since 2007
The number of 26-year-olds living with parents has jumped almost 46 percent since 2007, according to Census Bureau data compiled by the University of Minnesota Population Center. Last year, the number of 18- to 30-year-olds living with their parents grew to 20.7 million, a 3.9 percent gain from 2010
http://is.gd/fqjsvK
From Information Clearing House
--------
Is There Any Such Thing as Progressive US Foreign Policy in the Middle East?
Maryam Jamshidi, Truthout: The Obama administration s Mideast foreign policy has not been as progressive as promised. The US progressive movement must reconcile positions on US foreign policy that often support US imperial projects abroad with its push for social justice at home.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11803-is-there-any-such-thing-as-progressive-us-foreign-policy-in-the-middle-east
How Hollywood Helps to Obscure the Ugly Truth about American Militarism
Jeff Nall, Truthout: While Hollywood invariably depicts the US and its military as the good guys (or loses access to Pentagon cooperation), the US arms nations with highly questionable commitments to democracy and human rights, like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12392-will-the-real-destro-please-stand-up-how-hollywood-helps-to-obscure-the-ugly-truth-about-american-militarism
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A Guide to the Presidential Debates You Won t Hear
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/01-3
President Obama Get Tough on Corporate Welfare
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/12-9
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'Everything Will Collapse'
http://lewrockwell.com/faber/faber143.html
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=imperial
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=collapse
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=2012+election
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Romney
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bipartisan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=the+American+Dream
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=human+rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=hubris
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=upheaval
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mideast
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Arab+world
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Saudi+Arabia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bahrain
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=militaris
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=interven
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hollywood
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Taliban
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=warlords
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=police+state
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=middle+class
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=deception
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=propaganda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=social+justice
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Samuelson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/lewrockwell-show
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Maryam+Jamshidi
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mattea+Kramer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/faber
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jeff+Nall
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ralph+Nader
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by Jacob G. Hornberger
09/24/12
The real shame of the Obama-Romney race will be the lack of debate on the fundamental issues facing our nation. Alas, the sad reality is that we have got a race between two statists who are battling over which one of them will make the better leader of a statist system...
http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-09-24.asp
Facts vs. American dream
Orange County Register
by Robert Samuelson
09/21/12
It s time to retire the American dream, or at least give it a long vacation. We ought to drop it from our national conversation. This would be a hardship for politicians and pundits, who use 'the American dream' as a rhetorical workhorse embodying goals embraced by almost all Americans. That s the problem. The American Dream has become so expansive in its meaning that it stifles honest debate and harms some of the very people it is intended to help. Who can oppose the American dream? No one. It captures our faith in progress, opportunity and striving. It reflects hopes for a large and stable middle class...
http://tinyurl.com/9uczwgg
American militarism
CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff
09/24/12
There is a massive deception campaign in the US, and in its global propaganda, which seeks to portray the United States as a poor set-upon nation that would like world peace but just has to keep a military stationed around the globe to 'police' all the world's 'trouble spots.' In fact, nothing could be further from the truth...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/24/american-militarism/
The hollow empire
Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo
09/24/12
If the US is an empire, as anti-interventionists (and the more honest interventionists) describe it, then it is a hollow one. Our much-vaunted military might is a myth. We haven t won a war in over sixty years: what is supposedly the mightiest war-making machine on earth has been out-fought and out-maneuvered by a rag-tag bunch of Taliban bandits and two-bit local warlords...
http://bit.ly/OWkwtg
The hubris of Romney and Obama
Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman
09/27/12
Mitt Romney, whose bid to unseat Barack Obama looks more desperate every day, senses he s found a weakness in his rival. In a foreign-policy speech the other day, he blasted Obama over the upheaval in the Arab world, saying, 'This is a time for a president who will shape events in the Middle East'...
http://www.fff.org/comment/com1209t.asp
The waning of American power in the Middle East
CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn
10/01/12
Are the days of American predominance in the Middle East coming to an end or is US influence simply taking a new shape? How far is Washington, after refusing to try to keep Hosni Mubarak in power in Egypt, facing the same situation as the Soviet Union in 1989, when the police states it had sustained in Eastern Europe were allowed to collapse?
http://tinyurl.com/9kh3oj9
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
American Elections Are Crooked
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/09/25/310-american-elections-are-crooked/
--------
Over 20 Million Adults Now Living With Their Parents; Massive Increase Since 2007
The number of 26-year-olds living with parents has jumped almost 46 percent since 2007, according to Census Bureau data compiled by the University of Minnesota Population Center. Last year, the number of 18- to 30-year-olds living with their parents grew to 20.7 million, a 3.9 percent gain from 2010
http://is.gd/fqjsvK
From Information Clearing House
--------
Is There Any Such Thing as Progressive US Foreign Policy in the Middle East?
Maryam Jamshidi, Truthout: The Obama administration s Mideast foreign policy has not been as progressive as promised. The US progressive movement must reconcile positions on US foreign policy that often support US imperial projects abroad with its push for social justice at home.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11803-is-there-any-such-thing-as-progressive-us-foreign-policy-in-the-middle-east
How Hollywood Helps to Obscure the Ugly Truth about American Militarism
Jeff Nall, Truthout: While Hollywood invariably depicts the US and its military as the good guys (or loses access to Pentagon cooperation), the US arms nations with highly questionable commitments to democracy and human rights, like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12392-will-the-real-destro-please-stand-up-how-hollywood-helps-to-obscure-the-ugly-truth-about-american-militarism
--------
A Guide to the Presidential Debates You Won t Hear
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/01-3
President Obama Get Tough on Corporate Welfare
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/12-9
--------
'Everything Will Collapse'
http://lewrockwell.com/faber/faber143.html
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=imperial
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=collapse
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=2012+election
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Romney
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bipartisan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=the+American+Dream
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=human+rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=hubris
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=upheaval
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mideast
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Arab+world
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Saudi+Arabia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Bahrain
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=militaris
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=interven
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Hollywood
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Taliban
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=warlords
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=police+state
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=middle+class
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=deception
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=propaganda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=social+justice
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Samuelson
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/lewrockwell-show
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Maryam+Jamshidi
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mattea+Kramer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=com/faber
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jeff+Nall
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ralph+Nader
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