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Today is 9/11, the event that first brought America together and then was cynically exploited by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to have a war against Iraq, following their illegal invasion of Afghanistan just a bit more than a year earlier. Yet the...
by thomhartmann
on Mon Sep 11, 2023 at 08:11 AM PDT
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Many years ago I was an artist working to capture my life story in paintings using old dolls and toys to represent the people in my life, my family — especially my father and grandmother who were both deceased by that time but whose influence has...
by Susan Warley
on Wed Jul 12, 2023 at 01:43 PM PDT
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90 feet high, according to George. His crew took down that massive tree pictured above. I will say, She was a little past 40 years along. We had her “clear cut” 15 years ago, and they did a great job. Breakage from wind, and my wife reckons a lightning...
by McGovern78
on Fri Oct 01, 2021 at 01:17 AM PDT
with 16 Recommends
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Published Yesterday, Brown University came out with the newest version of its massive series of studies of the cost of war, which can be accessed here, through its summary of findings. watson.brown.edu/… The projects includes a vast number of...
by Mrmuni12
on Thu Sep 02, 2021 at 02:07 PM PDT
with 15 Recommends
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This is my first diary. I have followed the news this morning and it is next to impossible to make heads or tails out of it. There are a lot of hot takes and pretty much every hot take I have seen is deficient in some way. You can’t boil down a war...
by PastorOfMuppets
on Sun Aug 15, 2021 at 08:05 AM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Seven years after the Soviet Union collapsed in a heap of post-Afghan-War rubble and seven years after President George H.W. Bush...
by TomDispatch
on Thu Jul 29, 2021 at 07:27 AM PDT
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Did you know there’s another Bush politician? No, not warmongering party guy . Not warmongering� scary CIA guy .
by Walter Einenkel
on Thu Jun 03, 2021 at 05:05 PM PDT
with 38 Recommends
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. “War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin’!” So went the famed Vietnam War-era protest lyrics first sung by the Temptations....
by TomDispatch
on Mon Mar 29, 2021 at 09:00 AM PDT
with 10 Recommends
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. If, on September 10, 2001, you had told me that my country, which from 1979 to 1989 had fought a secret war against the Soviet...
by TomDispatch
on Thu Mar 25, 2021 at 10:13 AM PDT
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It is no secret that we, in America, are as divided as we have ever been since the civil war. We may already be in another civil war. The next few months will show us whether all the FBI alerts for domestic terrorism are backed by serious...
by 40ford
on Sat Feb 20, 2021 at 03:33 PM PST
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• 2001: They zealously supported a bill that violates the Bill of Rights and they called it the “Patriot Act”. • 2009: They pretended to be outraged when then-President Obama bowed to the Emperor of Japan. • 2014: They also pretended to be outraged...
by Perlinator
on Mon Feb 08, 2021 at 08:17 AM PST
with 2 Recommends
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. TomDispatch is essentially a no-submissions site. The only exception I’ve made over the years has been for those in the U.S....
by TomDispatch
on Tue Dec 08, 2020 at 11:10 AM PST
with 3 Recommends
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by WB Reeves
on Sat Nov 14, 2020 at 12:31 AM PST
with 8 Recommends
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Democrats speaking out have no affect on those who are listening to Trump and his toadies. Republicans like Romney and Kasich don’t have any credibility with them. Gov Wilder (ma), Gov Ridge (ex-pa), Hogan (md) have tweeted out support or at...
by bcknynj
on Tue Nov 10, 2020 at 01:37 PM PST
with 2 Recommends
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In normal times, I understand George W Bush’s desire to “Retire” from politics, but this isn’t… I understand his natural lean toward avoiding ruffling fellow GOP feathers, but it’s not that party any more… I understand not wanting to tarnish his legacy...
by KKwriter
on Mon Oct 26, 2020 at 08:23 PM PDT
with 20 Recommends
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Dear Kos Family: I am writing this letter to all of you today to ask you to sign and share this petition asking former President George W. Bush to publicly endorse Joe Biden for president. Let me start by acknowledging that many of you will disagree...
by nate1024
on Mon Oct 19, 2020 at 04:00 AM PDT
with 3 Recommends
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I find this as a big story. All former living Presidents and this not limited to their staffs and former cabinet members who are standing ready to vote against Trump. I used this pic as it was the only one I could find that included all...
by Vetwife
on Sun Sep 27, 2020 at 08:19 AM PDT
with 190 Recommends
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Donald J. Trump is a self-confessed mass murderer by negligent homicide. He has admitted he knew how dangerous the coronavirus was early on, but chose to lie about it “because he didn’t want to start a panic.” Nearly 200,000 Americans are dead because...
by xaxnar
on Thu Sep 10, 2020 at 02:47 PM PDT
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by Marcus G. Miller A few weeks ago, in front of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, a throng of protesters clapped along to live music even as they were shouting the names of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, holding signs, and chanting “Black...
by Prism Guest Writer
on Tue Jun 30, 2020 at 11:55 AM PDT
with 76 Recommends
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There have been a lot of commentators in the past few days comparing the present mess to 1968, when there was rioting in the streets of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, and general unrest over the Vietnam War. Those are valid...
by Dan K
on Mon Jun 01, 2020 at 12:47 PM PDT
with 10 Recommends
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