"This to me is way, way, way out of touch with where the American people are," Sen. Bernie Sanders said.
Florida has disciplined an employee of the state Department of Environmental Protection because he spoke about climate change at an official meeting, which is against state policy. Florida is also requiring that he get a medical exam to evaluate his "condition" and "behavior." Said one former DEP attorney, "If anyone needs mental health screening it is Governor Rick Scott."
Gov. Rick Scott’s prohibition on the term “climate change” has now claimed its first casualty, says an environmental responsibility group. On March 9, the Florida...
saintpetersblog.com|By Peter Schorsch
"You fight, you kill, you watch friends die, and you notice a distinct lack of change. You kick in doors and tell terrified women to sit on the floor while you and your friends ransack their home, tearing the place apart, because they might be hiding weapons. There is no reason to believe this house in particular is enemy, same for the next one, and the one after that, or the seven before; they just happened to be there, and maybe they had weapons. Probably not, they almost n...ever did. There were a few times when we had deliberate raids based on solid intel and we'd turn up some stuff, but generally we were just tossing houses because we could.
Then you get out, and you hate the news. You hate the apathy, and you hate the murder being carried out in your name. You grew up wanting so bad to be Luke Skywalker, but you realize that you were basically a Stormtrooper, a faceless, nameless rifleman, carrying a spear for empire, and you start to accept the startlingly obvious truth that these are people like you."
"You Grow Up Wanting to be Luke Skywalker, Then Realize You've Become a Stormtrooper for the Empire"
POWERFUL STORY: Read this shocking account of how U.S. Iraq War veterans had their 9/11 patriotism crushed & replaced with something far more alarming...
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Well said.
Democracy Now! shared a link.
Obama Seeks Fast Track for TPP, Trade Deal that Could Thwart "Almost Any Progressive Policy or Goal"
Watch: Democracy Now! speaks with Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch.
democracynow.org
- "President Obama is basically doing the bidding of all the big corporations," says Lori Wallach of Global Trade Watch. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is "a delivery mechanism for a broad corporate agenda."
Bold Nebraska's Jane Kleeb was in D.C. last week for the release of this NAS study into whether dilbit (aka #tarsands) sinks in water.
Color us surprised to find that EPA studies found dilbit DOES sink in water, while Big Oil's paid-for "scientists" claim it doesn't. #NOKXL
Color us surprised to find that EPA studies found dilbit DOES sink in water, while Big Oil's paid-for "scientists" claim it doesn't. #NOKXL
“Once the oil started to sink, it made things a lot more difficult on our recovery.”
desmogblog.com
Read and share this important document.
13 years ago today, the US began the Iraq war and it's campaign to unseat Saddam Hussein using this document as the main source for the action.
13 years ago today, the US began the Iraq war and it's campaign to unseat Saddam Hussein using this document as the main source for the action.
"For the first time, the public can now read the hastily drafted CIA document ..... that led Congress to pass a joint resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq, a costly war launched March 20, 2003 that was predicated on "disarming" Iraq of its (non-existent) WMD, overthrowing Sad...dam Hussein, and "freeing" the Iraqi people."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is demanding that Republicans pay for their proposed $96 billion increase in military spending with a tax increase on millionaires.
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