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You sacrificed your future and that of your children by supporting Failed Republican Policies and the Neo Con Chicken Hawk Military-Industrial-Complex, the Dirty Energy Koch Brothers and their ilk. 

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This says it all.

Thanks to The Middle Class is Drowning for the graphic.

Failed Republican policies have destabilized nations, killed innocents, bombed nations to rubble, created refugees crises, created resource wars and created terrorists.

Republicans have slashed regulations, regulatory and oversight budgets, destroyed the environment, denied Americans health care, destroyed public education, destroyed the Postal Service, increased poverty, hunger and homelessness, denied climate change....and much else. 

Why would a sane person continue to support Anti-American policies? 

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Marc Ash | Global Domination Not Going Well 
 
Marc Ash, Reader Supported News 
Ash writes: "Call it the War on Terror, an ISIS Caliphate, defense of Islam or a battle for freedom. The bullets are flying and people everywhere are dying from global colonialist domination." 
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all it the War on Terror, an ISIS Caliphate, defense of Islam or a battle for freedom. The bullets are flying and people everywhere are dying from global colonialist domination.

The West and China are everywhere, their fingers in everything of monetary value. Those who resist are assigned the same label the Romans gave to those who took up arms against their empire, “terrorist.”

ISIS will fail. Brutality cannot defeat injustice. ISIS will paint this as a great victory. In fact, gunning down unarmed civilians is only a sign of impotence and desperation.

For decades the U.S. has waged the most inept and corrupt wars of domination and greed imaginable to the extent that they would not have been imaginable had the atrocities not actually been committed.

We are chasing ghosts in Mesopotamia, ghosts of men and civilizations we have defiled and slaughtered for decades. That does not justify what happened in Paris. It is however an indictment of war for profit.

We must respond with wisdom and determination. Not blind aggression and profiteering. The “New American Century” is over, really before it began.

Do not arm good guys. Do not allow profit to be a defense strategy. If we had stayed out of Iraq, ISIS would never have risen. It’s a lot easier for ISIS to defeat themselves than it will be for the West to defeat them, by orders of magnitude. Get the idiots away from the command center.

There is no substitute for rational thought.

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Francois Hollande | My Dear Compatriots 
Francois Hollande, Reader Supported News 
Hollande writes: "My Dear Compatriots, As I speak, terrorist attacks of unprecedented proportions are underway in the Paris area. There are dozens killed, there are many injured. It is a horror." 
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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Biggest Abortion Case in Two Decades 
David G. Savage, The Washington Post 
Savage writes: "The Supreme Court on Friday set the stage for its most important pronouncement on abortion in two decades, agreeing to hear a dispute over efforts by some conservative states to regulate the procedure." 
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Bernie Sanders Pulls a Key Ohio Endorsement out of the Clinton Column 
Sophia Tesfaye, Salon 
Tesfaye writes: "Bernie Sanders is capping off the week with a campaign coup. Former Ohio state senator Nina Turner announced her defection from the Hillary Clinton campaign and endorsed Sanders last night." 
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Airstrike Targeting 'Jihadi John' Offers Jim Foley's Mother No Solace 
Polly Mosendz, Newsweek 
Mosendz writes: "The mother of murdered American journalist James Foley says it is 'sad' the U.S. is putting its resources into exacting revenge, after she was notified by FBI officials late Thursday evening that her son's killer had been targeted in an airstrike." 
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Severe Drought Will Affect Some 2.3 Million Central Americans 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Severe drought in Central America is expected to severely affect at least 2.3 million people, particularly small farmers, who depend on local crops for money and nutrition." 
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Huge Coal Company Misled Investors on Climate Change Risk, According to Investigation 
Tim McDonnell, Grist 
McDonnell writes: "Just days after President Barack Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, environmentalists were handed another victory Monday morning when New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman released the results of an investigation that found one of the world's largest coal companies had misled the public and its shareholders about the risks climate change could pose to its bottom line." 
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RSN: French President Hollande: Muslims Must Be Protected

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FOCUS: Juan Cole | French President Hollande: Muslims Must Be Protected

Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "French President Francois Hollande addressed the Institute of the Arab World on Friday, in a bid to reassure French Muslims, who fear being the victims of a collective guilt campaign or reprisals after the attack of radicals on Charlie Hebdo."
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RSN: Gun Nuts Aim at Each Other! Inside NRA's Fight With Open-Carry Lunatics,

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William Boardman | Bloomberg's Banal Bloviation Makes McCarthyite Headlines at Harvard

William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "That CNN headline on May 30 typified news coverage of the Harvard College commencement speech offered by former New York Mayor and continuing media mogul Michael Bloomberg, but it's a headline that pretty much distorts the reality of Bloomberg's speech, while accurately focusing on Bloomberg's own political/ideological distortions."
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Gun Nuts Aim at Each Other! Inside NRA's Fight With Open-Carry Lunatics
Jim Newell, Salon
Newell writes: "There is no better manifestation of American gun culture gone off the deep end than when greater-than-zero people believe there's nothing strange about openly wearing a semiautomatic rifle on a sling into a fast-food burrito line."
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At Guantanamo Bay, the Guilty Go Free, the Innocent Remain
Clive Stafford Smith, Al Jazeera America
Smith writes: "With the Taliban five headed for freedom, the cleared prisoners now make up more than 52 percent of the 149 detainees left there. Has there ever existed another prison where more than half the prisoners were told they had been cleared to leave but they could not go?"
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NSA Leaks: Is Your Selfie Filed Away in a Massive Government Database?
Noelle Swan, The Christian Science Monitor
Swan writes: "Two years ago, Facebook users wary of posting their pictures online were ridiculed for fearing that Big Brother might be watching. But leaked documents indicating that the National Security Agency has been compiling a massive database of photographs gleaned from online communications for use in its facial recognition software suggest those 'conspiracy theorists' had good reason to be concerned."
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French President to Eat Two Dinners in One Night to Keep Obama, Putin Away From Each Other
Angela Charlton, Associated Press
Charlton writes: "French President Francois Hollande certainly won't go hungry this Thursday night. He's dining twice - first with U.S. President Barack Obama, then with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It will be a digestive and logistical challenge, but the safest diplomatic solution for the French president to keep apart two leaders who are at odds."
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The Other Cannabis War: Hemp
Coco McPherson, Rolling Stone
McPherson writes: "In the annals of strange bedfellow politics, the story of how, in 2014, industrial hemp emerged from Drug War purgatory is an epic one. But even for long-time hemp advocates, the sight of Rep. Thomas Massie, a conservative Republican from northern Kentucky, biting jubilantly into a hemp bar on live TV last month was startling."
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Al Gore | The Most Important Step Taken to Combat Climate Change in Our Country's History
Al Gore, Reader Supported News
Gore writes: "Today's announcement by the Obama administration to reduce our nation's global warming pollution from power plants is the most important step taken to combat the climate crisis in our country's history."
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