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Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, George Orwell and our “Greatest National Security Threat”
Posted by ausomeawestin in Politics on October 24, 2015
Asked what the greatest national security threat facing the United States is, Hillary Clinton gestured to nuclear weapons, implicating Iran, perhaps Pakistan (though the U.S. is quite cozy with Pakistan, with Obama set to sell eight F-16s to them shortly, despite their enabling and funding the Taliban), Martin O’Malley named nuclear Iran and climate change, and […]
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Department of Justice Won’t Actually Bring Executives that run Financialized Capitalism to Justice
Posted by ausomeawestin in Politics on September 13, 2015
The Justice Department on September 9th released a memo making it a policy to “prioritize the prosecution of individual employees – not just their companies”, in a move widely believed to address the inexcusable failure of the Obama administration to hold the Wall Street Elite responsible for the global economic calamity they caused that did […]
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