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Category Archives: Barack Obama
Revisionist Histories and a return of Glass-Steagell
By ann summers Perhaps Donald Trump has proven that it takes a village idiot to triangulate ten garlic bulbs and take puma mountain by strategy. Or despite hip-hop musicals about Alexander Hamilton, will the eventual POTUS think about central banking as part of … Continue reading →
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Austerity, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Capitalism, Congress, Conservatives, Corruption, Crime, Democracy, Economic Policy, Economics, Fascists/Corporatists, Financial, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Government, History, House of Representatives, information Technology, Investing, IRS, Jimmy Carter, Legal Analysis, Legal Theory, Liberals, Libertarians, Media, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, Politics, Presidential Elections, Presidents, Progressives, Socialism, Stock Market, Theodore Roosevelt, Uncategorized, United States
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Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Banksters, Big Banks, central bank, Congress, Federal Reserve, Glass-Steagall, great depression, great recession, interwar period, nationalizing, New York Fed, Republicans, Socialism, US Senate
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TrusTED as Antichrist…or does it Anti-Matter
By ann summers detail…SIGNORELLI, Luca; Sermon and Deeds of the Antichrist, Fresco Chapel of San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto 1499-1502 And in the midst of all the chaos we see the Antichrist, pausing in the middle of a sermon to hear what … Continue reading →
Posted in 2016 Election, 9-11, American History, Barack Obama, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Denialism, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, Foreign Policy, Fundamentalism, Government, History, Hypocrisy, Islam, Italy, Judaism, Media, Mythology, Neoconservatives, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Presidents, RNC, Roman Catholic Church, Society, Terrorism, Uncategorized, United States
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Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, antichrist, Republicans, Ted Cruz
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Michael Ware’s Only the Dead knows that the end of War documentaries are not snuff films
By ann summers No one wants to see the explicit images of death and the dying, the actual rather than the Michael Bay cinematic explosions, and yet like the spectacular trainwreck of the 2016 elections season, … Continue reading →
Posted in 2016 Election, 9-11, American History, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Capitalism, Christianity, CIA, Congress, Conservatives, Democracy, DHS, Documentrary Films, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, Foreign Policy, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Government, Government Propaganda, History, Hypocrisy, Imperialism, Iraq, Islam, Liberals, Libertarians, Media, Movies, NATO, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, NSA, Politics, Presidential Elections, Progressives, Propaganda, Racism, Religion, Society, Syria, Tea Party, Television, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized, US Army, US Military
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Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, cinema, CNN, Daesh, documentaries, Iraq Invasion, Iraq War, ISIS, ISIS/ISIL, Mainstream Media, Media, News Media, Republicans, Terrorism, Trigger Warnings
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‘Don’t Do Stupid Sh*t’ is not the Obama Doctrine because there is one
By ann summers An important date in my lifetime was not an August 30 when I decided to blog regularly, but the red line moment for the Obama decision not to bomb the shit out of Syria over the use … Continue reading →
Posted in 2016 Election, 9-11, Afghanistan, Africa, American History, Austerity, Barack Obama, Big Oil, China, CIA, Congress, Countries, DHS, Economics, England, European Union, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Government, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Pakistan, Religion, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sudan, Syria, Terrorism, Terrorists, Turkey, Ukraine, Uncategorized, United States, US Military
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Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Congress, Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, History, international, Monroe Doctrine, Obama Doctrine, President Obama, Republicans, Secretary of State, Terrorism
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U.S. Supreme Court: The Shape of One’s Soul and the Color of One’s Conscience
by Nona Blyth Cloud (Column originally published at Morning Open Thread on Daily Kos) Justice Antonin Scalia (front row, second from left) is dead. I assume that the President will do his job and nominate a new Justice. Then the great … Continue reading →
Posted in Abraham Lincoln, American History, Barack Obama, George Washington, Illinois, SCOTUS, Senate
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Tagged Advise and Consent, Antonin Scalia, Women on Federal Bench
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Global “suicide by police” cannot be the basis for a foreign policy
By ann summers In the abstract, there’s too much meta in global politics. Yet as today’s interview of Robin Wright on NPR indicates having that more theoretical view is very important to gaining perspective on the various machinations of domestic … Continue reading →
Posted in 2016 Election, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Breaking News, Capitalism, Christianity, CIA, Congress, Conservatives, Democracy, DHS, DNC, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Energy Policy, Fascists/Corporatists, Foreign Policy, France, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Immigrants, Imperialism, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Law Enforcement, Libertarians, Local Government, Murder, Neoliberals, North Korea, NSA, Oligarchy, Pakistan, Police, Progressives, Racism, RNC, Saudi Arabia, State Government, States, Sudan, Syria, Tea Party, Terrorism, Terrorists, Turkey, Uncategorized, United States, US Military, Vietnam, World War I, World War II
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Tagged Law Enforcement, Officer Involved Shootings, police, Racism, Republicans
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tRump’s First TV ad in Iowa, Iowa that’s where the tall Idiocracy grows
By ann summers Today’s GOP has shown during the presidency of the actual first Black President that it can be only interested in obstructing legislation (losing count now of ACA repeal votes) and ultimately a kleptocratic capitalism. It is the … Continue reading →
Posted in 2016 Election, Barack Obama, Big Brother, Bill Clinton, Campaign Finance, Capitalism, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Civil War, Congress, Conservatives, Corruption, Democracy, DHS, DNC, DOJ, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Economics, Equal Rights, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, FDR, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Government, History, Hypocrisy, Immigration, Iowa, Islam, Justice, Law Enforcement, LBJ, Liberals, Libertarians, Media, Mexico, Mythology, Nazis/Nazism, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, Non-partisans, Oligarchy, Police, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Progressives, Racism, Richard Nixon, RNC, SCOTUS, Socialism, Syria, Tea Party, Terrorism, Terrorists, Theism, Uncategorized, United States, War on "Terror"
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Pay Toilets are the charter schools of “disgusting” restrooms
By ann summers One of today’s memes is Saturday’s ABC Democratic debate in NH, where the bathroom break’s brevity was apparently male-biased. One reason is that there is a lack of stalls often common in general to the sexist layout of women’s restrooms (you know, the … Continue reading →
Posted in 2016 Election, Austerity, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Breaking News, Capitalism, Conservatives, Democracy, Dept. of Education, DNC, Economic Policy, Education, Education Policy, Equal Rights, Government, History, Humor, Labor Movement, Liberals, Libertarians, Media, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, Oligarchy, Political Science, Politics, Presidents, Progressives, Tea Party, Uncategorized, United States
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Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Charter Schools, Republicans
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What the Global War on Terrorism(sic) National Monument should embody
By ann summers I wrote a very early story a couple of years ago on trying to think about a virtual or actual monument to this war and thought that even though we have ceased(sic) combat operations, that a national monument … Continue reading →
Posted in 9-11, Afghanistan, Art, Barack Obama, Big Oil, Bill Clinton, Capitalism, Christianity, CIA, Congress, Countries, Criminal Law, Democracy, DHS, DOJ, environment, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, Foreign Policy, Fundamentalism, Genocide, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Government, Government Propaganda, House of Representatives, Imperialism, information Technology, Iraq, Islam, Law Enforcement, Legal Theory, Media, Memorial, Mythology, NATO, NSA, Oligarchy, Pakistan, Philosophy, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Presidents, Prison, Progressives, Propaganda, Religion, Senate, Society, Terrorism, Terrorists, Theism, Uncategorized, United States, US Military, War, War on "Terror"
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Tagged Congress, Republicans, Terrorism
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No Child Left Behind is Dead…
By ann summers So the good news is that with the signing of the Every Student Succeeds Act , 2002’s No Child Left Behind finally joins eraser chalk in the dustbin of History, but like whiteboards, the aroma of dry-erase markers … Continue reading →
Posted in Barack Obama, Conservatives, Democracy, Dept. of Education, Education, Education Policy, Equal Rights, Free Speech, George W. Bush, Internet, Investing, Labor Movement, Liberals, Local Government, Media, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, News Roundup, Progressives, Uncategorized, United States
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Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Privatization of Public Education, US Senate
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