Politics

Election Fraud Prevention for the 2018 Midterms -- And Beyond | Dale Tavris

Photo: Public domainDale Tavris -- World News Trust Oct. 1, 2018 There is a vast amount of evidence that election fraud in the United States has been rampant during the 21st Century, and that it almost always favors the Republican Party. It likely resulted in Republican victories in the Presidential elections of 2000, 2004, and 2016, as well as myriad Republican wins in U.S. House, Senate and sta ...

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America and Russia, Part Two: The Far Side of Progress | John Michael Greer

Credit: Dawid MichalczykOct. 17, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Two weeks ago, in the first part of this sequence of posts, we explored the way that Oswald Spengler’s insights into the cycles of history can ...

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That Single Line of Blood: Nassir al-Mosabeh and Mohammed al-Durrah | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 10, 2018 As the frail body of 12-year-old Nassir Al-Mosabeh fell to the ground on Friday, Sept. 28, history was repeating itself in a most tragic ...

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The Two Party Food Fight | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 8, 2018 File: Yoo memo.pdf: The Torture Memos, sometimes called the Bybee Memo or 8/1/02 Interrogation Opinion, was a term originally a ...

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The Suffocation of Democracy | Christopher R. Browning

Donald Trump at the First In Nation Republican Leadership Summit, Nashua, New Hampshire. Photo by Michael Vadon, Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)Oct. 25, 2018 Issue (The New York Review of Books) -- As a histor ...

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A leading Holocaust historian just seriously compared the US to Nazi Germany | Zack Beauchamp

Mitch McConnell“If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell.” Oct. 5, 2018 (Vox.com) -- Usually, comparisons between Donald ...

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Congolese doctor, Yazidi activist win Nobel Peace Prize for combating sexual violence | Nerijus Adomaitis, Terje Solsvik

Combination picture shows the Nobel Prize for Peace 2018 winners./REUTERS Oct. 5, 2018 -- OSLO (Reuters) -- Denis Mukwege, a doctor who helps victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of ...

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Nuclear Calendar -- October 4, 2018 | FCNL

Friends Committee on National Legislation October 4, 2018 Oct. 4 9:00-11:45 a.m., Senator Joni Ernst (IA); Dakota Wood, Heritage Foundation; Thomas Spoehr, Heritage Foundation, "Release of the 2019 I ...

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America and Russia, Part I: Stirrings in the Borderlands | John Michael Greer

Oct. 3, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- To my mind, one of the main sources of collective stupidity in modern American society is our pervasive bad habit of short-term thinking. It’s embarrassingly rare for ...

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End of Hegemony: UN Must Reflect Changing World Order | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 3, 2018 There is a rational explanation of why India and Brazil, two countries with vast populations and large and growing economies, are not per ...

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Caveman Amerika | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 29, 2018 Our nation has become like the character in the 1960 rock song Alley Oop: "He's the toughest man there is alive, Alley Oop, W ...

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