Category Archives: government

Must Be a Different Constitution Now

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

BPR Quote of the Day: “…The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature…the executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there … Continue reading →

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Permanent Get Out of Jail Card

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

BPR Quote of the Day: Senator Warren is referring to the bank officials at HSBC who helped launder hundreds of millions of dollars to Mexican drug cartels and terrorist groups.

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What Are We Saving?

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

Daylight Savings Time 2013: Little Actual Savings By Andrea Ayres/ Policymic/ March 9, 2013 Daylight Savings Time (DST) begins this Sunday, March 10 at 2 a.m. That means that most of us will lose an hour of sleep as we … Continue reading →

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Is the Game Over?

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

By Arlen Grossman/ The Big Picture Report “All resistance must recognize that the corporate d’etat is complete.” — Chris Hedges Is Hedges correct? Have we as a nation and a world gone so far overboard into global corporate capitalism that … Continue reading →

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Wall Street Giants

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

Eric Holder Admits Some Banks Are Just Too Big To Prosecute  By Mark Gongloff/ Huffington Post/ March 6, 2013 When the Attorney General of the United States admits some banks are simply too big to prosecute, it might be time … Continue reading →

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Ultimate Proof That Corporations Aren’t People

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

Here’s a second story by Matt Taibbi that should boggle everyone’s mind. If you were caught working with Mexican drug cartels and organizations linked to al-Qaeda, Iran, North Korea, etc, in the “largest drug-and terrorism money-laundering case ever,” you would … Continue reading →

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Explains a Lot…..

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

Making “Other America” Fail By Robert Parry/ Consortiumnews/ February 26, 2013 Behind today’s fight over government spending is a bigger struggle for U.S.  democracy’s future, pitting the traditional white-ruled country against a new multicultural nation, or the Right’s Real America against Other America. To … Continue reading →

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BRADLEY MANNING & THE UNSPOKEN AMERICAN EMPIRE

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

One Thousand Days When One is Too Many By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers/Nation of Change/ Feb. 24, 2013 Please note: Although the protest activities described in this October 2011 newsletter article have already taken place this past weekend, the … Continue reading →

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“Let Us Not Become the Evil That We Deplore”

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

A bit of history: “The Authorization for Use of Military Force,” sailed through Congress just three days after September 11, 2001.  It was passed 98-0 in the Senate, and 420-1 in the House, and remains in force today, justifying  killing … Continue reading →

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Somebody Tell the Government

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

BPR Quote of the Day: “There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.” Molly Ivins

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