The psychosis of permanent war results, as it has in the U.S., in the curtailing of civil liberties and punishing economic austerity. Dissent is equated with treason. State power serves the dictates of empire rather than democracy, which devolves into farce, or in our case, a tawdry reality show.
The rollback of the New Deal, the closest we came to a social democracy, began in the mid-1940s. Cold War anti-communism and corporate opposition converged to make war on organized labor and the New Deal left.
This assault culminated in the Second Red Scare.
President Donald Trump is retreating from plans for a $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" after a fierce backlash from fellow Republicans, according to two people granted anonymity to describe the decision ahead of a public announcement. read more
Corruption is a term used to describe dishonest or fraudulent behavior by someone in power. When applied on a national scale, "corruption" refers to government leaders who abuse their power, take bribes, or commit fraud or other disreputable acts to increase their own wealth and/or power instead of helping the people they are meant to serve.
Corruption is an unfortunate reality in many nations around the world, especially low-income countries, developing countries, and least developed countries, which have fewer checks and balances on their rulers' powers.
While no single data indicator directly measures corruption in a nation, many indicators offer indirect-but-accurate evidence of the presence or absence of corruption.
I want to tell you something about Donald Trump, and I don't believe I've ever said this before. Donald Trump has extreme intelligence - and I don't mean just high intelligence like someone in Mensa might have.
I mean EXTREME intelligence. And the reason we know this is because Donald Trump TOLD US that in a post just after midnight last night.
President Trump said on Friday that he's convening his national security team in the White House Situation Room to make a final decision about the agreement reached between U.S. and Iranian negotiators. read more
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I resemble that remark!
Actually, when I first went to college, everyone said, 'hey, you look just like Mark Spitz!':
I would say, 'yeah, but he's shorter and wet'.
Then when my hair went totally white at 40, I looked like Rogers:
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Although people said I looked like:
Now I... still do:
Except he's da-yud now, and I married his wife!
- The Greatest Generation
And before them the Lost Gen, who elected FDR 4 times and won the Second World War.
The Silent Gen and some Boomers gave us Reagan... although they also ended the Vietnam War and ran Nixon out of Office.