Monthly Archives: February 2009

President Obama Must Make This Wake-Up Call To Action: Our System Of Democracy Has Failed Us

In his “President’s Message,” that introduces his just released federal budget, President Barack Obama says that our huge financial crisis “is neither the result of a normal turn of the business cycle nor an accident of history.” He blames the … Continue reading

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Prison Reform Requires Understanding Five Myths About Why U.S. Has Such Huge Incarceration Rate

One-third of all prisoners in the entire world are in U.S. prisons and jails. The U.S. has 2.8 million people locked up — the highest incarceration rate in the world.  Over the past 30 years there has been a dramatic … Continue reading

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Thug And Demagogue Racist, Avigdor Lieberman, Gains Political Power In Israel

An interesting article in Slate, “Avigdor Lieberman’s Chutzpah,” by Christopher Hitchens, says that the Israeli right wing leader, Lieberman, who he describes as, “a former bouncer born in former Soviet Moldova,” wants to institute a “loyalty oath”  — “not just … Continue reading

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