The way the supreme court does this is to interpret language to mean exactly the opposite of what was intended.  So freedom of speech becomes an umbrella term to permit religious intolerance, to allow uncontrolled amounts of money to buy elections, to allow hate speech which leads to violence to have prominent place in public arenas, the second ( Read more... )

Heather Cox Richardson sums up this year: it was not so horrific as we feared (though a devastating war is going on, the Ukrainians with NATO alliance are holding out for democracy) and US federal gov't managed to do some good things for its people.


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First read Heather Cox Richardson revealing how legal misinterpretation and maneuvering, the rewriting of the history of the original constitution is being worked:https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-18-2022? ( Read more... )

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A conversation between Jeremy Scahill and Noam Chomsky about what must be immediately done (negotiation to stop the killing and destruction), and if not possible immediately, what must be done to try to rescue the Ukraine people w/o going to horrific nuclear wars:

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We have to remember the last couple of days Russia has moved on to threaten Finland ( Read more... )

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A photo from 2001:  I found an interview last night with her lawyer, a long full account in The Guardian from 2009, and a short piece on the inaccurate and Islamphobic coverage of her (also misogynist):  she is attacked from many POVs.


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