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Bread, Circuses & Reality TV
By: The Burning Platform “What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to […]
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The Abdication of Iran
While the media applaud the agreement reached between the P5+1 and Iran, Thierry Meyssan, a personal friend of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sees in it an abdication by the new Iranian government. As far as he is […]
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Dictatorship, Psychotropics and Other Harmful Drugs
By TLB Contributor: L. Femine In a video of Obama joking with Jay Leno about his approval ratings having gone so low, his look of bemused nonchalance is chilling. This was followed by: “It […]
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U.S. Prisons Thriving on Jim Crow Marijuana Arrests
By Nat Hentoff This article appeared on Cato.org on November 20, 2013. A startling scandal in our so-called criminal justice system is largely unnoticed by most Americans because the media in all their forms ignore […]
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The Odds Are Never In Our Favor
By: Dave Hodges, TLB Contributor I just watched the hottest movie in the country, which is the sequel to The Hunger Games, Catching Fire. The movie is based upon the second in the trilogy of […]
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Where New JFK Evidence Points
By Jim DiEugenio President John F. Kennedy in the motorcade through Dallas shortly before his assassination on Nov. 22, 1963. (Photo credit: Walt Cisco, Dallas Morning News) Media specials are on tap for the 50th anniversary […]
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Census Fakery and Banana Republics
By Staff Report – November 21, 2013 Census ‘faked’ 2012 election jobs report … In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply — raising […]
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“America is in the Toilet and the Rest of the World Knows It!”
By Zine Larbaoui (Exec. Dir. Of Media) Let’s understand one thing worth remembering: The transnational financial oligarchy uses its economic weapon of mass destruction for one purpose only: Steal assets! The world and its […]
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The Effort to Stigmatize Privacy as Anti-American
By CONOR FRIEDERSDORF Some NSA defenders would have us believe it’s radical and unreasonable to help Americans to communicate in secret with friends and family. After noting Ladar Levison’s new effort to build an NSA-proof email service that […]
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Obamacare: A Death Blow to the Constitution
By Michael Connelly, Retired attorney, Constitutional Law Instructor Carrollton, Texas Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. […]