After Obama’s SOTU message on February 12, 2013, Jill Stein, Green Party 2012 presidential candidate, addressed a national video audience with "Our Green State of the Union" assessment -- what Jill Stein herself called the “REAL state of our nation.”

Stein:

We need a real discussion

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013 5:58AM

Sky Shots

 

 

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Here are some “realpolitik” excerpted takes on Obama’s State of the Union Address from Glen Ford, Norman Solomon, Barry Grey, Pepe Escobar, Matthew Rothschild:

Glen Ford of BAR in “Obama’s State of the Corporate Union”:

It was an impassioned performance by a cy

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Ludwig Watzal in “U.S. Military Casualty Statistics Not the Senators’ Main Concern” calls out the Senate Armed Services' Committee hearing vetting former Republican Chuck Hagel for U.S. Secretary of Defense:

They only asked silly and irrelevant questions such as whether Hagel w

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FEBRUARY 10, 2013 2:12PM

Anti-U.S. Hegemony Haiku

Unnecessary End

Sky falling down soon.
Avaricious idiots
ruin Earth and Man.

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Soldiers’ Soon Enough Epiphany

Needing illusion,
they trust one cares there on high
brass totem. Dream on.

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enough.

Under coffin's lid
lies still another stiff kid
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From the Declaration of Independence:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Government

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013 9:32PM

U.S. Slouching to Dictatorship

No one is safe from assassination by the American President, including American citizens -- ANYWHERE on the globe.

The American President and his small cabal of operatives are immune from any oversight and accountability of said assassinations.

Thus sayeth the American President and his small cabal oRead full post »

The U.S., supposedly the world’s only “superpower” with a defense budget over a trillion dollars this year (according to Jim Lobe greater than the combined budgets of the 10 next-most powerful militaries), recently held confirmation hearings conducted by its Senate Armed Services CoRead full post »

FEBRUARY 5, 2013 7:16PM

Not Without Shame - poem (a re-post)

I look into human eyes
and close my heart.

I look into human eyes
and close my heart
as I goose step by
with sudden-dead eyes.

I, never Mother-Teresa bold,
too often join the ranks of the cold
who every day pray
God's looking away
those seconds it takes
to make one's escape
(eyes extinguished and averting)
from/
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FEBRUARY 2, 2013 11:17PM

U.S. Hearts Saudi Despots

Have we as a citizenry ever gotten a good answer on why the U.S. went after Iraq when a whopping 15 of the 19 Al Qaeda hijackers in the 9/11 attacks (according to wikipedia) were citizens of Saudi Arabia? (The four others were from Egypt, Lebanon and the UAE.)

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If you happen to catch Bill Moyers’ show this week with his guest Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont or read “Foul Play in the Senate” published at common dreams by Moyers and co-writer Michael Winship, you will discover one more example of how Congressional crony capitalism has reach/Read full post »

Mirah Riben has a provocative article on dissident voice entitled “Statistics, Politics and Solutions in the Gun Discussion.” The following is a listing of many of Riben's enlightening facts and revelations.

1. FBI statistics for homicides in 2011:

Total homicides:  &n

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JANUARY 30, 2013 8:19PM

Posing Pets

On my recent trip out west I got some fun shots of three of my family's pets.  Sorry for the darkish-ness of some of the pix, but I was avoiding that flash red-eye effect.  

 

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In a 1/24/13 article in Aljazeera entitled “Top CEOs plan to loot US social programmes”, Dr. Margaret Flowers powerfully calls out the motives of a mendacious “Fix the Debt” campaign launched by 80 CEOs who are determined to cut their corporate taxes even further by/

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JANUARY 27, 2013 3:51AM

The Kitchen Table

 Valentine’s Day. The day of the heart.

Already my eyes burned with tears in the cab from the train station to my childhood home. My heart swelled with grief over the deaths of both parents within the past few years. Such feelings maybe were intensified by sleep deprivation, a mind-numbin

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In his 2000 work “Escaping the Matrix: Are You Ready for the Red Pill?” Richard Moore begins:

The defining dramatic moment in the film The Matrix occurs just after Morpheus invites Neo to choose between a red pill and a blue pill. The red pill promises "the truth, nothing more.

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Bill Van Auken of wsws writes:

The escalating war in Africa is neither about terror nor Al Qaeda. Time magazine succinctly outlined the real motives in Mali: “The dangers expand elsewhere, with huge oil reserves attracting Western companies to set up production across the vast Sahel. Sou
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I know what Lincoln and MLK will be doing on Obama’s inauguration day.

Rolling over in their graves.

I’ll once again be fighting the urge to vomit.

Obama’s cynicism, hypocrisy and egotism really are insufferable. One bible isn’t enough for the “wonder boy” -- and hRead full post »

JANUARY 19, 2013 3:43AM

Visit to Vegas (Pix)

 

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I wonder if Obama’s face will be carved into Mount Rushmore. Has the universe seriously become that cruelly surreal and Orwellian?

I think so.

A few days ago when I saw Obama’s likeness photoshopped onto Mount Rushmore on Al Sharpton’s show it made bitter bile burn my throat and choRead full post »

http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/01/fiscal-cliff-over-now-the-attack-on-the-people-begins/

Kevin Zeese addresses the unfriendly to ordinary citizens end-of-2012 "fiscal deal"  from Obama and Congress and the further challenges to come. 

"... Congress passed a watered down fiscal cliff packagRead full post »

 

According to Naomi Wolf, the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund filed a request for documentation records about government surveillance of the Occupy Movement.  According to Wolf the long-awaited documentation “shows a terrifying network of coordinated DHS, FBI, police, regional fu

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US drones are destroying many “collateral damage” civilians in Yemen and thus inspiring more and more Yemenis to bitterly and momentously side with Al-Qaeda against the US.  Declares Glenn Greenwald, the droning is not only amoral but strategically STUPID.

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DECEMBER 18, 2012 7:23PM

To Torture or Not to Torture? WTF???

Why is this question even being honored in America?  

Apparently it will be posed seductively soon in a theater near you.  

Torture is wrong.  It is evil.

I offer:

“Two wrongs don’t make a right.”

The Golden Rule.

The Geneva Conventions.

Basic human decency.

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Michigan, as of this week, has become the 24th “right to work” state, the Orwellian euphemism that, bottom line, bars labor contracts from requiring all workers to pay union dues and undermines the ability of workers to collectively bargain for better work wages and conditions.

AccordingRead full post »