newshoggers.com - 27 days ago
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Commentary By Ron Beasley
We have all heard of the of the military industrial complex. Almost 50 years after Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about it we still have wars that are more about defense industry oligarchs making money than defending the nation and nothing has changed on Obama's ...
agonist.org - 25 days ago
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agonist.org —
On November 3rd, there will be a Constitutional
Amendment on the ballot in Ohio. This is no
ordinary ballot initiative. Its very existence and marketing has been bought and paid for--to the tune of millions of dollars-- by national and international ...
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The Under-The-Radar Assault By The Agricultural ...
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... more than dancing shoes made Tom DeLay Fred Astaire." (And, anyway, as I've been saying for years, anything that both the Democrats and Senator Bernie vote on is bipartisan, since Bernie isn't a Democrat. Democratic elective officials are the party of Not-Quite-As-Crazy-And-Evil-As-Republicans, whereas Bernie Sanders represents pretty much the rest of the country.) Rich people with a conscience - in Germany. And sometimes you just don't need to spend the money on The Medical Industrial Complex.
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