Shimon Peres offered support for negotiations with Iran — and multilateralism — as the best option for engagement. “I don’t think that any single country can stop Iran from having bombs. President [Barack] Obama, who I have the highest respect for, said that we have to put all the options [...]
Archive for February, 2015
February 16th, 2015 - 4:32 am § in Misc.
US government: recovering from the housing bubble.
How US cities can survive OUR challenges.. [...]
February 15th, 2015 - 11:21 pm § in Misc.
How Did Israel Build an H Bomb?
SPUTNICK NEWS CLAIMS: The US assisted Israel in developing the hydrogen bomb, according to a declassified report by the US Department of Defense. The move violated international laws the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act enacted in 1978 which codified the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty the US signed[...]
February 15th, 2015 - 9:42 pm § in Uncategorized
Is the U.S. heading for a recession?
Doesn’t look like it, so the GOP has to find some other issue for 2016. Benghazi? Measles? $2.50 gas? Maybe they’ll pillory her just for being Bill’s wife. [...]
February 15th, 2015 - 7:01 pm § in Misc.
Book recounts gruesome 1922 Texas lynching
History is important for what we learn from it. How many people know of this incident today, which occurred 93 years ago, now that all the eyewitnesses are gone? From one account: “On May 4th, 1922, after the last full day of school in Kirven, Texas, 17-year-old Eula Ausley was taken from her [...]
February 15th, 2015 - 5:55 pm § in Uncategorized
This man wants to build memorials to America’s lynching victims
Among states, Louisiana was the epicenter of America’s dark era of lynchings; but more people were lynched in Phillips County, Arkansas, than in any other American county. The Deep South’s lynching body count is mapped here. Lynchings were employed as a form of social control to keep bla[...]
February 15th, 2015 - 5:07 pm § in Politics
Radical Republicans: Debunking Rightwing Monetary Myths
Most Americans, if they’re at all religious, should get on their knees and thank God that rightwingers didn’t run America’s economic policy in the aftermath of the financial crisis and near-depression which their policies helped cause. Although our economy isn’t exactly glitt[...]