So Elizabeth’s Warren’s family legend was correct. She joins Barack Obama … in his case Ann Dunham, usually called his “white” mother was a descendant of the first African sold as a slave in colonial Virginia! A genetic analysis of Elizabeth Warren’s DNA shows he [...]
Archive for October, 2018
October 15th, 2018 - 10:16 am § in Donald Trump, Hypocrisy
Elizabeth Warren: Family Legend was true ….
October 15th, 2018 - 9:05 am § in Misc.
WHEN A UNIVERSITY INTERFERES IN FREE SPEECH
DEFENDING FREE SPEECH FOR STUDENTS AND FOR FACULTY JUAN COLE 10/12/2018 Open Letter to the University of Michigan on Palestine My colleague John Cheney-Lippold in the American Culture Department of the University of Michigan has been disciplined by the Colleges of Letters, Sciences an[...]
October 14th, 2018 - 10:47 pm § in Misc.
Airbus Sends Jobs to America. Is Alabama part of America????
Reposted from Sept 14 2105 Airbus has announced that is now an an American firm. Following Boeing’s lead Airbus has overseased its new plant to low wage, anti union Mobile, Alabama . The site at Mobile, Alabama is the result of a $600 million, (530 million euros), investment by Europe’s [...]
October 14th, 2018 - 9:33 pm § in Foreign Affairs
A new age of sea power?
Le Monde Discusses Where WWIII will ignite! A new age of sea power? by Alfred W. McCoy, 10 April 2018 Amid the intense coverage of Russian cyber-maneuvering and North Korean missile threats, another kind of great-power rivalry has been playing out quietly in the Indian and Pacific oceans. The U.S. a[...]
October 14th, 2018 - 1:31 am § in Misc.
Sunday Revelations: Religion vs. God
Research Institute reported : “The number of Americans who believe that natural disasters are evidence of the apocalypse has increased… somewhat over the past couple years.” “As of 2014, it’s estimated that nearly half of Americans—49 percent—say natural disasters a[...]
October 13th, 2018 - 1:07 am § in Misc.
Castro on Education Versus Consumer Goods
Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography Quotes shared via Kindle: “Well, I’d tell them that the consumer society is one of the most frightening, terrifying inventions of developed capitalism today in this phase of neoliberal globalization. It is disastrous, just awful, because I try to[...]
October 12th, 2018 - 7:08 pm § in Politics
This election is about respect.
Democrat Amy McGrath is challenging GOP Rep. Andy Barr in Kentucky’s 6th District. Barr, who criticized Bill Clinton for “draft evasion,” never served in the military. He can’t say that about her.[...]
October 12th, 2018 - 3:25 pm § in Uncategorized
GOP candidate for Pennsylvania governor threatens opponent: “I’m going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes”
Scott Wagner, the GOP nominee for Pennsylvania governor and a state senator, reacted angrily to a billboard (see photo) put up by an independent group by threatening his Democratic opponent — who had nothing to do with the billboard — with physical harm. The billboard mildly criticizes W[...]
October 12th, 2018 - 10:11 am § in Uncategorized
GOP dirty trick bombs in Arizona race
A dirty trick went awry for two Republican workers in Arizona who tried to set up Democratic Rep. Tom O’Halleran by pretending to be communist donors — using false names — “in an apparent attempt to tie the Democrat to the far left,” according to The Guardian newspaper[...]