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The History of Maliki and Iraq’s Current Troubles
Stop whatever your doing, right now. I mean, RIGHT NOW!!! There is a great, must-read piece in The Post by a former U.S. official who worked in Iraq that relates how the Premiere Nouri al-Maliki came...
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Obama Needs to Sign Anti-Landmine Treaty
According to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) every day some 10 people around the world lose their life or limb to a landmine or another explosive remnant of war, and that means every...
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GOP Refuses Funding for Border Children Projects
A humanitarian crisis unseen before at our borders is becoming more and more urgent everyday at Rio Grande Valley, TX, and other Southwest locations. And yet the GOP is arguing over numbers. Yesterday...
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“Outrage” On Gaza Crisis and Other Issues by Chomsky
Here at STL we have tried to get away from just posting links to and summaries of interesting articles in favor of insight discussions and leave the link sharing to Twitter. But this new discussion...
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Obama and Community College Proposal
On Jan. 9th at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, TN, Pres. Obama issued a landmark proposal for the government to pay the tuition for two-year community college programs nationwide,...
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Conservatives Criticizing Obama for Paris Photo-op Forget World Hates Their...
It’s not surprising that conservatives have jumped on the Obama administration for sending ambassador to France, Jane Hartley, to the photo-op of free-press-hating world leaders (an issue that, in all...
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The Need for Better Childcare
I know the childcare issue is not sexy. And I know that this post will not get a million views this week. But childcare is an essential issue for those of the lower socioeconomic status (SES) trying to...
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5 Quick Political Facts for Today (2/17/15)
The American public clearly has no idea what it wants from Obama on the issue of ISIS. A new poll showed a majority of the public disapproves of the president’s handling of ISIS but a majority also...
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Stopping Terror At The Source
On this past Tuesday the Los Angeles Times published a letter by Pres. Obama on countering terror recruitment here in the U. S. and around the world. He stated we cannot defeat terrorists with military...
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5 Quick Political Facts for Today (2/21/15)
Prominent climate change-denying scientist has been outed as a fossil fuel-funded hack. Wei-Hock Soon, who has testified to Congress and state governments and been a guest on conservative news...
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Obama Admin Failing to Follow ‘Don’t Do Stupid S***’ Policy in Egypt
One of the promises the Obama administration made when it came to foreign policy was simple and straightforward: Don’t do stupid s*** (stuff). While they’ve been successful in living up to that mantra...
View ArticleCuban International Terrorism? What!?
On Jan. 11th, the New York Times and the AP reported that Trump’s State Department lead by his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated Cuba as a U.S. deemed state sponsor of terror. The label was...
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GOP Refuses Funding for Border Children Projects
A humanitarian crisis unseen before at our borders is becoming more and more urgent everyday at Rio Grande Valley, TX, and other Southwest locations. And yet the GOP is arguing over numbers. Yesterday...
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