One Major High and Many Lows in Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ Foreign Policy Speech (from @Truthdig)

One Major High and Many Lows in Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ Foreign Policy Speech (from @Truthdig): The leading Republican presidential candidate called out the massive ruin caused by the “dangerous idea” that the U.S. “could make Western democracies out of countries that had no experience or interest in becoming a Western democracy.”
- 2016/04/28

Donald Trump Is a Sign of American Decline (but Not in the Way You Think)

Donald Trump Is a Sign of American Decline (but Not in the Way You Think): Donald Trump is the first presidential candidate to run openly and without apology on a platform of American decline.
- 2016/04/27

Obama Is Wrong About Social Movements and Activists (from @Truthdig)

Obama Is Wrong About Social Movements and Activists (from @Truthdig): As Obama must know, the role of social movements and many activists is to “speak truth to power,” to chant “more, more, more,” and not to stop until the job is done.
- 2016/04/25

The Endgame of 2016’s Antiestablishment Politics (from @Truthdig)

The Endgame of 2016’s Antiestablishment Politics (from @Truthdig): Will Bernie Sanders’ supporters rally behind Hillary Clinton if she gets the nomination? Likewise, if Donald Trump is denied the Republican nomination, will his supporters back whoever gets the Republican nod?
- 2016/04/26

The Real Hillary Clinton (from @Truthdig)

The Real Hillary Clinton (from @Truthdig): Where she stands now isn’t where she’s always stood. As CNN’s Anderson Cooper once asked her, “Will you say anything to get elected?”
- 2016/04/24

lördag 23 april 2016

Häggström hävdar: My visit yesterday at the European Parliament in B...

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Harriet Tubman and the Currency of Resistance (from @Truthdig)

Harriet Tubman and the Currency of Resistance (from @Truthdig): What better tribute to her lifetime of struggle could there be than to place her image into the hands of hundreds of millions of people?
- 2016/04/20

Eva Swedenmarks Värld: Vem är den svenske Bernie Sanders? Göran Greider!...

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onsdag 20 april 2016

Why Isn’t Everyone in Favor of Taxing Financial Speculation? (from @Truthdig)

Why Isn’t Everyone in Favor of Taxing Financial Speculation? (from @Truthdig): Why is there so little discussion about one of Bernie Sanders’s most important proposals—to tax financial speculation?
- 2016/04/19

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Why Isn’t Everyone In Favor of Taxing Financial Speculation? (from @Truthdig)

Why Isn’t Everyone In Favor of Taxing Financial Speculation? (from @Truthdig): Why is there so little discussion about one of Bernie Sanders’s most important proposals – to tax financial speculation?
- 2016/04/19

Noam Chomsky Defends WikiLeaks and Declassifying Information (Video) (from @Truthdig)

Noam Chomsky Defends WikiLeaks and Declassifying Information (Video) (from @Truthdig): Noam Chomsky had a complex answer when asked if he sees a difference in the role technology companies play compared to Washington lawmakers in protecting and encouraging privacy.
- 2016/04/19

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fredag 15 april 2016

Why My Mother Supports Bernie Sanders for President (from @Truthdig)

Why My Mother Supports Bernie Sanders for President (from @Truthdig): “... Too many people have checked out of politics. Bernie is changing that, and with the enthusiasm he’s creating, with the ground he’s making with your generation, we could make it very difficult for those politicians to keep screwing with us.”
- 2016/04/14

Obama’s Trillion-Dollar Nuclear-Arms Train Wreck (from @Truthdig)

Obama’s Trillion-Dollar Nuclear-Arms Train Wreck (from @Truthdig): As with his pledge to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, President Obama’s pledge to move the U.S. toward nuclear disarmament seems to have been abandoned.
- 2016/04/14

Philosophical Comment: New paper online: Ethical Hazards in Monitoring an...

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onsdag 13 april 2016

RAPSODI: Omläsning: Alla själars dag

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Panama Papers Name Client of Podesta Group, a Lobbying Firm With Ties to the Clintons (from @Truthdig)

Panama Papers Name Client of Podesta Group, a Lobbying Firm With Ties to the Clintons (from @Truthdig): The chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton co-founded the Washington advocacy company linked to a Russian bank implicated in the leaks.
- 2016/04/07

bernur: Marken. En dikt, Martin Glaz Serup

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The al-Assad Family’s Massive Stolen Wealth in Panama Papers Helps Explain the Syrian Revolution (from @Truthdig)

The al-Assad Family’s Massive Stolen Wealth in Panama Papers Helps Explain the Syrian Revolution (from @Truthdig): The revelation in the leaked Panama Papers that Mossack Fonseca and HSBC serviced the companies of corrupt Syrian billionaire Rami Makhlouf (first cousin of dictator Bashar al-Assad) long after the U.S. imposed sanctions on him is a reminder of why Syrians revolted against the regime in 2011.
- 2016/04/06

Are ‘The Young Turks’ the Future of Broadcast News? (from @Truthdig)

Are ‘The Young Turks’ the Future of Broadcast News? (from @Truthdig): “As Bernie Sanders is the political revolution, we are the media revolution,” says Cenk Uygur, host of the self-proclaimed “biggest online news show in the world.”
- 2016/04/02

Truthdigger of the Week: Susan Sarandon, Defender of Those Who’ll Vote for Bernie Sanders Only (from @Truthdig)

Truthdigger of the Week: Susan Sarandon, Defender of Those Who’ll Vote for Bernie Sanders Only (from @Truthdig): In an interview with Chris Hayes, the Academy Award-winning actress denounced the premise that Hillary Clinton would represent people over her big-money backers as “naive and egotistical.”
- 2016/04/02

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