“Money is not speech. All these decisions Citizens United, McCutcheon) have done is to make sure that congress does not represent people, which is what it is supposed to do. Rather, Congress represents people who have the money to finance campaigns”. Former Justice of the Supreme Court, John Stevens) One can argue that an army …
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Last year, two U.S. senators introduced the U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Act. The legislation calls for Israel’s entry into the U.S. Visa Waiver Program, enabling Israeli citizens to visit the U.S. without a visa, even as Israel routinely denies entry to U.S. citizens, particularly those of Palestinian origin. (Jewish Voice for Peace) Are they shameless? Who …
The right-wing UKIP party is likely to win the upcoming European election in the UK on a platform of reducing immigration and leaving the EU. Otherwise intelligent, educated people are caught up in the hysteria and seem to have suspended thinking for themselves. While one has to has sympathy with protesters about immigration (even I …
Altogether, national hatred is something peculiar. You always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe). Let us call it nationalism. Nationalism has caused two World Wars and endless strife for years. It is the lifeblood of the people who took us into Vietnam, Iraq …
When you have been running the world for a century, the moment you stop people perceive you to be weak. The British found this out after the 1st World War, and especially after the 2nd World War, when they were astounded to discover that no one thanked them for standing alone against Hitler, but, on …
