Undernews: September 5, 2013
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THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW
Meanwhile. . .
Dan Froomkin - How does it feel to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner trying to take a nation to war?
Glenn Greenwald - The convention on chemical weapons says you take violators to the ICC at the Hague -- not bomb them.
Harper's Magazine - Portion of U.S. public-school students who are Latino: 1/4 ... Portion of US children’s books published annually that
are by or about Latinos: 1/50
Tim Shorrock -“We have no indication whatsoever of a withdrawal completely from Afghanistan" - Lt. Gen Mark Milley No. 2 commander US & coalition forces.
Tom Tomorrow - Nothing says 'We Care' like a Tomahawk missile strike.
Polls
62% - including 41% of evangelicals - agree that religiously affiliated groups receiving government funds can be required to provide health benefits to
same-sex couples,
Quotes
The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or
control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against
the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts,
wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people,
and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations. - How is this?
- Diary of Rutherford B Hayes, 1893
Pocket paradigms
I believe journalists may safely interrogate, investigate, predicate, cogitate, debate, relate and even advocate, but
they speculate, anticipate or prognosticate knowing that the best prediction to come of such behavior is that they may
end up looking foolish. I know. I try it from time to time and it doesn't work.-Sam Smith
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