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Jim Crow Resurrected in Florida

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The Fearless Voice of the American. July 15, 2011. Jim Crow Resurrected in Florida. Voting rights are at the fore. You would be hard pressed to know that in Florid a despite the occasional letter to the editor? 300 words or less. I tried, I really did, but the Orlando Sentinel just cannot bring itself to discuss real issues. They are of course willing to spill ink on more than 8,000 words on Casey Anthony – but not the real issues that affect real voters and voter suppression. Like so much of what passes...

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The Legacy of Horror for Children in Iraq

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The Fearless Voice of the American. March 22, 2013. The Legacy of Horror for Children in Iraq. The images of Iraqi babies with horrific birth defects are too awful to describe, except that the world needs to know the graphic results of the evil of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and others! And cancers increased in the general population from 40 out of 100,000 people in 1991 in Iraq to 1,600 out of 100.000 in 2005! Is a freelance writer. He can be reached at howielisnoff@gmail.com. Join the debate on Facebook.

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The Rich Get Richer

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The Fearless Voice of the American. May 6, 2015. The Rich Get Richer. Why are stocks still flying-high when the smart money has fled overseas and the US economy has ground to a halt? So if retail investors are moving their cash to Europe and Japan (to take advantage of QE), and the US economy is dead-in-the-water, (First Quarter GDP checked in at an abysmal 0.1 percent) then why are stocks still just two percent off their peak? Companies in the Standard and Poor’s 500 Index really love their shareholders...

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Turkey and the Syrian ‘Abyss’

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The Fearless Voice of the American. November 25, 2011. Turkey and the Syrian ‘Abyss’. The Israeli raid on the Turkish aid ship, Mavi Marmara, in international waters on May 31, 2010, was not enough to erode this vision. The official Turkish response to Israel’s violent attack – which killed nine Turkish citizens – was one of great anger, but it hardly resembled what Turkey saw as state-sponsored Israeli piracy in the Mediterranean. The same stunning irony was clear in Turkey’s relations with (murde...

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Obama’s (Latest) Surrender to Wall Street

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The Fearless Voice of the American. June 22, 2009. Obama’s (Latest) Surrender to Wall Street. With such endorsements, victims of predatory lending have good reason to worry. The Obama plan is just the opposite from reforming the financial system along lines that progressive Democrats and other critics have urged. 1 Regulatory capture. Preparing the ground for future Alan Greenspan free market ideologues. 2 Failure to give meaningful teeth to fraud reduction. They’ve been given a fortune in recent years a...

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The Strategy of Global Corporate Imperialism

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The Fearless Voice of the American. February 28, 2014. The Strategy of Global Corporate Imperialism. Empires as National and Cultural Megalomaniac Dreams. Global Corporate Empire: Sovereign Nations are the Only Obstacle. Public resources are allocated to reconstruction, but these resources usually disappear in black holes of corporate war profiteers such as Halliburton in the US. Wrecked countries are never rebuilt because they are easier to exploit while they are in a shambles. 36 Pages, 6 Times a Year.

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The “Decent Left” and the Libya Intervention

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The Fearless Voice of the American. November 25, 2011. The Decent Left and the Libya Intervention. David N. Gibbs. By DAVID N. GIBBS. In this context, supporters of the intervention seek to shift discussion away from the embarrassing facts and lash out against those who disagree with their views. Michael Bérubé has created a stir recently with his article. Libya and the Left, [please add link] soon to appear in print in. The article concludes by arguing for a rigorously. Left one that will support the fr...

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The New Deal Illusion

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The Fearless Voice of the American. August 29, 2012. The New Deal Illusion. What was the New Deal of the 1930s? There are so many myths surrounding it, and to a large extent the Democratic Party’s credibility today is based on the assumption they were fundamental social innovators, progressive if you will, during the New Deal. And knew Mandarin. Roosevelt was born into privilege, went to Harvard, where he was a C student and a cheerleader. He was an ardent stamp collector. Hoover’s initiatives did not pr...

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Is the Syrian Crisis Being Leveraged to Weaken Hezbollah?

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The Fearless Voice of the American. September 3, 2012. Is the Syrian Crisis Being Leveraged to Weaken Hezbollah? One would be correct in imagining that life’s no bowl of cherries for Hezbollah these days. Pressures, often intense, resulting in being sucked into the vortex of the powerful maelstrom and violent whirlpool of Lebanese and regional politics can’t be bringing much pleasure to Lebanon’s National Resistance led by Hezbollah and that includes this observers Dahiyeh neighborhood. According to Dr&#...

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Hiroshima and the Persistence of Nuclear Weapons

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The Fearless Voice of the American. August 6, 2015. Hiroshima and the Persistence of Nuclear Weapons. On this fateful day, 70 years ago, the first of the only two atomic bombs ever used was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, with a second catastrophic detonation wreaked on Nagasaki on August 9. Killing over 220,000 people by the end of 1945, with many tens of thousands of more dying from radiation poisoning and its lethal after effects over the years. There are now 113 countries willing to move forward to...