The central assumption of democracy — beyond the assumption of fair elections, which is disturbingly questionable — is that voters are the possessors of their own “interests,” and vote for the candidate most sympathetic to them....
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        16 August 2015  
  
    
    
    
  Corporate Media Crap Coverage of Sanders Is Norm
  
	
There are now ...
        02 August 2015  
  
    
    
    
  The flag in front of Home Depot was at half-mast and I felt myself wondering why in an awkward, despairing way.
The nation and the news cycle were still thrashing in the wake of the Chattanooga killings and I figured, oh,...
        23 July 2015  
  
    
    
    
  “The Americans have taken the Shia Muslim side in the Middle East’s sectarian war,”...
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  Some say the world will end in fire,
	Some say in ice.
	From what I've tasted of desire
	I hold with those who favor fire.
	But if it had to perish twice,
	I...
            




