Tag: united states
Ad hoc groups of activists and volunteers seem to work better than the government or NGOs, but why?
To hear a government official come right out and admit they’re creating a shadow legal system is incredible – and terrifying.
Knapp: Barring the increasingly usual “hanging chad” dramas, the 2012 elections are over. Heave a sigh of relief, take stock of any likely minor changes, and get on with our lives, right? Wrong.
Cody Dunn: It was not until the next world war where daylight savings made its comeback.
The government has a bit too much invested in the financial sector for, well, the financial sector’s own good.
Carson: Proteção às grandes empresas para que não sejam responsabilizadas de verdade
Se me for permitido aludir a Platão, esse questionário mensura minudentemente nossas crenças acerca das sombras tremeluzentes na parede da caverna.
Knapp: You can have politics or you can have peace, but you can’t have both.
This is naked political repression by the state, and amounts to nothing less than the criminalization of compassion and solidarity.
Bill Kauffman: Liberals need another George McGovern—and perhaps conservatives do too.
Carson: So now when you hear Mittens talk about “free enterprise,” you know what he means by it.
Knapp: Drilling leases on “public” land are just food stamps for Big Oil.
Jason Lee Byas: Who’s really dependent on government?
Knapp: There’s only one way to cut the size and cost of government … off with its head!
On this latest anniversary I want to talk about how the state breeds war – both in the sense of provoking attacks like 9/11, and in the sense of generating its own misguided responses, like the Iraq war.
Goodman: En stat som torterar på stor skala är en mycket mer avskyvärd brottsling.
Carson: The US government arguably has a conscious interest in promoting authoritarianism abroad.
Goodman: Estado que comete tortura em larga escala é criminoso muito mais abominável.
Knapp: If Paul Ryan is a “libertarian,” so was Leonid Brezhnev.
Goodman: A state that commits torture on a mass scale is a far more heinous criminal.
