“With last night’s beginning of Ken Burns’ new documentary about the Vietnam War, the war will be brought back to the front burner for national discussion and debate. There is one thing that is crystal clear and indisputable about the U.S. intervention into Vietnam’s civil war: The intervention was i…”
Source: The Supreme Court Failed Us on Vietnam
“One of those crises that no one saw coming is about to rear its head in a very unlikely locale: Catalonia, Spain’s richest province, where the local government has scheduled an independence referendum on October 1. Of course, some observers – e,g, Julian Assange – did see it coming, but the current trend to find “fascists” …”
Source: In Catalonia: A Spanish Tiananmen Square? – Antiwar.com Original
“Nearly half a million New Jersey residents have sought care at one of the state’s Federally Qualified Health Centers in recent years, community health clinics that provide a broad range of pediatric and adult care to patients regardless of income level or insurance status. But, despite strong bipartisan support for FQHCs nationwide, these facilities are just… Read the rest of this entry »
“We’re in a period of very elevated global asset prices – possibly the most elevated in aggregate through history”
Source: Deutsche Bank: “Global Asset Prices Are The Most Elevated In History”
“Eleven years ago, this essay argued against hate-crime laws. One argument read “People can eventually be accused of hate crimes when they use hateful speech. Hate crimes laws are a seed that can sprout in new directions.” This has now come to pass, I am sorry to say. This week, the Congress passed S. J. Res. 49, and President Trump signed it, making it part of the U.S. legal code. The law rejects “White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups…” But why? Because of their ideas? Because of their expression of these ideas? No government that stands …”
Source: More Fascism – LewRockwell
