Saturday, April 30, 2016

The Plot Against Puerto Rico | Foreign Policy

We have hamstrung the Puerto Rican economy in many, many ways and now we act like we don't know them. It's just plain stupid and unfair, as usual.

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Who Will Rule Mosul? | Foreign Policy

If you have any desire to know just how screwed up our foreign policy is in Iraq, and why the fighting will go on there for eternity, read this report. The Bush-Cheney war that didn't need to happen, put us in the middle of an ancient civil war complicated by competing cultures and religious affiliations. Our cultural incompetence has lead to an infected pustule of conflict resistant to all known resolutions, in the same way that superbugs are resistant to all known antibiotics.Who Will Rule Mosul? | Foreign Policy: "Erbil"



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Monday, April 4, 2016

Republicans and Voter Suppression - The New York Times

Republicans control the house and the Senate because they cheat, in every single way imaginable with complete disregard for the fundamental principles of our democracy. You know, the principles they say they stand for.

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