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OT 9-3-15 - Outright lying by the Government and the Press

Submitted by Shahryar on Thu, 09/03/2015 - 6:00am

My very first disillusionment came in 1973 when the U.S. backed the Pinochet coup in Chile. Reading the New York Times article the next day was irritating. It was so obvious that the U.S. was involved and that Allende was murdered yet the Times absolutely ignored those facts. They didn't even speculate that what had happened *might* have happened. I had grown up thinking that the Times printed the truth. Naive, eh?

The hazard of backing the Kurds

Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 09/02/2015 - 4:22pm

Of all the belligerents in the current middle east conflict, the Kurds are the easiest to sympathize with and understand.
Their political parties are usually the most progressive of the region, sometimes dramatically more progressive.

So what's the harm in backing them? Simple put, all of the neighboring countries distrust the Kurds.

When the barrier of color was broken down

Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 09/02/2015 - 9:55am

"Never in the history of the world was such an exhibition, where with all the prejudices existing against the black man, when the white wage-earners of New Orleans would sacrifice their means of livelihood to defend and protect their colored fellow workers. With one fell swoop the economic barrier of color was broken down."
- AFL leader Samuel Gompers

Open Thread - Wednesday September 2, 2015

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Wed, 09/02/2015 - 7:00am

I have written this Open Thread well in advance as I am now in Florida today attending a memorial service celebrating my father who died on August 21. My father was 92 years old and had been ill for several years. My father was a beautiful human being and a wonderful father. He and my mother knew each other as far back as grade school and theirs was a lifelong love story. I could not have asked for a better atmosphere to grow up in.

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