There are no limits to which powers of privilege
will not go to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
Debunking LIES of Violence at #nvdemconvention #HillaryLies #DropOutHillary @DemocraticParty hates young votershttps://t.co/8duSgBsacb
— JayRaye (@RebelJayRaye) May 18, 2016
Interesting article on Al Jazerra
A few outtakes.
American democracy is rigged Hamid Dabashi
Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
We have been getting involved in the "Nuit Debout" movement here in France.
Fed up of the same old political elite, fed up of the same inequality and fed up of the same failure to serve the people.
Around 30% are registered Democrats.
Around 26% are registered Republicans.
Around 43% identify as Independents, a record.
A hint, many of this 43% is not in the center to be triangulated over.
One of the reasons
Congressional job disapproval stands at 77.5% [actual approval is at 14.3%]
Please rec this over at the Orange Satan: The Establishment Plan to Give Away Billions to Multinational Tax Dodgers
Here is the text:
According to
theguardian
A string of polls over the past two weeks show that the once-independent Vermont senator is tied or in the lead in the two early primary states, Iowa and New Hampshire, and all of a sudden, in striking distance of Hillary Clinton nationally.
(My bolding)
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This evening's music features influential blues singer, songwriter and piano player Leroy Carr.
This evening's music features Memphis bluesman Rufus Thomas.
Athens at the dawn of the 6th Century B.C. was an unremarkable city. The arts, science, and philosophy that would make it great were still centuries away.
The only notable thing about Athens of the time was its relatively large size, which was also the source of its problems. Athens was too large to feed itself and this was becoming a crisis.
