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I often see people expressing pride for having voted in elections. They get rewarded with little stickers & buttons. I see this sense of pride but I also see a sort of resentment come to the surface when they find out you didn't vote in a given election. I think in their heads, It is more...

https://jo20.com I'm really fed up with this trump/biden jerk.  She's bright, sophisticated, intelligent; she's got a lot of good ideas and always supports them with credible arguments.  I saw her speak yesterday, she's very impressive.  The Libertarian party is generally pretty cringe to be...

-Available on PC, Xbone, and Series X.   -multiplayer will reportedly be free to play -developers have said it will support cross platform play, but unclear if that’s for entire game or just campaign/multiplayer  -imo a make or break game for 343 Industries, community hasn’t been happy with...

Measured In Gold, The Story Of American Wages Is An Ugly One By Keith Weiner Workers’ wages buy less and less. In fact, workers have lost purchasing power during the past half-century. Comparing prices to wages, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose more than six times from 1965 to 2011—while...

Thread for US empire, war crimes, and international wrongdoing in general.

EXCLUSIVE: In court filing, FBI accidentally reveals name of Saudi official suspected of directing support for 9/11 hijackers WASHINGTON — The FBI inadvertently revealed one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive secrets about the Sept. 11 terror attacks: the identity of a  mysterious Saudi...

This will function as an index for all the available 3rd party and Independent candidates running in 2020.  Their platforms, their websites, their speeches, etc.  If you got one let's hear it!   Green Party - Howie Hawkins Libertarian Party - Jacob Hornberger Justin Amash? Constitution Party...

Thread by Katie Halper: https://twitter.com/kthalps/status/1242691746561167360 This is a story that @ReadeAlexandra has been trying to tell since it happened in 1993. It's a story about sexual assault, retaliation and silencing. #meToo Tara had already come forward about part of her story...

Joe Biden Is Not the Safe Choice BY JACK HOLMES  MAR 3, 2020 Bernie Sanders has been clear about his vision for victory: that he will galvanize a grassroots coalition of working-class people, many of them young people of color and others who have never participated in the political process...

Not sure where to put this, but it's kind of amazing.  I don't think we really have a thread pertaining to NGO culture.  AIPAC, Project for a New American Century, Center for American Progress, CNAS, WINEP- there's a gazillion of these things in Washington that get money from bigtime lobbies...

https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-cold-war-back-focus-iran-military-prepares-war-russia-1485088 During the height of tensions with Iran last year, the United States conducted an unprecedented series of war games. Over five months, from May until the end of September, 93 separate military...

Wow, that is some resistance they are doing to Trump. With an opposition party like this, who needs the GOP?   House passes defense bill to establish Space Force, paid family leave for federal workers The House on Wednesday easily passed the compromise defense policy bill that would grant...

In April of 2018, the US, Britain and France bombed Syria under the pretense that it had used chemical weapons against rebels in Syria.  The three countries rushed to bomb Syria, before the OPCW's Fact-Finding Mission could clear up what had actually happened in Douma.   Initially, there was a...

There's so much unreported information coming out about this.  Just want a place to post about the violent coup, and what appears now to be a straightup military dictatorship, unfolding in Bolivia.  

If the 2020 general election candidates are ____, then who would you vote for?  Anonymous poll. Just a hypothetical I was wondering about.  Specifically what type of ‘turnout’ and splits each candidate generates.  

With this being in the news of late and a forthcoming s-show between Trump & Congress, we're probably going to be hearing a lot about Ukraine.  I wish I was more knowledgeable about this subject.  There were some topics that raise Ukraine situationally, but none about the country itself.

We're going to Taiwan for a week, staying in Taipei.  Heard it's amazing several years ago and have a friend that lives out that way.  Any pro tips for international travel?  I've never been on a flight this long.    I got a chargebank for the long flight and a book to read.  Ordered some sort...

NY Times publishes call for Palestinian “national suicide” The anti-Palestinian bias of the The New York Times has long been a subject of complaint and derision among supporters of human rights and competent journalism. But the “newspaper of record” outdid itself this week by publishing and...

I'm a bit of a junkie for this stuff.  Just got done with the first episode of A Very Heavy Agenda trilogy.  It's horrifying, but important and laid out very well.   Others I've enjoyed: Killing Gaza; Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land; Food, Inc.; Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room...

https://www.mikegravel.org/ Gravel needs 65k individual donations to qualify for the 2020 debates.  Big shoutout to antiwar/justice folks who contribute here (or just support the idea in general).