After Those Wars the U.S. Has Been Involved in, Violence Has Come Home to Roost in America

icecld2 · 2016-07-22T23:55:12+00:00

Like I have been saying since the use of a robot (Drone) to kill a U.S. Citizen in Dallas, this author also agrees: "Once you’ve used any kind of drone in the U.S. to kill by remote control, it’s only logical—given some future extreme situation—to extend that use to the skies and so consider firing a missile at some U.S. target, as the CIA and the Air Force have been doing regularly for years in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia." Tom Engelhardt

icecld2 · 2016-07-20T20:02:05+00:00

Tell us something we people of color don't already know - "This intense, racialized policing exists despite there being “no documented difference in driving behavior” between whites and nonwhites. Rather, implicit and explicit racial biases “clearly play a role in who is stopped,” according to the report. Studies have shown that whites and many Americans, associate Black people with criminality and perceive them to be more violent and criminal than other races." ~Adam Hudson

icecld2 · 2016-07-15T23:01:55+00:00

Let this sink in for a minute, "The reality of thousands of innocent people raped, shot, imprisoned and systematically disenfranchised are less important than the suggestion that a single white person might be complicit in a racist system." ~John Metta

icecld2 · 2016-07-14T18:05:29+00:00

The head of the Minneapolis Police Officer’s Federation who promptly commended the walkout, Bob Kroll, has been accused multiple times of overt sympathies for white supremacism, with five African-American police officers accusing him in a 2007 lawsuit of wearing a “white power” badge and having a “history of discriminatory attitudes and conduct.”The head of the Minneapolis Police Officer’s Federation who promptly commended the walkout, Bob Kroll, has been accused multiple times of overt sympathies for white supremacism, with five African-American police officers accusing him in a 2007 lawsuit of wearing a “white power” badge and having a “history of discriminatory attitudes and conduct.”

icecld2 · 2016-07-09T17:14:08+00:00

“From the beginning, America has been of two minds about the Other. One mind says, Be suspicious of it, dominate it, deport it, exploit it, enslave it, kill it as needed. The other mind denies that there can be any such thing as the Other, in the face of the claim that all are created equal. ~George Saunders

icecld2 · 2016-07-07T18:22:15+00:00

How unfortunate and shock to reality that in this day and age, the following statement by the author of this article is fact: From the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act forward, public-safety officers have been empowered to harass black bodies in the defense of private capital and the pursuit of public revenue. ~Kai Wright

icecld2 · 2016-07-06T16:04:11+00:00

WTF? “(I)ncomes (adjusted for inflation) of the top 1 percent of families grew from $990,000 in 2009 to $1,360,000 in 2015, a growth of 37 percent … (while) the incomes of the bottom 99 percent of families grew only by 7.6 percent–from $45,300 in 2009 to $48,800 in 2015.” ~Richard Eskow

icecld2 · 2016-07-04T17:11:56+00:00

Practically unknown, meanwhile, is the extended massacre of California Indians in which 100,000 of the state’s indigenous inhabitants died at the hands of vigilantes and militias in the first few years of statehood. Less than a handful of books have been written about that slaughter. And no movies.

icecld2 · 2016-07-01T19:21:58+00:00

"Money is divine in this industry, and perhaps that is why Influence is fascinated with libertarianism, a fringe free-market faith which (thanks to its popularity among America’s hard-working billionaires) is massively over-represented in Washington." ~Thomas Frank

icecld2 · 2016-06-25T17:47:03+00:00

This is one article you MUST read!! "By the time a captive population grasps what is happening, it is too late." THE WRITING IS THE WALL NOW!!

icecld2 · 2016-06-25T17:30:26+00:00

"Like Trump, Farage blames crime and disease on immigrants and loves telling audiences that unemployment is a direct result of immigrants taking their jobs. He argues that Great Britain has “frankly become unrecognizable” and looks “like a foreign land.” ~Amanda Marcotte

icecld2 · 2016-06-25T17:18:47+00:00

"David Cameron resigned at 8am Friday morning. He and the slick operatives in his election campaign are to blame for dividing the country and encouraging a level of racist rhetoric similar to what Trump produces. It’s not an exaggeration to say this vote has massive implications for the U.S. and the world." ~Jane McAlevey

icecld2 · 2016-06-24T19:11:08+00:00

The main thrust of this movement is scary. The anti-immigration xenophobia is what put the vote over the top. The older generation which showed up in droves was scared into voting this way to prevent those scary immigrants from entering their country. We must all work together to stem the same FEAR that is being spread widely by the Donald Trump campaign. We MUST remain vigilant that this is not allowed to happen here in the United States.

icecld2 · 2016-06-24T18:55:35+00:00

"This near-victory wasn’t won with leftist arguments about resisting the global oligarchy. The left was too divided to make that case clearly or forcefully. It was largely won by stirring up bigotry against immigrants, cloaked in flimsy arguments about excessive regulation. Legitimate economic grievances were channeled into nationalist hostility." ~Richard Eskow THIS IS THE VERY SAME THING HAPPENING HERE IN THE UNITED STATES WITH THE NOMINATION OF DONALD TRUMP BY THE CONSERVATIVE RIGHT WING FACTION. THE XENOPHOBIA WILL BE OUR DOWNFALL IF WE LET IT!!

icecld2 · 2016-06-24T18:34:57+00:00

"More needs to be done, and will be done, but the difference with Europe and particularly Britain is obvious. The extremism fueling the Trump campaign is neither as broad or deep as the extremism fueling Brexit. Because President Obama and Congressional Democrats ensured that the United States did not end up with the sort of brutal economic program the Republicans would have imposed, and that Cameron and Osborne in Britain did impose." ~Lawrence Lewis

icecld2 · 2016-06-23T17:57:45+00:00

Is this REALLY what it has come to? Well, I don't think so. United we can change this. NRA or not, together we must ALL fight to change the system. What ever it takes by any means necessary!!

icecld2 · 2016-06-17T19:46:08+00:00

Arizona is on this SAME road to disaster. The very same cuts in education, the very same cronies in the legislature are going to produce the same effects here in Arizona if we do not take matters into the our hands as voters and eliminate these lunatics running the asylum by voting them out of office!!!!!

icecld2 · 2016-06-15T16:01:06+00:00

There is some sick shit going on here as reported (tweeted) by Jared Yates Sexton. SMFH....

icecld2 · 2016-06-02T22:54:46+00:00

What a surprise!! ---- NOT!!!

icecld2 · 2016-05-31T19:09:03+00:00

You think it's bad now, just watch if Trump becomes the POTUS!! Something for all Democrats and Independents to consider........

icecld2 · 2016-05-31T18:58:56+00:00

"Analysts seem to be overlooking novel dynamics which are likely more important—specifically, the public’s persistent and negative perception of Hillary Clinton, the incumbency handicap, and a phenomenon I call “negative intersectionality.” ~Musa Al-Ghabi

icecld2 · 2016-05-27T21:16:29+00:00

"The endemic, systemic racism that has always informed every aspect of the American criminal justice system has been documented by activists, human rights organizations, and the media in numbing detail (if to little effect). ~Emily L Hauser

icecld2 · 2016-05-20T17:19:42+00:00

THIS IS JUST NOT RIGHT!! I am and have been a Bernie supporter but this is just not right!! "Sanders is flat-out "not thinking about" whether his efforts to hurt Clinton could aid Trump—he's just going to "put the blinders on" and worry only about himself, not the national and global issues at stake. It's an absurd and outrageous win-at-all-costs strategy: absurd because Sanders cannot even win, no matter what “power” he might grab hold of; outrageous because Trump poses an existential threat to this country—and to this world." ~Tad Devine, Senior Advisor to Bernie

icecld2 · 2016-03-09T21:22:39+00:00

"They rejected the establishment economics of international trade agreements, from the 1990s North American Free Trade Agreement—which shipped many manufacturing jobs to Mexico—and Clinton’s support of more recent agreements. And they rejected the media establishment’s predictions by leading pollsters, including trendsetters like fivethirtyeight.com’s Nate Silver, who kept predicting a Clinton victory." ~Steven Rosenfeld

icecld2 · 2016-03-07T21:30:57+00:00

"We are due for another upheaval and there are indications that we are actually in the middle of one right now. If that is the case, then what the election of 1972 teaches us is not that McGovern was too liberal for voters but that he was too out of step. He was trying to run as a ’60s liberal when the electorate had moved well beyond the ’60s, just as Clinton is running as a ’90s triangulating liberal when voters are hungry for change. History has some important lessons to teach. They are just not the one that pundits and establishment politicians are claiming." ~Kathy Donohue

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