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    Published on 27th January 2012 03:00 PM



    Ron Paul warns of the coming New World Order. He doesn't actually say now but when he quotes the Bible "Bashing their swords into plowshares", that is a verse that is thought to warn of what is to happen to the coming world. This is when the antichrist will come into power in the Bible. [source]
    Published on 27th January 2012 09:30 AM



    Electronic Arts' founder Trip Hawkins shares a memorable moment with Apple's legendary Chief.
    Published on 26th January 2012 11:02 PM

    by George Lakey

    ... it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and economic justice. Sweden and Norway, for example, both experienced a major power shift in the 1930s after prolonged nonviolent struggle. They “fired” the top 1 percent of people who set the direction for society and created the basis for something different.

    Both countries had a history of horrendous poverty. When the 1 percent was in charge, hundreds of thousands of people emigrated to avoid starvation. Under the leadership of the working class, however, both countries built robust and successful economies that nearly eliminated poverty, expanded free university education, abolished slums, provided excellent health care available to all as a matter of right and created a system of full employment. Unlike the Norwegians, the Swedes didn’t find oil, but that didn’t stop them from building what the latest CIA World Factbook calls “an enviable standard of living.”

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    Published on 26th January 2012 02:00 PM



    Was the Cold War a battle between capitalism and socialism?
    Published on 26th January 2012 09:20 AM



    Author and philosopher, Bernard-Henri Lévy, answers the question "Does the free market corrode moral character?"
    Published on 25th January 2012 03:01 PM



    Responding to President Obama's State of the Union address, longtime consumer advocate and former Presidential candidate Ralph Nader says Obama's criticism of income inequality and Wall Street excess fail to live up to his record in office. "[Obama] says one thing and does another," Nader says. "Where has he been for over three years? There are existing laws that can prosecute and convict Wall Street crooks. He hasn't sent more than one or two to jail." On foreign policy, Nader says: "I think his lawless militarism that started the speech and ended the speech was truly astonishing. [Obama] was very committed to projecting the American empire, in Obama terms." [source]
    Published on 25th January 2012 10:00 AM



    New report calls for sweeping agricultural reform.
    Published on 24th January 2012 01:18 PM



    Billionaires Charles and David Koch are infringing on intellectual freedom and independence in colleges and universities by controlling entire fields of study and the faculty hiring process. Defend academia and share this video.
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    Published on 24th January 2012 09:48 AM

    By Barry Kent MacKay

    I do not "like" sport hunting, but usually I tend not to put it quite that way. Indeed I have sometimes surprised friend and foe alike by saying that I don't oppose hunting.

    What -- an animal protectionist who does not oppose hunting? ...

    But no less important to the sportsman ... his (or her, but more often it's men who are sport hunters) unquestioned faith in a complex, shimmering, and fragile fabrication of myth, half-truths, self-delusion, and denials. In this essay we'll explore a few (not all) of those myths.

    [Issue being debated in Philosophy & Ethics]
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