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Chris Hedges sees terrorism--pointing to the recent Charlie Hebdo tragedy--as something that could easily be avoided if Muslims were not economically disadvantaged. This is my critique of his stand with my comments in orange. The original appears here. Begin: The terrorist attack in France that took place at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo was not about free speech. It was not about radical Islam. It did not illustrate the fictitious clash of civilizations. It was a harbinger of an emerging dystopia where the wretched of the earth, deprived of resources to survive, devoid of hope, brutally controlled, belittled and mocked by the privileged who live in the splendor and indolence of the industrial West, lash out in nihilistic fury. Normally, I would agree that disparities are to blame for most of our problems and, certainly, the average Muslim in the Middle East and Africa are afflicted by it but the coin that he casts has a hidden side he refuses to acknowledge. We have eng...

When I had heard of the purchase of Paypal by Ebay, I didn't have my thinking cap on. But now a few years later, I have started to see the effects of the Libertarian philosophy in full swing. I have written before about Ebay and how it cons its buyers into making bad choices that increase its bottom line. I have written how they allow bogus bidding to occur and how they do their darnedest to increase the feverish pitch of the bidding. So, it really comes as no surprise that Paypal, a good company providing a good service now finds itself becoming just as conning as its Papa. Initially, we joined Paypal because it afforded us an ability to pay merchants who did not accept credit cards. It was a godsend to Ebay and bidders appreciated it. Later, some of us came to see that a Paypal account also seemed to add an element of security to our online transactions as we didn't need to keep entering our credit card information. After all, could everyone in the office of the small mer...

The first order of business for incoming Senate Intelligence honcho, Senator Richard Burr, is to get back the 81 million dollars that Republicans paid a pair of modern day Mengale 's that got us zero actionable intelligence and resulted in the U.S. being labeled hypocrites by the international community. As for any backlash from Senator Feinstein's report, I would like to tell this Republican that the U.S. citizen was already well aware of the torture program, and that the report only gave us a few more gory details. If we were aware of it, you can bet your red ass so was the militant Muslim. Read all about the two intellectually deficit but business-savy-like-only-Republicans-could-appreciate-morons who made 81 million bucks off of our Republican-induced and, sadly, Democratic-perpetuated collective fear of the bogeyman. Read about it here. Kudos to Senator Feinstein. I'll leave it up to historians to determine how much of her efforts were the result of retribution f...

This is taken from Dorian Johnson's testimony before the Ferguson Grand Jury. How they could have dismissed his words, is beyond me. One of the prosecutors is questioning Mr. Johnson: