RELIGIOUS NEUTRALITY: David Silverman / “Bill O’Reilly Confronts Atheist Leader And His ‘Merry Band Of Fascists'”
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POLITICAL CARTOON: Peter Broelman / “World Focus on the Middle East”
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POLITICAL PARODY: “Republicans Eating Crow”
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TRUTH TO POWER / INEQUALITY: “Tavis Smiley & Cornel West on Election, Why Calling Obama Progressive Ignores His Record”
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U.S. EMPIRE IMPLOSION: Chris Hedges / “Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All”
Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia. The growing divide between the world’s elite and its miserable masses of humanity is maintained through spiraling violence. Many impoverished regions of the world, which have fallen off the economic cliff, are beginning to resemble Gaza, where 1.6 million Palestinians live in the planet’s largest internment camp. These sacrifice zones, filled with seas of pitifully poor people trapped in squalid slums or mud-walled villages, are increasingly hemmed in by electronic fences, monitored by surveillance cameras and drones and surrounded by border guards or military units that shoot to kill. These nightmarish dystopias extend from sub-Saharan Africa to Pakistan to China. They are places where targeted assassinations are carried out, where brutal military assaults are pressed against peoples left defenseless, without an army, navy or air force. All attempts at resistance, however ineffective, are met with the indiscriminate slaughter that characterizes modern industrial warfare.
Related articles
- Egypt Tells Gazans They Aren’t Alone (eurasiareview.com)
INCOME INEQUALITY: Nick Hanauer / “TED Talk On Income Inequality Deemed Too ‘Political’ For Site”
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Hanauer, one of the first nonfamily investors in Amazon.com, shared this argument as part of a talk he gave at the TED University conference. Now, the organizers of TED — a movement aimed at bringing attention to “ideas worth spreading” — is refusing to share Hanauer’s talk on the internet, calling it too “political,” according to the National Journal.
Chris Anderson, the curator of TED, wrote in a post on his website responding to the allegations that the organization is inundated with requests to post talks on its homepage and only features those that are “truly special.” Anderson also claimed that once Hanauer found out the site would’t be posting his talk, he hired a public relations firm to promote the talk to progressive organizations like MoveOn.org. Anderson also released a video of Hanauer’s talk, providing a link to it in his post.
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CHURCH ELECTIONEERING: FFRF Sues the IRS for Not Going After Politically-Active Churches
We’ve known for a while now that when churches make political statements from the pulpit — like on “Pulpit Freedom Sunday” — the IRS hasn’t been pursuing them for violations of their tax-exempt status as they should be.
The reason? Because no one at the IRS is in charge of the issue.
Now, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is suing the IRS (PDF) for not doing their job. (How’s that forpayback?)
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The most jaw-dropping part of FFRF’s lawsuit has to be this:
The preferential tax-exemption that churches and other religious organizations obtain, despite noncompliance with electioneering restrictions, amounts to more than $100,000,000,000 annually in tax-free contributions made to churches and religious organizations in the United States.
h/t: Planet Atheism
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- Opinion: Churches Shouldn’t Be The Next Super PACs (boston.cbslocal.com)
POLITICAL SATIRE: Mr Fish / “Happy Non-Diplomacy Day”
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POLITICAL SATIRE: Mr Fish / “The Great Suppression”
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POLITICAL SATIRE: Mr. Fish / “Sheepwalkers”
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