2016: Will Colorado voters opt out of Obamacare and choose ColoradoCare (universal health care)?

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Colorado-Pushes-for-Univer-by-Yes-Magazine-Colorado_Health-Care-Universal--Single-Payer_State-Single-Payer-151031-934.html

Boo! Ayn Rand's Ghoulish Interview from 1959

http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/10/188385/boo-ayn-rands-ghoulish-interview-1959?mc_cid=43cc4a04f4&mc_eid=7578734a28

Seven of Paul Ryan's Worst Ideas (which, unfortunately, some Dems go along with...)

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/33237-seven-of-paul-ryans-worst-ideas

Happy Halloween to all students in particular! Strike Debt! StrikeDebt.org

I disagree with this DNC (GOP lite) boosterism. Now (extended recession) is not the time for deficit worries

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2015/10/29/thanks-obama-the-deficit-just-fell-below-50-year-average#.VjKwCnedppQ.twitter

Steve Nash: early, public opponent of the Iraq War, wore a shirt proclaiming "No war – Shoot for peace"

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/03/steve-nash-gave-nba-players-a-voice/388382/

Patriotism: a means of obtaining for the rulers ambitions & covetous desires… Tolstoy (link for entire quote)

Self-defense

Practice your Basque. First correct answer wins a free trip to Gipuzkoa

Tell Us Why We’re At War in Iraq Again, Mr. President (we're "dying" to know)

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/10/30/tell-us-why-were-war-iraq-again-mr-president

There's a 2-word phrase, intended to silence dissent. I've thrown it out of my vocabulary & you should, too

Idealists are in fact the realists. Dystopians masquerade as utopians, like it's Halloween every war.

Stop, the love you save may be your own

I awake most mornings to a world gone mad

Proxy war in one panel

Corporate crime wave: Christie lets Exxon off for $.028 (2.8 cents) on the dollar.

Austerity in one curvaceous line

USA/EU/NATO fights terrorism with errorism

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, & by the rulers as useful. -Seneca

A nation afraid to let people judge truth & falsehood in an open market is a nation afraid of its people JFK

Say It Ain't So, Hillary Clinton—You're Open to the Idea of Raising the Retirement Age? More milque toast...

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/say-it-aint-so-hillary-clinton-youre-open-idea-raising-retirement-age

Assata Shakur speaks:

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/i-am-20th-century-escaped-slave?akid=13614.219671.p755rY&rd=1&src=newsletter1044940&t=15

Assaf Gavron: Confessions of an Israeli traitor "The occupation is destroying our own society, too."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/10/23/confessions-of-an-israeli-traitor/?postshare=6901445699357107

France celebrates itself for free expression (Charlie Hebdo). France convicts 12 for the 'crime' of advocating #BDS

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/33212-criminalization-of-anti-israel-activism-escalates-this-time-in-the-land-of-the-charlie-hebdo-free-speech-march

My question for you (inspired by @ChrisLynnHedges):

Cross-cultural sharing supersedes competition at 1st World Indigenous Games in Brazil (just concluded)

http://www.i-games2015.com/

Why is the Center for American Progress hosting Benjamin Netanyahu?

http://www.thenation.com/article/why-is-the-center-for-american-progress-hosting-benjamin-netanyahu/

Another New York Times' reporter's son is in the Israeli army

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/10/another-reporters-israeli

Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America , Frederick Clarkson, 9780978843182 - Powell's Books

http://www.powells.com/book/dispatches-from-the-religious-left-the-future-of-faith-politics-in-america-9780978843182

CIA must stop illegal, counterproductive war to overthrow Assad. ~Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43272.htm

Pope Francis called on every church parish to take in a refugee family, couple, single adult or orphan

http://pdf.reuters.com/pdfnews/pdfnews.asp?i=43059c3bf0e37541&u=2015_10_27_08_40_1720580d288b481e805e7c118b7596f0_PRIMARY.jpg

Liberal interventionist women, in rhetoric & action, won't allow men to out-hawk them. That is a big problem

Kasich made one great point at the second debate

This meme is anti-democratic. It infantilizes We The People, as if to say, Leave politics to the politicians

When we engage our civil servants, we make them better able to serve We The People. Silence = enabling

Firearms dominionism: Church of the NRA wants fear controlling the life of every Christian The Armor of Light Trailer (2015) - Documentary

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iLGhmurxJl4

The pro-gun god is dead: Firearms universalism slain by unlikely left-right coalition The Armor of Light Trailer (2015)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iLGhmurxJl4

God and Guns: What happens when faith becomes inseparably linked to a political position The Armor of Light Trailer 1 (2015) - Documentary HD - YouTube

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iLGhmurxJl4

When faith becomes inseparably linked to a political position, we become vulnerable to selling our souls... The Armor of Light Trailer (2015) - Documentary

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iLGhmurxJl4

Left-right coalition: Gun violence victims and white evangelicals critique firearms universalism

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iLGhmurxJl4

Mother of Jordan Davis & white evangelical pastor address firearm universalism in this gripping documentary "The Armor of Light"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iLGhmurxJl4

MSF Hospital in Yemen Bombed by US-Backed Coalition | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/27/msf-hospital-yemen-bombed-us-backed-coalition

US-backed coalition bombs Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Yemen (40th health center since March)

http://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-conflict-situation-report-12-31-july-15-august-2015

Three questions the Congressional hearing should have asked Hillary:

No hearings will question Hillary about her liberal interventionism, because both corporate parties benefit from it

Wish Bernie would explicate democratic socialism as well as Corbyn did in debate at Oxford Union in ’13 #BernNotice

George Carlin: “Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.”

It's almost Hallowe'en, and most of the self-proclaimed candidates need no costume to scare us.

Call out the pro-austerity propaganda whenever you see it, like this from royalist imperialist Sir Winston

Dear refugee deniers in USA/EU/NATO countries, how more directly can I state it?

Trudeau is no savior. Only mass action + mobilization is. Comment from @NaomiAKlein and @AviLewis

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/33136-focus-the-false-prophet-trudeau

Adam Smith on the Enclosure Laws: “For every rich [person] there are 500 poor.” Analysis from @MkBlyth

Pre-Stonewall heroism. A threat to one is a threat to all

Neoliberalism prequel from the twelfth century

Patrice Lumumba: I have no right to sleep as long as people are not masters of their own destiny

It's the greedy--not the needy--that cause most of my problems. Yours?

Call out anti-refugee propaganda whenever you find it. No to scapegoating misery caused by our own policies

Clinton's Personal Responsibility & Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act 1996 completed the war on poor folk

It's a shame that bicycles have become part of the pose of gentrification. #Velorution

Until capital has to live in the shadows, then neither should labor

Enough of the corporate media co-branded debates. Let the People confront the candidates

Olympic athletes no longer have free speech rights. The legacy of 1968: What do we want? Everything!

1968 at 47: All 3 medal winners wore Olympic Project for Human Rights badges. RIP Peter Norman @NickHOrford

Conflict Over Sociologist's Narrative Puts Spotlight on Ethnography - The Chronicle of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com/article/Conflict-Over-Sociologists/230883/

Alice Goffman's Implausible Ethnography

Alice Goffman article

Link to Alice Goffman article

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Alice Goffman article as PDF (quality good)

Alice Goffman article

Paul Ryan is intent on repealing the 20th century

What a shame--someone who doesn't even believe in government functioning well, soon to be directing it

Bernie supports drone kills. Any of his base want to defend that?

Speaker should be someone who believes in parliamentary procedure, and who isn't a hypocrite. Double fail.

Racism is the act of creating race, of transforming something an aggressor *does into something the target *is

Time to start looking for left-right coalitions to take down the corporate state

The world's human population, divided evenly into seven sections and colored accordingly

Sorrows of settler-colonialism

Anti-imperialist cartoon from 1901

Fundamental artifact of our low-wage, slow-growth economy. Dems who ignore this only elect more GOP

Fundamental nature of our low-wage, slow-growth economy. Dems who ignore this only elect more GOP