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   Last week Pope Francis surprised many people when he stated gays should be respected, and deserve to be treated with dignity, while on a trip back to the Vatican from Brazil. “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?”  said Francis to a group of reporters. Its hard to disagree with the Pope's sentiments  after reading

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   Elections in Zimbabwe are underway as prime minister/presidential candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai, has accused Mugabe and his party, ZANU-PF, of rigging the process. The opposition is claiming that that there are deceased people on the voter registry lists. The voter rolls contain over a million people who are dead or left the country, and 116,000 centenarians&

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Courtesy of Wiki Commons     For the last 15 years the Congo has been arguably the most volatile region in the world. More than 5 million people have been killed in a two-decade long conflict that has included six other African countries.  Recently,  Reuters has reported that the Congolese army assaulted civilians in a rebel-dominated military base in

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In lieu of the outcome of the Trayvon Martin trial, and the tangential discussions on the state of young black males that followed, Including Jay-z's and other rappers responses.  I decided it would be a good idea to revisit a paper I wrote in   about the hip hop media's culpability in perpetuating racial stereotypes. I was especially

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      The 2011 protests in Tahir Square, was just the tipping point of a political transformation taking place in Egypt as news surfaces about the deposed former president Mohamed Morsi. Morsi, angered many Egyptians when he tried to rush a referendum on a new constitution, which some feel would expand his executive power while curtailing rights for women and religious

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  In the last couple of weeks, Over 5,000 demonstrators have been injured as the world watched as Turks rang the clarion call for democratic reforms. What started as a few young Turks protesting the construction of a shopping mall at Taksim Gezi Park, quickly escalated to more than 90 demonstrations across the country.  There are more to the protests than a park.   

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Not motivated to write this week. However, feel free to check out some of my videos on youtube.  Here are some videos I made recently GUNS TED CRUZ on Israel  New Zeland Passing Gay Marriage AMY GOODMAN on witnessing Genocide Here is my channel http://www.youtube.com/user/Sagefrakrobatik

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  While the Affordable Health Care Act comes closer to full implementation, Congressional Republicans continue to try to repeal the legislation, as financially-strapped Americans (53 million) are reluctant to visit the doctor.   According to a 2012 survey by the Center for Disease Control, 15.3 percent of the population doesn't  have health insurance. 

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  As Obama releases his new budget for 2014  the national debt reaches 17 trillion dollars. Moreover, the country hasn't  had a surplus for the last eight years. Congressional Budget Office   There are a variety of reasons why the government's budget has retain a deficit for the last eight years. Lawmakers on both sides of the political spectrum are

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   Last week the Pew Research Center released its annual study on the media and raised concerns over the erosion of the public's trust in the media and the increasing political polarization of cable news.    According to the annual “State of the Media” report,  during a ten-week period in the last election cycle 14 percent of the coverage about Barack Obama on FOX

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   Last Wednesday the media marked the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war. Numerous news organizations chronicled the war's unfolding over the last decade. The Iraq war was set out to become the crown jewel of neo-conservative ideology, but  instead turned into one of the greatest foreign policy disasters in U.S. history.   The united states invaded Iraq

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WELCOME TO NAIROBI!    Recently Kenyans went to the ballot box to elect a man that is wanted by the International Criminal Courts for crimes against humanity. Uhuru Kenyatta, son of the Jomo Kenyatta, leading figure for Kenya's independence, has won the second mutli-party presidential election.      Kenya is a country in a region with a distinct

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   February is black history month—it is a time to reflect on the many contributions African-Americans have made to this country. It is also a time to reflect on the current economic, social and political issues facing the black community. Arguably, one of the most salient issues that confront the African-American community is the mass incarceration of its

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You don't have to be an economic fortuneteller to know that President Obama was going to address economic inequality in his state of the union address last week. The wealth- distributor-in-chief, made it clear that the economy was skewed in favor of the rich and that he was going to change that by using his political capital to raise minimum wage.     Recent statistics

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  Last week, The Justice Department released memos regarding the legality of the U.S. drone program operating abroad, namely in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. The release of the memos surfaced at the same time John Brennan is being confirmed in front of the Senate for the new head of the Central Intelligence Agency. The news of the memos and the confirmation

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The Hawks were out on the hunt last week during the Senate Committee for Armed Services hearing over the confirmation of Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense.   Republicans like Lindsey Graham, James Inhofe and newcomer Ted Cruz from Texas were clearly in a feeding frenzy.  While Dems mainly stuck to safer and mundane topics, like the managing

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There is no better time to misuse history  then election season. Recently, front-runner Rick Sanatorium claimed that government control of schools is “anachronistic,” and began in the age of industrialization. However, Sanatorium,a No Child Left Behind supporter, is not exactly correct.  Advocacy  for government intervention in education is as old as

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The protest in Tunisian lit a match that sparked a revolution throughout the Middle East. Two years into this massive protest Syria struggles to find peace and tranquility amiss perpetual violence. The Al-Assad regime has promised to compromise and make political and economic concessions, but for the protesters the reforms were nominal.  In the summer of

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 I never thought 50 cent would return to Africa after he his gold chain was stolen while on stage in Angola. But he came back. This time he visited Somalia. He came a few weeks ago to help solve hunger in a desolate famined environment. Last week rapper 50 cent made a trip to Somalia to help those in need. Curtis Jackson, also known as 50 cent, said he plans to provide one billion

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In 2004 There was hardly any discussion of an impeding financial disaster. At the time, Europe wanted the Bush administration to reduce its trade and budget deficits so that the dollar could be strengthen while the value of the Euro declines. Nearly ten years later, the European economy faces a multitude of economic issues that have led to riots in Greece and elsewhere.  The

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As the war in Afghanistan comes to a conclusion efforts are made to increase dialogue between the Afghan gov. and the Taliban. Negotiations, moderated by Saudia Arabia, are schedule for the following weeks and the Taliban is trying to open an outpost in Doha, Qatar. For the last decade the war in Afghanistan has overthrown a religiously draconian-led makeshift government, but has

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The United States isn’t the only superpower gearing up for a heated political performance, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, is looking to seize the crown of the Kremlin for the march 4,  election. In a 5,000 word article for Russian business newspaper “Vedomosti” Putin explained his platform for improving and stabilizing the Russian economy. We need an economy with competitive industries and

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I hear it all the time. "We should kick them out (illegal immigrants)," "they dont belong here they should come in legally." As the political debates heat up one topic that is going to be crucial this election is season is immigration. The political contrast on this issue is stark. While Romney has taken up a hardliner approach to immigration, vowing to veto the DREAM Act, both Gingrich and

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  Ever since The UK-based Sharia proponent, Anjem Chodrary attempted to come to America to promote sharia law, Some Americans have been frantic over the non-existent threat of Islamic jurisprudence. Recently, seventy percent of Oklahoma citizens voted for an amendment that would ban the courts from implementing Sharia law. In addition law makers in Tennessee, the same state

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