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President Obama has pardoned two birds each Thanksgiving for the past five years. In both 2009 and 2012, he pardoned more turkeys than people. Overall, Obama has granted clemency to just 39 people.

It has cost the United States $8 trillion to provide military security in the Gulf since 1976. The supreme tragedy is that the US has bankrupted itself ensuring military security for the oil-producing nations of the Gulf when oil production is destroying the world.

Unlike so many leaders who rise of power with the support of organized labor but then distance themselves from the movement, Mandela never broke the bond.

Nelson Mandela, Pensions, fast food workers, drone, Elizabeth Warren

This is a lesson and a caution.

It's time to officially accept the reality: A nuclear occupying power like Israel is comfortable in the current setting of negotiations.

Zealots for neoliberalism have created a humanitarian tragedy across the continent. It is our destiny to fight back

It is a society operating in defiance of all manner of human rights that has been clearly seen and exposed; as the thousands of Ethiopians protesting outside Saudi Arabian embassies across the world have chanted; “shame on you, shame on you, shame on you.”