Bulletin N° 684
Subject: The
US Electoral Process and What it Produces . . . .
23 February 2016
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
The final episode of Oliver Stone’s documentary, “The
Untold History of the United States”, serves as prologue to the primary
elections that are now underway in the U.S.
Also, see the 12 items below for a review of important issues in the trajectory of
contemporary American politics.
Sincerely,
Francis Feeley
Professor of American Studies
University of Grenoble-3
Director of Research
University of Paris-Nanterre
Center for the Advanced Study of American
Institutions and Social Movements
The University of California-San Diego
a.
Ralph
Nader: A Cover for Corporatism in Scalia's "Originalism"
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=15702
Ralph Nader says Scalia interpreted the constitution hypocritically as he
extended the bill of rights from persons to corporations
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b.
The American Century
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6139.htm
by Henry R. Luce (Feb. 1941)
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c.
The Century of the
Common Man
http://www1.american.edu/epiphany/CCM.htm
by Henry Wallace
(May 1942)
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d.
The Project
for the New American Century (PNAC)
https://web.archive.org/web/20130112203305/http://www.newamericancentury.org/
William Kristol, Chairman (1997)
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e.
University of Arizona Students Hurl Insults, and Litter,
at Mosque in Tucson
By Fernanda
Santos
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f.
Computer Voting and
Stealing Democracy
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=14545
Larry Wilkerson says, that computerized voting has increased the capacity of
cheating with precision, consistency and efficiency without any forensic
evidence -
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g.
A Dramatic
Escalation Appears Imminent
Week Eighteen of the Russian Intervention in Syria
http://www.unz.com/tsaker/week-eighteen-of-the-russian-intervention-in-syria-a-dramatic-escalation-appears-imminent/
The Saker
The
situation in Syria has reached a watershed moment and a dramatic escalation of
the war appears imminent. Let’s look again at how we reached this point.
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h.
The Syrian Sea of
Hostility
by Pepe
Escobar
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i.
What Turkey & Saudi
Arabia Aim to Gain with Possible Ground Invasion in Syria
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=15678
Col. Larry Wilkerson says Turkish and Saudi officials may be bluffing, but the
prospect nevertheless is a calamity reminiscent of pre-World War I conditions -
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j.
Skin in the
Game: Poor Kids and Patriots
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=14763
Larry Wilkerson says Gen. Dennis Laich's book - Skin
in the Game - demonstrates that an all volunteer military force is no longer
sustainable, morally nor fiscally -
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k.
VOTE
SMART
https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/27110/bernie-sanders/47/military-personnel#.VsrMZeavPh5
Project
Vote Smart provides free, unbiased, in-depth information about current
officials, candidates, issues, legislation, and voting. Non-partisan and nonprofit ...
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