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By Samuel Vargo
A 'Sin Eater's' Mess: DOJ's Report Freeing Darren Wilson of Blame and 26 Recommendations for Fixing the Ferguson Police 
The U.S. Department of Justice's report, issued Wednesday, March 4, in a set of two-tiered, separate set of legal findings and opinions only muddles up the current state of law and order in not only Ferguson, but in the United State of America, overall.
The United States and Russia are rushing, relentlessly, toward war, unless cooler voices are heard and heeded. Those voices are not being heard in our mass media or heeded by our politicians.
20 signs that we live in a culture that dehumanizes women and tolerates, if not promotes, violence against them.
The Department of Justice is planning to bring criminal corruption charges against Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), a U.S. official confirmed Friday. The charges are expected to relate to an investigation involving a Florida ophthalmologist who is a close ally and donor to the senator. Menendez's relationship with the Florida ophthalmologist, Salomon Melgen, has been under scrutiny for more than two years. On Capitol Hill, Menendez has maintained a prominent role among Senate Democrats in recent months, even after losing his gavel as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee as Republicans assumed control of the Senate.
By Rob Kall
Facilitating a Disruptive Emergence To Replace the Existing Elite System Running the Planet 
We need to find a solution to the current elite, toxic world system. Would that solution be a revolution, a system revision... or the facilitation of a disruptive emergence that replaces the current system?
The Fed's actions -- from bailing out the banks to its Quantitative Easing programs -- have boosted stocks and saved Wall Street, but the benefits have been slow to reach Main Street. Workers have not yet shared in the recovery. Household income is down, not up since the recession. The vast majority of Americans have not recovered the wealth lost in that calamity.
By Sherwood Ross
3 U.S. Nuclear War Labs Should Be Shut The nation's three nuclear research laboratories are running on a treadmill of self-perpetuation that is going to cost the taxpayers a trillion dollars for nuclear weapons they likely do not want and certainly do not need. Greg Mello's remarks probably will surprise many Americans as they are not being informed of the operations of the labs and their role in enhancing the nuclear danger to humanity.
By Eugene Elander
In honor of Selma, Let's Abolish Ferguson! What would it take to really improve the safety and lives of residents of Ferguson, Missouri? A strong case can be made that they would be better off as part of their County rather than living in such a reactionary and racist city. Ferguson should be abolished by the State of Missouri.
Hundreds of people from more than 18 states have converged at Creech Air Force Base for an event organized by the peace group CODEPINK coined #ShutDownCreech to protest the flight of killer drones from the base. Activists have created 100 tombstones with the names and ages of children murdered by US drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen.
While lesser Americans face years in jail for leaking secrets -- even to inform fellow citizens of government abuses -- retired Gen. David Petraeus gets a misdemeanor wrist-slap for exposing covert officers and lying about it, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who was jailed just for trying to ask Petraeus a question.
A 2.8-million-year-old battered jawbone from Ethiopia may represent the earliest ancient human fossil ever discovered--pushing back the known origins of humankind by 500,000 years. The remains, alongside a digital reconstruction of a damaged fossil from a key early-human species, point to an evolutionary explosion at the dawn of our genus, Homo. Modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the latest link in a chain of ancestry that stretches back 5 to 7 million years to a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos, humanity's two closest living relatives. An incomplete fossil record means that researchers have had a hard time finding the other links of that chain, and distinguishing true human ancestors from evolutionary dead-ends--side branches in the family tree. "It became very clear that there was too much variation to accommodate just one species."
At her Harvard commencement speech, "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems "worth more than any qualification I ever earned."
Two of the globe's most prominent women, the pop singer Madonna and the French far right leader Marine Le Pen, are to meet to discuss their divergent political views. Ms Le Pen has accepted an invitation from Madonna to "have a drink" with the American singer and explain her beliefs "from her own mouth". Madonna made the offer live on a French TV news show on Monday night a few days after she described Ms Le Pen's Front National party as "fascist". In 2012, the pop star's stage show included a brief video clip of Ms Le Pen with a swastika superimposed on her forehead. Asked about her previous attacks on Ms Le Pen and the Front National, she said: "What I want is peace in the world. My first thought about Marine Le Pen is that I would like to meet her and talk to her and hear from her own mouth, right in my own ears, what she believes in."
Senator Jim Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, became the object of global ridicule recently when he sauntered onto the floor of the world's greatest deliberative body with what he declared was persuasive evidence climate change was a hoax. In his hands was a snowball. Those concerned about climate change for themselves and future generations should take heart though. Inhofe doesn't misunderstand the science; rather, he doesn't need science as his guide, because God has already assured him there is nothing to fear. "The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous," he said.
A New York judge ordered a Papa John's pizza restaurant franchise and its owner to fork over more than $2 million after short-changing hundreds of delivery workers and shaving hours from their paychecks, prosecutors said on Thursday. The judgment comes amid a national debate over minimum wage laws that has sparked protests by fast-food employees and prompted cities across the United States to propose wage increases for their lowest-paid workers.
By Thomas Farrell
Is Pope Francis Ready to Fight the Dragon -- the American Catholic Right? It has been announced that Pope Francis plans to issue an official papal encyclical about climate change. But the unprecedented new encyclical has not yet been formally promulgated and issued. However, the American Catholic right has already started decrying his anticipated encyclical. But is Pope Francis ready to fight the dragon -- the American Catholic right? Let's size up Pope Francis.
Has TV journalism changed much since March 9, 1954?
Sheryl McDonald, a retiree, voted for both Presidents Bush. "But I'm finding out they did some things we got stuck with," she said. "I do not want to see Jeb Bush run," she added. "He turns me off."
The United Nations and Libya: Again
Horace G. Campbell, a veteran Pan Africanist is a Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University, and author of the book Global NATO and Catastrophic Failure in Libya, offers an extensive analysis on power game around and in Libya - ISIS and its money - and points to the real culprit of the situation: NATO's aggression. Other players are exposed.
When the House created its Benghazi Select Committee last year, it seemed like a joke--derided by mocking Democrats and eye-rolling Republicans, who'd already run through multiple investigations and hearings on the U.S. consulate attack. Then the committee revealed Hillary Clinton had used multiple personal email accounts for official business at the State Department. And suddenly, Democrats are terrified--terrified that the Benghazi panel is about to become the House Select Committee to take down Clinton, their presumptive presidential nominee. "I did not want to believe it, but everything I've seen so far has led me to believe that this is an effort to go after Hillary Clinton. Period. Clearly this has been a very much drawn out process," Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the Benghazi committee, said.
The future of Obamacare could be decided on Friday, when nine justices of the Supreme Court meet in private.
In a light moment, Chris Matthews addressed his wife Kathleen Matthews' planned run for Congress in Maryland, promising to be transparent and fair about the whole thing. It's not set in stone yet, but Matthews couldn't help but smile as he talked about his wife's political ambitions. He confirmed that yes, Kathleen is taking a "serious look" at running for Congress, and while they haven't had much time to discuss the matter just yet, "I know her commitment runs truly deep."
Washington, D.C., March 3, 2015-- Physicians and public health officials know that recently vaccinated individuals can spread disease and that contact with the immunocompromised can be especially dangerous. "The public health community is blaming unvaccinated children for the outbreak of measles at Disneyland, but the illnesses could just as easily have occurred due to contact with a recently vaccinated individual," says Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation. ... "Evidence indicates that recently vaccinated individuals should be quarantined in order to protect the public."
A freight train hauling more than 100 cars of oil derailed in rural northwest Illinois on Thursday, which ignited at least two of the containers of crude, the railroad said.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) might be tired of talking about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "You're not going to be the sixteenth writer who asks me about Hillary, are you?" Sanders told Bloomberg's David Weigel, according to a piece published Thursday. "I know you would not do that. You want to ask me about the state of the economy, unemployment, poverty. You would not ask me about my views on Hillary Clinton." Sanders and other lawmakers have been asked this week about Clinton's use of a private email account during her time at the State Department. While others have used private emails while serving in office, Clinton's situation is unusual because her email used a private computer server registered to her family's home address in Chappaqua, N.Y.
Dr. King had to lead a dangerous march from Selma for voting rights that were supposedly guaranteed a century earlier by the 15th Amendment to the Constitution -- rights won after 600,000 Americans fought to their deaths between Bull Run and Gettysburg. The struggle for civil and human rights did not begin 50 years ago, and it will not end in another 50. It is a centuries-long story of advance and retreat.
By earl ofari hutchinson
The Issue for the Supreme Court is Not Obamacare, But Obama U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was lambasted as a turncoat, traitor, and betrayer by conservatives when he cast the deciding fifth vote in 2012 upholding the constitutional soundness of the Affordable Care Act. This allowed states and the federal government to put in an array of measures to fully implement the act. That didn't end the matter.
By Dave Lindorff
Reichstag or 'Planet of the Apes'?: Hooting American Yahoos on the Benches and Racist Israeli Demagogue on the Podium 
Netanyahu's speach to a hooting bunch of Congressional yahoos recalls a certain fascist leader's speech to the Reichstag or the Ape Congress in Boulle's short story, write's TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
the actions and motives Netanyahu assigns to Iran are factually wrong. Iran is not seeking nuclear weapons, has not carried on weapons research of this nature in over a decade, and is willing to commit itself to an inspections regime that will keep track of its good intentions in this regard. This stance is attested to by nearly every Western intelligence agency, and the Israeli intelligence organizations as well.
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Sheldon Adelson, the casino tycoon who has proposed nuking Iran, was in the gallery as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu delivered his "State of the Union" speech to a rapt and rapturous U.S. Congress. After all, Adelson funds both Netanyahu and the Republican Right, as Bill Moyers and Michael Winship note.
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Peter Greene: David Brooks Gets Everything Wrong (Again); by Diane RAVITCH & Peter Greene
Peter Greene reviews David Brooks' latest effort to advise the nation about education issues. Brooks argues that it would be a mistake to try to reduce poverty by redistributionist policies (I assume he means such policies as higher taxes on billionaires or direct benefits to those who are poor or government programs for job creation); instead, we should count on education to reduce inequality and poverty. Brooks says that redistributionists don't get it, that they believe that modern capitalism is fundamentally broken, but that their view is biased by short-term effects of the recession. GREENE offers two responses for that pair of thought bubbles: "First, it's not clear whether capitalism is broken or not because we are currently tangled up in some sort of twisted fun-house mirror version of faux capitalism where the free market has been obliterated by a controlled money-sucking machine run by the government on behalf of the oligarchs. I'm actually a fan of capitalism, but what we currently have in this country is not capitalism at all." go to the link of rate second and more....
cores of U.S. lawmakers are converging on tiny Selma, Alabama, for a large commemoration of a civil rights anniversary. But their ranks don't include a single member of House Republican leadership -- a point that isn't lost on congressional black leaders. None of the top leaders -- House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy or Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was once thought likely to attend to atone for reports that he once spoke before a white supremacist group -- will be in Selma for the three-day event that commemorates the 1965 march and the violence that protesters faced at the hands of white police officers. A number of rank-and-file Republicans have been aggressively lobbying their colleagues to attend, and several black lawmakers concurred. "It is very disappointing that not a single Republican leader sees the value in participating in this 50th commemoration of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. I had hoped that some of the leadership would attend, but apparently none of them will," said Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina. "The Republicans always talk about trying to change their brand and be more appealing to minority folks and be in touch with the interests of African-Americans. This is very disappointing."
A plane piloted by Harrison Ford crashed on a Los Angeles area golf course on Thursday afternoon, leaving the actor injured but "ok" according to his son. Ford's involvement in the crash on Penmar Golf Course in Venice was also confirmed by multiple news organizations. Ford has been involved in multiple plane crashes over the years, most notably in 2000 when he made a crash landing in his six-passenger plane in Nebraska. In 1999, a helicopter he was piloting crashed in Santa Clarita, California. He escaped unharmed both times.
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