Fareed speaks with Michael Porter, a professor at the Harvard Business School, about a groundbreaking new Social Progress Index – and how the United States is lagging on many indicators. Watch the video for the full interview or on GPS this Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN.
U.S. is number 70 in Health and Wellness
When a country has the money and then refuses to spend it on the basic health and wellness of it’s citizens, that is criminal and oppressive.
“Since the recent Anti-Colonial Anarchism or Decolonization poster went viral I’ve been privileged, as the poster’s maker, to take part in several conversations it has provoked.”
“A scientific study done at Princeton University indicates that the United States is no longer a Democracy. The country has now morphed into an Oligarchy.”
Has the U.S. every been ruled by ‘the people’?
The U.S. has never been a democracy. The U.S. is a republic with democratic ideals.
Dr. Cornel West has been saying that the U.S. is a plutocracy and an oligarchy ever since I started listening to him on Smiley & West.
Sign the ColorOfChange.Org petition and demand the D.O.J. to take immediate action by seeing to it that NYPD Officer Richard Haste is put away where he can no longer harm unarmed teenagers on the s…
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Nearly 100 people in the last five years have been murdered by active users of the leading racist website, Stormfront, according to a report released today by the SPLC’s Intelligence Project.
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“There is a strange phenomena taking place in America. This country has spent trillions in its war on terror, yet turned a blind eye to the terrorist right here at home.”
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“3. The level of hateful tweets went from zero to off the charts. With many of these trolls, I would respond once and then block them, or just block them. One such troll, @vincentBrook666, tweeted the following to me in all caps.”
Thank you to Martha Wood for tweeting about this.
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Two convicted sex offenders, charged with raping and murdering 4 women in Southern California, wore ankle monitors at the time of the alleged crimes, police say
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Peter Bergen and David Sterman say the Kansas Jewish Center killings are part of lethal violence in the U.S. that outstrips al Qaeda-influenced attacks.
Since 9/11, right wing extremists have killed more in U.S. than those motivated by al Qaeda
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“(CNN) – Over 50 years after Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, the issue of race is back in the political headlines, after comments from Attorney General Eric Holder and events marking the anniversary of the law’s passage renewed the dialogue over race relations in the 21st century.”
No surprise over this ‘news’.
