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US among world leaders in death penalty, surpassed only by Saudi, Iran & Pakistan – Amnesty

Americans Seem To Love Killing As Long As Government Does It

Actually the US is far ahead of Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Pakistan. The US has spent the entire
21st century killing huge numbers of people in seven or eight countries.

https://www.rt.com/news/338625-amnesty-report-executions-injections/

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A young Muslim reader who blogs under the name Jones had a fascinating comment in yesterday’s thread about the porn calamity:

Authored by Thomas Palley,

2016 was supposed to have been the year of Jeb Bush versus Hillary Clinton: the year when the established Bush dynasty confronted the upstart rival Clinton Dynasty. But the year of the insider has turned into the year of the outsider. On both sides, voters have unexpectedly given vent to thirty years of accumulated anger with neoliberalism which has downsized their incomes and hopes.

In what he assures will be "an easy decision," Donald Trump has released details of his plan to "compel Mexico to pay for the wall." In a 600 word statement, Trump proposes, in a potentially devastating move for Mexico’s economy, to block billions of dollars in payments immigrants send back home until the nation made "a one-time payment of $5-10 billion" to the U.S.

A reader sends in this op-ed from a teacher, writing in The Guardian about the death of white working-class culture for British kids. The author, a white man, was raised working class, and focuses on a new think tank report showing that white working-class youth are at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to educational achievement. The writer blames Thatcherism for breaking the unions in the 1980s. Excerpts: