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By Mark Karlin

The Civil War ended in 1865, but we are still two Americas.

The Republican Party is one – composed of Neo-Confederacy politicians, corporations and Wall Street titans who want fixed markets to cover their losses at the taxpayer’s expense, and fundamentalists who believe (in general) in a divine guarantee of white entitlement.

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BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG

By Mark Karlin

Our hearts and spirits soared as Barack Obama was swept into the White House in a landslide on election day in 2008.

It was one of those historic moments of hope, of the dark cloud of the Bush-Cheney years being lifted from our shoulders, of a desire for a restored democracy being fulfilled, of a candidate worthy of our great nation being elected.

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BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG

By Mark Karlin

No, there's no proof that the U.S. was behind the coup of a leftist president in Honduras, or that Obama signed off on it with a wink-and-a-nod (God help us!), but given the U.S. history of supporting right wing bloody regimes, coups and militias in Central America, the likelihood that there was rogue or secret CIA involvement -- or military advisors from the former School of the Americas that trained Latin American military leaders in suppression and torture -- runs pretty high, given the history of U.S. intervention.

The School of the Americas, located at Fort Benning, Georgia, tried to fool us all by renaming itself the "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation."  That sure is a warm and fuzzy branding, isn't it?

But given's President Obama's deep-seated aversion to "rocking the boat" and actually accomplishing real change, we suspect the School of the Americas (SOA) today is pretty much the same as the old one.

For decades, the U.S. controlled central America through a string of tin horn military killers trained at the SOA.  As South and Central America recently saw many nations turn liberal through the popular vote -- and the voice of Hugo Chavez grated in the ears of Neo-Cons -- even the Bush Administration feared taking on a populace that had grown tired of proxy U.S. rule through murderous dictators.

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BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG

By Mark Karlin

If you've checked the mega-giant online retailer lately, Amazon.com, mutant demagogue Glenn Beck's latest book is number one (very possibly ghost written by some right wing failed comics) entitled, "Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine."

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A BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG

By Mark Karlin

Ah yes, another hate talker is accused of plotting violence, this time against federal judges:

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A BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG

BY Mark Karlin

Since shortly after 9/11, BuzzFlash.com and other progressive sites -- as well as many a book -- offered extensive information that appeared to closely link some members of the Saudi Royal family to financing and supporting Al-Qaeda. This was something that the Bush Administration went to great lengths to deny, but their deference to the Saudis (including George W. walking pinky-entwined-with-pinky with Saudi princes, for real) was really all as usual about oil.

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BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG

By Mark Karlin

The goal and slogan of "healthcare reform" should be quite simple: "Medicare for Everyone."

Why do we have to wait until we are 65 to be guaranteed the right of health coverage?

Who is publicly against Medicare? Just the fringe right wing loonies in the GOP (although a larger number of Republican politicians oppose it as a government entitlement, but won't say so because they would be slaughtered at the polls by outraged seniors who love their Medicare.)

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A BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG
by Mark Karlin

Is our heartfelt support of Green Revolution in part an outlet for our own frustration in the U.S. to rein in corporate control of our governnment?

That's a good question as BuzzFlash participates in the electric support for Iran's version of a courageous pro-democracy movement. The intensity and passion are particularly felt in the real-time exchanges and activity on Twitter.

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BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG

By Mark Karlin

The threat to the white male oligarchy of the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor had gotten so out of hand that if it weren't for the inspiring drama of the Green Revolution, I might have been aphyxiated by now with the hypocrisy of it all.

Here we have the white male Republicans of Wall Street cratering our economy, only to be bailed out by middle and working class taxpayers. The Wall Street river boat gamblers lost their bets and then we gave them hundreds of billions of dollars in welfare.

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BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG

BY Mark Karlin

If the American public who was outraged by the theft of the election from Al Gore in 2000 were as courageous and defiant then as the Green Revolution in Iran is now, we may not have had to endure 8 years of destruction to America and the world under Bush and Cheney.

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