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As Haiti crumbles, indigenous lands are being stolen to make copper mines, our water becomes poisoned and sparse and the economy continues to fall into the arms of this capitalist façade, it's hard to see how people can have much "hope" or feelings of "change" in the form of a democratic government.
President Obama has reached his first full year in office. On the campaign trail, in speeches that sent thrills up Chris Matthews' legs, and in that soaring inaugural address, we were led to believe he would be unlike any other President we have had before.
