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 Gerald Scorse: Crucial choices ahead for beloved, besieged Social Security Social Security affects a greater number of Americans than any other government program. A combination of factors (including the sharp right turn of the Republican party) has put its future in danger. 2  |
Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: Stop Hazara Shia Genocide Worldwide Rallies
The Hazara and Afghan community members held a rally in McPherson Square in Washington, DC on Sunday (Oct 8) to protest the killing of 35 schoolgirls inside the Kaaj Educational Center in the Dasht-e-Barchi district of Kabul, Afghanistan. Rallies were also held around the world in 64 countries and 92 cities as Hazara calling attention to the ongoing genocide of the ethnic and religious minority. |
Stansfield Smith: National Security State Censoring of Anti-Imperialist Voices part of their Long-Term Strategy to Control the Left
Discussion on how the US government and corporate America have manipulated and divided the left in the US. We also review the methods they use today to censor anti-imperialist voices. 1 |
 Carl Petersen: The LAUSD Superintendent Grabs More Power The Los Angeles Unified District (LAUSD) bureaucracy that was unable to stop a cyber attack against the school district can now hand out no-bid contracts to fix the problem. |
Rainer Shea: The CIA, movement wreckers, & the threats the communist movement faces
Assessing the CIA's tactics for undermining communism. |
 Monish Chatterjee: One fairly obvious and overlooked reason for the MAGA Chief's theft of classified national documents A plausible, somewhat overlooked explanation for DJT's theft of highly classified documents, and leaving them unprotected for 1-1/2 years. 7 |
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Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: Afghanistan one year after messy US withdrawal
A year ago, on August 15, Taliban swept into the Afghan capital of Kabul following the collapse of the US puppet government. The last member of the U.S. military left 15 days later, capping almost 20 tumultuous years of American involvement in the central Asian country. |
Jason Sibert: A New Look at Security
This story makes a discussion about the security implications of climate change. 2 |
 Rick Staggenborg, MD: The stealth plan for Medicare for all The "death spiral of medical insurance costs" might sound wonky, but it's the reason we should worry that all of us are going to be stuck in an insanely expensive, taxpayer-funded system of medical care delivery that puts profits over patients, just like any other private insurance. 24 |
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Robert Weiner: Recent Congress, Media Sensationalizing UFO "Sightings" Defuses Real Work When "Objects" Likely Not Extraterrestrial
The press ignores that UFOs are likely foreign spy satellites or asteroids of varied shapes. The "flashes of light" are likely sunlight reflections. The media and congress are pandering on the unproven instead of focusing on future missions to the moon and Mars. NASA and the press should quit pandering to UFO thrill seekers and consider UFOs as serious security threats to our country. |
 Thomas Knapp: Taxes, Benefits, and Inflation: When a Raise is Actually a Cut In at least some cases, the Social Security COLA may end up costing seniors more than they get. As Martin Luther observed of certain people in his Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount, government's "giving is of such a character, that the right hand gives, but the left hand takes." 1 |
David Gumpert: When Do We Start Calling These Mass Shootings What They Really Are: Politically Inspired Terrorism
The refusal of America's Republicans to help put a stop to mass shootings must at last be interpreted as endorsement of the violence to achieve political ends. 5 |
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Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan talks with Islamabad: TTP refuses to budge from demand of FATA merger reversal
The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has categorically stated that the banned group would not back down from its demand for the reversal of the merger of erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. The TTP said that "if the Pakistan government and its security agencies want peace, they would have to restore its previous status". |
Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: African Union calls for probe after 37 African migrants killed at Morocco-Spain border
African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat has called for an "immediate investigation" after the deaths of dozens of migrants trying to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Melilla. "I express my deep shock and concern at the violent and degrading treatment of African migrants attempting to cross an international border from #Morocco into #Spain, Mahamat tweeted. |
Steven Sahiounie: France views terrorists in Paris as enemies, but allies in Syria
This article demonstrates the double standards in France where terrorist are on trial in Paris but funded in Syria |
 Kelly Miller: Kelly Miller National FBI Whistleblower presents at National League of Cities Congressional Summit Exposing Political Corruption and experiencing direct retaliation from a Masonic Blackball |
Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: Egypt to transfer two strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia
Israel will agree to new security arrangements that will allow Egypt to transfer control of two strategic islands in the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia, the Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday. According to the Post, Israel will allow a multinational force of observers stationed on the Tiran and Sanafir islands - which ensured freedom of navigation at the Strait of Tiran - to be relocated to Egypt. |
Steven Sahiounie: US-Turkish terrorists use Obama's gift to attack bus with 12 dead and 14 wounded in Syria
This article explains how a US weapon given by the Obama administration to terrorists in Syria was used to kill 14 and injured 12 recently. |
 Bob Gaydos: A Supreme victory, but baseball's less than perfect Despite a landmark moment, there was yet another sign that the people running the game have lost all sense of what once made baseball America's pastime. Kissing off a possible perfect game is... not baseball. |
Rainer Shea: Systemic misery, our inner demons, & the psychology of fascist terror
Assessing the emotional causes behind reactionary violence. |
 George Eliason: UKRAINE admits IT Army volunteers are terrorists in their home countries What it means is the teenagers in the US Ukraine recruited from mostly Democratic households have the status of an ISIS terrorist with a weapon directly in front of you. 3 |
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Rainer Shea: How to stop movement wreckers: cadre discipline, security culture, & dialectical analysis
Assessing the tactics that movement wreckers use to sow discord. |
Saad Hafiz: Preventing the spread of violent extremism
Far-right and neo-fascist groups thrive in an enabling environment, drawing recruits by tapping alienation and grievances. It has led to an exponential increase in militia-type groups who espouse anti-government and anti-law enforcement views. Some groups pursue the unrealistic dream of the white ethnostate, cleansed of non-whites, ethnic minorities, and immigrants. |
 John Rachel: A Few Things Left Out of the Russia-Bashing Narrative Mind you, I'm categorically opposed to war and unprovoked aggression. But Putin and Lavrov respectfully requested that US/NATO imperial powers grant Russia some basic courtesy and understanding. US/NATO refused. Russia did and is doing what she had to do to protect itself from further intimidation and inevitable military assault. 93 |
 John Henry Egan: The Man Who Outlawed War Aristide Briand wanted to outlaw war but couldn't suspect that his actions only made the situation worse. |
 Dr. David Leffler: Military Veterans to Putin: Russian Troops Near Ukraine Can Become a Force for Peace President Putin could take a portion of the 100,000 troops deployed on the border of Ukraine to create a powerful and profound global influence of peace that very few may have anticipated. We urge President Putin to use these troops to establish what is called in military circles a Prevention Wing of the Military by immediately training them in Invincible Defense Technology (IDT). 1 |
Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: Turkey's charity train carrying 750 tons of aid leaves for Afghanistan
A special "charity train" carrying 750 tons of emergency goods under the coordination of Turkey's government left for Afghanistan from the Turkish capital Ankara on Thursday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced earlier this month that a charity train, carrying food, clothing, and health and emergency goods will be sent with the support of 10 NGOs. |
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Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: The United States to exploit souring of Taliban's relations with Pakistan?
All indications are that the US is preparing to fish in the troubled waters of the Taliban's tensions with Islamabad, according to M.K. Bhadrakumar, a former Indian diplomat. A recent discussion at the Washington-based think tank US Institute of Peace anticipated the likelihood that the recent border incidents on the Durand Line can potentially lead to a rupture in the relations between Kabul and Islamabad, Bhadrakumar. |
Abdus-Sattar Ghazali: Taliban call on Tajikistan, Uzbekistan to return Afghan Aircraft
The ruling Taliban in Afghanistan have warned neighboring Tajikistan and Uzbekistan of "consequences" in case they fail to return the Afghan Air Force aircraft and helicopters that were flown into their territories by fleeing pilots during the U.S. military exit in August last year. |
 John Rachel: A Radical Assessment of January 6 Joe Biden calls January 6 "The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War." The Congressional resolution which established the investigation of January 6 called the mob assault "one of the darkest days of our democracy."The Democratic Party elites are calling January 6 the domestic equivalent of the 911 attacks.　Did all of these people get their education watching Saturday morning cartoons? 157 |
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