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Steven Sahiounie: Just nuke Gaza, get it over quick, advises US Representative Tim Walberg, Evangelical Zionist
This article talks about the republican senator Tim Walberg's statement on just nuke the people of Gaza to finish the war |
 Steven Jonas: The "Seven Magic Tricks." Hey, Don, How they Doin' for Ya Now?" In past columns (all referenced in the text below), written over several years, I have described and discussed his use of his six (then Seven) "Magic Tricks," in dealing with various issues that have risen for him. This column takes a look at how he is using them in his present predicament(s), and how indeed they are failing him. |
 Dave Lefcourt: Early this morning Israel Attacked Iran as well as military airfields and radar sites in Syria and Iraq In the early hours today Israel attacked Iran as well as military airfields in Syria & Iraq. This latest attack came days after Iran sent missiles & drones into Israel in retaliation of Israel attacking the Iranian consulate building n Damascus, Syria. What is worrisome at this point these retaliatory strikes by Israel & Iran could lead to a Middle East conflagration w/ worldwide implications. |
 Michael Morrissey: How The New York Times and Academia Kept the Biggest Secret of the Pentagon Papers There should never have been any question about JFK's withdrawal plan from Vietnam or LBJ's reversal of it. It has been a false debate intended to distract us from the real question: Was JFK killed by the warmongers? 4  |
 Elayne Clift: Just How Broken is Our Healthcare System? A young woman dies in childbirth for lack of proper perinatal care. An elderly man can't afford meds to control his chronic conditions, so he rations them. A child is misdiagnosed in the emergency room. A patient waits months to see her doctor about a troublesome symptom. Stories like these abound. |
Pavlo Kuliuk: April 15 is coming soon: what will the noblest US taxpayers do?
Prostitutes paying taxes risk being punished for their work. In such a situation, paying taxes requires true nobility and patriotism. This is an unusual effect of decriminalization, and not the legalization of prostitution. 1 |
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Jason Sibert: The Language of Nuclear Weapons
This story is about the language of nuclear weapons in the international arena. |
Steven Jonas: 2024 Serialization of Steven Jonas' "The 15% Solution:" Chapter 3 - The Real Drug War
This column presents Section 1, Chapter 3, of the 2024 serialization of Steven Jonas' book: "The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022" (from the third printing, 2013). The book was first published in 1996. This Section is entitled "The History," and this Chapter, 3, is entitled "The Real Drug War." |
 Carl Petersen: Hate Did Not Win (So Far) Many candidates who ran on platforms based on their hatred of the LGBTQ+ community lost their races. Some others are still in the running. |
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Dan Cooper: Donnie Little Hands Again, as the Conflicted Voice of the GOP
Trump is basically just the messenger, given the chance to appoint Supreme Court Justices. But don't tell him that. He claims that HE overturned Roe, something that the GOP has not been able to accomplish for a half century. But now it is time to pay the piper for the GOP's agenda. |
Dr. Lenore Daniels: Escaping Trapdoors: An Email from the Biden-Harris Administration
An article in response to the Biden-Harris administration's student debt-forgiveness programs. 1 |
 Michael Chavers: To My Never Trump Republican Friends Are you more devoted to voting Republican than you are to a functioning government? Are you so committed to those MAGA Republicans that you would choose dictatorship over democracy and a functioning rule of law? |
 Bob Passi: Gaza: The End of Western Pretense What is going on in Gaza is, unfortunately, the culmination of a history of exploitive colonialism by the nations of Western civilization. 2 |
Robert Weiner: The Dangers of Trump-Era Isolationism
Isolationism is selfish and dangerous for America. It will only be to the benefit of Trump-era Republicans who are greedy for power and control of our nation's resources. |
 Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh: Genocide in Gaza, pogroms in the West Bank, occupation in USA Israel, failing to achieve its imperial interests and floundering in the past six months (only succeeding to kill civilians despite billions in US military aid), is trying to draw the US into a regional and possibly a global war hoping to change the dynamic. If they succeed in this (and I give it a 60% chance), they will end Zionism in the most catastrophic way 1 |
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Robert Weiner: Bragg MUST ASK Did Trump have Michael Cohen Pay Off the Other Women? Would Demonstrate Additional "Pattern and Practice"
Alvin Bragg must ask in Donald Trump's hush money trial whether or not his lawyer, Michael Cohen, also paid off women who made allegations against Trump. |
Steven Jonas: For the U.S., 'It's Just Like 1939.' Well, No."
Last week I published a column entitled: "In Eastern Europe, 'It's Just Like 1939.' Well, No." This one, also commenting on the phrase, "It's Just Like 1939," being used by a number of commentators who are dealing with the threat to U.S. Constitutional Democracy posed by the Trump/Heritage-Foundation/Project-2025, central to current Repub. doctrine. Indeed, back then, even with the Repubs., it was Right-wing, but different. |
David Swanson: What Does NATO Have to Do with the Genocide in GAZA?
The slaughter in Gaza could not exist without the U.S.-led military industrial complex, and its largest and most effective tool is NATO. One of NATO's many partners around the globe is Israel. |
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Artem Belov: The Shifting Castle: Siege Mentality and the Russian Paradigm of the "Threatened Majority"
Poland, Russia, Israel - all these countries, among others, have been accused of having a "siege mentality". I am convinced that all countries possess one - in some measure. But look upon the walls of that besieged castle - don't you notice its walls are made of rubber? 1 |
 Mark Lansvin: Remembering the Rwandan genocide 30 years on Unfortunately, the international community often struggles with political will and international solidarity to take decisive action to prevent or stop atrocities. |
Dr. Lenore Daniels: And So, This Is What?
This is an article in response to the attack against children in Palestine and the WCK. 1 |
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Steven Jonas: 2024 Serialization of Steven Jonas' "The 15% Solution:" Chapter 2
This column presents Section 1, Chapter 2, of the 2024 serialization of Steven Jonas' book: "The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022" (from the third printing, 2013). The book was first published in 1996. This Section is entitled "Setting the Stage," and this Chapter, 1, is entitled "The United States in 1995: Setting the Stage for Fascism." |
 Bob Gaydos: The dumbing down of America, cont. I don't know who needs to hear this, but the American education system is in crisis. Too many young people don't know things that used to be considered basic information you learned if you got through high school. |
 Carl Petersen: Schools For Thee, Not For Me The Charter School Industry spends millions trying to influence LAUSD School Board elections but fails to win in areas saturated with its schools. |
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Jason Sibert: On Arms Control in a Lawless World
This story addresses the new nuclear arms race and how to take steps to timmer it. |
 Carl Petersen: General Election School Board Candidates Finalized The Los Angeles County Clerk's preliminary certification of the primary results shows no change in the winners but a clear shift in momentum. |
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: The Grim Story of the Homeless dead on L.A. Streets
The oft-told tale of horror has become both the stuff of legend and the stuff of caution about poverty and destitution. That's the tale of woe of Shanghai China in the 1920s. Every morning dozens of bodies were swept up off that city's streets. They were the poorest of the poor who were desperately sick, impoverished, scorned, and of course, homeless. |
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Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh: Three announcements, 4 negative news, 7 positive news items
Israel used artificial intelligence to set 37,000 bombing locations. Even
when a potential single fighter was found in a building with 100 civilians,
it was OK. But most buildings had no hHamas fighters (they were and are in
tunnels). Read this unprecedented language and orders (never in history did
any military do this) |
David Swanson: Imagine There Are No Borders
Hundreds of thousands of people are charged with the crime of crossing a line that could not be a crime if there were no line, a crime that was invented in the United States in 1929 by enthusiastic racists of whom if there are any statues, I say, by all means tear them down. But tear down the border walls first. |
Arshad M Khan: Biden's Dilemma -- Gaza and an Election Year
The killing of aid workers in Gaza has outraged Biden, he says. Not enough to stop him sending more bombs that kill civilians, however. |
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