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Arshad M Khan: Curious Appointments -- Trump Nominees and Their Expertise
Trump's nominees for his cabinet leave one thinking. Is he losing it in his old age? But there is something else. Trump demands loyalty above all. |
 Jay Janson: Israel's Own Leaders Incite Anti-Semitism by Ordering Jewish Pilots to Murder Thousands of Children THE MASS MURDER OF PALESTINIAN CHILDREN PLUS WEST BANK SETTLER CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY HAS PRODUCED A STEREOTYPED ANTISEMITISM WITH ISRAELI'S LEADERS' GENOCIDAL EXTERMINATION OF PALESTINIANS FOR THEIR LAND, THEIR HOMES AND ORCHARDS! 4  |
 Thomas Knapp: A Serious Question About the US Constitution As Rita Mae Brown wrote in 1983 (you may have seen the quote attributed to others), "insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results." That's "constitutionalism" in a nutshell. |
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Mark Sashine: Ordinary Fascism 2.0: Land of the Grift
Grifters are in power. Please, understand that. Do not pretend you do not see it. 2 |
 Meryl Ann Butler: NDEs, Spirit and Politics In times like these I often take solace in remembering the kinds of experiences I've had that support my greater perspective on life, experiences that help me lift myself out of the dregs of despair and move toward the hopefulness of possibilities. My NDE is one of them. | |
 Mark Lansvin: Turkey's war on the Kurds fuels a growing humanitarian crisis in the Middle East Turkey's aggressive military campaigns against Kurdish populations in Syria and Iraq have reignited scrutiny of its historical and ongoing policies toward ethnic minorities. |
 Meryl Ann Butler: Naomi Wolf: Pfizer's Crimes Against Humanity ...unearthing this criminal evidence is painful indeed...seeing this material is like being among the Allied soldiers who first opened the gates of Auschwitz. 8 |
 Bob Passi: The Quiet Coup: Revisiting the JFK Assassination Tracing the return to power of the American economic elite, especially after the assassination of JFK, but culminating with the election of Donald Trump. 1 |
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David Swanson: Peace Decides Elections
The United States just held a presidential election between two pro-war, militarist candidates, each of whom could have been expected to shift yet more funding into war preparations, to arm the genocide in Palestine, and to wage and threaten war with abandon. And yet peace was, as it often is, a deciding factor. 3 |
 Carl Petersen: Do You Want a Bag With That? Remember when companies appreciated your business? I realized those days were long gone as I piled five McDonald's meals on the front seat of my car. |
 Citizen News Service - CNS: Decades of failure to end TB and tobacco use Please consider the article below based on insights from an expert from one of the least developed countries (Nepal) that argues based on science and evidence on decades of failures in both: preventing TB and tobacco deaths worldwide. Even one TB and tobacco death is a death too many - because science has shown how to prevent both. |
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David Swanson: The Message and War
One insight in particular strikes me, and it is related to what Coates regrets about his article on reparations, namely his use of the example of German reparations to Israel. |
David Swanson: Cherry Trees Blooming in Winter
In my town the cherry trees now bloom as winter approaches, and the curious thing is that people no longer mention the lovely spring days in November without adding they they are aware it's an indication of a climate collapse that may rapidly render human life on Earth impossible. Everyone not only knows it but says it. |
 Thomas Knapp: Social Media Users Can Walk And Chew Gum. Why Abandon One For The Other? If you just can't stand the "MAGAts" on X, or the "leftards" on Bluesky, you can leave one platform or the other ... or you can learn to walk and chew gum at the same time by following, ignoring, and blocking to create the experiences you want in more than one forum. 2 |
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Gary Lindorff: If there is a nuclear war, I will blame Biden. (Joe obviously hasn't read "Frankenstein")
I always assumed that if there was going to be a WW3, America would be the one to start it because of our "hot" love affair with the Bomb 1 |
 Meryl Ann Butler: Mark Thompson: Vote Hacking, Spoonamore's "Duty to Warn" Letter The Mark Thompson Show looks at the 'Duty To Warn' Letter to Vice President Kamala Harris by Stephen Spoonamore 3 |
 Elayne Clift: Taking Stock of Election Shock Usually around this time I begin thinking about writing my cheery Christmas letter to share the highlights of another year in the life of our family. This year is different. I'm still trying to grasp what just happened and what it will mean for all of us. 1 |
 Carl Petersen: Why Was This School Board Race So Close? Scott Schmerelson's reaction to the latest Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) scandal exemplifies why many were conflicted about supporting his reelection. |
 Meryl Ann Butler: "The Election Ain't Over" Greg Palast on Mark Thompson Show Posted on YouTube, Nov. 21, 2024: Greg Palast interviewed on The Mark Thompson Show: "The Election Ain't Over" Greg Palast: New Details on Ballots Thrown Out." 1 |
Steven Jonas: Post-Election Reflections
This is a somewhat belated, collection of observations, analyses of the Presidential election. A few major points are: as the votes keep coming in, it is clear that Trump won no "mandate." He may not have even cleared 50% of the popular vote. His four main themes were (and still are): racism, sexism, Christian nationalism and what I call "petitbourgeosieism." His main goal is to destroy as much of the Federal govt. as he can 1 |
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Michael Roberts: How Empires Fall: The United States In Decline
Trump may resort to a willy-nilly program of belligerence, threatening military retaliation or economic reprisals like a petulant man-child. |
Michael Roberts: The Democratic War Party and The American Working Class
VP Harris's embrace of such divisive politicians mixed in with the party's meritocratic and celebrity culture further alienated working class voters. 1 |
 Citizen News Service - CNS: Are we on the wrong side of the #endTB track? Please consider the below article based on insights from those who have served the fight against TB for decades - including TB survivor and people living with HIV. Of course, over the decades a lot of work has been done to control TB- but we are still not in TB-elimination mode. Millions have got lifesaving TB services but millions more have also got newly infected with TB - year after year. High time we move to end TB mode. |
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Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh: Travels, horror, analysis, action
Democrats discover that backing genocide is not a winning issue. Somebody rigged the US elections, and it was AIPAC and other Zionists. (who will investigate and publish the data?) 2 |
 Meryl Ann Butler: Sanders: No more arms sales to Netanyahu Bernie Sanders published this OpEd, "No more arms sales to Netanyahu," in the WaPo today, Nov. 18, 2024. 2 |
 Meryl Ann Butler: Virginia Mayor Calls for Ranked Choice Voting This Sunday's guest column for the Virginian-Pilot, "Time for Virginia to Embrace Ranked Choice Voting" reprinted in the PilotOnline digital Edition was written by mayor of Newport News, Virginia; Phillip Jones. 2 |
 William Dunkerley: Alert: Americans Just Put in Grave Danger, War Racketeers to Blame President Biden puts us in jeopardy of retaliation from nuclear-weapon equipped Russia. Are we now unsafe? Who's behand Biden's action that puts us all at risk? |
Jason Sibert: Trumpian Isolationism in the Nuclear Age
This story charts a path to international norms in an era of Trumpian internationalism. |
 Bob Gaydos: The unpredictable nature of things I'm trying to reduce the entropy in my part of the world. Challenging. |
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