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Time to replace the SCOTUS 1.0 with SCOTUS 2.0 Before They Further Adulterate the Constitution By Rob Kall Time to replace the SCOTUS 1.0 with SCOTUS 2.0, along with new constitutional regulations and laws to make the best SCOTUS 2.0 and appellate justice system possible, because the current Supreme Court is adulterating the First Amendment, corrupting the constitution. Read More >>

The Student Loan Crisis: Privatization of Education as a Busines By Michael Roberts Only Interest Is to Generate Profits For Shareholders and Investors Read More >>

Religious Freedom Isn't About Employment "Accommodations" By Thomas Knapp There was never any question that Gerald Groff was free to exercise his religion as he chose. Yes, he had to choose between his religious beliefs and any number of jobs that weren't consistent with those beliefs. But we all have to make such choices, don't we? ... Unlike Groff, most of us don't go to court to get our religions unconstitutionally established in law as trump cards that employers must "accommodate." Read More >>

The US kept the Middle East destabilized to profit the military industrial complex: interview with Kevork Almassian By Steven Sahiounie This is an interview with Syrian Journalist Kevork Almassian about the latest developments in the Middle East and the new relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran Read More >>

Aborted Coup d'Etat in Russia: Who Got Benefits By Andy Holmes About the failed attempt of the rebellion in Russia Read More >>

Negotiations in the Ukraine War By Jason Sibert This story suggests a way to end the Ukraine War through diplomacy and international cooperation. Read More >>

SCOTUS Rules For Free Speech, While Upholding Slavery By Thomas Knapp Establishing a "protected class," entitled to involuntary service on the part of others, makes that "protected class" a class of slave owners, and everyone else their slaves. Read More >>

My love affair with print newspapers By Gerald Scorse The decline and possible extinction of print newspapers has been a sad thing to watch. For the writer, it's been particularly sad: he has to decide between a new technology and one he's lived with, and loved, for decades. Read More >>

Bidenomics - "Happy Meal-ing" Success By Brock Novak Political Success Messaging...Treat voters like kids...No attention span...30 second elevator pitch approach..."Value Pack", Quick Hit & Go Read More >>

The Haphazard, Conflicted Brain: The Bioevolutionary Basis of Contradictory Reasoning By Barbara and Bruce MacLean-Lerro Why are there not more critical thinkers? Some fault the educational system. Others blame mass media entertainment. Others blame advertising which intentionally discourages critical thinking. But what if the problem is also bio-evolutionary conflict between the ancestral and the deliberative brain? Is there a biological basis for lack of critical thinking? Is there a bio-evolutionary basis for the vulnerability to propaganda? Read More >>

"Better Living Through Chemistry" - LSD, DMT and The Postmodern Worldview By Blair Gelbond Wittgenstein - "to let the flies out of the fly bottle." Read More >>

To Those Who Would Save the World By Betsy Whitfill Are you hopeless and looking for a way forward in your life? How to find your way toward spiritual growth safely. Read More >>

Writing from Monhegan By Gary Lindorff Even though I didn't know it at the time,/ But my heart had grown weary / Of falling in love with distant places. / was just getting ready to slow my growing Read More >>

No more Astana peace talks for Syria By Steven Sahiounie This article talks about the latest Astana meeting and how it failed in finding a solution for the Syrian crisis Read More >>

Turkey Elections and the Game of Geopolitical Stratagem By Memory Christina Motsi The opposition parties have intricate domestic and geopolitical hurdles to reach the Presidential Complex in Ankara. Read More >>

An interesting, imperfect week By Bob Gaydos What happened while waiting for an indictment, arrest, conviction or imprisonment of you know who. Read More >>

Purge Interrupted By Carl Petersen The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) School Board pulls approval of the disputed Community Advisory Committee (CAC) roster from its agenda. Will the District use this delay to fix a broken Special Education system? Read More >>

The ceaseless desire for transformational leadership By Saad Hafiz People's pent-up desire for a new dynamic leader will not end with Imran Khan, as dreadful governance draws them to hope and miracles. The future mass movement promising change has to ensure maximum and sustained participation from all strata of society. Read More >>

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Putin joins global condemnation of Quran burning in Sweden Russian President Vladimir Putin has criticized Western countries that allow the burning of the Quran on grounds of free speech, saying such acts are criminalized by Russia. Putin made the remarks during a meeting with Muslims at the Juma Mosque in Dagestan's Derbent on Wednesday, where he was given a copy of the Quran as a gift. Read More >>

The SCOTUS Flawed Ruling On Affirmative Action A Historical Examination, Its impact and Relevance Today Read More >>

Erasing Black History Makes America Racist Again Now that Juneteenth has just been celebrated, the nation still faces erasing black history in books and college courses, a threat to America's intellect. Read More >>

"Diplomatic relations with Syria should be restored and sanctions lifted": interview with German Parliamentarian This is an interview with a German Parliament member Gunnar Lindemann about the latest developments with the Syrian refugees in Germany and Europe Read More >>

Surgery Causes Patient Permament, Life-Destroying Pain What if your primary care physician sent you to a sinus specialist for endoscopic surgery to widen your sinus passages for better drainage? But while you were under sedation the surgeon performed a "septoplasty"--a straightening of the septum"--without your consent which had the effect of permanently cutting off your right nostril's air airflow? This and more happened to Michael Frederick, 35, a middle school science teacher. Read More >>

My wife wears dragonfly pajamas Shirley complains when I don't shave / But she rarely seems to notice when I do Read More >>

Comments on the review of the book on Dr King A hopeful visionary review that does a good job of recounting our times Read More >>

Somnambulism on the Cusp of Existential Suicide Problems with long-time ally Pakistan as Biden woos India... which already has defense ties with Russia through purchases of hardware going as far back as the Nehru days, more than a half-century ago. In Ukraine there is now a forever war or Russia wins, and then there is global warming. It never was an easy job being president... Read More >>

Putin, pressing the flesh? Putin is scared (as usual) and is resorting to highly unusual tactics to shore up his sagging reputation. Read More >>

Watching the harbor Watching the harbor / Where gulls are swarming a trawler, / Waiting for my number to be called. Read More >>

The Deep Dark State We're In A look at the deep state from Ike to DARPA. Hope you like it. I did. Read More >>

Every Order Needs a Story Every social order needs a story, and to protect the social order, the elites use propaganda. Every story contains falsehoods, and so does the liberal story that underpins our current order. The alternatives are often worse. But the liberal story is falling apart, so we may need a new powerful story we can believe in. Read More >>

In the Quackquack Mire of the Run-Up to Poem about the Wagner Group. Tubers and tubas. Sagging bagpipes and violins you die by. Read More >>

The Coming Second U.S. Civil War? No. We are in it. War is common to the only self-destructive species, Homo Sapiens (refs. in the text). There are two kinds of intra-species wars, one between various politico-economies, and the other within the same. The latter are called civil wars. They are always fought over irreconcilable differences between selectors within one nation-state. It is postulated that within the U.S., there are those irreconcilable differences. Ergo civil war Read More >>

Tomgram: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, State Terror in the Age of Counterterrorism "There must be some kind of way out of here..." As night fell over the South River Forest, the music festival was in full swing. Young and old swayed to the sounds of Suede Cassidy. Families gathered around the grill. Little ones frolicked in an inflatable bouncy house bedecked with a banner that read: "Stop Cop City[...]" Read More >>

Controlled Crash Or Devastating Calamity? Unable to secure a lease on LACCD's Mission College campus, the North Valley Military Institute is out of options. Who is watching out for the students? Read More >>

About the Ukrainian war for membership in the Alliance Now the entire reputation of American and European military equipment depends on the Ukrainian leadership. But will they cope with such responsibility? Read More >>

John J. Ansbro on Martin Luther King, Jr. (REVIEW ESSAY) Jonathan Eig offers interested readers a fast-paced account of the life and death of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968; Ph.D. in theology, Boston University, 1955) in his massively researched new 2023 book King: A Biography (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). However, the interested reader might want to also read John J. Ansbro's deeply researched, well-organized, and well-developed 1982 intellectual biography of Dr. King. Read More >>

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