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Are GOP Governors Killing Their Citizens to Protect Billionaires? Rightwing billionaires (who pay an average income tax of 3.4 percent) think the world is made up of "makers" and "takers." So what if 45,000 Americans die every year because of this callous attitude? Read More >>

Gillibrand puts UFOs on her radar Recent balloon sightings and public comments by a high-level intelligence officer that the government has had a long-standing secret program of crash retrieval of unidentified spacecraft of "non-human origin," have given sudden urgency and immediacy to Kirsten Gillibrand's Senate post. And she's taking it seriously. Read More >>

French connection to Idlib This article talks about the latest information about the French intelligence role in supporting Radical Islamic terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in north west Syria. Read More >>

Memory 40 The water pools in the old men's eyes / They see more than you think/ I think memory 40 is next Read More >>

What motivates Trump and DeSantis supporters? Fear of "Replacement Theory" The only way to confront fear is through understanding. Diversity is America's strength. The day leaders rise above partisan politics and confront the divisive rhetoric that threatens Americans everywhere will be the day that the nation truly thrives on the values it was built upon. There needs to be a new American message that says, "Mix, Mingle, and Learn." The fear just might go away. Read More >>

The Syrian refugees in Germany face danger This article talks about the latest developments on the Syrian refugees in Germany and Europe and the suffering they are going through Read More >>

Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Nuking Us All If you didn't know better, you'd think Lloyd Marbet was a dairy farmer or maybe a retired shop teacher. His beard is thick, soft, and gray, his hair pulled back in a small ponytail. In his mid-seventies, he still towers over nearly everyone. His handshake is firm, but there's nothing menacing about him[...] Read More >>

How "real-making" changes the believer rather than reality An essay review of T. M. Luhrman's book: "How God Becomes Real" Read More >>

"The Relations between Turkey and the United States is not easily repaired" interview with Aydin Sezer This is an interview with Turkish writer and politician to talk about the latest developments on the new Turkish foreign policy Read More >>

Tomgram: Nan Levinson, How Extreme Can You Get? In April, when Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman with a top-secret clearance, was arrested for posting a trove of classified documents about the Russia-Ukraine war online, the question most often asked was: How did such a young, inexperienced, low-level technician have access to such sensitive material?[...] Read More >>

Lorca's poem: "The ship, Solid and Black" compared to Dylan's "When the ship comes in" We have returned with stories of hope and visions to help them continue to live their lives. Read More >>

The Only Game in Town: The Relevance of Higher Levels of Consciousness to our World Crisis - 1 Despite the multitude of perils we face Edgar Morin sees many reasons for urging one another to continue to exert the effort necessary for making this promise a reality. There is cause for hope, and for work stresses Morin, on a number of grounds. There is first the resilience of life itself. All living beings, he reminds us, regenerate themselves through being naturally and non-coercively directed toward their own future. Read More >>

Clarence Thomas's Continuing Payback Pt 1 Following the heavy fallout from the SCOTUS's final rejection of the use of race criteria as a factor in college admissions in June 2023, two words were increasingly quietly and openly being said about the High Court. The words were "Thomas's court." Read More >>

The Titan Explosion - The Press Crushes Scientific Research Once again, the mainstream Press stifles, or censors, the Freedom of Speech of reputable experts. Sound scientific results to explain the 'Titan Submarine Explosion' were published through OpEdNews, but primarily only the readers of OpEdNews and their affiliates are aware of this research. Read More >>

The paradox of NATO security guarantees. What provokes war in Ukraine? The leaders of the 31 member states said in their communique' that Ukraine would receive an invitation "when allies agree and conditions are met" and there would be regular reviews of the country's progress toward meeting NATO standards on democracy and military integration. Read More >>

Marcia Pally on White Evangelicals (REVIEW ESSAY) Marcia Pally's wide-ranging and learned short book White Evangelicals and Right-Wing Populism: How did We Get Here? (Routledge, 2022) explores how Donald J. Trump was able to appeal to certain conservative white evangelicals in 2016 and 2020. I found it to be an informative book. Read More >>

On Hell As parts of this nation are tearing down the road to some form of Republo-fascism (see my recent column on "The U.S. Ruling Class and the Republo-fascist Party") I thought that it might be useful to visit one of the central elements of the Christian Nationalism to which they are wedded: "Hell." Credit to my friend/colleague, Dr. Donald Ardell for providing me with the first opportunity to write on particular subject. Read More >>

Reposting: Back to Rome (Written in the kitchen at The Lodge, 5 AM, Inis Mor, May, 2019) As pilgrims,/ No matter what our intention,/ We never meant to stay. Read More >>

Path to Empowerment: Self-Discovery through Artistic Creation Annette Luycx is a Dutch artist and art educator who teaches personal discovery and self-empowerment through exploring creative collage and photomontage in her home studio near Athens, Greece. Read More >>

Revocation of NVMI Charter Is "In Process" As the North Valley Military Institute attempts another Hail Mary pass at an LACCD meeting, LACOE starts the process of pulling the plug. Read More >>

Why Israel criticizes Pakistan for human rights violations? Israel's Permanent Representative to the UN Adi Farjon Tuesday criticized the human rights situation in Pakistan. Addressing the UN Human Rights Council Farjon said Tel Aviv is "deeply concerned about the overall rights situation in Pakistan where enforced disappearances, torture, crackdown on peaceful protests and violence against religious minorities and other marginalized groups remain prevalent." Read More >>

Connecting the Dots (it's about the connections) We can't tackle these catastrophes in the usual way, as if they were separate problems that just happen to be coming to a head at the same time. They cross too many boundaries that are really insubstantial, just arbitrary boundaries of thinking, a legacy of bureaucratic departments and academic disciplines of the past. They're too hopelessly interrelated, like the Rubik's Cube puzzle, solving one problem un-solves another. Read More >>

Sonnet: Darkness at the Break of Moon sonnet that contunues the lament for the late great fate of humanity. Read More >>

More soul-retrieval: Trees in the silo We hear the sweet songs of birds / We feel the soft petal of a flower / That has erupted like a steel lance through concrete Read More >>

The Bank of America Steals our Money - The Bank of America's International Fraud against America Bank of America - they are in your wallet. Bank of America policies support criminal enterprises, and Bank of America employees falsify records in accordance with these policies to force customers to give money to thieves during fraudulent credit card purchases. Read More >>

Pacifism and Eco-Feminism: Why we need a paradigm change in our culture Toxic masculinity is connected to the lionization of war and the military. This comes from the legacy of ancient Rome, whose influence prevails even today. The love of violence and war, and the subjugation of woman, minorities and nature go hand in hand. What we need is a new paradigm shift towards pacifism. Read More >>

Could we make questioning technology... common? Technological developments have given our food extended shelf life, washed our clothes, sped transportation and communications, cleared diseases and infections... Read More >>

Rfk Jr. Rips Biden On Sending Cluster Bombs To Ukraine click here By Elden Rayden Cluster bombs. Rfk Jr. Decries Cluster bombs to ukraine Read More >>

Exmouth Eclipse of the Sun Poem inspired by my son's visit to Exmouth on April 20, 2023. His imagery is provided for free. Read More >>

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Fallout from Humanity In case you hadn't noticed "" and how could you not? "" there have been more than 500 (yes, 500-plus!) wildfires burning across the vast reaches of Canada, an unheard-of number, and more than half of them completely out of (human) control in a record-shattering fire season. That's been true for seemingly endless weeks now with no end in sight[...] Read More >>

US approves nuclear capable F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine Yesterday, US Nat'l Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confirmed the transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov responded, "We gave informed the nuclear powers-the US, UK and France-that Russia can't ignore the ability of these aircraft to carry nuclear weapons" and "this may lead to catastrophic consequences." Read More >>

Cenforce Sildenafil Tablet for Best ED Treatment Cenforce is a powerful tablet recognised worldwide for its ability to combat erectile dysfunction (ED). This tablet belongs to a group of medicines known as phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitors. The active ingredient in Cenforce is Sildenafil Citrate, which is a PDE-5 inhibitor that relaxes the blood vessels in the penis, allowing more blood to flow into it and causing a firm and lasting erection. Read More >>

Millenials Unite Millennials have lived through a lot! Millennials have been through the dot-com bust and 911. They have been through the patriot act. The 2008 crash and bailout. The ongoing illegal wars of aggression, that are bankrupting the usa. We are ate a critical point with a useless incompetent, president whose neoconcs threaten to plunge us into world war 3 and, nuclear war. Read More >>

When in Rome, Do as the Americans Do? There may be more U.S. tourists in Rome than Romans. It's hard to get away from them "" impossible if you are yourself one. Read More >>

Its time to come home and restore this country By Elden Rayden Its time to come home and restore this country. Restore the country end theforeign intrigue proxy wars. Stop ww3 and end the ovwrt threats of nuclear war Read More >>

Going nuts with joy: seeing like a butterfly Everything that we see is scaled to us./ Big small close far away - /To a butterfly none of this matters. Read More >>

Ukraine Solution: The "Skywalker Ultimatum" - Leave or Die Has Vlad (the Ukrainian People's) Impaler seen Star Wars 6? He may very well soon be remembered as Jabba2...if he hasn't. Read More >>

For Every Supreme Right-Wing Action, There Must Be an Equal Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself Opposite Reaction" So, we with past memory, present discernment and future vision, although stunned, must exclaim aloud with every vote: America, you're in danger girl! Read More >>

Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Military Dangers of AI Are Not Hallucinations A world in which machines governed by artificial intelligence (AI) systematically replace human beings in most business, industrial, and professional functions is horrifying to imagine. After all, as prominent computer scientists have been warning us, AI-governed systems are prone to critical errors and inexplicable "hallucinations," resulting in potentially catastrophic outcomes[...] Read More >>

Finally! Prosecutors Get Serious about Fentanyl Legislatures and district attorneys are now getting serious about fentanyl. When will they start getting serious about mass shootings? Read More >>

A Charter School And The Art Of Gaslighting NVMI Superintendent Mark Ryan lies about the claims made by charter school students that they were subjected to "abhorrent child sex abuse." Read More >>

Is the Universe Mental? (book review) Book Review: Conscious by Annaka Harris is a nifty littlee book that enjoyed thoroughly. Panpsychism has returned with a vengeance. Grrrrrrrr. Read More >>

The Flawed Moral Logic of the New York Times on the Flawed Moral Logic of Sending Cluster Munitions to Ukraine On Monday the New York Times argued in favor of continuing the war and supplying weapons for the war in Ukraine but not cluster bombs . . . . Read More >>

Michael Czerny and Christian Barone on Pope Francis (REVIEW ESSAY) Two Roman Catholic theologians based in Rome, the Canadian Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny (born in 1946) and the Italian diocesan priest Christian Barone (born in 1982), have co-authored an informative book about Pope Francis' social teaching in his 2020 encyclical letter Fratelli Tutti (Latin for "Siblings All"). Their book is titled Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis (2022). Read More >>

Tomgram: Juan Cole, Invading Ourselves It was one of the fabled rivers of history and the Marines needed to cross it[...] Read More >>

Republicans wage a war on the truth Republicans confuse "free speech" with the right to say anything they feel like, without regard to the truth and certainly without regard to the repercussions of the lack of truth in their statements. Read More >>

Max Blumenthal's Brave UN Speech on Ukraine Speech given by Max Blumenthal at the United Nations. Read More >>

We're In Nobody's Backyard China's Growing Influence in the Caribbean Sparks U.S Concerns Read More >>

The road to hell is filled with Pretensions It is with ever-increasing attention and diligence that we must listen carefully to what is said by those pretending to be blameless for what goes on in the world. In this case, US congressional progressives want us to believe that they really care about preventing the US from using cluster bombs. Make no mistake merely allowing them to be used AND transferring them to the Ukraine earns them a seat in Dante's hell. Read More >>

The Bipartisan Traitor Why are our two only choices in 2024 a failed, a mentally compromised, old authoritarian and a doddering, compromised warmonger, backslider Read More >>

Rage as a Political Money Spigot Democrats and Republican's Anger-based fundraising: Read More >>

"Marbury v. Madison" and its Constitutionality --- Revisited On several occasions previously I have published an excerpt from my 1996 "future history" book, "The 15% Solution," which presents a fascist government's Supreme Court decision overturning the famous "Marbury v. Madison" decision, which had established the Court's review powers of decisions of the other two branches of the Federal govt. In light of the recent highly controversial Court decisions, I offer it again here. Read More >>

Soft Power and Russia This story recognizes the power of soft power in managing a relationship with the Russians. Read More >>

The Fight for Seedy Hearts and Minds The intermittent sonneteer weighs in on the evil in the world today. Read More >>

Why does Biden think that it's OK to give cluster "munitions" to Ukraine? The most dangerous country in the world Sells its young blood cheap. The most dangerous country in the world Points a gun at the mirror and says "bang, you're dead." Read More >>

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How Many Indictments Does It Take to Bring Down a Cult Leader? THE REPUBLICAN PARTY has devolved into a cult of personality, where every new piece of evidence of Trump's criminality becomes another reason for his followers to defend him.  The group of whiners and weaklings who are running against... Read More >>

The Day Wagner Disrobed the Emperor Despite the alleged meeting between Vladimir Putin and Yevgeny Prigozhin, and a witch hunt for June 23rd military collaborators, the ramifications of the Ukraine war which among others has seen massive support for Kyiv, and neutral Sweden as well... Read More >>