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The Badly Tarnished Nobel Peace Prize is Finally Awarded to a Group that Truly Deserves It
Hiroshima (left, which the US destroyed with the first atomic bomb ever used in war on Aug. 6, 1945, and Nagasaki, which the US destroyed three days later on Aug. 9 with the last atomic used in war so far. Over a quarter million people, mostly women and children, died in the two blasts, which […]
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Russia Deploys “Game Changer” Weapon against Ukraine
© Telegram / mod_russia Russia’s Defense Ministry has released footage of an Su-34 bomber dropping FAB-500 glide munitions, which have been hailed as a game-changer in the Ukraine conflict for their destructive potential and deployment range of up to 80km. In a video that appears to be shot from a camera attached to the side […]
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Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism Collide in Ukraine (Part 4)
The relentless campaign promoting the inevitability of a direct war with Russia is proceeding without challenge. That does not mean that war could erupt at any moment, or it could never happen. First, war is not based on a timetable. Second, war has no deterministic quality of any sort—it can be avoided. Third, but most […]
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Hell’s Endless Trails from the USA
Hell is probably one of the most universal concepts of our species. In this article I describe “Hell at Home” and “Hell Away.” Hell at Home Gazette Sampler Beware of Your Medicine Cabinet Several years ago, I collected many descriptions of incidents of wrongdoing in industry and government. Here is a small sample of wrongdoing […]
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Tunnels for Safety and Tunnels for Death
Negev Nuclear Research Center photographed by a U.S. reconnaissance satellite in 1968 Declassified Public Domain It’s one thing to burrow beneath the ground, digging to construct a tunnel for refuge, a passage of goods, or to store weapons during a time of war. It’s quite another to use one hand, as a small child, to […]
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Nuclear War on Edge
Nuclear war is unthinkable, but also uncontrollable once a spark is lit. There’s no turning back once that big misstep occurs. Indeed, the film Dr. Strangelove (Director Stanley Kubrick, 1964, Columbia Pictures) is all about what could happen if the wrong person pushes the wrong buttons, as US Air Force General Jack Ripper (George C. […]
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Anxiety as Socialism: AI Moratorium Fantasies
Rumours and streaks of hysteria are running rife about what such artificial intelligence (AI) systems as ChatGPT are meant to do. Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy recently showed himself to be ignorant with terror about the search bot created by OpenAI. “ChatGPT taught itself to do advanced chemistry. It wasn’t built into the model. Nobody programmed […]
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