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Reviewing AUKUS
It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals. But AUKUS, the trilateral security alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, is now finally receiving the broader opprobrium it should have had from the outset. Importantly, criticism is coming from those who […]
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What Lies behind Nvidia’s Commitment to “unswervingly serving the Chinese market”
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who has visited China again three months after his trip in January, recently publicly stated that the company would “unswervingly serve the Chinese market” and emphasized China’s key role in the global supply chain. He said Nvidia has grown together with the Chinese market and achieved mutual success. Against the backdrop […]
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Bad Math
The bombed remains of automobiles with the bombed Federal Building in the background, April 19, 1995. Sometimes we see pictures of ourselves from a decade or three back and think, what was going through their head? In other circumstances, we don’t have to wonder. We know. It happens to writers a lot. It’s often our […]
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Have We Reached a Milestone in Ukraine?
Secretary of Marco Rubio said today (Friday) that “If it’s not possible to end the war in Ukraine , we need to move on.” Rubio told reporters that the Trump could decide this “in a matter of days…” (NYTimes, 4/18/2025) The context: Russia has made its conditions very clear. (1) Ukraine must not join NATO. […]
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Leonard Zeskind (1949-2025): Author of Blood and Politics, Groundbreaking Exposé of White Nationalism
Leonard Zeskind, 75, a fearless investigator of the nooks and crannies of America’s racist history and fragile democracy, has died. He spent the better part of his life advocating for civil and human rights and combatting racism. He attended white nationalist meetings to understand this rising movement, risking his life and going to places that […]
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Scary Thoughts from Selidov
The war in Ukraine will be over, and those who died will not be remembered as heroes or liberators. “Our own children will curse us,” said one of the participants in the Ukrainian army’s escape from the town of Selidov in the DNR. He witnessed extrajudicial executions and torture of civilians – old men, women, […]
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Democracy or Plutocracy?
Despite much lofty rhetoric portraying the United States as a democracy (in which the people rule), this nation, in fact, has often resembled a plutocracy (in which the wealthy rule). The confusion owes a great deal to the fact that the United States, at its founding, was somewhat more democratic than its contemporaries. In the […]
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Refugee. Dissident. Enemy of the State. Would ICE Have Crucified Jesus?
Homegrowns are next. The homegrowns. You gotta build about five more places [like the CECOT prison]. It’s not big enough. — President Trump on his desire to send American citizens to a megaprison in El Salvador, beyond the reach of U.S. courts and the Constitution It has begun, just as we predicted, justified in the […]
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