Both parties tend to ignore facts about the benefits of free trade because both parties oppose free trade.
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Kamala’s Growing Flock of GOP Hawks
An especially notable feature of the 2024 presidential campaign has been the number of prominent Republicans who have endorsed Democratic Party nominee Kamala Harris. The latest convert is former congressman Mickey Edwards, a 6-term representative from Oklahoma, who...
Israel’s Genocide Risks Causing a Vaccine-Derived Polio Outbreak in Gaza
The New York Times reported on August 26 that more than 1.2 million doses of polio vaccine arrived in Gaza as part of an effort to vaccinate more than 640,000 Palestinian children with the aim of preventing an outbreak of the potentially paralyzing disease,...
Zuckerberg Admits Facebook Censored Truth for the Government
Meta’s CEO admitted in a letter to Congress that Facebook censored factual information under pressure from the Biden administration.
Speaking of democracy…
Democracy has been a much discussed topic of late, what with the separation of President Joe Biden from his delegates only weeks before the upcoming Democratic party convention, to be held in Chicago from August 19 to 22, 2024. There have been brokered conventions in...
What a strange fetish it all is…
Is it a fetish? There are some fascinating memes and clips doing the rounds of Trump lately. The populist appeal has become silly. The trouble is that some supposedly serious people are unironically aroused by it all. Then again, maybe it’s just for the LOLs? Grown...
Parody of a Statesman: Antony Blinken, Secretary of War
For Halloween last year, the United States’ highest ranked diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, dressed his son and daughter up as Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian flag, respectively. At a White House event on that day, Blinken’s...
Netanyahu Accuses Security Minister Ben-Gvir of Leaking State Secrets, Government in Crisis
Major fractures within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition threaten to collapse the government, reports the New Arab. Netanyahu’s grip on power depends on the support of extremist and ultra-orthodox parties. But the Israeli leader is increasingly at...
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
