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The headline in the Times of Israel says it all: “For the First Time, Israel Just Lost a War.” Regardless of the reasoning behind this...
If it launched with a Nazi salute … where do you think it ends? On Monday, January 20th in the Capitol Rotunda, tech billionaire Elon Musk threw...
Shattering all records, the Trump Vance Inaugural Committee, Inc. raised and spent over $200 million in special interest moneycelebrating the 2024...
The devastating wildfires in Los Angeles have made one threat very clear: Climate change is undermining the insurance systems American homeowners...
Fifty years as a financial journalist tells me that trying to predict Wall Street’s movements is a fool’s errand. But things really are...
In one of its final moves in office, the Biden administration is trying to secure U.S. influence over Rojava, the Kurdish-led region of...
Against a backdrop of continued change in the world, the artist here in London has come to the end of another large piece. It is challengingly...
A Question Hanin Majadli, is a brave and clear-sighted Israeli-Palestinian journalist at Haaretz, Israel’s mostly liberal newspaper. She recently...
Donald Trump and his cohorts want to take back the Panama Canal. According to Trump and those who support this desire, this is because China...
My name isn’t important, only what I have to say. I’m writing with a pencil because I need to conserve my batteries tonight. It’s Year 24 of Our...
Over three score years ago, President Dwight Eisenhower had a warning for America. “We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted...
Although some on the left have minimized the potential for mayhem in a second Trump administration, I’m not sanguine at all. Many like to point to...
The release of three Israeli women held captive in Gaza on Sunday attracted significant global media attention. However, there was comparatively...
The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the reality we uncover....
The UK’s decrepit first-past-the-post electoral system virtually guarantees a two-party grip on parliamentary power. Since WW2 the two parties in...
Elon Musk, the obscenely wealthy, self-appointed messiah of the digital age, wields influence like a neural network running on overload. Hailed by...
The word fascism derives from the Italian fascio, the name for the bundle of sticks carried by ancient Roman officials to beat into submission...
Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk. Three of the wealthiest and most powerful men to ever exist. Yet beneath their towering tech empires lies a...
This country, once a haven for immigrants, is now on the verge of turning into a first-class nightmare for them. President Donald Trump often...
In April last year, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini told the United Nations Security Council that “an insidious campaign to end...
The rise of Donald Trump from a widely publicized, if failed, business boss to a two-term President has taught us a great deal about our society....
Following every Israeli war on Gaza, numerous narratives emerge. Some claim victory for one side and defeat for the other, while others—knowingly...
There were many lies about immigrants spread during the 2024 presidential campaign. It is necessary to replace the misinformation with facts to...
Wrong way world A consistent theme through my life has been to understand our world, to assemble a comprehensive picture the best I can, respecting...
Despite recent social changes in the Twenty-Six Counties of Ireland and the expectation of ‘change,’ last November’s election demonstrated that...
The impending ban on TikTok pushed many in that oh so American way to do the opposite of what those in charge wanted them to do. Americans are a...
I doubt that many progressives in the United States have read J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. Being based in the Philippines, a country located on...
Trump’s demeanor during the run-up to the inauguration under the dome was that of a southern prison warden grimacing in the presence of a Peter,...
Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm...
I confess that I don’t always pay attention to federal holidays and the people or historical events they usually honor. I don’t stop much and...
Sumterville, FL – Today, President Biden granted Leonard Peltier executive clemency and commuted the remainder of his sentence. The president’s...
A day before Donald Trump’s inauguration and the same day that—thousands of miles away— hostages were released in Gaza, the Third Baptist Church...
In his condemnation of the U.S. war on the people of Vietnam, Martin Luther King Jr.’s stance was not a pacifist one. King was not necessarily...
Twinning the terms “ceasefire” and “Gaza” seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke. This is largely because the ceasefire announced...
I’ve already given my Biden economy retrospective, but I want to come back and double down on the main point there, because I think it is...
With the Tiktok ban just days away, American youth have started flooding the Chinese social media app RedNote, pushing it into #1 position on the...
Go to a MLK celebration these days and you will hear Black politicians using this holiday as a platform to run for Office. Most white pastors use...
It was the night before the ’25 spring semester, and down on the sidelines of a Wild Card game for the National Football League, Philadelphia...
The power of From Ground Zero derives from the cumulative impact of the utterly helpless and vulnerable Gaza civilian population seeking to survive...
Supporters of U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA contractor Reality Winner made a last ditch effort last week to lobby outgoing President Joe...
What will be the future of offshore wind turbines off coastal United States with Donald Trump as U.S. president? “We recommitted to reducing...
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Hours after a 6.1 earthquake rippled across western Mexico (I didn’t feel it), I turned on the tube to witness a milestone event unfolding hundreds...
It never used to be the case here in the UK that people ignored the unions. As the Grateful Dead sang back in the 1970s: ‘What a long, strange trip...
The organized murder of one group of humans by another group of humans is called war. We live in a world where the vilest of crimes, which are...