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Our Biggest Addiction is Not to Food or Drugs, but to the Past
This article has also been translated in Norwegian by Harald Olsen (Vår største avhengighet er ikke mat og medisin, men fortiden) Every day, the news gets more challenging, but also more interesting. Everything is collapsing: the environment is erupting with…
Nazi Germany: Who Fueled the Myth of Adolf Hitler?
The answer is simple. Who was the person in charge of the propaganda of Nazi Germany? Joseph Goebbels. A wordsmith. A master manipulator. A terrific orator. A man who knew how to whip up a crowd in a frenzy. A…
Haitians Fleeing “Unacceptable Misery” Greeted by Whips and Shackles at U.S. Border
Images of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback whipping Haitian asylum seekers as they waded across the Rio Grande River into Texas shocked the world this week. After as many as 15,000 refugees arrived, sheltering under a bridge in Del…
325 Organizations Propose Climate Solution You’ve Never Heard Of
Yesterday something that has become tiresomely routine happened; I spoke to a college class about the most obvious climate solution, and neither the students nor the professor had ever heard of it. The 325 organizations (and climbing) listed at the…
Clear Away the Hype: The U.S. and Australia Signed a Nuclear Arms Deal, Simple as That
On September 15, 2021, the heads of government of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States announced the formation of AUKUS, “a new enhanced trilateral security partnership” between these three countries. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Britain’s Prime…
Rally Against Human Rights Abuse in Poland
As President Andrzej Duda addressed the 76th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, activists rallied outside in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza for human rights in Poland. The activist coalition held Pride flags and stark images of the victims…
Meet the Biden Advisor Who Wants a Cold War with China
As a longtime Hawaii resident, I have always wondered how the former President of the United States, Grover Cleveland, was so ineffective when it came to foreign policy matters. His efforts to right the wrong of the unauthorized armed invasion…
What’s Up With COP26?
The UK (in partnership with Italy) will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, COP26 in Glasgow on October 31- November 12, 2021. COP26 will be one of the most significant meetings in modern human history, comparable…
A singular song-poem: You ask yourself
Music Words and Music by singer-songwriter Chris Wells These days, a song like this is hard to come by amidst the slew of mainstream music and videos that dominate the airwaves. A song with lyrics and a melody…
Understanding the Basics of 21st-Century Democracy, Autocracy, and Capitalism
Democracy exists if and when a community organizes its self-governance around the full participation, on an equal basis, of all the members of the community. Its other, autocracy, exists when a community organizes (or allows) its governance by an individual…
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