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At a glimpse, the 7-foot cylindrical silhouette of the MK-82, a 500-lbs bomb manufactured by General Dynamics, could be mistaken for a human being...
In 2003, the Macedonian police arrested Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen vacationing in their country. They handed the unfortunate man over to the...
On January 29th, newly installed Pres. Donald Trump issued the following Executive Order: “I hereby direct the Secretary of Defense and the...
What is the mission of the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation? Even a quick review of the Tax Foundation’s output makes it perfectly plain: to...
In recent months, I have focused on reexamining Lakota texts and influential figures who have significantly impacted my perspective. A recent...
Easter, recently passed, is not a holiday I have ever celebrated in any way beyond the long-ago dyeing of eggs and covert disposal of sub-par milk...
Mohsen Mahdawi, dictated this statement from ICE detention to his lawyers: I don’t want people to lose hope. Stay positive and believe in the...
It is fascinating to witness Donald Trump’s ability to project onto his opponents pretty much what he himself is doing or intends to do. For...
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are making corruption and graft the main business of the US government. They have fired all the cops who might try to...
In 2024, Project Censored introduced Beyond Fact-Checking: A Teaching Guide to the Power of News Frames to critically analyze narrative strategies...
On April 18, 2024 the Truman Presidential Library held its premier fund-raising event, an awards dinner called “Wild About Harry,” at a downtown...
Virtually every progressive — and many people who are not at all progressive — are bothered by the ability of the rich to buy elections with their...
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...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vehement opposition to a Palestinian state aligns perfectly with a long-standing Zionist ideology that...
The administration of Donald Trump is making an unbridled push to block renewable energy projects—including last week halting the placement of 54...
The Trump 2.0 administration is possessed by a lust for minerals. Trump’s latest critical minerals edict, Immediate Measures to Increase American...
Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pontiff, has died, the Vatican announced on April 21, 2025. He was 88. Francis had served...
I got one of the worst text messages a parent can receive at 12:05 p.m. on April 17. “Active shooter.” My daughter is in her final two weeks of...
While the mainstream media was copiously tracing the physical and mental decline of President Joe Biden during the presidential campaign of 2024,...
In recent months, the Israeli Defense Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord in the Middle East.“Security...
Almost exactly 30 years ago, Canadian Bacon depicted a U.S. president picking on his neighbor to the north to boost his sagging approval ratings....
How strange that due to the disastrous policies of “their president,” Montana’s all-Republican Congressional delegation and governor are now too...
I write forgive me, not forgive us, because this guilt is deeply personal. It’s a burden I carry in the comfort of my home, sipping clean water...
Roger D. Harris is with the Task Force on the Americas, the US Peace Council, and the Venezuela Solidarity Network. Nicaragua based John Perry is...
It goes without saying that the study of any subject seeks to deepen understanding through careful analysis, employing all available methodological...
Nearly a half-century after the Supreme Court ruled that school spankings are permissible and not “cruel and unusual punishment,” many U.S. states...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent visit to Washington was no ordinary trip. The consensus among Israeli analysts, barring a few...
Capitalism, like Antarctica and like the Amazon rainforest, is under threat of destruction by excessive levels of CO2 emissions which cause radical...
Unmanned aerial vehicles – “drones” –are widely known for their controversial role in overseas military conflicts, most recently in Ukraine, and...
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