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By Blake Fleetwood / Original to ScheerPost The U.S. suffered worldwide embarrassment in the last two weeks while the American media and  Republican and Democratic politicians hyperventilated over four UFO balloons that turned out to be harmless. At first the military wanted to keep everything about the Chinese balloon flight completely secret, but they were […]

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Sevim Dagdelen takes the Scholz government to task for its lack of “strength and will” in responding to Seymour Hersh’s reporting on the U.S. sabotage of the Russian pipeline. Video and text of her Feb. 10 speech to the Bundestag.

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New START is the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia.

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And the (True) One-Party State in America.

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At the same time these companies are acting like their hands are tied by supply disruptions, their profits have skyrocketed.

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In a recent interview with Lee Camp, well-known police reform author and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project, Alex S. Vitale, sheds light on the recent murder of Tyree Nichols and America's ongoing fight for police reform.

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How the hell can we expect Americans to understand what the national debt means if the media doesn’t report it accurately?

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Urgent, descriptive, plainspoken, hard-edged—a glasswork of facts—the poetry of John Freeman seems to come from a place of intense inner weather, and his latest book, Wind, Trees, is a gust from that interior world, which is a version of your world or mine. I mean to say his style is subtle, but sharp as corners. The poems have a tough quality, a perspective that seems watchful, but always from the edge of things, looking in. They are nervy and aware—Freeman has worked as an editor, books and magazines, and as an essayist, a critic—but the poems at times have the airy lightness of W. S. Merwin. Wind, Trees was written, initially, without any punctuation, as if Freeman were writing out of his own version of the moment when Merwin’s punctuation—after The Lice—dissolved away, but in this case Freeman has added some of it back in, locally, case by case, where he needs it to slow down or regulate what would otherwise turn too breathless for a book trying to catch its own soul, so to speak, trying to stay the confusion.