The Conservatives have abandoned their post-war commitment to any meaningful social contract, argues Chris Painter, and are reduced to discredited market dogmas and neo-imperial fantasies
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Former Merkel adviser General Vad has criticized the Ukraine war. Yet it still seems that sympathetic Germans are afraid to speak up.
While drugs like Prozac are designed to change brain function, there are other, perhaps less obvious ways pollution can change behavior.
"Medicare Advantage is a money-making scam. I should know. I helped to sell it."
It’s not just Harry and Meghan, we are all paying the price for a dysfunctional, corrupted established media – opposition politicians must take action, writes Brian Cathcart
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January 16th, 2023: February 1st will be the TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY of Dinosaur Comics. How the education system in Mexico is failing disabled students.
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During the early 90s I read a biographical account by a young man who journeyed around the world on his bicycle. Like all my favourite books I gave it away at some point and have regretted it ever since. I cannot remember the name of the …  Decades ago, research conducted by ExxonMobil predicted the global effects of climate change, which was then denied in the name of profit. read now...There was a Financial Times article recently (January 8, 2023) – Monetary independence is overrated, and the euro is riding high – from Martin Sandbu which strained credibility and continues the long tradition of pro-Euro economists attempting to defend the…
 In the midst of a worldwide cost of living crisis, the right to industrial action is back on the front page and more important than ever. read now...They’re selling “anti-wokeness” (whatever that is) as the new anti-communism I think way more than half the country doesn’t have the vaguest idea what they’re going on about. Basically, it’s all about preserving white nationalist patriarchy by obsessing over youthful cultural changes they don’t understand. Here’s Banks’ formal announcement of the “anti-woke caucus.” A congressman proposes a bold approach to pushing back against the Progressive infection in our institutions. We no longer live in a normal America. The issues that Congress used to take up, like healthcare, the economy, or our withdrawal from Afghanistan, all regrettably pale in comparison to the creeping tyranny which nearly all Americans now feel. The nation’s most powerful forces—our intelligence agencies, corporations, the press, our universities, and even our military—are all pressing further and further into uncharted territory from which it’s not clear America can return. For the time being, saving America rests in the House of Representatives.
The following piece by Michael Podhoretz [subscribe here] has gotten a lot of coverage lately and seems to be making an impact. It’s super dense and super fascinating for political junkies. If you are someone who likes to go deep on election analysis and you have a few extra minutes, check it out. I find it persuasive. (But what do I know?) This analysis provides compelling evidence for a very different explanation of the midterm results than what most analysts are offering – an explanation which I have been arguing was possible for more than a year. Even before November 2021 (when Democrats suffered major losses in Virginia and elsewhere), I argued that America is an anti-MAGA majority country when it knows that MAGA is on the ballot. I have consistently underscored that to the extent that Americans understood the stakes of the midterms to be about defeating MAGA, they would once again show up in sufficient numbers to bar the door.
More than two millennia ago, in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides recounted a disastrous conflict Athens waged against Sparta. A masterwork on strategy and war, the book is still taught at the U.S. Army War College and many other military institutions across the world. A passage from it describing an ultimatum Athens gave a weaker power has stayed with me all these years. And here it is, loosely translated from the Greek: “The strong do what they will and the weak suffer as they must.” Recently, I read the latest National Defense Strategy, or NDS, issued in October 2022 by the Pentagon, and Thucydides’s ancient message, a warning as clear as it was undeniable, came to mind again.... Read more  *Way to go, English language The Opposition leader the Dark Lord Peter Dutton has today launched what he hopes to be the Coalition’s election winning slogan of: ”We’re Not Racist, But….. ”I’d like to start today’s presser by declaring that I am not racist, but,”... Read More ›
 Safeguarding democracy worldwide looms as a major task for 2023, requiring global collaboration to succeed. read now...Another Message Board Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’ve moved my irregular email news from Mailchimp to Substack. You can read it here. You can also follow me on Mastodon here I’m also trying out Substack as a blogging […]
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