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Sun, 22/06/2025 - 06:12

A Trump official tells The Grayzone that Israel’s Mossad is using CIA Director John Ratcliffe and US CENTCOM’s Gen. Michael Kurilla to influence Trump with cooked intelligence on Iran’s nuclear program. Inside the White House, dissenters have been isolated, setting the stage for a regime change war that could cost American lives. Listen to/watch Max Blumenthal read this article here. An official in the administration of President Donald Trump has told The Grayzone that CIA Director John Ratcliffe and US […]

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Sun, 22/06/2025 - 01:25
by Jawied Nawabi* At least, since the end of WWII the world has advanced significantly in scientific knowledge, technology, and the institutionalization of universal human rights conventions, yet there still prevails enormous levels of inequality, malnutrition, and poverty in the world. With all our advancements in the social sciences in the past seven decades on how […]
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Sun, 22/06/2025 - 00:19
Please consider donating to this fundraising effort (here) to support Helen de Cruz’s family. There is no greater joy for a teacher than to see a student develop and grow; and no more satisfaction to a mentor than to be overshadowed professionally by one’s mentee. I have followed Helen’s intellectual development and blossoming professional career with […]
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Sat, 21/06/2025 - 03:45
. As always, Murphy’s video masterfully distils abstract economic concepts into clear, jargon-free explanations, making complex issues accessible to non-experts and relevant to everyday life. In so-called ‘modern’ macroeconomics—whether in the form of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE), the New Synthesis, New Classical, or ‘New Keynesian’ models — economic variables are treated as if they […]
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Sat, 21/06/2025 - 03:00

Hiring a plumber without vetting them across multiple Facebook community forums

Starting a movie after 9 p.m.

Texting without your glasses

Eating a Costco hot dog

Celebrating the one-year anniversary of ignoring your car’s “check engine” light

Sitting under the ceiling fan you installed after taking two gummies

Vacationing without your CPAP machine

Parking in a space reserved for shoppers with toddlers

Not holding the handrail while riding an escalator

Driving after dusk

Refusing to complete your podiatrist’s online intake form

Pretending you haven’t heard that scratching sound coming from your attic

Fixing a bowl of cereal without sniffing the milk first

Believing you can seamlessly transition from an Android to an iPhone

Buying standing-room-only tickets to see a ska band you loved back when you thought sciatica was just a small town in upstate New York

Having two drinks after 9 p.m.

Taking cold medicine that expired during the first Obama administration

Walking your dog on uneven sidewalks

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Fri, 20/06/2025 - 23:00

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I thought we had come to the Home Depot to replace the metal numbers on my mother’s mailbox. But the problem we bring is not the problem we leave with. We walk down an aisle full of toilets, sinks, and light switches. Inexplicably, we are soon considering a patio repaving. And then new carpet for my brother’s bedroom, and a garage conversion. At the Home Depot, home improvement dreams begin to look like a matter of elbow grease and the right YouTube video.