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As the mid term election approaches, the question remains whether President Trump has sufficient Presidential demeanor or strength of character to pull enough votes to save either GOP House of Congress from a Democratic sweep.

After almost two years in office and having presided over a GOP split between loyalists and Constitutionalists, Trump’s Zionist streak is undeniable as he fails to resonate with an America First campaign message he abandoned in deference to Israel.

Whether the Trump base returns to the GOP fold after its mid term convention or if Trump restores his Executive Constitutional authority, election results may be less informative …

Doomscrolling is the constant exposure to distressing, negative information. The American Brain Foundation warns that doomscrolling can negatively impact the brain and body.

Western mainstream media frames China as the aggressor militarizing every frontier. The hard record on outer space tells a different story. This week the United States officially confirmed, for the first time, that it has deployed operational offensive weapons into Earth’s orbit. U.S. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink described “on-orbit space control weapons” capable of defending against adversary action.

That disclosure, tied to architectures such as Golden Dome, opens a new theater of potential war. Satellites that carry communications, weather data, and navigation sit in the same domain as combat …

[This essay is adapted from This I Don’t Believe: A Fulfilling Life without Meaning.]

In the nearly universal search for meaning, four questions seem inescapable.

Is there a God, understood as a divine force, entity, or being that created the universe and has the power to direct events in it? Are we spiritual beings, with spirituality understood as a nonphysical plane of existence in which the concept of a soul is intelligible? Does capital-N Nature—a belief that the larger living world has an intelligence beyond any organism, …

Protesters on Memorial Circle against President Trump’s proposed triumphal arch there on Sept. 14. (Photo: Jonathan Capehart)

On the Virginia side of the Arlington Memorial Bridge sits a large grassy circle that slings traffic back into Washington or up to Arlington National Cemetery. On most maps it isn’t even labeled. But it has a name — Memorial Circle —and it is where President Trump wants to erect another one of his vanity projects: a monstrous 250-foot arch called the United States Triumphal Arch …

After spending millions of dollars redecorating the White House and transforming D.C. monuments, President Trump approved, on September 15, 2026, an additional 2.8 billion dollar sale of heavy bombs to Israel, including 40,000 one-ton bombs, 20,000 of the 2,000 lb. bombs, and 20,000 bunker-busting penetrator warheads. Israel has used these bombs to destroy homes, families and crucial infrastructure in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon.

This latest U.S. weapons package will replenish Israel’s stockpile of bombs that human rights groups have condemned after documenting their use over the past two and a half years to kill, maim, bereave, and …

When an enemy sworn to destroy Russia comes to the Kremlin for talks, the record of what exactly was said can remain secret for so long that whatever calculations and interpretations were made at the time – by the enemy and by the Russian side – are no longer remembered and be taken into account when the visits are repeated and the enemy’s intention remains the same.

Trying to remember and take into account – that’s a task requiring блокноты, aides-mémoire, prompt cards. Sherlock …

A new report from Adalah: the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, documents how Israeli universities established a two-track disciplinary system for Palestinian vs. Jewish-Israeli students after Oct 7. We visualized their findings.

Read the report: Apartheid in Israeli Academia: Palestinian Students After 7 October 2023.

Special thanks to Lamees Alsayed for her design collaboration on this visual.

For Palestinian students, posting”a prayer, an expression of Palestinian identity, identifying or sympathizing with the residents of Gaza, or political criticism could …

“Capitalism can’t be fixed, billionaires shouldn’t exist” was among the chants taken up by more than 2,000 protesters who marched on Marc Carney’s CEO Summit Monday night. The Carnival Against Capitalism was undoubtedly the largest anti-capitalist protest in Canada in many years.

In dozens of articles, radio bits and video clips the dominant media covered opposition to the largest gathering of capitalists in Canadian history. And some of the coverage was quite …

Whatever awaits him this coming November, few politicians could claim to have the endurance, bloody mindedness and sense of granite staying power than Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. With some prowess, he has wooed, deceived, and lied his way to power, and, for the most part, stayed the course for the best part of a generation. He bloomed in arid soil when sceptics thought him dead. He offers lessons of Machiavellian proportions almost unsurpassed.

What, then, of being found out for falling short ahead of the October 27 elections? Errors in the making, the sundering blunder to soil the image of strength? …

“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” read an open letter from Jacob Coxon, a former safety researcher at Anthropic and OpenAI, who recently left the industry over concerns about the dangers posed by so-called artificial intelligence (AI). Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei agreed, noting that when it comes to AI, the US is currently in “a race to the bottom, spurred by commercial incentives.” Microsoft agreed, announcing that it would place strict limits on future AI models.

This panic has united figures from across the political spectrum—from Senator Bernie Sanders and former …

It has been a source of wonder how celebrity paedophile, flesh presser, sex trafficker and financier Jeffrey Epstein managed to obtain his lucre. Was he more than a deft confidence trickster, a liar with astonishing talents to secure the trust of the powerful and the foolish? Or did he simply attract animals of similar proclivities? Whatever the case, Leon Black, a billionaire investor and former Apollo Global Management chief executive, is one who offers some clues. Peering into the Black heart reveals a picture distinctly unsavoury.

An independent review commissioned by the board of Apollo in 2021 found no …

Historian Jeff Rich of “Burning Archive” has developed what woefully few have even thought of: Constructive thoughts and concrete elements of a peace-first-then-security plan concerning Ukraine.

It is such an important piece of good thinking, and I say this while disagreeing with parts of his approach and some of his proposals.

This is how he starts out:

After four and a half years – or twelve years (depending on your perspective) – of the NATO-Russia-Ukraine War, some proposals for a peace process are emerging.

It is way, …

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“Let no one build walls to divide us,
Walls of hatred nor walls of stone.
Come greet the dawn and stand beside us;
We’ll live together or we’ll die alone.
In our world poisoned by exploitation,
Those who have taken, now must give.
And end the vanity of nations:
We’ve got one Earth on which to live.”

Billy Bragg, updated version of “The Internationale,” released in 2000.

This was one verse from one of the songs I sang yesterday at a Labor Day rally and march organized by the American Labor Museum and the Passaic County Central Labor Council in …

Canada’s hundred-year accord with Ukraine is rooted in nearly two centuries of overt hostility to Russia.

In Calgary on Thursday Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “signed the 100 Year Partnership Declaration, setting out their intention to elevate the relationship between their countries into a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, and confirming their aligned nature.” As part of the announcement, Canada announced over a billion dollars in assistance including $350 million for …