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- ● How monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism
'Buy land – they aren't making it any more,' quipped Mark Twain. It's a maxim that would certainly serve you well in a game of Monopoly, the bestselling board game that has taught generations of children to buy up property, stack it with hotels, and charge fellow players sky-high rents... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: September 30, 2023 - 2:28 pm - ● ‘We are the centerpiece for freedom and resistance’
September represents International Underground Railroad Month and several Michigan-based institutions, organizations and individuals continue to share the story of abolitionists, slaves and others. “The Underground Railroad was not a physical railroad. It was a network of people across racial identities who helped people fleeing enslavement,” the Michigan’s History Center writes... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: September 30, 2023 - 2:19 pm - Video● This Christian text you’ve never heard of barely mentions Jesus − but it was a favorite of early Christians
People usually think about the Bible as a book with a fixed number of texts within its pages: 24 books in the Jewish version of the Bible; 66 for Protestants; 73 for Catholics; 81 if you’re Ethiopian Orthodox.Writings that didn’t make it into the Bible, on the other hand, are... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: September 30, 2023 - 2:12 pm - ● Trump’s huge legal expenses are 'tying up millions of dollars' that could be used for his campaign: report
In addition to facing four criminal indictments, former President Donald Trump is battling a variety of civil lawsuits — all of this while being the clear frontrunner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary.Reuters, in an article published on September 29, stresses that Trump's "political operation" is helping him deal with... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: September 30, 2023 - 11:00 am - Video● 'Authoritarian' GOP has become 'dependent on violence for its identity': historian
During a Thursday, September 28 speech in Arizona, President Joe Biden paid tribute to the late conservative Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) and sounded the alarm about the threats that "MAGA Republicans" pose to democracy in the United States. Biden's tone was not anti-conservative. He was joined onstage by McCain's widow,... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: September 30, 2023 - 10:00 am - ● One day before shutdown and with no plan Kevin McCarthy says he has 'nothing' in his 'back pocket'
Just 30 hours before his own Republican conference likely will have succeeded in shutting down the federal government of the United States, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy candidly admitted to reporters he's run out of ideas.Earlier Friday in an "embarrassing failure," 21 House Republicans killed legislation from their own... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: September 30, 2023 - 9:29 am - ● Progressives say GOP shutdown chaos is about imposing 'cruel' agenda
With a "completely avoidable" U.S. government shutdown less than 48 hours away, the Congressional Progressive Caucus and individual House Democrats on Friday took aim at Republicans for holding "the American people hostage to force their agenda through" at the expense of working families and others. "You wouldn't know it by... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: September 30, 2023 - 9:21 am - ● Anonymous whistleblower levels serious ethics violations against Sarah Huckabee Sanders
An anonymous whistleblower claims Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ office improperly altered and withheld public records related to ongoing scrutiny of the office’s spending, according to the whistleblower’s attorney. Rogers-based attorney Tom Mars sent a letter Friday to state Sen. Jimmy Hickey, R-Texarkana, offering his client’s testimony and documents to... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: September 30, 2023 - 9:12 am - ● 'An evil smile': Trump supporter charged with attempted murder
A Trump supporter who shot an activist at a prayer vigil in Española yesterday has been charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault, according to court documents. Video shows Ryan Martinez, 23, was chased out of the prayer vigil at the site of a proposed statue of racist war criminal... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: September 30, 2023 - 9:01 am - 'Erroneous' Fox News report claimed Arizona gov 'mysteriously disappeared.' She was in DC for a meeting
On Thursday, September 28, Fox News reported that Arizona Treasurer Kimberly Yee would be serving as acting governor because of the "mysterious disappearance of Gov. Katie Hobbs." But according to Arizona Central, Fox News' report — which had been headlined "Arizona governor mysteriously steps down for one day" — was... Read more »
Source: Alternet.org | Published: September 29, 2023 - 10:00 pm
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- Volodymyr Zelensky, Between a Rock and a Hard PlaceA year and a half into the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky may be finding himself back in the same dilemma he was confronted with at the beginning of his presidency, only magnified by the disaster of war. In April 2019, Zelensky won a surprising landslide victory, taking 73% of... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: September 29, 2023 - 4:00 am
- Contemplating the Unimaginable Costs of a Nuclear WarHere’s something strange about our all-too-nuclearized planet: in my youth during the 1950s and early 1960s, the possibility of an obliterating nuclear war played a significant role in our everyday nightmares. We schoolkids then regularly engaged in “duck and cover” drills, diving under our desks to protect ourselves from a... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: September 29, 2023 - 4:00 am
- Washington’s Strategic OverextensionThe Biden administration seems determined to pursue highly confrontational policies toward both Moscow and Beijing. The United States, through its leadership of NATO, is pursuing a full-blown proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. Indeed, that initiative appears to be only part of a larger plan to fatally weaken Russia as... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: September 28, 2023 - 4:00 am
- This Nation Owes a Debt to the Vietnam Veterans Against the WarVeterans have and continue to play, an important role in instigating social and political change in this country. One such group of veterans is the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, or VVAW: a movement of military veteran activist who, while struggling to heal from the psychological, emotional, and moral injuries... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: September 27, 2023 - 4:00 am
- A Rough Diplomatic Week for UkraineIn the early weeks of the war, a peace was still possible that would have seen Ukraine lose few lives and little to no land. Even the Donbas would have remained in Ukraine with autonomy under a still possible Minsk agreement. Only Crimea would have remained lost. A year and... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: September 27, 2023 - 4:00 am
- US Flouts International Law With Pacific Military ClaimsIn defiance of international norms and rules, U.S. officials are laying claim to the large oceanic area in the central Pacific Ocean that is home to the compact states. Now that they are renewing the economic provisions of the compacts of free association with Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: September 26, 2023 - 4:00 am
- One Western Official Finally Comes Clean About NATO ExpansionReprinted from The Libertarian Institute: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg likely surprised both factions in the ongoing debate about NATO expansion and its role in triggering the Russia-Ukraine War. He also undermined (perhaps fatally) the official cover story about the reasons for the Ukraine war. Since Russia’s February 2022 invasion,... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: September 26, 2023 - 4:00 am
- Iraq Weekly Roundup: 17 KilledTwo others were wounded. The post <I>Iraq Weekly Roundup</I>: 17 Killed appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: September 26, 2023 - 3:15 am
- NATO Keeps Saying Things NATO Doesn’t Let You SayThere are two things that go off script and are not allowed to be said. Every official statement or mainstream media article that mentions the war in Ukraine must call it an unprovoked war. You are not allowed to say that NATO expansion east, potentially to Ukraine and right up... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: September 25, 2023 - 4:00 am
- Imagining a Progressive PentagonIn September 2007, retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and historian William Astore emailed me out of the blue. He’d been reading TomDispatch articles on this country’s Global War on Terror, especially the invasion of, and never-ending conflict in, Iraq. And as a former military man, something struck him: the staggering... Read more »Source: Antiwar.com Original | Published: September 25, 2023 - 4:00 am
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- Imperial Nostalgia and Its PerilsAlthough great empires rank among the most powerful engines of world history, they are also among the most dangerous, especially as they brood over their decline. The Russian empire provides a striking illustration of this phenomenon. Traditionally referred to as the “prison of nations,” Russia, in its Czarist and Soviet... Read more »Source: Z Blogs Archive - ZNetwork | Published: May 8, 2022 - 7:56 pm
- Imperial Nostalgia and Its PerilsAlthough great empires rank among the most powerful engines of world history, they are also among the most dangerous, especially as they brood over their decline. The Russian empire provides a striking illustration of this phenomenon. Traditionally referred to as the “prison of nations,” Russia, in its Czarist and Soviet... Read more »Source: Z Blogs Archive - ZNetwork | Published: May 8, 2022 - 2:34 pm
- Military and Economic Power Once Again Fail to Produce HappinessAlthough the rulers of the world’s major military and economic powers have repeatedly claimed that they are making their nations great again, their policies have not resulted in widespread happiness among their citizens. That conclusion emerges from the recent World Happiness Report-2022, published by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. ... Read more »Source: Z Blogs Archive - ZNetwork | Published: April 16, 2022 - 4:50 pm
- Who Speaks for the World?Russia’s brutal war upon the nation of Ukraine should remind us that, for thousands of years, great powers have used their military might to launch military assaults upon smaller, weaker societies. Since World War II alone, these acts of aggression have included France’s colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria, Britain’s... Read more »Source: Z Blogs Archive - ZNetwork | Published: April 3, 2022 - 7:44 pm
- Peace in Ukraine through neutrality and peaceful EU membership, end the USA’s proxy war against RussiaEthnic division was used to consolidate control by the USA and Nationalists of Ukraine. They have signed Minsk Peace Accords to end the civil wars in Donbas region through referendums, signed since 2015, but they did not implement them, because maintaining an active civil war front psyche of ‘them and... Read more »Source: Z Blogs Archive - ZNetwork | Published: March 31, 2022 - 2:37 pm
- Rebirth of Our United Nations Is The Eventual Way, Not the False Profit of WarYou obviously can not be against this terrible war, but support it continuing. We must support the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, and encourage them to find mutual peace in an agreed neutrality/sovereignty to end this tragic and unnecessary confrontation between such close peoples. Neutrality and internationally monitored referendums... Read more »Source: Z Blogs Archive - ZNetwork | Published: March 15, 2022 - 3:14 pm
- The Imperialist Roots of Putin’s PolicyA key factor that explains Vladimir Putin’s military invasion of Ukraine is traditional Russian imperialism. Throughout the world’s long and bloody history, other powerful territories (and, later, nations) expanded their lands through imperial conquest, including Rome, China, Spain, France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and the United States. Russia was no exception. ... Read more »Source: Z Blogs Archive - ZNetwork | Published: March 9, 2022 - 8:43 pm
- We must all pursue obvious conditions of a mutual peace, not arm further and cheer on a hopeless war.The declared intention of USA NATO and Ukraine’s government to join in a hostile military alliance against their neighbour Russia has now proven to be a terrible mistake and negligent disaster for the people and sovereign state of Ukraine. For USA/NATO to now continue making Ukraine a weapon, while we... Read more »Source: Z Blogs Archive - ZNetwork | Published: March 6, 2022 - 3:01 pm
- Psychiatrists, Local Police, Wifes, Regional Elections and Judges in Santiago de Compostela (VI)(i) This is the Wikipedia article on the Galician Regional Elections held by the Galician Autonomous President, Alberto Nuñez Feyjoo, on March 1, 2009; the first Regional Elections in which he was victorious. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elecciones_al_Parlamento_de_Galicia_de_2009?wprov=sfti1 in total number and percentage of votes, the opposition won, made up of Emilio Pérez Touriño... Read more »Source: Z Blogs Archive - ZNetwork | Published: February 26, 2022 - 6:44 pm
- Psychiatrists, Local Police and Judges at Santiago de Compostela (v)On 06/27/2004, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers performed in Santiago de Compostela, a few kilometers out o the city, at the facilities of Monte del Gozo, Monte do Gozo, whose name refers to the joy that the pilgrims lived in when the cathedral of Santiago could be seen in the... Read more »Source: Z Blogs Archive - ZNetwork | Published: February 24, 2022 - 11:14 pm