The killing of aid workers in Gaza has outraged Biden, he says. Not enough to stop him sending more bombs that kill civilians, however.
Biden's Dilemma -- Gaza and an Election Year
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Imagine There Are No Borders
Hundreds of thousands of people are charged with the crime of crossing a line that could not be a crime if there were no line, a crime that was invented in the United States in 1929 by enthusiastic racists of whom if there are any statues, I say, by all means tear them down. But tear down the border walls first.
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Three announcements, 4 negative news, 7 positive news items
Israel used artificial intelligence to set 37,000 bombing locations. Even--when a potential single fighter was found in a building with 100 civilians,--it was OK. But most buildings had no hHamas fighters (they were and are in--tunnels). Read this unprecedented language and orders (never in history did--any military do this)
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Jean Houston's Psycho-Historical Recovery of the Self: Sacred Psychology in Western History
Can we draw any meaningful connection between the macro world of the evolution of societies and the micro world of individual development? Jean Houston argues that both macro and micro-worlds go through crisis and pathology that can be overcome through group rituals as they have existed throughout Western history.
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Step-by-Step to HACCP Certification: A Comprehensive Guide
B2Bcert's HACCP certification is a hallmark of a business's dedication to rigorous food safety protocols, guaranteeing compliance with international standards and enhancing market competitiveness.
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Me and Woodstock - a moment caught in amber
Clark (with his shoulder-length raven hair----To kill for is saying,----"We're heading for Woodstock.----Do you want to come?"
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The Grim Story of the Homeless dead on L.A. Streets
The oft-told tale of horror has become both the stuff of legend and the stuff of caution about poverty and destitution. That's the tale of woe of Shanghai China in the 1920s. Every morning dozens of bodies were swept up off that city's streets. They were the poorest of the poor who were desperately sick, impoverished, scorned, and of course, homeless.
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The Aries Solar Eclipse: Search for Identity The Whale Rider - How to Claim Your Identity
Since everyone in the US is being hit by eclipse fever, this will let you know what it all means. And if you take the time to watch "Whale Rider" you'll understand on a heart level what this eclipse means. It's time to heal and figure out your personal identity -- as well as your identity as an American.
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General Election School Board Candidates Finalized
The Los Angeles County Clerk's preliminary certification of the primary results shows no change in the winners but a clear shift in momentum.
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On Arms Control in a Lawless World
This story addresses the new nuclear arms race and how to take steps to timmer it.
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Film Review: The Zone of Interest
Review if The Zone of Interest directed by Jonathan Glazer. Compared to the novel by Martin Amis.
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Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Guanta'namo Forever (Yet Forgotten)?
Last weekend my father, Larry Greenberg, passed away at the age of 93. Several days later, I received an email from the French film director Phillippe Diaz who sent me a link to his soon-to-be-released I am Gitmo, a feature movie about the now-infamous Guanta'namo Bay detention facility. As I was soon to discover, those two disparate events in my life spoke to one another with cosmic overtones[...]
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Walter Ong, Judith Butler, and the Vatican on Gender (REVIEW ESSAY)
In this wide-ranging and lengthy review essay, I highlight the American Jesuit Walter Ong's 1981 Book Fighting for Life: contest, Sexuality [Gender], and Consciousness (Cornell University Press); the American leftist Judith Butler's new 2024 book Who's Afraid of Gender? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); and the Vatican's just released new 2024 document on, in part, gender theory.
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Schools For Thee, Not For Me
The Charter School Industry spends millions trying to influence LAUSD School Board elections but fails to win in areas saturated with its schools.
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The dumbing down of America, cont.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the American education system is in crisis. Too many young people don't know things that used to be considered basic information you learned if you got through high school.
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2024 Serialization of Steven Jonas' "The 15% Solution:" Chapter 2
This column presents Section 1, Chapter 2, of the 2024 serialization of Steven Jonas' book: "The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022" (from the third printing, 2013). The book was first published in 1996. This Section is entitled "Setting the Stage," and this Chapter, 1, is entitled "The United States in 1995: Setting the Stage for Fascism."
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The Eclipse as Cosmic Muse
As I watched today's eclipse, I pondered the cosmic symbolism.
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interesting anecdote on healing my psychic / dream body (how that works)
So, I think what happened here was I tended to my psychic / dream body and that resulted in eliminating one layer of my distress,
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And So, This Is What?
This is an article in response to the attack against children in Palestine and the WCK.
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Remembering the Rwandan genocide 30 years on
Unfortunately, the international community often struggles with political will and international solidarity to take decisive action to prevent or stop atrocities.
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Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Class Warfare Will Be on the Ballot This November
Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures and longer periods of sustained heat. In fact, each of the last nine months -- May 2023 through February 2024 -- set a world record for heat. As I'm writing this, March still has a couple of days to go, but likely as not, it, too, will set a record[...]
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How Important Will the Abortion Debate Be in the 2024 Elections? (REVIEW ESSAY)
Some Democrats have hoped to frame the upcoming 2024 elections as a referendum on the supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in the Dobbs case in 2022. But the strong language about abortion in the Vatican's new 2024 document may encourage conservative anti-abortion American Catholics not to vote for the liberal Catholic President Biden -- and perhaps not to vote for any Democratic candidates up for election.
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The Shifting Castle: Siege Mentality and the Russian Paradigm of the "Threatened Majority"
Poland, Russia, Israel - all these countries, among others, have been accused of having a "siege mentality". I am convinced that all countries possess one - in some measure. But look upon the walls of that besieged castle - don't you notice its walls are made of rubber?
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TRINEDAY's RoundTable 29 The Alexander Hamilton/Henry George Economic Dialogues
We'll explore how a shift in taxes stops land speculators - who understand how to get rich without working is by keeping the unearned land-value increases for themselves when the property is sold. Georgist solutions ensured that the land value went back to the whole community instead. These ideas have been working in many cities and towns in USA and around the world for over a century.
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The speed demons
We / I feel like an ant among ants /Creeping along the vein of a leaf /Though a future-petrified swamp.
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Tomgram: William Astore, "Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds"
When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (often wrongly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato) that only the dead have seen the end of war. Its persistence through history to this very moment should indeed be sobering. What would it take for us humans to stop killing each other with such vigor and in such numbers?[...]
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What Does NATO Have to Do with the Genocide in GAZA?
The slaughter in Gaza could not exist without the U.S.-led military industrial complex, and its largest and most effective tool is NATO. One of NATO's many partners around the globe is Israel.
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Climate: Common Sense; Sparrows and Elephants
This article describes how CO2 is inconsequential to our climate compared to water vapor and clouds. It explores the origins of the CO2 pseudoscience and its consequences.
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2024 is a year of elections
2024 is a year of elections in many countries. Part of the world's population will head to the polls, from big countries like the United States to small nations like Austria, Lithuania.
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Ruthless Poem
Here is a fresh rant from stale buns. I'm punchy. It's an election year. Trump wins, we die.
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For the U.S., 'It's Just Like 1939.' Well, No."
Last week I published a column entitled: "In Eastern Europe, 'It's Just Like 1939.' Well, No." This one, also commenting on the phrase, "It's Just Like 1939," being used by a number of commentators who are dealing with the threat to U.S. Constitutional Democracy posed by the Trump/Heritage-Foundation/Project-2025, central to current Repub. doctrine. Indeed, back then, even with the Repubs., it was Right-wing, but different.
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Bragg MUST ASK Did Trump have Michael Cohen Pay Off the Other Women? Would Demonstrate Additional "Pattern and Practice"
Alvin Bragg must ask in Donald Trump's hush money trial whether or not his lawyer, Michael Cohen, also paid off women who made allegations against Trump.
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The IAEA Again Thwarts Nuclear Safety to Risk a Zaporizhzhia Explosion Disaster
Once again, the IAEA refuses to consider nuclear reactor safety in the event of a potential nuclear meltdown, where meltdowns cause explosions and environmental disasters.
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Genocide in Gaza, pogroms in the West Bank, occupation in USA
Israel, failing to achieve its imperial interests and floundering in the past six months (only succeeding to kill civilians despite billions in US military aid), is trying to draw the US into a regional and possibly a global war hoping to change the dynamic. If they succeed in this (and I give it a 60% chance), they will end Zionism in the most catastrophic way
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The Dangers of Trump-Era Isolationism
Isolationism is selfish and dangerous for America. It will only be to the benefit of Trump-era Republicans who are greedy for power and control of our nation's resources.
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Gaza: The End of Western Pretense
What is going on in Gaza is, unfortunately, the culmination of a history of exploitive colonialism by the nations of Western civilization.
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Bibi King (a song)
Dear ol' Bibi gets the treatment. Gee, can payback be far behind? God help us all. Umma bout to be palestined.
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To My Never Trump Republican Friends
Are you more devoted to voting Republican than you are to a functioning government? Are you so committed to those MAGA Republicans that you would choose dictatorship over democracy and a functioning rule of law?
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Escaping Trapdoors: An Email from the Biden-Harris Administration
An article in response to the Biden-Harris administration's student debt-forgiveness programs.
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Series Review: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Review of the series Curb Your Enthusiasm, which ends its tenure after the last episode hich aired a few nights ago
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Prana: it's not a big deal. Just breathe.
Make this a practice, see what happens, share what happens. It doesn't matter who we are or what we think
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Tomgram: Ellen Cantarow, A Shrapnel-Faced World
Words can't express the horrors of Israel's genocide in Gaza. To actually feel the nightmare, you would have to be there under the bombs, fleeing with Palestinians desperately seeking a safe place that doesn't exist; seeing building after building destroyed; treading through blood in one of the few, only partially standing hospitals; and witnessing children and other patients sprawled on hospital floors[...]
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Donnie Little Hands Again, as the Conflicted Voice of the GOP
Trump is basically just the messenger, given the chance to appoint Supreme Court Justices. But don't tell him that. He claims that HE overturned Roe, something that the GOP has not been able to accomplish for a half century. But now it is time to pay the piper for the GOP's agenda.
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Hate Did Not Win (So Far)
Many candidates who ran on platforms based on their hatred of the LGBTQ+ community lost their races. Some others are still in the running.
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2024 Serialization of Steven Jonas' "The 15% Solution:" Chapter 3 - The Real Drug War
This column presents Section 1, Chapter 3, of the 2024 serialization of Steven Jonas' book: "The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022" (from the third printing, 2013). The book was first published in 1996. This Section is entitled "The History," and this Chapter, 3, is entitled "The Real Drug War."
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Absence
When the birds are here / The songs comes with them / The songs are in the birds
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Tomgram: Juan Cole, Playing Russian Roulette with Middle Eastern Oil
Last September witnessed what used to be a truly rare weather phenomenon: a Mediterranean hurricane, or "medicane." Once upon a time, the Mediterranean Sea simply didn't get hot enough to produce hurricanes more than every few hundred (yes, few hundred!) years. In this case, however, Storm Daniel assaulted Libya with a biblical-style deluge for four straight days[...]
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Thomas J. Farrell's Personal History of the 1960s (REVIEW ESSAY)
Doris Kearns Goodwin's new 2024 book An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History (Simon and Schuster) triggered a response in me to write my own personal history of the 1960s. The present essay is wide-ranging, and at time meandering.
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The Language of Nuclear Weapons
This story is about the language of nuclear weapons in the international arena.
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Nuclear Arms Bros
"I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force or nuclear bombs." Linus Pauling
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