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I was barely a year old when two atom bombs were used to destroy the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just before my birth, my father, then a U.S. Air Force major, had returned from fighting the Japanese in Burma. I never asked him what he felt when he heard the news of the devastation of those two cities and the war-ending moment that followed. Now, of course, I’ll read more

I hate to say I told you so. It’s obnoxious really. But sometimes it is an important point. In this case the point is this: the people who are always right about wars were right about the war in Ukraine, whereas the “experts” who are always on television and in government were, as usual, wrong.

Which of the following statements about the war with Russia comes closest to your personal views?

• Ukraine should continue fighting until it wins the war
• Ukraine should seek to negotiate an ending to the war as soon as possible

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Did you know that the murders and rapes and free-for-all violent chaos in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina didn’t actually happen, and that the consistent pattern during major disasters is for people to go out of their way to help each other, for the news media to falsely report murder and mayhem, and for authorities who imagine most people are like themselves to send in armed troops to create a second disaster?

Did you know that the Lord of the Flies is a story made up by a disturbed read more

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Sometimes, strange as it might seem, striking historical moments pass almost unnoticed. As far as I’m concerned, that couldn’t be truer recently. Under the administration of President Donald Trump (who snags every headline in sight for just about anything he says or does), an extraordinary moment did indeed pass essentially unnoticed. Yes, there were a few news reports read more

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Honestly, it’s hard even to imagine: a small 25-mile strip of land filled with more than two million Palestinians, which, since Hamas’s grim October 2023 assault on southern read more

It’s oddly encouraging that the New York Post had to bring up its kookiest rightwing propagandist on Friday to argue that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives. It’s almost as read more

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Your average person, school teacher, or Wikipedia editor will tell you that we’ve long known what killed the dinosaurs millions of years before humans came around: an asteroid smashing into what is now Mexico.

The reality is that many geologists and other scientists have seriously doubted that explanation since it was first proposed in 1980, and an intense debate has raged ever since, with many arguing that such an impact, or even a large number of such impacts, probably played at most a bit read more

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Bankruptcy Is Us The Personification of Decline By Tom Engelhardt

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