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It hardly matters whether you’re talking about the Canadian wildfires that continue to burn in an out-of-control fashion or the 120-degree temperatures in…
Perhaps the greatest tragedy of the immensely destructive Ukraine War lies in the fact that it could have been averted.
The most obvious way was for the Russian government to abandon its plan for the military conquest of Ukraine.
The problem on this score, though, was that Vladimir Putin was determined to revive Russia’s “great power” status. Although his predecessors had signed the UN Charter (which prohibits the “use of
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The language should seem familiar: “I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.” That, of course, is — and in our moment in America, could
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As a teenager, I certainly watched the remarkable Cleveland Browns fullback Jim Brown run amuck on a football field and I’m sure I wasn’t happy about it, since he was doing so against “my” team, the New York Giants. But he was a great
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Recently, a new word burst into our political world. I’m thinking, of course, of “weaponization.” In response to the charges Special Counsel Jack Smith recently lodged against Donald Trump for misusing and abusing classified documents, Republicans
Some books shouldn’t have to exist, but you’re glad they do. This one describes a whole field of work — using art-creation to help kids in Arizona and Southern California deal with trauma created by anti-immigrant policies and attitudes — which shouldn’t have to exist, but you’re glad it does. The book is called Drawing Deportation: Art and Resistance Among Immigrant Children by Sylvia Rodriguez Vega. The author has worked with kids in school classes, helping them to create
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Living on a Smoke-Bomb of a Planet September 11th, Climate-Change-Style ByAs it turns out, it’s never too late. I mention that only because last week, at nearly 79, I managed to visit Mars for the first time. You know, the red planet, or rather — so it seemed to me — the orange
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 14, 2023
A new report from the University of Maryland, somewhat misleadingly reported on here, draws on a database
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Yes, a crucial Ukrainian dam is destroyed, the downriver communities flood, and the danger to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant only grows. It could prove Ukraine’s worst