BY MATTHEW HOH Photograph Source: Mil.gov.ua – CC BY 4.0 I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. ~PresidentJohn F. Kennedy, American University, June 10, 1963 Following an essay I published earlier this month and […]
BY MICHAEL HUDSON Photograph Source: Temple of Delphi – CC BY-SA 3.0 Herodotus (History, Book 1.53) tells the story of Croesus, king of Lydia c. 585-546 BC in what is now Western Turkey and the Ionian shore […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Ivan Radic – CC BY 2.0 As Julian Assange’s appeal of his extradition to the United States wends its way through British courts, now is a good time to review what’s at […]
BY KATHY KELLY Photo Credit: Hellenic Coast Guard Through a WhatsApp message from Portugal, my friend Eunice Neves asked to share a moment with me. She was with an Afghan couple, Frishta and Mohammad, and their […]
BY JULIA GLEDHILL – WILLIAM D. HARTUNG Photo by Erwan Hesry On June 3rd, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that lifted the government’s debt ceiling and capped some categories of government spending. The big winner was — surprise, surprise! — […]
BY THOMAS KLIKAUER Image: the author & https://lexica.art. When typing “Klikauer+AI” into an AI-based website called lexica.art, the picture shown above appeared. Yet, the man in the picture looks nothing like me. This failure might lead to […]
BY JEFF BRYANT Photograph Source: Bart Everson – CC BY 2.0 Charges that public schools are subjecting children to leftwing indoctrination are proving to be mostly over-hyped or not at all based in fact. Yet, there’s evidence, according to a […]
BY MARIA PAEZ VICTOR Photograph Source: Mike Maguire – CC BY 2.0 “How about we’re buying oil from Venezuela? When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would’ve taken it over; we would have gotten all […]
BY NICKY REID On June 10th, 2023, a madman died alone in his cell at the age of 81 in a federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina. This morbid list of details wouldn’t exactly […]
BY SARAH ANDERSON Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders launched a Poor People’s Campaign in 1968 to tackle what he called the “Triplets of Evil” — systemic racism, poverty, and militarism. […]