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The Trump, Zelensky, and Putin relationship is in play and changing hour by hour. The President of the USA met with Vladimir Putin Friday, August 15th, in Alaska.  President Trump went into a two and a half hour huddle with his “friend” Vladimir swearing that he would get a ceasefire, and that if no ceasefire was
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Here’s the question.  Has Vladimir Putin been playing Donald Trump, stringing him along, and making a fool out of him.  You be the judge. On June 14th, President Trump had a phone call with Russia’s President Putin.  When it was over, Trump was optimistic about achieving peace. To show Russia’s willingness to negotiate, President Trump
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Why can’t there be world peace? Because every great nation wants to be on top.   That means China, Russia, and the USA are battling to be the number one nation on earth. Why? Because biology has built something strange into us:  the pecking order, the social totem pole, the ladder of status, what scientists call the “dominance hierarchy.”  And
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“We must chop off Trump’s hand, slit Netanyahu’s throat, [and] annihilate Israel.” Gen. Ebrahim Jabbari, senior advisor to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps In the past week, the Middle East has been transformed dramatically.  Here’s how. Iran says it has never pursued a nuclear weapon.  In fact, Iran began work on nuclear weapons over 35 years ago,
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At 6:01 pm on the evening of May 20th, CNN published a story reporting that, “The US has obtained intelligence suggesting that Israel is preparing to strike Iranian nuclear facilities.”  The story, says CNN, came from “multiple us officials familiar with the latest intelligence.” And what was their data source? “Private messaging from senior Israeli officials,
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Today’s world is driving some of us insane.  Especially us liberal Democrats. Why?  The realities we take for granted are heaving beneath our feet. For example, Democrats believe that standard ethical and moral norms have been swallowed by a sinkhole.  On May 14th, our president openly used his Saudi trip to make business deals for his family.
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On April 22nd, in a scenic valley in the Western Himalayan mountains known for its breathtaking beauty, five armed men in military uniforms emerged from the pine forest, rounded up a group of tourists, forced the men to sit or kneel, asked each man his religion, and if the answer wasn’t Islam, killed him at
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On Monday April 14, 2025, the peer-reviewed sociology journal Socius published an article called “Breaking Free of the Iron Cage,” a striking title.  Why was Breaking Free of the Iron Cage so arresting that even the lofty physics outlet Phys.org gave it space? StudyFinds, an outlet that sums up the latest eye-catching scientific research, said Breaking Free of
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Cory Booker, during his 25-hour record-breaking Senate speech Monday night March 31st to Tuesday night April 1st described the current state of America as a “crisis” and emphasized that “these are not normal times in America, and they should not be treated as such.”  Booker’s statement was dismissed as pathetic whining by MAGA cheerleader Sean Hannity. But it leads Democrats
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It all started at 2 am Tuesday morning, March 18th. Israel broke the ceasefire.  War planes filled the Gaza sky.  Bombs were dropped. Thirty-five airstrikes were made.  Hamas claimed that over 400 people were killed, most of them women and children.   But remember, Hamas makes heavy use of lying in war.  It’s called taqiyya, a form of lying
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