Friday, November 22, 2024

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President Biden’s Gaza policy leaves the Middle East in flames.

Afghan troops say Taliban are brothers and war is ‘not really our fight.’

Afghan troops whose lives hang in the balance in the latest peace talks.

Education: Time for a New Purpose

New methodologies are needed that inculcate true individuality and creative independent thinking. At the heart of the required changes – which need to be both gradual and radical – must be education – formal and non-formal.
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Why we should abolish the debt ceiling

Fighting over whether or not to raise the debt ceiling is a meaningless and dangerous distraction. So abolish it.

Indecent stock market boom exposes riot-inducing inequality, not economic positives

Can enough discredited craziness end up teaching, “Everybody does better when everybody does better"?

How to defeat the Trump Administration’s racist, Republican-rescuing Census corruption

So be prepared. The Trump administration may get its way and put a citizenship question on the 2020 US Census.

‘Lesser Evil’ Fallacy Upended by Obama, Now Sanders

President Obama has proved what happens when a seemingly once-a-generation chance for reform is sabotaged. Now Bernie Sanders, with a cleaner, more progressive record, is grabbing the reform baton. But will he succeed?

Staffing Up for Corruption

There was a new category of staffing added to Big Money in politics. Campaigns are now hiring “donor maintenance managers” as personal concierges to millionaire supporters—another example of plutocratic corruption of our democratic elections.

The hard truth about Trump and change

We need to tackle these problems head-on.

So, what about those other wars?

Here's why Ukraine dominates media coverage.