'Love to Afghanistan' Vigils to Demand Return of $7 Billion Stolen by US
WORLD WATCH - With the people of Afghanistan facing one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the world,
WORLD WATCH - With the people of Afghanistan facing one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the world,
JAN 6 - If you're the sort of person who follows the news, you've probably heard a good bit lately about podcaster Joe Rogan, Neil Young's fight with Spotify, and maybe a little about Russia and Ukraine.
LGBTQ NATION - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) had a cutting response to Christian conservatives became apoplectic in response to Super Bowl Halftime Show, which they said was too sexual.
COMMENTARY - Sometimes reality hurts so much that it helps to escape into fantasy.
MY THOUGHTS - The United States has long been known as a country of immigrants (I’m one), but in addition we are becoming a country of hypocrites.
LABOR VIEW - The laboring masses are restless, as evidenced by the Canadian trucker strike, union drives in Amazon warehouses in the US and in demonstrations throughout the developing world
COMMENTARY - If our qualifications for moving up in the world are reduced to our body parts and skin pigmentation, what a sad world that looks like.
CANCEL CULTURE - A couple of days after the public shaming and suspension punishment of Whoopi Goldberg for saying that “the Holocaust isn’t about race,” I combed the Internet to see if any Jewish leader would cut her some slack.
ISRAEL WATCH - Israel dismisses charges of “apartheid against Palestinians” as anti-Semitic propaganda, and the United States has been an enabler of Israeli racism over the years with its hands-off attitudes toward the inhumanity of Israeli actions on the West Bank and Gaza.
LEGITIMATE POLITICAL DISCOURSE - If you’re the sort of person who follows the news, you’ve probably heard a good bit lately about podcaster Joe Rogan, Neil Young’s fight with Spotify, and maybe a little about Russia and Ukraine.
PERSPECTIVE - Commentators on the current Ukraine crisis have sometimes compared it to the Cuban missile crisis. This is a good comparison and not only because they both involve a dangerous U.S.-Russian confrontation capable of leading to a nuclear war.
MASS MOVEMENT - Eric Hoffer was a former immigrant farm worker who achieved praise and fame in the 1950s and 1960s as a writer and philosopher.
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