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Let me try to tell you what an old man I really am. As a start, imagine this: I still read the…
Iād like to think it was a dare that prompted veteran Washington Post reporter Paul Schwartzman to include Nick Fuentes, the infamous Neo-Nazi sympathizer, in his story…
We, of course, post on all kinds of emotive and controversial issues on social media: genocide in Gaza, the war of aggression…
Last week, the world watched as Donald Trump wrangled up his bro-squad of capitalist billionaires and chartered them across the world to…
Itās been record hot in parts of Europe and Asia over the last week and this has provoked an outburst of three things that…
The emergence of media powerhouses in the global South, such as India, Brazil, Turkey, and South Korea, has captivated media scholars, politicians,…
Recent years have seen an upsurge in the United States of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Arab, particularly anti-Palestinian bigotry. The cause is multifaceted. …
As revelations about the Catholic Church abuse scandals emerged in the early 2000s, protests at churches grew. In Los Angeles, protesters ādefiantly enteredā a…
Two pronounced ā and inverse ā trends in western societies have long been observable, and yet they are rarely noticed or discussed.…
Any aliens who have been monitoring radio and television transmissions streaming outwards into space from Planet Earth over the past few decades…
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