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In the fall of 2025, The Washington Post reported on a nursery worker in Florida who began experiencing headaches and nausea under extreme heat…
One of the more troubling and counterproductive phenomena taking place in todayās digital landscape is the rise of the online pundit. On…
In October 2024, one year into Israelās genocidal war on the Gaza Strip and attendant assault on Lebanon, the Israeli army did a thing. It…
Let me try to tell you what an old man I really am. As a start, imagine this: I still read the…
The football World Cup starts this Thursday and the US regime has already guaranteed that it will be the most racist in…
Israelās defense establishment is training soldiers and other defense officials to conduct psychological operations designed to āinfluence public consciousnessā in Israel and…
Woody Guthrie proudly sang āThis land is your land, this land is my land / FromCalifornia to the New York island,ā but,…
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…
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