BILL VAN AUKEN—The entire rescue effort has been characterized by an outpouring of human solidarity and concern for the fate of the young people trapped beneath the earth, together with international collaboration and the deployment of immense resources to achieve the aim of bringing them out alive.
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Vladimir Putin’s Basic Disagreement with The West
ERIC ZUESSE—According to Putin, the only justification that a country can ever have for invading another country is if and when that invasion is in direct and immediate response to that other country’s having invaded their land — purely defensive. Other than this, no invasion of any land by foreigners is acceptable.
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Understanding the Conflict in Nicaragua: the Long Battle Against US Imperialism
CELINA STIEN-DELLA CROCE—We mustn’t forget that the United States has a long history of meddling in Latin America and supporting regime change to further its own economic interests. In Nicaragua, the United States supported the brutal Somoza dictatorship and funded the right-wing Contras in an attempt to defeat the Sandinistas during the iconic Iran-Contra scandal. With this history in mind, are we really to believe that the US government has the best interest of the Nicaraguan people at heart? Are they concerned about the people’s grievances with Ortega, or is there something else at stake?
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Coming Soon to your Neighborhood: 5G Wireless
RENEE PARSONS—Today’s AI’s are able to replace human functions and are capable of doing human things faster and better than any human. In other words, you may be relieved of all requirements to work or think or function as an engaged human being. All it would take is for an indulgent public to allow IT to do the thinking; make all life decisions until eventually there would be no real purpose in life and humans will be superfluous or extinct.
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The Sports of Kings
PHILIP A. FARRUGGIO—Wherein the author reflects on the capitalist (aka “the American Way of Life”) compulsion to penetrate everything, corrupt everything, exploit everything profitable, and make everything and everyone a piece of merchandise to be bought and sold for the benefit of the market’s chief beneficiaries, all the while injecting ever greater doses of inequality. Politicians, sports stars and media celebrities are also big ticket commodities, even when they deny it or fail to realise it. Meanwhile CEOs, the grand priests of the system, also cash in at the top making obscene amounts of money for labor that is often anti-social!
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Syria: Damascus And Its Allies Prepare To Remove U.S. Forces From Al-Tanf
MOON OF ALABAMA—The U.S. sent “rebels” it trains at al-Tanf outside its self declared 55 kilometers deconfliction zone around Tanf to attack Syrian government forces. It supported them by air strikes. U.S. special forces are said to have taken part. This is likely the case as only U.S. special forces can call in such airstrikes.
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Phil Rockstroh: reflections on suicide
APPENDIX Bipolars are at highest risk. Never doubt the risk of bipolar suicide. Many studies indicate a 15% rate of suicide amongst individuals with bipolar disorder. This rate is about 30 times higher than than
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