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30Jun

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USA

Our Epic Moral Panic

BY DAVID ALTHEIDE Photo by Josh Hild The United States is embroiled in a moral panic about saving children from professionals working in medicine and education. I have studied media impacts on social life for 50 years. This recent panic is driven by the politics of fear and efforts to delegitimize major social institutions. At least 44 states have introduced laws restricting what teachers can teach about racism and sexism, and some 469 bills have been proposed banning books, attacking LGBTQ+ subjects and students’ rights, including restricting trans-gender use of restrooms consistent with their gender identity, participation in sports, and blocking “gender affirming” counseling and pharmaceutical/medical treatment for chil...

Clear the Air by Slashing Military Spending

30Jun

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Environment, USA

Clear the Air by Slashing Military Spending

BY ALLIYAH LUSUEGRO Photo by Joanne Francis Just a few weeks ago, I couldn’t step outside my home without pulling on my KN95 mask. As the smoke from wildfires in Canada swept across the eastern U.S., tens of millions of Americans from the East Coast to the Midwest found themselves living under severe air quality advisories. Phones buzzed with warnings as wildfire haze clouded our skylines and concerts and baseball games were canceled or postponed. It was the first time I experienced a Code Purple or Code Maroon — and the first time I understood what an Air Quality Index (AQI) of over 300 truly means as my eyes stung from the charred air. With the wildfire season still only just beginning — and hurricane season looming — we likely haven...

30Jun

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Europe, Russia, Ukraine, USA

Destroying Eastern Ukraine to Save It

BY MATTHEW HOH Photograph Source: Mil.gov.ua – CC BY 4.0 I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. ~PresidentJohn F. Kennedy, American University, June 10, 1963 Following an essay I published earlier this month and the letter the Eisenhower Media Network ran in The New York Times in May, I have heard forceful and passionate protests that Russia had no other option but to invade Ukraine in February 2022. Frankly, I find quite bewildering and concerning this intense insistence that the only option available to Russia was to launch a cross-border invasion, conduct a deliberate occupation of a sovereign country, and commit a clear violation of the Nuremberg Principles and international law. ...

America has Just Destroyed a Great Empire

30Jun

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America has Just Destroyed a Great Empire

BY MICHAEL HUDSON Photograph Source: Temple of Delphi – CC BY-SA 3.0 Herodotus (History, Book 1.53) tells the story of Croesus, king of Lydia c. 585-546 BC in what is now Western Turkey and the Ionian shore of the Mediterranean. Croesus conquered Ephesus, Miletus and neighboring Greek-speaking realms, obtaining tribute and booty that made him one of the richest rulers of his time. But these victories and wealth led to arrogance and hubris. Croesus turned his eyes eastward, ambitious to conquer Persia, ruled by Cyrus the Great. Having endowed the region’s cosmopolitan Temple of Delphi with substantial silver and gold, Croesus asked its Oracle whether he would be successful in the conquest that he had planned. The Pythia priestess answered: “If you go to war against Persia...

The Struggle Against Assange’s Extradition Continues

30Jun

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Human Rights, Media, United Kingdom, USA

The Struggle Against Assange’s Extradition Continues

BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Ivan Radic – CC BY 2.0 As Julian Assange’s appeal of his extradition to the United States wends its way through British courts, now is a good time to review what’s at stake. Nothing less than a free press and the rule of law. That’s because Assange is being persecuted for publishing proof of U.S. military criminality, among other war and political matters. The charges may sound technical and focus on “hacking,” but the U.S. has pursued him for over a decade, thanks to his shocking revelations of American war crimes in Iraq. If the U.S. can get him on a technicality, even a fabricated one, it will try to do so. In the process, the empire has perverted the rule of law in the U.K., where Assange was tried in a kangaroo court. I say kangaroo ...

30Jun

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Russia

Roaming Charges: Strange Coup

BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Prigozhin in Bakhmut. Concord Press Services. Love cools,friendship falls off, brothers divide; in cities, mutinies;in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; andthe bond cracked ’twixt son and father. This villain of mine comes under the prediction: there’s son against father. The King falls from bias ...

30Jun

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Human Rights, USA

The Right to Seek Safety

BY KATHY KELLY Photo Credit: Hellenic Coast Guard Through a WhatsApp message from Portugal, my friend Eunice Neves asked to share a moment with me. She was with an Afghan couple, Frishta and Mohammad, and their baby son, Arsalan. The young family has resettled in Mértola, a small city in southern Portugal. They looked forward to celebrating World Refugee Day as part of a project which the Portuguese government lauds as a model for refugee resettlement. I had first met Frishta in 2015 when she was a volunteer teacher, in Kabul, Afghanistan. At a school for “street kids” she helped young child laborers gain literacy and math skills, while also learning basic ideas about nonviolence. The children could be rowdy and boisterous, but when Frishta entered the classroom, they were ea...

How a New Budget Loophole Could Send Pentagon Spending Soaring Even Higher

30Jun

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How a New Budget Loophole Could Send Pentagon Spending Soaring Even Higher

BY JULIA GLEDHILL – WILLIAM D. HARTUNG Photo by Erwan Hesry On June 3rd, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that lifted the government’s debt ceiling and capped some categories of government spending. The big winner was — surprise, surprise! — the Pentagon. Congress spared military-related programs any cuts while freezing all other categories of discretionary spending at the fiscal year 2023 level (except support for veterans). Indeed, lawmakers set the budget for the Pentagon and for other national security programs like nuclear-related work developing nuclear warheads at the Department of Energy at the level requested in the administration’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget proposal — a 3.3% increase in militar...

How Intelligent is Artificial Intelligence?

30Jun

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How Intelligent is Artificial Intelligence?

BY THOMAS KLIKAUER Image: the author & https://lexica.art. When typing “Klikauer+AI” into an AI-based website called lexica.art, the picture shown above appeared. Yet, the man in the picture looks nothing like me. This failure might lead to the inevitable question of, how intelligent is artificial intelligence (AI)? Apparently, the supposedly intelligent AI can’t even find a picture of me on the Internet – something that is actually saved, for example, on my very own website under my very own name. If one looks, for example, at a rather common concept of what intelligence is – the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking,...

Right-Wing Indoctrination in Charter Schools at Taxpayer Expense

30Jun

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USA

Right-Wing Indoctrination in Charter Schools at Taxpayer Expense

BY JEFF BRYANT Photograph Source: Bart Everson – CC BY 2.0 Charges that public schools are subjecting children to leftwing indoctrination are proving to be mostly over-hyped or not at all based in fact. Yet, there’s evidence, according to a new report, that a fast-growing sector of the charter school industry is engaged in indoctrination, only, in this case, the schools are instructing children in white, conservative ideology. The report, “A Sharp Turn Right: A New Breed of Charter Schools Delivers the Conservative Agenda” by the Network for Public Education (NPE), finds that charter schools that market to families a “classical” or “traditional” approach to schooling are essentially catering to parents and politicians that follow “right-wing ideology....