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The Real Danger Of AI Is That It Is Run By Evil Warmongers

The biggest AI threat isn’t artificial superintelligence wiping out humanity in a fit of mechanical vengeance like some digital Old Testament God, it’s the same oligarchs and empire managers as…

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NPR: Elon Musk brags about using “lasers from space” to elect Trump in 2024

n case you missed it, on Election Night 2024, the Decision Desk HQ feed showed Trump’s reported vote total jumping from 46,219,886 to 87,665,393 between 9:30 p.m. and 9:33 p.m. At 9:32 p.m. Elon…

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Congressional Desk with Impeachment Resolution on it

Iran War Continues as Gas Prices and National Debt Soar. Johnson Sends House Home to Avoid Hegseth Impeachment Vote

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is the Punxsutawney Phil of Capitol Hill. Like the fabled groundhog who emerges from his burrow in the late winter, Johnson emerged from his Capitol…

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The Crass Menagerie: The Trump Republican Crime Wave and Corporate Media Double Standards

Media Double Standards

We often hear that “both sides” of the political spectrum engage in objectionable behavior. There are countless radio hosts, streamers, podcasters,…

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Today is the International Day of Peace

Today is the International Day of Peace.  It arrives 10 days after September 11, which some have turned into a day of bigotry and willful ignorance.

After a quarter-century of calming down, it's now possible in some corners of this country to talk rationally about how massive, counterproductive U.S. militarism contributed to the horrific crime of 9/11/01 — without excusing or justifying it — and how doubling down on that militarism ever since has fueled greater hostility and violence.

Back then, adjusted for inflation, U.S. military spending was at…

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I Still Believe Humanity Is Headed For A Mass Awakening

I still believe humanity is headed toward a mass awakening, as unfashionable as that is to admit here in the late 2020s.

The fashionable thing to say these days is that everything’s fucked and we are headed to our doom, and that if anything…

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Fake News and Extra Small Fries

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Greg Levy

“Our own government is committing genocide on Cuba–Ohioans should care”

As a candidate for U.S. Senate, I recently traveled to Cuba to help deliver 30 tons of critical medical aid to the Cuban people. What I witnessed on the ground shook me to my core. It should shake Ohioans too.

Cuba has achieved one of the…

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The Minstrel Show Continues... in the World of Trump Administration’s Political Power

In the high-stakes arena of modern American political power, performance art often threatens to eclipse substance. As the political machinery under federal executive leadership continues to reshape governance, public discourse, and institutional…

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