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We’re Going to Have a Meeting About That... Leaving Ukraine to Swing in the Wind.
As I type this, it will be 1,564 days or 4 years, 3 months, 14 days, 0 hours, 20 minutes since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began.
 • Jim Freeman
Issues the American Public Abhors, That Never Change in Congress
ChatGPT is involved here, because there’s really no other source than artificial intelligence to scan the statistics upon so broad an issue.
 • Jim Freeman
The Precariat Is Our Latest Effort to Mask the Dehumanizing of Workers
We’re good at that, we Americans.
 • Jim Freeman
Masturbation Among Birds Is ‘Natural’ and Should Not Be Punished, Say Experts
So help me, that is a Guardian UK headline.
 • Jim Freeman
Bernie Sanders Proposes an American Wealth Fund Based on the Development of Artificial Intelligence.
Senator Sanders is an American national treasure, the only socialist politician in a nation that rejects socialism.
 • Jim Freeman

May 2026

First, We Blockade, Then We Invade
It’s a loser’s game to try to ferret out what’s in Donald Trump’s brain.
 • Jim Freeman
AI Is Going to Take Some Jobs, for Sure, but Its Major Crime Is Making Brockman and Musk Richer.
I believe there’s a whole lot of confusion over artificial intelligence and its purported threat to humanity.
 • Jim Freeman
The Solace of the Sports Scene and Its Chance to Chill in a Wounded World.
I write about international politics.
 • Jim Freeman
The Decade When We Murdered All Our Saviors
Okay, assassinated is a more accurate word, because they were all political killings.
 • Jim Freeman
Checks and Balances Wasn’t Supposed to Mean Who Could Write the Largest Cheque
Briefly, to refresh your memory of why ‘checks and balances’ are part of our governmental history, the Founders harbored a deep fear of concentrated…
 • Jim Freeman
The Mystical, Magical, Annual Presidential Health Checkup
I’m not sure if Trump can sue Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for $10 billion in damages for leaked medical information that showed he…
 • Jim Freeman
The Iran We Might Have Today If It Wasn’t for Winston Churchill and the CIA
There once was a man named Iranian Mohammad Mosaddegh, who was the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran.
 • Jim Freeman
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