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If you read nothing else from me today, please read https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/12/trump-ufc-fighting-cage

If you read nothing else from me this year, please read Sidney Blumenthal's stunning artical in the Guardian UK on Donald Trumps' 'Fighting Cage'

We’re Going to Have a Meeting About That... Leaving Ukraine to Swing in the Wind.

Issues the American Public Abhors, That Never Change in Congress

The Precariat Is Our Latest Effort to Mask the Dehumanizing of Workers

Masturbation Among Birds Is ‘Natural’ and Should Not Be Punished, Say Experts

Bernie Sanders Proposes an American Wealth Fund Based on the Development of Artificial Intelligence.

First, We Blockade, Then We Invade

AI Is Going to Take Some Jobs, for Sure, but Its Major Crime Is Making Brockman and Musk Richer.

The Solace of the Sports Scene and Its Chance to Chill in a Wounded World.

The Decade When We Murdered All Our Saviors

Checks and Balances Wasn’t Supposed to Mean Who Could Write the Largest Cheque

The Mystical, Magical, Annual Presidential Health Checkup

The Iran We Might Have Today If It Wasn’t for Winston Churchill and the CIA

Do Not Ask for Whom the Bell Tolls, It Tolls for Thee

Graham Platner, a Nobody, Is Running for the Senate in Maine. Are We Ready for That?

Elon Musk, the Astonishing Track-Record for the World’s Richest Man

Trust Me on This, Trump Is Planning a Nixonian End to His Presidency.

Ted Turner Will Be Missed, but His Mark Is on the Land.

The Met Gala, a “Really Huge Signifier That You Are In.”

There’s Harry Truman and Donald Trump, and Never the Twain Shall Meet

“Seymour Hersh is doing what very few journalists still attempt—following consequences rather than headlines. This piece goes deeper than most coverage of Gaza. Worth your time.”

Poor Countries Have Become the Rich World’s Toilet.

The Scientific Community Seems Unable to Invent Biodegradable Plastic. So, a Young African Engineer Came to Their Rescue.

Why Am I Still Doing This at Ninety Years Old

NATO is in Fear of What, Wetting Its Pants?

Wall Street Enthusiasm, Send In the Clowns

The US Dollar Is in the Toilet, but it benefits the rich.

The United States is destroying itself Rebecca Solnit

Life Is Not Meant to Be Equal, It’s Meant to Be Fair

Is Artificial Intelligence a Tool or a Threat to Humanity?

In America, Money Is the New Freedom of Choice

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.”

Hegseth Will Be the Next Cabinet Member Thrown Under the Bus

The Presidential Wrecking-Ball in Action

Cats and Politicians Always Say Meow, Never You-Ow or We-Ow.

Hey Guys, Let’s Read. And, While We’re at It, AI Will Allow Us to Write, the Latest Thing.

The Interesting Statistics Behind Blaming Iran for Being Attacked

Denmark Is Angry About Too Much Solar

If You’re a Billionaire, Failing to Shave Is Not the Only Thing You’re Guilty Of

The Fairy Tales We’re Told of American Military Preparations

Pulling the Thread of War, Then Dealing with the Unravelling

Israel, What Might Have Been, and What Actually Happened

The Demise of International Law by Acquiescence

There’s a Better Way to Do This

Why Do We Have a ‘Carbon Credits’ Policy?

Pam Bondi Declares the Epstein Files Meaningless Because the Dow Jones Industrial Average Has Surpassed 50,000 Points.

Democracy Is Not the Only Thing That Dies in Darkness. Consider Lawsuits with Undisclosed Settlements.

Temptation, Always Knocking on My Door

Marco Rubio Supports Europe’s ‘Coalition of the Unwilling’

We Need Way More, Not Fewer, Narrow, Partisan, Political Interest in All Forms of Media.

An Extraordinarily Brave French Woman Sets the Stage for a Jeffery Epstein Crime Scene Solution

After Years Spent Documenting State Terror, I Know It When I See It. And I see it now in the US and Israel

Government by Blurt (to Utter Impulsively)

This is how free speech disappears in the twenty-first century

"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter" Thomas Jefferson

Meta Wows Wall Street and Tesla Stops Building Cars

Can NATO Defend Itself, and Europe, Without America?

The Goon Squad Salaries, Signing Bonuses and Requirements

Despotocracy: An Old Word Comes Clear for This Old Writer

“Many in Washington See China as an Existential Threat”

What’s All This Fear About NATO? Europe Needs to Hike up Its Pants.

“Trump has the terrible strength peculiar to people who are incapable of embarrassment, and cannot fathom that they look ridiculous.”

Pin This One on the Wall, Next to Your Pink Slip

Is Anyone Beyond Elon Musk Interested in Autonomous Vehicles?

The Trumpsonian Institution

The Undeniable Truths of Regime Change