Editor’s Note: Despite all the propaganda in the US media about our fidelity to the “rules-based order,” and the praise for it by popular historian Heather Cox Richardson (apparently Biden’s favorite historian, I suppose because she rarely criticizes him), the following article is another example of how the “rules-based order” can be easily ignored…
by Elizabeth Svoboda November 29, 2024 In the opening scene of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,” a flock of birds descends on a tree heavy-laden with fruit. Though the birds devour the waxy purple berries with fervor, there are more than enough to go around — not…
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[Editor’s Note: Anyone who isn’t frightened by this can’t be paying attention (to history or to current events). Given Biden’s relentless warmongering and nuclear brinkmanship, tell me why I should be more afraid of Trump? I’m inclined to agree with Yves Smith, Editor/Publisher of the Naked Capitalism Blog when she writes. … “America still…
by Matt Taibbi In an irony so miserable it must be true, widespread belief that peace talks are coming under after Donald Trump’s inauguration is pushing Russia and the U.S. into a game of nuclear chicken, leaving us with “60 days to decide on World War,” as one Russian newspaper put it this week….
