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Tom Ritchford
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Mar 19, 2022

For once, America’s doing the right thing

Anyone who knows me, knows that I have for decades been a bitter critic of America’s foreign policy, its obsessive militarization, its inexorable finger on the scale of every election in the world toward the right and authoritarianism, the tragicomedy of its military belligerence based on bogosities followed by its…

Putin Ukraine Invasion

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For once, America’s doing the right thing
For once, America’s doing the right thing
Putin Ukraine Invasion

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Sep 26, 2021

What If They’re All Basically OK?
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Remington Write

I loved the article, but it's still woefully incomplete because it misses the historical context.

I loved the article, but it's still woefully incomplete because it misses the historical context. I've lived in five countries, including thirty years in New York City, and spent considerable time in others. For decades, Americans were seen by the rest of the world to be better people. We all…

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May 29, 2021

I've been "studying" UFOs for over 50 years, though I confess my interest has waned in the last…

I've been "studying" UFOs for over 50 years, though I confess my interest has waned in the last couple of decades. The big issue for me has always been the coy aspect of UFOs. (I have similar issues with God.) Why do we get only tantalizing glimpses repeated over such…

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May 6, 2021

A better world is possible.

Let Our Angry Passion, Liberate! Chapter 1
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Aza Y. Alam

If there were one motto that everyone should be required to contemplate, it's this one.

If there were one motto that everyone should be required to contemplate, it's this one. When they discover that we have tried fairly hard to reduce our footprint on the planet, people generally get apologetic and explanatory (as if I want to hear their excuses! but I try to be…

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Apr 25, 2021

People’s Defense

Rebranding Antifa — I am completely anti-fascist. My grandfather spent years in a Fascist PoW camp, though he lived to tell the tale. Today I live in a city that was occupied by Fascists who then dragged away tens of thousands of our citizens to torturous deaths in death camps. I am firmly…

Politics

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People’s Defense
People’s Defense
Politics

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Apr 20, 2021

What is the Plural of Beef?
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Daniel Ganninger

A lot of the time I didn't know the material, and even in this case where I do, I always learn some…

A lot of the time I didn't know the material, and even in this case where I do, I always learn some exciting detail from your pieces. Keep up the good work!

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Apr 19, 2021

My Respect is Reserved for People who Work for a Living and Pay their Own Way
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Aza Y. Alam

So far all the articles I've seen about Prince Philip have been much nicer than he deserves.

So far all the articles I've seen about Prince Philip have been much nicer than he deserves. Except yours. Yours was bang on. I was pretty sick of the royals already, but when they wouldn't exert themselves to the slightest degree to prevent Brexit, I realized that they were permanent…

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Apr 16, 2021

The "cloth mask to ward off evil death particles," or surgical mask, has a proven history of…

The "cloth mask to ward off evil death particles," or surgical mask, has a proven history of effectiveness for over a century. Occam's Razor would look back at the past, see a series of pandemics going back to the dawn of history, and conclude that COVID was yet another one. …

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Apr 15, 2021

BUZZ! Not quite right.

BUZZ! Not quite right. In fact, there's a Law of Conservation of Momentum, so the Earth can't lose momentum (without transferring it elsewhere, but there's no elsewhere in this scenario). (Nor is the momentum mainly caused by water, but by the mass of the Earth itself, but that's irrelevant.) In…

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Apr 14, 2021

Live Music Is About to Get Its Grand Reopening
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Patrick Sisson

Fascinating and somewhat scary article.

Fascinating and somewhat scary article. I have watched the live music scene slowly shrink over decades, a victim of gentrification but also of competition - not just from DJs, but also from other genres that have grown from nothing over decades, like video games and the Internet in general. When…

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