Russia is rapidly building up military forces on its Ukraine border and rebuffing diplomatic calls for de-escalation as fighting picks up between Ukrainian troops and Ukrainian-Russian separatists in the disputed Donbass region in eastern Ukraine. President Biden, through his press secretary, is [...]
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China’s up to more no good in the South China Sea
China’s ongoing efforts to seize the South China Sea tend to fly under the radar because they’re piecemeal, incremental, and low-key. But their cumulative effect over time has major impact. The upshot is that China ignores international law and other nations’ rights, and asserts ra[...]
Rupert Murdoch, vaccine hypocrite
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 89 (photo, left), whose Fox News allegedly is a “hub of anti-vax propaganda,” got vaccinated through U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) on December 18, “before almost anyone else … presumably because he didn’t want COVID to kill him,̶[...]
Is climate denial on its last legs?
Not really. Republicans and their brainwashed followers will be around for a long time. But the industry coalition that has funded and supported climate denial for decades appears to be cracking apart, according to this article in The Atlantic. Here’s an excerpt: “If you read a lot of cl[...]
The body pile at Fox News
In the aftermath of the collapsed Trump revolution, Fox News has fired at least 17 long-time staffers, including the editor who “correctly called Arizona for Joe Biden long before other networks in a move that infuriated Donald Trump and his supporters,” in what the U.K.-based tabloid Da[...]
Should we give “SoHo Karen” a little understanding?
Most people would freak out if they lost their iPhone, right? You’re not really thinking straight in that situation. (Actually, I don’t own an iPhone, so I’m guessing; kindly bear with me as I grope my way through this story.) I mean, if she realized she’d absent-mindly left[...]
December 12th, 2020 - 3:35 am § in America, Donald Trump, Economics, Environment, Foreign Affairs, Health, Law and Courts, Politics
By the numbers: Quantifying Trump’s presidency
From Atlantic magazine (read original article here): More than a quarter of a million Americans have died from COVID-19 so far; 2.3 million Americans lost their health insurance before the pandemic, and millions more during the pandemic. Trump pulled the U.S. out of 13 international organizations, a[...]
Why U.S. democracy (apparently) has survived this time
This article is a liberal essay. “With four years of Trump nearly behind us, Politico Magazine asked a group of smart political and cultural observers to tell us what big, new insight this era has given them about America—and what that insight means for the country’s future. Many were alar[...]
The White House staff are delusional
This article contains news quoted from Huffington Post with liberal commentary. “The operating ‘assumption’ at the White House is that Donald Trump is heading into his second term, his trade adviser Peter Navarro said Friday …. ‘We think he won that election,’ sai[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: When The Catholic Church Fails
If I were do it over again, I likely would have left Catholic Church and attempted some other spiritual discipline. It’s not the sex abuse scandal or the numerous sins of the past. I believe in repentance and forgiveness. It’s the fact that the “orthodox” laity, the New Evang[...]