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[ad_1] Photograph Source: John Pavelka – CC BY 2.0 In the summer of 1998, I traveled to the northeast region of China to visit a unique educational institution. The Yanbian University of Science and Technology (YUST), founded six years before, was the first private and the first foreign university to emerge under Chinese communism. Located in a region populated by many Korean-Chinese, YUST trained the children of the elite in computers, engineering, and architecture, among other specialties. It was also the forerunner of an affiliate that opened in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang a few years later. YUST was…

[ad_1] In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. While many proclaim that our species is doomed, the everyday work of mothers and caregivers shows that a better future is possible — one filled with joy and love. Thelma Young Lutunatabua for Waging Nonviolence When Trump won the first time in 2016, I drank shots of tequila in front of my computer and then passed out in anguish.…

[ad_1] U.S. Navy/PhoM1 Brien Aho – Public Domain The question of why the U.S. government began a war with Iran is unsettled. The ostensible reasons, blocking Iran from developing nuclear weapons and protecting Iranians’ human rights, are not enough. Iran’s agreement not to build a nuclear arms program was in force from 2016 to 2020, when the U.S. rejected it. The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities in June 2025. Immediately prior to the war, Iran reportedly agreed to “zero stockpiling” of enriched nuclear material. Additionally, a U.S. government that so easily tolerates human rights abuses within the United…

[ad_1] An internal investigation of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department found that at least 15 high-ranking officials may have helped manipulate statistics to make crime in the city appear lower than it really was. Police supervisors reportedly pressured officers to downgrade certain crimes into less serious offenses—like reclassifying thefts as taking property without a right, a misdemeanor. This affected public crime data by showing declines in certain crime rates. Federal investigators, Congress, and D.C.’s inspector general are also reviewing the situation. The post Brickbat: What Is Crime? appeared first on Reason.com. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] From left, FIFA President Gianni Infantino, U.S. President Donald Trump, Mexico president Claudia Sheinbaum and Canada Prime minister Mark Carney during the FIFA World Cup 2026 official draw at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., December 5, 2025. (Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett) Diego Maradona took the ball near halfway, skipped past five England players, rounded the goalkeeper, and calmly scored what is still regarded as the greatest goal in World Cup history. How can we forget? Carlos Alberto finished a sweeping Brazilian move with a thunderous first-time strike after the…

[ad_1] Before the world’s eyes, Iranians have turned Operation Epic Fury into Operation Epic Desperation.   Recovery workers in the rubble of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab after it was struck by U.S. forces on Feb. 28 during the outbreak of U.S.-Israeli aggression on Iran.  (Mehr News Agency /Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY 4.0) By Patrick LawrenceSpecial to Consortium News No one can say with certainty, at this writing, how Iran’s defense against U.S.–Israeli aggression will turn out. Except that anyone who thinks carefully about this knows very well the Islamic Republic and its 93 million people will come out the…

[ad_1] The U.S. government is waging an illegal, congressionally unauthorized war on Iran. Thirteen American soldiers are confirmed dead at the time of writing. More than 200 have been wounded. Over $72 billion of your money has been spent in ten weeks. A war powers resolution to end the conflict failed in both chambers—53-47 in the Senate, 219-212 in the House—on what was practically a party-line vote. Congress has neither declared war, as the Constitution requires, nor formally authorized it. It has simply sat on its hands. Smedley Butler told us 91 years ago that war is a racket. He…

[ad_1] Somewhere in Box Elder County, Utah. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. I first camped out in Hansel Valley at age twelve.  That was over sixty years ago.  On a fly that I had tied myself, I hooked and lost a huge, perhaps four-pound, Rainbow Trout from one of the many oasis springs collectively known as the Salt Wells complex or Locomotive Springs.[1]  I have never forgotten the moment when that powerful creature leaped from the water and its sky-born form, like Moses’ burning bush, flashed a reflection of the fiery desert sunset. Nor how it fell, snapped my line and…

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[ad_1] May 12, 2026 Elliot Sperber You is my friendI mean: Hugh is my friendBut Hugh no longer understands They lie so muchto Hugh that HughCan no longer tell What’s false or true Nor does Hugh know muchAbout the god Ahura Mazda Hugh can’t see That Ahura is shortened to Hurand Mazda’s truncated to Maz Put em togetherAnd what’ve you got? Hur maz, or Hor muzLike the Strait of Hormuz You’ll get there fasterWith Zoroaster The prophet Who’s sick of Hugh For tolerating lies And Mazda, they say, means wiseWhen really it’s closer toPlacing the mind And where will you…