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Kit Klarenberg Substack A bitter row has erupted between Kiev and Warsaw, after Volodymyr Zelensky renamed a Ukrainian military unit the “Heroes of the UPA”. The UPA – Ukrainian Insurgent Army – was an ultranationalist faction heavily implicated in the Holocaust, which slaughtered up to 100,000 Polish civilians during World War II. In addition to commemorating the mass-murdering militant group, the corpse of Andriy Melnyk, leader of UPA parent the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B), was reburied in Kiev. At a grand accompanying ceremony, Zelensky declared: “Today we all see that the Ukrainian idea can overcome what once seemed absolutely insurmountable. Now, when we…

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Image by Luke Stackpoole. Suddenly my cynicism vanished and things started making sense. America started making sense, from past to present. I was already in the process of writing this column – hey, the nation’s 250th birthday is coming up – and had never felt more lost. Where, where, where am I going with this? What am I trying to say? My words had no core, no soul. I felt like I had given myself the random rubble of a bombed-out building to write about. Then a friend sent me a link to a New York Times opinion piece. I…

Trade Policy Built on Perpetual Confusion Won't Work Source link

In 1775, the great British essayist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson entered the political fray over the American Revolution with a scorching pamphlet that attacked the wayward colonials for their disloyalty to the crown and hypocritical talk of freedom. “How is it,” Johnson demanded, “that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?” That sort of question still looms large over many contemporary debates about the American Revolution. “Why should anyone take seriously the founders’ odes to liberty,” the argument may go, “when many of those same founders participated in the vile institution of slavery?” You’re reading…

DARPA is looking for input from the public and private sectors for its upcoming mass casualty simulation called Realistic Mass Casualty (MASCAL) Medical Simulation Capabilities. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking “input from industry, government support organizations, military training organizations, and civilian emergency preparedness entities regarding capabilities to plan, resource, execute, and assess high-fidelity, large-scale mass casualty (MASCAL) medical simulation events,” according to the special notice. “This Request for Information (RFI) is a preliminary step to assess current capabilities to conduct realistic MASCAL simulations involving greater than 50, 100, or 200 simulated patients within a single event…

The Hyphen and the Melting Pot Source link

Massachusetts has a long and storied history of prohibition. The Puritans banned dice, cards, and gaming tables. The state was one of the first to ban alcohol and marijuana. Missing from this murderer’s row of vices is tobacco—for now. Local boards of health are banning nicotine in their towns and cities by imposing “Nicotine-Free Generation” (NFG) policies. These forbid anyone born after a specific date from buying any kind of tobacco in their lifetime, ever. In Massachusetts, the specific date is typically either January 1, 2004, or January 1, 2005. The bans usually cover not just cigarettes but all nicotine…

Photo by Claudio Schwarz A steering committee led by the South African Communist Party convened the ‘Conference of the Left’ in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, from 29 to 31 May 2026. The event united trade unions, social movements, intellectuals and political groups under the theme ‘Building a Left Movement for Working-Class and Popular Power’, providing a strategic platform to advance collective responses to the challenges facing the South African working class and the ongoing crises in the global order. The gathering highlighted the need to understand challenges facing working people within the broader context of global capitalism and its persistent patterns of…