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Against the violent landscape of World War II, author Ray Nayler poses fundamental questions about human existence. Is our natural state war against all, or is it grounded in mutual aid? By Chris HedgesScheerPost “We tell the stories that perpetuate the narrative or the myth we want, and we erase the others,” Chris Hedges states in this interview with Ray Nayler about his new book, Palaces of the Crow, which centers around four teenagers from varying backgrounds who struggle to survive during World War II. The war, Nayler says, fundamentally reshaped the world geopolitically, technologically and socially in ways that have…
Image by EV. This should not be a news flash to anyone, but the Trump Administration is out of control when it comes to war (and many other things, like ruining the economy, our judicial and electoral systems, as well as the landscape of the nation’s capital). Congress needs to do its job and rein in the executive branch. In the next few days, the House of Representatives needs to, ahem, represent the interests of the American people and vote in favor of two War Powers Resolutions, on Iran and Lebanon. The first should be a no-brainer. Congress has come…
Iran targeted Kuwait and Bahrain with ballistic missiles and drones in response to U.S. strikes on Iranian assets and territory in the Strait of Hormuz, temporarily disrupting the tenuous ceasefire to the Iran War, which entered its 57th day on Wednesday. Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday formally condemned U.S. strikes on an Iranian oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz and an intelligence facility on Qeshm Island, blaming the governments of Kuwait and Bahrain for allowing their territory to serve as launchpads for military operations against Iran. Kuwait said it engaged 30 ballistic missiles and drones overnight Tuesday, while Kuwait’s…
President Donald Trump recently celebrated what he called an “extremely good” medical examination. In a May 31 Truth Social post, Trump wrote: “The results of my Physical Examination, taken at Walter Reed Military Medical Center, and just released, were extremely good. Unlike other U.S. Presidents, none of whom have ever taken an approved, high difficulty, Cognitive Test, I scored a perfect 30 out of 30, considered ‘extreme intelligence.’ Are the Dumocrats really surprised? In fact, this is my fourth such test, all PERFECT or, 120 correct answers out of 120 questions asked! It is very rare that anyone gets a…
The murder of Henry Nowak is a watershed moment for this country. Source link
Nobody is interested in sticking around New York City to watch communism destroy what is left of the once-great metropolis. Wealth taxes have been implemented, and billionaires have predictably left for tax-free states that aren’t importing 391,000 people from the Dominican Republic. Washington thought that capital gains taxes were the perfect ingredient to scare away billionaires and megacorporations, and they were correct. Now that Starbucks has decided to pack up and leave Washington for Nashville, you know things are bad. Hollywood is facing a similar exodus after the decimation of the movie industry, but as they say, get woke, go…
My family’s faith tradition is what you might call All Over The Place. Source link
From the May 26 decision in Hayne v. Akoto, by Minnesota Court of Appeals Judge Elizabeth G. Bentley, joined by Judges Keala Ede and Lisa Beane: On July 2, 2025, over a year after [a 2022 harassment restraining order against her] expired, Akoto moved to have the record of the case sealed under Rule 4, subdivision 1(e), of the Minnesota Rules of Public Access. In that motion, Akoto asserted that the public accessibility of the HRO records “continue[d] to cause significant harm to [her] personal and professional life,” and that it had negatively impacted her “ability to obtain housing, employment,…
WATCH: Cooperation is more important than competition in human survival, argued Peter Kropotkin. After competition brought two world wars, mutual aid twice sought to rescue humanity. Will there be a third chance? The following is the full text upon which CN Editor Joe Lauria delivered condensed remarks (seen in above video) at the Mut Zur Ethik (The Courage to be Ethical) conference in Sarnach, Switzerland on Aug. 29. Time: 24m 26s By Joe LauriaSpecial to Consortium NewsCN at 30 In our youth there were certain books that stood out and left a lasting impression on us. At the time, these books…
I received these questions by email from a public school student, who did not authorize me to disclose his name. I am copying what I replied to the young man, based on my experience. What was your daily life like during the military government in Brazil? Did the dictatorship affect any aspect of your daily life or that of your family? Terrible. Everyday life was a nightmare. I went to live in a boarding house, where I sheltered a persecuted comrade, which was extremely risky because if he were caught, we would both be arrested, tortured, and killed. I was…