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[ad_1] The press keeps insisting Russia is preparing to invade all of Europe as if Putin wakes up every morning dreaming about inheriting Germany’s industrial collapse and France’s pension protests. The propaganda has become so absurd that perhaps we should finally discuss the REAL reasons Russia would supposedly invade Europe: To acquire Germany’s energy policy expertise and finally learn how to shut down functioning nuclear plants while importing expensive energy from everyone else. To seize Britain’s world-renowned knife-control strategy where criminals ignore the laws while grandmothers get arrested over tweets. To capture France’s revolutionary spirit, which now mostly consists of…

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[ad_1] At a mid-April dinner at a D.C. think tank, I was asked to offer a few words on education and artificial intelligence. I observed that constantly improving AI platforms perform wonders – answering complex questions almost instantly, yielding remarkable efficiencies, and producing breathtaking innovations in industry, science, medicine, military affairs, and more. Yet like all technological advances, I said, AI brings curses as well as blessings. I emphasized the threats it poses to liberal education, starting with college students’ tendency to rely on AI to generate ideas, outline arguments, and even compose polished papers. One veteran educator at the…

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[ad_1] Vijay Prashad, The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. A profound contradiction confronts East Asia. The region drives global development, yet US imperialism seeks to transform it into a frontline of the New Cold War. The region’s future depends on ordinary people, not war planners. The Okinawan artist Kinjo Minoru is haunted by the tragedy of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa and the military occupation that has marked the island ever since. His art is informed by that sensibility. His sculptures seem to emerge from the earth itself. Human figures struggle outward through stone and concrete, their bodies marked by war, occupation,…

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