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[ad_1]  Consortium News After their summit in Beijing on Wednesday, the Russian and Chinese presidents issued the following communiqué, declaring the failure of neocolonial hegemony and the emergence of a new era of international relations. The Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the Parties), being civilizations with an ancient history, founding countries of the United Nations (U.N.) and permanent members of its Security Council, important centers of power in a multipolar world, playing a constructive role in maintaining the global balance of power and improving the system of international relations, Guided by the ideas…

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[ad_1] Ican’t say for certain what finally convinced me that the latest U.S.-Israel aggression against Iran will be remembered as a Jewish war crime – one that will probably mark an ugly, well-deserved end to an eighty-year “golden age” in Jewish diaspora history. Maybe it was hearing America’s Secretary of State blurt out that Washington joined the attack because the leaders of the Jewish State had left his boss no choice. Maybe it was watching that boss, the nominal Chief Executive, stammer some contradictory excuses for the assault and then palm it off on a cabal of Jewish advisers that included his sinister son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a former…

[ad_1] When Barret Hansen, better known as Dr. Demento, recently ended his weekly show, he had spent 55 years spinning weird, silly, or otherwise strange songs on the radio or online. No mere fringe figure, he was an influential figure in American comedy and one of the most important cultural libertarians of his era. That might seem far-fetched to people who grew up in a post-SNL, post-Seinfeld world. But in the early 1970s, all that lay in the future. Television shows still had to pass strict censorial review to be aired, and the same code policed much of what could…

[ad_1] The Actors’ Gang captures the tenor of our strange times with the troupe’s revival of Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Physicists, which is set in a German sanatorium, or what’s called an “insane asylum” or “madhouse” for poorer patients. The well-heeled inmates at Les Cerisiers appear to be scientists who have adopted bizarre personas, including: Herbert Georg Beutler aka Sir Isaac Newton (a goofy Brian T. Finney), clad and coiffed in 17th century wig and garb (by costume designer Rynn Vogel); Ernst Heinrich Ernesti as a violin-playing Albert Einstein (Pierre Adeli); and Johann Wilhelm Möbius (a quirky Vincent Foster),…

[ad_1] After an extended pressure campaign, Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin finally agreed to release the DNC’s “autopsy report” on the 2024 election. It’s the first document I’ve ever read that would have been better if it had been written by AI. Martin himself said the report “does not meet my standards, and it won’t meet your standards.” That’s […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can’t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. Richard (RJ) Eskow is…

[ad_1] My grandmother believed in a good weekly clear-out, by which she meant a dose of castor oil to remove the body poisons that she believed inevitably led to the mind poisons. Fortunately, my mother did not share her obsession with bowel function. I thought of my grandmother as I indulged recently in a clear-out of my own, that of the enormous, depressing and reproachful accumulation of papers that have rendered an entire room in my house impassable. I want to be tidy before I die. I suppose these papers represented a biography of a kind, since they all referred…

[ad_1] What does it mean for the United States to pursue its national interests in the Western Hemisphere? The Trump administration has made a renewed focus on the American near abroad a centerpiece of its foreign policy, declaring in its 2025 National Security Strategy that it intends to “enforce a ‘Trump Corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine.” That means ensuring that the “Western Hemisphere remains reasonably stable and well-governed” enough to prevent mass migration to the U.S., halt drug trafficking, and push out hostile foreign influences (i.e., China). Refocusing American foreign policy closer to home has long been a goal among…