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Listen to a reading of this article:❖Turkey’s President Erdoğan has officially withdrawn Ankara’s objection to the addition of Finland and Sweden to NATO membership, with the three countries signing a trilateral memorandum at a NATO summit in Madrid.The removal of Erdoğan’s objection was reportedly obtained via significant natsec concessions from the
read now Listen to a reading of this poem:❖From our perch here on the edge of armageddonwe are safe to gush out our love over everything,because we’ve got nothing left to save it forand nothing left to lose.I place slippery wet YES kisses on the black crows in your stomachand on the
read nowListen to a reading of this article:❖OneIt sure is mighty convenient timing for all political and electoral energy in the United States to suddenly get sucked up into a single issue which affects the powerful in no way, shape or form. I wouldn’t have thought it would be possible for
read nowListen to a reading of this article:❖The New York Times reports that Ukraine is crawling with special forces and spies from the US and its allies, which would seem to contradict earlier reports that the US intelligence cartel is having trouble getting intel about what’s happening on the ground in
read nowListen to a reading of this article:❖“China is a strange, backwards nation ruled by tyrants,” said the nation founded by Puritans who used to execute women for witchcraft and just killed reproductive rights protections because they think Jesus told them to.The world is dominated culturally, economically and militarily by a
read nowListen to a reading of this article:❖All of our world’s worst problems are created by the powerful. The powerful will keep creating those problems until ordinary people use their superior numbers to make them stop. Ordinary people don’t use their superior numbers to stop the powerful because the powerful are
read nowListen to a reading of this article:❖There’s a John Mearsheimer video clip from 2016 that’s going viral on Twitter right now, as old John Mearsheimer clips tend to do in the year 2022 when his predictions that western actions would lead to the destruction of Ukraine are coming horrifyingly true.In
read nowListen to a reading of this article:❖The problem with anti-imperialists who spend all their time criticizing the evil US empire is that there aren’t nearly enough of them.❖People who respond to criticisms of the US by babbling about the misdeeds of other governments are just saying you should never criticize
read nowListen to a reading of this article:❖Just for fun we all pretend to be strangers.Just for fun we pretend we don’t know each other on the street,on the train, at the store, at the traffic light.Just for fun we pretend we aren’t locked in ecstatic unionand briefly ignore our intimate
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Listen to a reading of this article:❖The Guardian has put out a smear piece on critics of the imperial Syria narrative that reads like propaganda made by seven year-olds without adult supervision.The article was initially released under the headline “Russia-backed network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified,” which was then hastily
read nowListen to a reading of this article:❖British Home Secretary Priti Patel has authorized the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to be tried under the Espionage Act in a case which seeks to set a legal precedent for the prosecution of any publisher or journalist, anywhere
read nowListen to a reading of this article:❖They’ve lied about every war, and they’ve openly acknowledged lying about this very war, but you’re a Kremlin agent if you say they’re lying to us about this war.❖The mainstream worldview is self-evidently bullshit. If our media and education systems were telling us the
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