When the Boston Red Sox’s legendary Fenway Park posted archival footage of 1950s Opening Day last week, the team expected a pleasant wave of nostalgia. But the comments section produced something else. The grainy clip showed thousands of Bostonians—men in fedoras, well-dressed women in coats, kids waving…
“I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.” — John Adams (The first president to move into the White House) Per the prayer of John Adams,…
Since the mid-1990s, scientists have been obsessed with cloning animals. Dolly the sheep famously became the first mammal to be cloned from a cell taken from an adult mammary gland almost 30 years ago, in 1996. Transitioning from cloning animal embryos to human ones has proven far more controversial,…
How much of what we believe about World War II is actually settled history—and how much is inherited narrative? Wars do not arise in isolation. They emerge from political decisions, economic structures, and strategic interests that are not always visible in conventional accounts. World War II is often presented…
Democracy is valued because it is believed to be a means of holding government accountable. To succeed in holding government accountable, it is necessary to know what government is doing and why. Traditionally, opposition political parties and objective media were means for bringing out the truth. In our time political…
A Ballot Box is No Use When TSHTF. Imagine an ordinary town or suburb. One of the many where our own people still predominate, although with one area where that is no longer the case. It is a place where the largely working-class community has been weakened by decades…
Do you remember Total Recall? The 1990 original, not the 2012 remake (which was a cinematic war crime that should be tried at The Hague). Arnold Schwarzenegger. Mars. Mutants. Sharon Stone in skin-tight workout clothes. And, of course, the woman with three boobs. I was eight years old. My grandmother…
Inside the Israeli intelligence operation that shook Slovenia. 10 days before a national election, with secretly recorded videos of government officials circulating online and former Israeli intelligence operatives confirmed to have visited opposition party headquarters, Slovenia abruptly reversed its decision to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the…
Here is the non-news news flash up front — The alleged ceasefire between the United States and Iran is kaput. While there has been no official announcement stipulating that it is over, trust me, it is over. The copium in the Trump administration in particular, and in Washington, DC in general,…
Israel is already aggressively sabotaging the Trump administration’s two-week ceasefire with Iran by slaughtering huge numbers of civilians in Lebanon. Israel is already aggressively sabotaging the Trump administration’s two-week ceasefire with Iran by slaughtering huge numbers of civilians in Lebanon, a nation which is explicitly off-limits for any attack under the…
