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The Empire Doesn’t Care Who You Vote For
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Have We Lost All Sense of Perspective?
By Robert Fisk, The Independent, April 23, 2016
Has something gone adrift within the moral compass of our ‘news’ reporting? In the past week, 64 Afghans have been killed in the largest bomb to have exploded in Kabul in 15 years. At least 340 were wounded. The...
Turkey’s Seizure of Churches and Land Alarms Armenians
By Ceylan Yeginsu, NY Times, April 23, 2016ISTANBUL–The Turkish government has seized the historic Armenian Surp Giragos Church, a number of other churches and large swaths of property in the heavily damaged Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, saying it wants to...
At 100, Still Running for Her Life
By Noah Remnick, NY Times, April 22, 2016.
On a cloudless Sunday afternoon in April, a 100-year-old woman named Ida Keeling laced up her mustard yellow sneakers and took to the track at the Fieldston School in the Bronx. Her arrival was met without fanfare....
Sunday, April 24, 2016
Another Clinton Death List
Mary Mahoney. Died July 1997. Was a former intern working for Bill Clinton. In the pre-trial publicity surrounding Paul Jones' lawsuit, and mere days after Newsweek's Mike Isikoff had dropped hints that a former White House staffer was going to go public with...
Saturday, April 23, 2016
Russia Bolsters Its Submarine Fleet, and Tensions With U.S. Rise
By Eric Schmitt, NY Times, April 20, 2016:
NAPLES, Italy–Russian attack submarines, the most in two decades, are prowling the coastlines of Scandinavia and Scotland, the Mediterranean Sea and the North Atlantic in what Western military officials say is a significantly...
Why Obama’s support for the E.U. is driving some Brits mad
By Adam Taylor, Washington Post, April 21, 2016 with comments by Dennis Edwards
President Obama arrives Thursday in London, where he may find himself at the center of a very British controversy. The U.S. president has become an unlikely player in Britain’s...
This election is an unpopularity contest for the ages
By Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, April 19, 2016:
The 2016 presidential election is shaping up as an unpopularity contest of unprecedented proportions.
Assuming, as now appears most likely, that Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination and that...
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Monday, April 18, 2016
Small Things People Use To Judge Your Personality
Dr. Travis Bradberry, LinkedIn Pulse, April 13, 2016:
The human brain is hardwired to judge. This survival mechanism makes it very hard to meet someone without evaluating and interpreting their behavior.
While we tend to think that our judgments are based...
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Everything government touches...
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By Chris RossiniThe great Beatles drummer Ringo Starr once said something that should be chiseled into the stone of every government building: "Everything government touches turns to crap."How perfect! Everything government...
Walk, Jog or Dance: It’s All Good for the Aging Brain
By Gretchen Reynolds, NY Times, April 7, 2016:
More people are living longer these days, but the good news comes shadowed by the possible increase in cases of age-related mental decline. By some estimates, the global incidence of dementia will more than triple...
