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October 2025

An ”Is this really legitimate or is it AI?” moment
I just had a reminder of the possibilities and perils of the evolving media environment.
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“Facts” in the Trump 2.0 era: Trump said it and I believe it!
One of my longtime Facebook friends who seems to be a bit, uh, uncritical about Trumpista claims, did a post there welcoming people to disagree with…
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Peace President Trump’s war threats against Venezuela and his illegal drone strikes (aka, murders) on Venezuelan fishermen
The Telegraph recently posted this audio podcast in which Brian Finucane of the International Crisis Group talks about the recent history of…
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Scary blast from the past that isn’t even past: Victor Davis Hanson
O.M.G.!
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Conspiracy theory politics in a larger framework
I find the definition of populism promoted by the political philosophers Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe very useful.
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It’s important who is running the show
The Resistance YouTube channel is competing with the Marsh Family in England in producing some of the best protest songs of the last couple of years.
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The need for sobriety about prospects for Trump’s Everlasting Peace Plan
Joe Cirincione stresses that Benjamin Netanyahu’s politics essentially embrace the concept that Israel should be a pariah indefinitely.
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How is Netanyahu doing on ending the Everlasting Peace Plan?
Gideon Levy discusses developments with the, shall we say, shaky ceasefire in Gaza, the first event on the ground in Peace President Trump’s Everlasting…
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How is the Everlasting Peace Plan for Israel-Palestine going?
Peace President Trump earlier this month was saying of his famous 20-point peace plan, ““I think it’s going to be a lasting peace, hopefully an…
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The American democracy protests on October 18
The nationwide and international No Kings protests yesterday were impressivc, bringing literally millions of people out to protest against the Trump 2.0…
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Trumpism and antifa/anti-fascism: “Conservatism” as fan fiction
The Independent recently characterized the Trump 2.0 Administration‘s designation of a concept, “antifa” (anti-fascism), to be a terrorist movement as…
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