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US-Israel diplomacy and the starvation campaign against Gaza civilians
Fred Kaplan has an analysis of the current diplomatic duel between the Biden Administration and the Netanyahu government in Israel. This has to be…
Mar 27
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Democracy in the real world vs. democracy as people just shutting up and taking what they're given
Leo Baeck in 1952 wrote this general description of democracy: The so often misunderstood and so much abused term "democracy” basically means …: a free…
Mar 26
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Artificial Intelligence - what is it? (Besides investor hype, of course!)
The Turing Test and neural networks
Mar 25
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US policy on Israel's ethnic-cleansing campaign in Gaza is stunningly bad
That headline sounds a bit dorky. But the alternative would be some form of all-caps ranting with lots of exclamation points. Amed Khan writes in The…
Mar 24
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"Maoism: A Global History" by Julia Lovell (7/End)
To conclude this series, we have this long YouTube video (1 hr, 40 min.) of Julia Lovell herself talking about the book: Lovell’s survey of the history…
Mar 21
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Bracing for new escalation by Israel against Gaza civilians
The dreary diplomatic show - around Bibi Netanyahu’s all-too-real war against Gaza civilians - goes on, as Laura Rozen reports: President Biden in a…
Mar 20
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"Maoism: A Global History" by Julia Lovell (6): In the neighborhood-Indonesia and India
Indonesia is the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, though Americans and Europeans are inclined to think of Muslims as Arabs or…
Mar 19
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Do aspiring rightwing dictators mean "bloodbath" when they say "bloodbath"?
Josh Marshall offers some good advice to people on the left who have been hemming-and-hawing about whether Donald Trump’s “bloodbath” threat was a…
Mar 19
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AI experiment: Looking for 16th-century peasant leader Thomas Müntzer via Google Gemini AI chat
When I stumbled upon Google’s AI chat function “Gemini,” I started playing with it a bit. My initial discovery was that it isn’t very good at writing…
Mar 18
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"Maoism: A Global History" by Julia Lovell (5): Former French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) and Peru
The bulk of Lovell’s book includes accounts of Maoist revolutionary movements in various countries, including Indonesia, Nepal, Peru, Vietnam and…
Mar 17
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Checking in with Über-Realist John Mearsheimer for his (downbeat) views of the Russia-Ukraine and Gaza Wars
I haven't posted any downer interviews with Über-Realist John Mearsheimer lately. So here are a couple to catch up. Here he is with his normal weekly…
Mar 16
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An Austrian journalist offers (somewhat dubious) advice to the left-of-center
There is a lot of discussion about the 2024 Super Election Year in various places, including the US, the EU, India, and Russia. And a particular focus…
Mar 16
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