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Cyprian: War cannot consist with peace
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Greek and Roman writers on war and peace
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Cyprian
From Treatise I
Translated by Robert Ernest Wallis -
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What Techno-Futurists Get Wrong about the Economy
We are living in an exciting time where technological innovation is changing the way we live, work, do business, and fall in love.
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“Hyperalarming” study cited by WAPO was hype
By Paul Homewood | Not A Lot Of People Know That | February 11, 2019 Confirmation that the GWPF have sent a formal complaint to PNAS, regarding the paper published by them on insect decline last October: The scientific paper behind newspaper claims that insect populations were threatened with extinction was based on data known […]
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There Are Two Energy Futures for America
There are two energy futures for America. One is freedom and prosperity. The other is politics, conflict, and waste.
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Horrifying New York abortion law marks big Democrat push in US
To some nations in the world, the United States may appear to be overly “conservative” or “backwards” regarding its general position on abortion. Russia, China, Canada, and Australia all allow this practice in generally unrestricted terms. Europeans are generally allowing of first trimester abortions. Social attitudes about the practice vary, with Sweden being the most permissive in terms of attitude, but Russia being the place where a woman is most likely to have had an abortion.
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Centrists May Look Good On Paper, But They're Not Offering What Voters Want
How important are tax cuts to the very wealthy? Very, very, according to the Center for Public Integrity.
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Plummeting insect numbers "threaten collapse of nature"
Insects could vanish within a century at current rate of decline, says global review
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An open letter to the people of the U.S.A. from President Nicolás Maduro
President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela delivered this Feb. 7 message to the people of the U.S. through social media. If I know anything, it is about the people, because just like you, I am a man of the people. I was born and raised in a poor neighborhood of Caracas. I was forged in the heat of popular and union[Read More...]
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The Unbearable Lightness of Hardik Pandya And The Steady Flow of Market
A plethora of articles have found space surrounding the recent comments made by Hardik Pandya on the popular television show, Koffee with Karan which has landed him into trouble in the cricket world. Although his cricket future does not seem to be in jeopardy at the moment, his comments come at a very crucial cross road of the increased awareness[Read More...]
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Gender Just and Sexual Harassment Free Campuses is a Fundamental Right
NAPM extends full solidarity to the protesting students at Jamila Milia Islamia and demands inquiry and action against ‘harasser’ HoD 11th Feb, 2019: National Alliance of People’s Movements extends full solidarity with the students, mostly women, of the Jamia Millia Islamia University, in their struggle against the HoD of Applied Arts Department, who they allege is responsible for multiple reprehensible[Read More...]
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Person-led to Process-driven, Making the critical transformation
When a caterpillar looks in the mirror it does not see a butterfly. Yet hidden in that form is the potential to take the epitome of sluggishness and transform it into the epitome of grace, lightness and flight. The only condition is that the very nature of the thing must change completely. Caterpillars have no choice in the matter. People[Read More...]
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Antifa Leader Arrested, Charged With Terrorism
- An attack on U.S. Marines by neo-Bolsheviks will not go unpunished—this time. Finally, law enforcement has arrested a well-known antifa leader, charged with multiple felonies, for his blatant acts of political violence and terrorism.
A prominent leader of the radical, violent, far-left antifa group in Washington, D.C. was recently arrested and charged with multiple felonies related to an attack on two U.S. Marines in Philadelphia in November of last year.
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UN Thwarts Slum Schools – Part 1
Instructs UK to stop assisting parent-financed schools - under the guise of enforcing the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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And Somewhere There Are Engineers…
A conversation with youngsters – who are by nature bubbling with energy , fired with idealism and suffused with innumerable questions – is a thing which everyone with grey hair looks forward to. For someone like me it is an added gift this morning that after exactly a gap of forty years this writer is with students of engineering helping[Read More...]
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Results of the First Round of Talks Between the USA and the Taliban
January 2019 saw the conclusion of the first round of talks between the USA and the Taliban, which took place in Qatar. The Afghan Taliban and the official representatives of the USA reached preliminary agreement on three key issues:
- the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan within 18 months;
- an exchange of prisoners;
- the lifting of the travel ban on Taliban leaders, and their removal from the UN’s blacklist. -
Juan Guaidó: The Man Who Would Be President of Venezuela Doesn"t Have a Constitutional Leg to Stand On
Educated at George Washington University in DC, Guaidó was virtually unknown in his native Venezuela before being thrust on to the world stage in a rapidly unfolding series of events. In a poll conducted a little more than a week before Guaidó appointed himself president of the country, 81% of Venezuelans had never even heard of the 35-year-old.
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How to Find Something Positive in the Sea of Negativity
If Putin and Xi would respond positively to Trump’s proposal for a meeting in a “beautiful room” something important could come out of this, Edward Lozansky believes.
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Rethinking the US Military Industrial Complex
The US military has gone from dealing with direct threats (Germany, Japan) to direct threats via proxy (USSR in Korea/Vietnam) to overinflated threats (Iraq, Afghanistan) to fake threats (today’s Russia).
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Syrian Fighters Begin "Final Battle" with ISIS as US Troop Withdrawal Looms
А US military intervention cannot be considered "a success" until all possibility of a hostile force ever reemerging has been systematically stamped out.
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Snowden Reveals Extent of Canada's Spying on Behalf of NSA
The revelations from Edward Snowden include a document that outlines how Canada is much closer spying partner to the US as it previously thought.
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THE LATEST UPDATE ON THE NAZI BELL
Ms. D.L. spotted the following video on YouTube, and shared it, and given that the topic is the Nazi Bell, you know I just […]
The post THE LATEST UPDATE ON THE NAZI BELL appeared first on Giza Death Star. -
Mining Indaba participants are moving from inaction to action
Greater regulatory certainty has unleashed the “animal spirits”.
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Suddenly Europe Is an Open Question – "A Nazi EU?"
How, even after the disaster of Libya, European leaders can ignore the long history of interventions in Venezuela, to support a new intervention?
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Κατώτατος μισθός και η ευκαιρία των πολιτών – EφΣυν 9 ΦΕΒ 2019
Η κακεντρέχεια δεν είναι ποτέ προοδευτική. Στο ΜέΡΑ25 ξυπνάμε κάθε πρωί με την ελπίδα να κάνει κάτι καλό η κυβέρνηση, να το χαιρετίσουμε και, έτσι, να αποδράσουμε –έστω και για λίγο– από τη θλίψη της συνεχούς καταγραφής αρνητικών εξελίξεων, αδιέξοδων πολιτικών, αήθους προπαγάνδας.
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How Intel Chiefs Elevate ‘Global Threats’ to Prop-Up the Imperial War Machine
Once again, U.S. intelligence seers are hyping the concept of “worldwide threats” in a perennial propaganda exercise designed to paint Russia, China, Iran and North Korea as threats to America’s national security – and keep trillions in U.S. taxpayer funds flowing into the military industrial complex.
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Globalist Think Tanks Called on to Further Unite, Lest They Lose Their Neo-Liberal Order
By Mark Anderson
21st Century Wire
The head of one of the world’s oldest elite foreign policy institutions in London is calling for the world’s pro-globalist think tanks to unite like never before, lest their neo-liberal world order dissolve in the populist tide that appears to be rising. -
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Den vita araben
Den brittiske författaren Percy Francis Westerman (1876-1959) skrev pojkböcker om äventyr och krig. Hans första bok, A Lad of Grit, kom ut 1908, samma år som Robert Baden-Powell grundade scoutrörelsen. På Wikipedia står det att scoutrörelsen påverkades av Westermans böcker, vilket verkar rimligt.
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The Problem of International Law
Modern institutions that hold back the rise of barbarism are being weakened, writes Lawrence Davidson. By Lawrence Davidson To the Point Analysis.com Several recent events suggest that global warming is not the only thing threatening our future. As if they are…Read more →
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Why Venezuela’s People Are Suffering
INTRODUCTION The case that will be documented here is that Venezuela’s people are suffering from a tragic national situation which actually cannot be reversed by anything that’s within the power of Venezuela’s Government to do or to block. In order to understand this very unfortunate reality (if one wants to understand it), one must first understand the relevant parts of[Read More...]
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What is the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center Doing in Venezuela: We Have a Right to Know!
The Solidarity Center–the AFL-CIO’s organization for acting around the world–has long been active in Venezuela, and not usually for good effect. We demand that the Solidarity Center open their books, and honestly report about their current operations in that country. We hope they are not supporting the current coup attempt against President Nicolás Maduro in any way, as the coup[Read More...]
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Nous avons rencontré Marcel Gauchet. Par Pierre Ramond et Uriel Gadessaud
Source : Le Grand Continent, Pierre Ramond et Uriel Gadessaud, 06-02-2019
Rédacteur en chef de la revue Le Débat, le philosophe Marcel Gauchet est l’auteur d’ouvrages majeurs de la pensée contemporaine: Le Désenchantement du monde, L’Avènement de la démocratie ou plus récemment, Robespierre, l’homme qui nous divise le plus. -
Where Will the National Guard Be Sent in 2019?
The Uses of a Well-Regulated Militia by an Unregulated President A young friend is seriously considering joining her state’s National Guard. She’s a world-class athlete, but also a working-class woman from a rural background competing in a rich person’s sport. Between seasons, she works for a local farm and auctioneer to put together the money for equipment and travel.[Read More...]
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Venezuela: Democratic Uprising or US Coup?
Tens of thousands of angry people march in the streets to protest lack of democracy. Women bang on pots to raise alarm over the economic crisis brought on by a socialist president. The United States denounces the leftist government and promises to help bring democracy to the country. Venezuela in 2019? No, it was Chile … Continue reading "Venezuela: Democratic Uprising or US Coup?"
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My Life as a Reader
I was always reading something. Whether it be the Classic Comics version of the Peleponesian war or a biography of Ataturk in a “great men” series, even as a kid, I had to be invested in some manifestation of the printed word. This was true throughout my youth and reading only became a chore rather … Continue reading "My Life as a Reader"
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One Weekend a Month, My Ass
Think about this for a moment: in a country whose infrastructure is falling apart and where an inequality gap of monumental proportions is still growing, at least we should feel remarkably well-protected. After all, in the last fiscal year, the Pentagon, the one institution in Washington that only seems to receive more taxpayer dollars every … Continue reading "One Weekend a Month, My Ass"
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Walter Jones, RIP
Walter Jones was one of the few Republican members of Congress who I was able to get to talk with me for DWT. And he was always a serious and forthright guy. I liked him and was sorry to hear he had passed away today, on his 76th birthday.
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And Somewhere There are Engineers …
A conversation with youngsters – who are by nature bubbling with energy , fired with idealism and suffused with innumerable questions – is a thing which everyone with grey hair looks forward to. For someone like me it is an added gift this morning that after exactly a gap of forty years this writer is … Continue reading And Somewhere There are Engineers … →
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Harsh Turkish condemnation of Xinjiang cracks Muslim wall of silence
In perhaps the most significant condemnation to date of China’s brutal crackdown on Turkic Muslims in its north-western province of Xinjiang. Turkey’s foreign ministry demanded this weekend that Chinese authorities respect human rights of the Uighurs and close what it termed “concentration camps” in which up to one million people are believed to be imprisoned. Calling the crackdown an “embarrassment[Read More...]
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