Paul Haeder, Author

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… and NEVER EVER call us Marxists and socialists Trumpies for supporting the end of Zelensky and the end of support for the proxy war in Ukraine The Americans have moreover completely deceived the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian government with regard to the completely unrealistic victory of Ukraine in this war, in my opinion, …

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This kind of coverage is dangerous because it normalizes the absolutely abnormal. The cuts to federal agencies will do little to curb the rapacious spending by the federal government if the military budget — Congressional Republicans are calling for at least $100 billion in additional military spending during the next decade — remains sacrosanct. And while Trump …

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“Not by hatred is hatred overcome, but only by love is hatred overcome…” Dharmmapada Richard Hofstadter lends his historian’s craft to the rather popular task of anthologizing American violence, and whatever reservations one may have about collections of umpteen separate bloody incidents, the master’s hand is evident throughout. Hofstadter’s thoughtful introduction gives a scholarly substance …

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it’s all the soft shoe tap dancing — says so much about Vogue, about the West, about the empty brains of the west, to do a effing photo spread of DOA/ KIA/ MIA Ukrainian Female Nazi’s First, though: X. Israel: we decided to put Palestinians in gas chambers. Congress: here is Zyklon B gas. Blinken: Israel …

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… sure, I like Aaron Mate for some of what he does, but he’s just not all there — not THERE, in Russia, in Ukraine, anywhere, sort of like his hero Sy Hersh Good, here: But, seeing this, I really have nothing to listen to beyond: In Moscow concert massacre, blowback and negligence all around “Russian …

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… and two and two equals something like 7 and a half, and up is down, and hate is love and society is ledgers and hope is despair and peace is always THEIR war against us, the planet, thinking Just basic getting to work, getting to town, that one, the Big Rotten Jewish York City, …

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100 years after his death, Long Live Lenin! “We are very concerned at the level of disinterest shown by the government in the welfare of older people at a time when the temperature is dropping well below freezing,” Jan Shortt, General Secretary of the National Pensioners’ Convention, which is part of the Warm This Winter …

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…. No academic freedom, boys and girls . . . I remember at Washington State University, Michael Pollan, and his book, an attack on agri-biz, they said, cancelled and then reinstated! Now that the NYT has weighed in, I guess it’s fair to say this story broke through to the mainstream. I’ll spare you all …

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