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They tend to hold on to old ways of doing things, refusing to make more than minor tweaks to the system, until and unless they're forced to make real changes.----Historically, those changes have been first proposed by "third party" political candidates, after which growing public support has eventually forced "major party" adoption.</description> </item> <item> <title>U.S.A.UK EU Journalists Accessories to Gaza Genocide Prolong It Deceivingly As 'Defensive War'</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S-A-UK-EU-Journalists-Ac-Controlled-Media_Corporate-Media_Gaza-Invasion_Genocide-240423-764.html</link> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:16:01 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S-A-UK-EU-Journalists-Ac-Controlled-Media_Corporate-Media_Gaza-Invasion_Genocide-240423-764.html</guid> <dc:creator>Jay Janson</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://farm66.static.flickr.com/65535/53399910266_1c8fe71e53.jpg" length="72042" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>By international law, Israel is legally responsible for the well being of its captive, confined and illegally militarily occupied Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip,</description> </item> <item> <title>Bargain Basement Teachers?</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Bargain-Basement-Teachers-Charter-School-Failure-240423-603.html</link> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:15:39 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Bargain-Basement-Teachers-Charter-School-Failure-240423-603.html</guid> <dc:creator>Carl Petersen</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-503224-500-Uploaded-populum_visuals_2024_04_2024-04-503224-screenshot-2024-04-02-133646-578.jpg" length="113444" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>With low salaries and poor working conditions, Citizens of the World Charter Schools is driving away high-quality, experienced educators.</description> </item> <item> <title>Austen Ivereigh on Pope Francis' Thought (REVIEW ESSAY)</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Austen-Ivereigh-on-Pope-Fr-Catholicism-Vatican-Pope_God_Loyola_Pope-Francis-240423-897.html</link> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:35:34 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Austen-Ivereigh-on-Pope-Fr-Catholicism-Vatican-Pope_God_Loyola_Pope-Francis-240423-897.html</guid> <dc:creator>Thomas Farrell</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-38575-350-CreativeCommonsPhotos-65535_51859133144_5a8ee3d63c_b.jpg" length="57013" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>The lay Catholic English journalist Dr. Austen Ivereigh (born in 1966) perceptively weaves together multiple strands of Pope Francis' thought in his new 2024 book First Belong to God: On Retreat with Pope Francis (Loyola Press).</description> </item> <item> <title>Tomgram: Bob Dreyfuss, Going to Hell in a Handbasket in Iran</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Tomgram-Bob-Dreyfuss-Goi-Iran_Iraq_Israel_Russia-240423-678.html</link> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:38:15 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Tomgram-Bob-Dreyfuss-Goi-Iran_Iraq_Israel_Russia-240423-678.html</guid> <dc:creator>Tom Engelhardt</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>One, erratic and often unhinged, blew up the U.S.-Iran accord that was the landmark foreign policy achievement of President Obama's second term. He then ordered the assassination of a top Iranian general visiting Iraq, dramatically raising tensions in the region. 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I feel so in ove with the world again. I had a lover's quarrel going, like Robert Frost said. But now we're good again. 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Here are some facts that might disturb you.</description> </item> <item> <title>When they land</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/When-they-land-Poems_Poetry-240421-275.html</link> <pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2024 08:50:29 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/When-they-land-Poems_Poetry-240421-275.html</guid> <dc:creator>Gary Lindorff</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/878/40633552824_7716877c31.jpg" length="77962" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>Will we be around / To greet our saviors from a distant star / To witness the passing of the torch--/ To a larger brain?</description> </item> <item> <title>Speech Czar</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Speech-Czar-National-Public-Radio-NPR_Technofeudalism-240420-280.html</link> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 19:55:32 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Speech-Czar-National-Public-Radio-NPR_Technofeudalism-240420-280.html</guid> <dc:creator>Peter Barus</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>NPR and Maher don't care about your right to speak freely; it's all about audience rights. An audience is not a right: it's a property, like NPR's audience, where NPR gets to say what their audience has the right to hear. What NPR's audience hears is optimized to gather and retain maximum attention. Journalism is going off life-support, and not in a good way.</description> </item> <item> <title>How The New York Times and Academia Kept the Biggest Secret of the Pentagon Papers</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-The-New-York-Times-and-JFK_Jim-Garrison_John-Newman_Noam-Chomsky-240420-308.html</link> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 16:33:38 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-The-New-York-Times-and-JFK_Jim-Garrison_John-Newman_Noam-Chomsky-240420-308.html</guid> <dc:creator>Michael Morrissey</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-12887-350-CreativeCommonsPhotos-2503_3819475996_abc7c8e3c2_b.jpg" length="48067" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>There should never have been any question about JFK's withdrawal plan from Vietnam or LBJ's reversal of it. It has been a false debate intended to distract us from the real question: Was JFK killed by the warmongers?</description> </item> <item> <title>Nuclear Arms Bros</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Nuclear-Arms-Bros-Nuclear-Disarmament_Nuclear-War_Nuclear-Winter-240420-358.html</link> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 16:32:17 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Nuclear-Arms-Bros-Nuclear-Disarmament_Nuclear-War_Nuclear-Winter-240420-358.html</guid> <dc:creator>Irene Fowler</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-514273-mushroom-cloud-67534_1280--1--698.jpg" length="91803" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>"I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force or nuclear bombs." Linus Pauling</description> </item> <item> <title>Sonnet: White Noise Puppets and Their Puppeteers</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Sonnet-White-Noise-Puppet-Noise-Pollution_Puppetry_White-Supremacy_White-Terrorist-240420-468.html</link> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 16:30:19 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Sonnet-White-Noise-Puppet-Noise-Pollution_Puppetry_White-Supremacy_White-Terrorist-240420-468.html</guid> <dc:creator>John Hawkins</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-517692-500-Uploaded-populum_visuals_2024_04_2024-04-517692-white-nise-puppets-747.jpg" length="196167" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>A lamentation for our ungorgeous but devasating times. Got solutions? Hey, don't tell me, I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band.</description> </item> <item> <title>The House could use Hoyer's consensus model now to avoid repeated chaos</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-House-could-use-Hoyer-Congress_Consensus-Building_Consensus-Building_House-Of-Representatives-240420-896.html</link> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 15:00:12 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-House-could-use-Hoyer-Congress_Consensus-Building_Consensus-Building_House-Of-Representatives-240420-896.html</guid> <dc:creator>Robert Weiner</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>Now, more than ever, we need a leader capable of navigating Congress through partisan chaos. The consensus-building leadership that Hoyer could give class lessons on is precisely what the House and the United States urgently need.</description> </item> <item> <title>Netanyahu is determined to drag the US into war with Iran</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Netanyahu-is-determined-to-Airstrikes_Embassy_Iran_Iran-Arms-Industry-240420-59.html</link> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 14:54:04 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Netanyahu-is-determined-to-Airstrikes_Embassy_Iran_Iran-Arms-Industry-240420-59.html</guid> <dc:creator>Steven Sahiounie</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>This article talks about the Israeli airstrikes on the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus</description> </item> <item> <title>In Defense of Higher Education: How To Address Genocidal Congress-members</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/In-Defense-of-Higher-Educa-Education-Curriculum_Education-Higher_Higher-Education-240420-20.html</link> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:04:54 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/In-Defense-of-Higher-Educa-Education-Curriculum_Education-Higher_Higher-Education-240420-20.html</guid> <dc:creator>Mike Rivage-Seul</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/l_juPX8Nt4w/mqdefault.jpg" length="10989" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>It was embarrassing to see University of Colombia President Minouche Shafik grovel before congress-members who evidently know nothing about higher education.</description> </item> <item> <title>Me and Thich Nhat Hanh (open letter to my brother):</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Me-and-Thich-Naht-Hanh-op-Nonviolence_Nonviolence-240420-859.html</link> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 08:36:18 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Me-and-Thich-Naht-Hanh-op-Nonviolence_Nonviolence-240420-859.html</guid> <dc:creator>Gary Lindorff</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>I know you don't like (as in see the value in) Buddhism (or any religion), but what Thich Haht N H said was. . .</description> </item> <item> <title>On the Sheer Radicalness of the Moment of Conception Doctrine (REVIEW ESSAY)</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/On-the-Sheer-Radicalness-o-2024-Elections_Abortion_Abortion-Laws_Abortion-Legislation-240419-21.html</link> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:31:34 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/On-the-Sheer-Radicalness-o-2024-Elections_Abortion_Abortion-Laws_Abortion-Legislation-240419-21.html</guid> <dc:creator>Thomas Farrell</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/V%C3%ADctor_Manuel_Fern%C3%A1ndez-%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-V%C3%ADctor_Manuel_Fern%C3%A1ndez-%28cropped%29.jpg" length="27963" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>In my recent OEN article "How Important Will the Abortion Debate Be in the 2024 elections?" (dated April 10, 2024), I did not attempt to answer the question I posed in the title -- and I do not attempt to do so in the present article either. Rather, I want to draw attention to the sheer radicalness of the Roman Catholic Church's doctrine about the moment of conception -- which could incite anti-abortion American Catholics.</description> </item> <item> <title>Just nuke Gaza, get it over quick, advises US Representative Tim Walberg, Evangelical Zionist</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Just-nuke-Gaza-get-it-ove-Free-Gaza-Movement_Gaza_Gaza-Flotilla-2011_Gaza-Freedom-March-240419-449.html</link> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:20:07 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Just-nuke-Gaza-get-it-ove-Free-Gaza-Movement_Gaza_Gaza-Flotilla-2011_Gaza-Freedom-March-240419-449.html</guid> <dc:creator>Steven Sahiounie</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>This article talks about the republican senator Tim Walberg's statement on just nuke the people of Gaza to finish the war</description> </item> <item> <title>Are you an alcoholic? Take this test</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Are-you-an-alcoholic-Take-Alcoholic_Alcoholics-Anonymous_Awareness_Bill-Wilson-240419-919.html</link> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:08:31 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Are-you-an-alcoholic-Take-Alcoholic_Alcoholics-Anonymous_Awareness_Bill-Wilson-240419-919.html</guid> <dc:creator>Bob Gaydos</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-72391-350-CreativeCommonsPhotos-212_489566488_41193cd4f3_b.jpg" length="73133" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>April is Alcohol Awareness Month. With that in mind, I offer a list of questions designed to help individuals decide if they, or someone they know, may be an alcoholic. If that is the case, recognition of the problem may well be the first flicker of hope, rather than the beacon of doom many people consider it to be. Be honest.</description> </item> <item> <title>The "Seven Magic Tricks." Hey, Don, How they Doin' for Ya Now?"</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Seven-Magic-Tricks--Donald-Trump_Trump-Anger_Trump-Crime_Trump-Fascist-240419-845.html</link> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:11:57 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Seven-Magic-Tricks--Donald-Trump_Trump-Anger_Trump-Crime_Trump-Fascist-240419-845.html</guid> <dc:creator>Steven Jonas</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://farm66.static.flickr.com/65535/51332924359_23938b37e5.jpg" length="51039" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>In past columns (all referenced in the text below), written over several years, I have described and discussed his use of his six (then Seven) "Magic Tricks," in dealing with various issues that have risen for him. This column takes a look at how he is using them in his present predicament(s), and how indeed they are failing him.</description> </item> <item> <title>Early this morning Israel Attacked Iran as well as military airfields and radar sites in Syria and Iraq</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Early-this-morning-Israel-Iran_Iraq_Israel-And-Palestine_Israel-Versus-Iran-240419-314.html</link> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:25:09 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Early-this-morning-Israel-Iran_Iraq_Israel-And-Palestine_Israel-Versus-Iran-240419-314.html</guid> <dc:creator>Dave Lefcourt</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zHm4Mw3qhgs/mqdefault.jpg" length="21127" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>In the early hours today Israel attacked Iran as well as military airfields in Syria and Iraq. This latest attack came days after Iran sent missiles and drones into Israel in retaliation of Israel attacking the Iranian consulate building n Damascus, Syria. What is worrisome at this point these retaliatory strikes by Israel and Iran could lead to a Middle East conflagration w/ worldwide implications.</description> </item> <item> <title>Holy Sonnet</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Holy-Sonnet-Poetry-240419-990.html</link> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:51:16 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Holy-Sonnet-Poetry-240419-990.html</guid> <dc:creator>John Hawkins</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-517692-500-Uploaded-populum_visuals_2024_04_2024-04-517692-jesus-on-sax-657.jpg" length="183429" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>It's poetry month, so I wax excessive more than I usually do. Here's mud in your eye.</description> </item> <item> <title>In solidarity with Gaza. A Poem by Em Berry "Because of us"</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/In-solidarity-with-Gaza-A-Poems_Poetry-240419-168.html</link> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 07:28:46 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/In-solidarity-with-Gaza-A-Poems_Poetry-240419-168.html</guid> <dc:creator>Gary Lindorff</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>I wondered then / how many of our wounds / have been dressed</description> </item> <item> <title>How The New York Times and Academia Kept the Biggest Secret of the Pentagon Papers</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-The-New-York-Times-and-JFK_Jim-Garrison_John-Newman_Noam-Chomsky-240418-949.html</link> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:28:39 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-The-New-York-Times-and-JFK_Jim-Garrison_John-Newman_Noam-Chomsky-240418-949.html</guid> <dc:creator>Michael Morrissey</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-12887-350-CreativeCommonsPhotos-2503_3819475996_abc7c8e3c2_b.jpg" length="48067" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>There should never have been any question about JFK's withdrawal plan from Vietnam or LBJ's reversal of it. It has been a false debate intended to distract us from the real question: Was JFK killed by the warmongers?</description> </item> <item> <title>Tomgram: John Feffer, The Gang's All Here</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Tomgram-John-Feffer-The-Democracy_Gangs_Haiti_Violence-240418-573.html</link> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:39:16 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Tomgram-John-Feffer-The-Democracy_Gangs_Haiti_Violence-240418-573.html</guid> <dc:creator>Tom Engelhardt</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>Haiti has descended into chaos. It's had no president or parliament -- and no elections either -for eight long years. Its unelected prime minister Ariel Henry resigned recently when gang violence at the airport in Port-au-Prince made it impossible for him to return to the country after a trip to Guyana[...]</description> </item> <item> <title>Just How Broken is Our Healthcare System?</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Just-How-Broken-is-Our-Hea-Broken-America_Healthcare-Costs_Healthcare-Crisis_Healthcare-Failure-240418-370.html</link> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:53:03 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Just-How-Broken-is-Our-Hea-Broken-America_Healthcare-Costs_Healthcare-Crisis_Healthcare-Failure-240418-370.html</guid> <dc:creator>Elayne Clift</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://farm66.static.flickr.com/65535/52551368047_3a0e7fd74f.jpg" length="70140" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>A young woman dies in childbirth for lack of proper perinatal care. An elderly man can't afford meds to control his chronic conditions, so he rations them. A child is misdiagnosed in the emergency room. A patient waits months to see her doctor about a troublesome symptom. Stories like these abound.</description> </item> <item> <title>April 15 is coming soon: what will the noblest US taxpayers do?</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/April-15-is-coming-soon-w-April-Fool_Taxes_Taxes_Taxpayers-240417-641.html</link> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:33:47 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/April-15-is-coming-soon-w-April-Fool_Taxes_Taxes_Taxpayers-240417-641.html</guid> <dc:creator>Pavlo Kuliuk</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>Prostitutes paying taxes risk being punished for their work. In such a situation, paying taxes requires true nobility and patriotism. This is an unusual effect of decriminalization, and not the legalization of prostitution.</description> </item> <item> <title>"Turkey faces a terrorist threat east of the Euphrates from the Kurds and the US", interview with Aydin Sezer</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Turkey-faces-a-terrorist-Israel-Turkey-Conflict_Recep-Tayyip-Erdogan_Terrorist-Attack_Terrorist-Bombing-240417-996.html</link> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:23:35 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Turkey-faces-a-terrorist-Israel-Turkey-Conflict_Recep-Tayyip-Erdogan_Terrorist-Attack_Terrorist-Bombing-240417-996.html</guid> <dc:creator>Steven Sahiounie</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>This is an interview with Turkish diplomat Aydin Sezer to talk about the latest elections in Turkey and how will it affect the future of Erdogan</description> </item> <item> <title>Nuclear Arms Bros</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Nuclear-Arms-Bros-Nuclear-Disarmament_Nuclear-War_Nuclear-Winter-240416-454.html</link> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:31:28 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Nuclear-Arms-Bros-Nuclear-Disarmament_Nuclear-War_Nuclear-Winter-240416-454.html</guid> <dc:creator>Irene Fowler</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-514273-mushroom-cloud-67534_1280--1--698.jpg" length="91803" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>"I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force or nuclear bombs." Linus Pauling</description> </item> <item> <title>The Language of Nuclear Weapons</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Language-of-Nuclear-We-Nuclear-War-240416-527.html</link> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:29:48 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Language-of-Nuclear-We-Nuclear-War-240416-527.html</guid> <dc:creator>Jason Sibert</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>This story is about the language of nuclear weapons in the international arena.</description> </item> <item> <title>Thomas J. Farrell's Personal History of the 1960s (REVIEW ESSAY)</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Thomas-J-Farrell-s-Person-History_History-and-Religion-240416-670.html</link> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:03:18 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Thomas-J-Farrell-s-Person-History_History-and-Religion-240416-670.html</guid> <dc:creator>Thomas Farrell</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://live.staticflickr.com/3664/3617685502_ef89414144_m.jpg" length="13139" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>Doris Kearns Goodwin's new 2024 book An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History (Simon and Schuster) triggered a response in me to write my own personal history of the 1960s. The present essay is wide-ranging, and at time meandering.</description> </item> <item> <title>Tomgram: Juan Cole, Playing Russian Roulette with Middle Eastern Oil</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Tomgram-Juan-Cole-Playin-Energy_Iran_Oil-240416-186.html</link> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:55:02 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Tomgram-Juan-Cole-Playin-Energy_Iran_Oil-240416-186.html</guid> <dc:creator>Tom Engelhardt</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>Last September witnessed what used to be a truly rare weather phenomenon: a Mediterranean hurricane, or "medicane." Once upon a time, the Mediterranean Sea simply didn't get hot enough to produce hurricanes more than every few hundred (yes, few hundred!) years. In this case, however, Storm Daniel assaulted Libya with a biblical-style deluge for four straight days[...]</description> </item> <item> <title>Absence followed by a reflection</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Absence-Poems_Poetry-240416-511.html</link> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:53:15 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Absence-Poems_Poetry-240416-511.html</guid> <dc:creator>Gary Lindorff</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://farm66.static.flickr.com/65535/47623275502_d7d6d769d7.jpg" length="88393" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>When the birds are here / The songs comes with them / The songs are in the birds</description> </item> <item> <title>2024 Serialization of Steven Jonas' "The 15% Solution:" Chapter 3 - The Real Drug War</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/2024-Serialization-of-Stev-Cia-Drug-Trafficking-Operations_Drug-Abuse-Use_Drug-Policy-Racist_Drug-Sentencing-240415-835.html</link> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:10:42 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/2024-Serialization-of-Stev-Cia-Drug-Trafficking-Operations_Drug-Abuse-Use_Drug-Policy-Racist_Drug-Sentencing-240415-835.html</guid> <dc:creator>Steven Jonas</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>This column presents Section 1, Chapter 3, of the 2024 serialization of Steven Jonas' book: "The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022" (from the third printing, 2013). The book was first published in 1996. This Section is entitled "The History," and this Chapter, 3, is entitled "The Real Drug War."</description> </item> <item> <title>Hate Did Not Win (So Far)</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Hate-Did-Not-Win-So-Far-Los-Angeles-240415-369.html</link> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:49:27 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Hate-Did-Not-Win-So-Far-Los-Angeles-240415-369.html</guid> <dc:creator>Carl Petersen</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-503224--screenshot-608.jpg" length="84311" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>Many candidates who ran on platforms based on their hatred of the LGBTQ+ community lost their races. Some others are still in the running.</description> </item> <item> <title>Donnie Little Hands Again, as the Conflicted Voice of the GOP</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Donnie-Little-Hands-Again-Abortion_Abortion-Laws_Abortion-Legislation_Abortion-Rights-240415-613.html</link> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:35:18 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Donnie-Little-Hands-Again-Abortion_Abortion-Laws_Abortion-Legislation_Abortion-Rights-240415-613.html</guid> <dc:creator>Dan Cooper</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>Trump is basically just the messenger, given the chance to appoint Supreme Court Justices. But don't tell him that. He claims that HE overturned Roe, something that the GOP has not been able to accomplish for a half century. But now it is time to pay the piper for the GOP's agenda.</description> </item> <item> <title>Tomgram: Ellen Cantarow, A Shrapnel-Faced World</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Tomgram-Ellen-Cantarow-A-Children_Genocide_Israel_Palestinians-240415-739.html</link> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:35:29 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Tomgram-Ellen-Cantarow-A-Children_Genocide_Israel_Palestinians-240415-739.html</guid> <dc:creator>Tom Engelhardt</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>Words can't express the horrors of Israel's genocide in Gaza. To actually feel the nightmare, you would have to be there under the bombs, fleeing with Palestinians desperately seeking a safe place that doesn't exist; seeing building after building destroyed; treading through blood in one of the few, only partially standing hospitals; and witnessing children and other patients sprawled on hospital floors[...]</description> </item> <item> <title>Prana: it's not a big deal. Just breathe.</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Prana-it-s-not-big-deal--Spirituality-240415-303.html</link> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 09:15:17 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Prana-it-s-not-big-deal--Spirituality-240415-303.html</guid> <dc:creator>Gary Lindorff</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://farm66.static.flickr.com/65535/47955047722_d8c8c84544.jpg" length="51399" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>Make this a practice, see what happens, share what happens. It doesn't matter who we are or what we think</description> </item> <item> <title>Series Review: Curb Your Enthusiasm</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Series-Review-Curb-Your-E-Transcendence_Transcendentalism-240409-986.html</link> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 02:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Series-Review-Curb-Your-E-Transcendence_Transcendentalism-240409-986.html</guid> <dc:creator>John Hawkins</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-517692-500-Uploaded-populum_visuals_2024_04_2024-04-517692-larry_david_at_the_2009_tribeca_film_festival_2-444.jpg" length="104222" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>Review of the series Curb Your Enthusiasm, which ends its tenure after the last episode hich aired a few nights ago</description> </item> <item> <title>Escaping Trapdoors: An Email from the Biden-Harris Administration</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Escaping-Trapdoors-An-Ema-American-History_Education_Email_Fascism-240414-252.html</link> <pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 17:26:42 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Escaping-Trapdoors-An-Ema-American-History_Education_Email_Fascism-240414-252.html</guid> <dc:creator>Dr. Lenore Daniels</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>An article in response to the Biden-Harris administration's student debt-forgiveness programs.</description> </item> <item> <title>To My Never Trump Republican Friends</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/To-My-Never-Trump-Republic-Never-Trump-Gop-Movement_Republican-In-Name-Only_Republican-Religious-Right-Wing-Nuts_Trump-240414-696.html</link> <pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 17:03:10 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/To-My-Never-Trump-Republic-Never-Trump-Gop-Movement_Republican-In-Name-Only_Republican-Religious-Right-Wing-Nuts_Trump-240414-696.html</guid> <dc:creator>Michael Chavers</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-3287-500-Uploaded-populum_visuals_2024_04_2024-04-3287-trump-lies-matter-597.jpg" length="118324" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>Are you more devoted to voting Republican than you are to a functioning government? Are you so committed to those MAGA Republicans that you would choose dictatorship over democracy and a functioning rule of law?</description> </item> <item> <title>Bibi King (a song)</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Bibi-King-a-song-Bibi-Netanyahu_God_King-David_King-Solomon-240412-687.html</link> <pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 02:04:46 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Bibi-King-a-song-Bibi-Netanyahu_God_King-David_King-Solomon-240412-687.html</guid> <dc:creator>John Hawkins</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-517692-500-Uploaded-populum_visuals_2024_04_2024-04-517692-bibi-rigoletto-401.jpg" length="92820" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>Dear ol' Bibi gets the treatment. Gee, can payback be far behind? God help us all. Umma bout to be palestined.</description> </item> <item> <title>Gaza: The End of Western Pretense</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Gaza-The-End-of-Western-P-Civilization_Colonialism_Colonialism_Gaza-Invasion-240413-17.html</link> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2024 15:42:32 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Gaza-The-End-of-Western-P-Civilization_Colonialism_Colonialism_Gaza-Invasion-240413-17.html</guid> <dc:creator>Bob Passi</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-75660-350-CreativeCommonsPhotos-7488_15813192800_7ddfe3c9e2_b.jpg" length="62213" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>What is going on in Gaza is, unfortunately, the culmination of a history of exploitive colonialism by the nations of Western civilization.</description> </item> <item> <title>The Dangers of Trump-Era Isolationism</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Dangers-of-Trump-Era-I-America_Dangerous_Isolationism_Israel-240413-173.html</link> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2024 15:32:24 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Dangers-of-Trump-Era-I-America_Dangerous_Isolationism_Israel-240413-173.html</guid> <dc:creator>Robert Weiner</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>Isolationism is selfish and dangerous for America. It will only be to the benefit of Trump-era Republicans who are greedy for power and control of our nation's resources.</description> </item> <item> <title>Genocide in Gaza, pogroms in the West Bank, occupation in USA</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Genocide-in-Gaza-pogroms-Genocide_Genocide-240413-466.html</link> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:33:40 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Genocide-in-Gaza-pogroms-Genocide_Genocide-240413-466.html</guid> <dc:creator>Peter Barus</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-6967-436-Uploaded-populum_visuals_2024_04_2024-04-6967-weaponsad-677.png" length="106564" type="image/png" /> <description>Israel, failing to achieve its imperial interests and floundering in the past six months (only succeeding to kill civilians despite billions in US military aid), is trying to draw the US into a regional and possibly a global war hoping to change the dynamic. If they succeed in this (and I give it a 60% chance), they will end Zionism in the most catastrophic way</description> </item> <item> <title>The IAEA Again Thwarts Nuclear Safety to Risk a Zaporizhzhia Explosion Disaster</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-IAEA-Again-Thwarts-Nuc-Nuclear-Cover-up_Nuclear-Meltdown_Nuclear-Reactor-240412-613.html</link> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:55:53 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-IAEA-Again-Thwarts-Nuc-Nuclear-Cover-up_Nuclear-Meltdown_Nuclear-Reactor-240412-613.html</guid> <dc:creator>Robert A. Leishear, PhD, PE, ASME Fellow</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-521540-500-Uploaded-populum_visuals_2024_04_2024-04-521540-fukushima-explosion-956.png" length="62619" type="image/png" /> <description>Once again, the IAEA refuses to consider nuclear reactor safety in the event of a potential nuclear meltdown, where meltdowns cause explosions and environmental disasters.</description> </item> <item> <title>Bragg MUST ASK Did Trump have Michael Cohen Pay Off the Other Women? Would Demonstrate Additional "Pattern and Practice"</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Bragg-MUST-ASK-Did-Trump-h-Michael-Cohen_Money_Trump_Trump-Sexual-Abuser-240412-684.html</link> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:41:03 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Bragg-MUST-ASK-Did-Trump-h-Michael-Cohen_Money_Trump_Trump-Sexual-Abuser-240412-684.html</guid> <dc:creator>Robert Weiner</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>Alvin Bragg must ask in Donald Trump's hush money trial whether or not his lawyer, Michael Cohen, also paid off women who made allegations against Trump.</description> </item> <item> <title>For the U.S., 'It's Just Like 1939.' Well, No."</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/For-the-U-S--It-s-Just-L-Christofascists_Fascist_Fascist-Americans_Fascist-State-240412-853.html</link> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:08:22 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/For-the-U-S--It-s-Just-L-Christofascists_Fascist_Fascist-Americans_Fascist-State-240412-853.html</guid> <dc:creator>Steven Jonas</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>Last week I published a column entitled: "In Eastern Europe, 'It's Just Like 1939.' Well, No." This one, also commenting on the phrase, "It's Just Like 1939," being used by a number of commentators who are dealing with the threat to U.S. Constitutional Democracy posed by the Trump/Heritage-Foundation/Project-2025, central to current Repub. doctrine. Indeed, back then, even with the Repubs., it was Right-wing, but different.</description> </item> <item> <title>Ruthless Poem</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Ruthless-Poem-Poem_Rant-240411-9.html</link> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 23:10:06 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Ruthless-Poem-Poem_Rant-240411-9.html</guid> <dc:creator>John Hawkins</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-517692-500-Uploaded-populum_visuals_2024_04_2024-04-517692-baberuthdead-429.jpg" length="145021" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>Here is a fresh rant from stale buns. I'm punchy. It's an election year. Trump wins, we die.</description> </item> <item> <title>2024 is a year of elections</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/2024-is-a-year-of-election-Elections-And-Campaigns_Elections_Candidates_Polls-240411-510.html</link> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:27:18 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/2024-is-a-year-of-election-Elections-And-Campaigns_Elections_Candidates_Polls-240411-510.html</guid> <dc:creator>Adomas Abromaitis</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>2024 is a year of elections in many countries. Part of the world's population will head to the polls, from big countries like the United States to small nations like Austria, Lithuania.</description> </item> <item> <title>Climate: Common Sense; Sparrows and Elephants</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Climate-Common-Sense-Spar-Climate_Climate-Change_Climate-Change-Deniers_Climate-Modeling-240411-484.html</link> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:18:13 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Climate-Common-Sense-Spar-Climate_Climate-Change_Climate-Change-Deniers_Climate-Modeling-240411-484.html</guid> <dc:creator>Chuck Nafziger</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-24101-500-Uploaded-populum_visuals_2024_04_2024-04-24101-sparrow2-755-01-654.jpg" length="130801" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>This article describes how CO2 is inconsequential to our climate compared to water vapor and clouds. It explores the origins of the CO2 pseudoscience and its consequences.</description> </item> <item> <title>What Does NATO Have to Do with the Genocide in GAZA?</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/What-Does-NATO-Have-to-Do-China_Germany_Iran_Iraq-240411-268.html</link> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:10:28 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/What-Does-NATO-Have-to-Do-China_Germany_Iran_Iraq-240411-268.html</guid> <dc:creator>David Swanson</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>The slaughter in Gaza could not exist without the U.S.-led military industrial complex, and its largest and most effective tool is NATO. One of NATO's many partners around the globe is Israel.</description> </item> <item> <title>Tomgram: William Astore, "Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds"</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Tomgram-William-Astore--Ecocide_Genocide_Iran_Israel-240411-374.html</link> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:19:21 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Tomgram-William-Astore--Ecocide_Genocide_Iran_Israel-240411-374.html</guid> <dc:creator>Tom Engelhardt</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (often wrongly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato) that only the dead have seen the end of war. Its persistence through history to this very moment should indeed be sobering. What would it take for us humans to stop killing each other with such vigor and in such numbers?[...]</description> </item> <item> <title>The speed demons followed by a reflection</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-speed-demons-Poems_Poetry-240411-461.html</link> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:11:04 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-speed-demons-Poems_Poetry-240411-461.html</guid> <dc:creator>Gary Lindorff</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>We / I feel like an ant among ants /Creeping along the vein of a leaf /Though a future-petrified swamp.</description> </item> <item> <title>TRINEDAY's RoundTable 29 The Alexander Hamilton/Henry George Economic Dialogues</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/TRINEDAY-s-RoundTable-29--Alexander-Hamilton_Economic-Rights_Hamilton-Project_Henry-George-240410-500.html</link> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:16:52 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/TRINEDAY-s-RoundTable-29--Alexander-Hamilton_Economic-Rights_Hamilton-Project_Henry-George-240410-500.html</guid> <dc:creator>Paul Fitzgerald Elizabeth Gould</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-39593-alexander_hamiltoton-4-17-24-art_project-441.jpg" length="34948" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>We'll explore how a shift in taxes stops land speculators - who understand how to get rich without working is by keeping the unearned land-value increases for themselves when the property is sold. Georgist solutions ensured that the land value went back to the whole community instead. These ideas have been working in many cities and towns in USA and around the world for over a century.</description> </item> <item> <title>The Shifting Castle: Siege Mentality and the Russian Paradigm of the "Threatened Majority"</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Shifting-Castle-Siege-Nagorno-karabakh_Post-soviet-Russia_Russia_Russian-Diplomacy-240410-305.html</link> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:09:48 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Shifting-Castle-Siege-Nagorno-karabakh_Post-soviet-Russia_Russia_Russian-Diplomacy-240410-305.html</guid> <dc:creator>Artem Belov</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>Poland, Russia, Israel - all these countries, among others, have been accused of having a "siege mentality". I am convinced that all countries possess one - in some measure. But look upon the walls of that besieged castle - don't you notice its walls are made of rubber?</description> </item> <item> <title>How Important Will the Abortion Debate Be in the 2024 Elections? (REVIEW ESSAY)</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-Important-Will-the-Abo-2024-Election_2024-Elections_Abortion_Abortion-Laws-240410-831.html</link> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:04:41 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-Important-Will-the-Abo-2024-Election_2024-Elections_Abortion_Abortion-Laws-240410-831.html</guid> <dc:creator>Thomas Farrell</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/V%C3%ADctor_Manuel_Fern%C3%A1ndez-%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-V%C3%ADctor_Manuel_Fern%C3%A1ndez-%28cropped%29.jpg" length="27963" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>Some Democrats have hoped to frame the upcoming 2024 elections as a referendum on the supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in the Dobbs case in 2022. But the strong language about abortion in the Vatican's new 2024 document may encourage conservative anti-abortion American Catholics not to vote for the liberal Catholic President Biden -- and perhaps not to vote for any Democratic candidates up for election.</description> </item> <item> <title>Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Class Warfare Will Be on the Ballot This November</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Tomgram-Rebecca-Gordon-C-Billionaires_Class_Class-Politics_Class-War-240410-219.html</link> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 09:11:47 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Tomgram-Rebecca-Gordon-C-Billionaires_Class_Class-Politics_Class-War-240410-219.html</guid> <dc:creator>Tom Engelhardt</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures and longer periods of sustained heat. In fact, each of the last nine months -- May 2023 through February 2024 -- set a world record for heat. As I'm writing this, March still has a couple of days to go, but likely as not, it, too, will set a record[...]</description> </item> <item> <title>Remembering the Rwandan genocide 30 years on</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Remembering-the-Rwandan-ge-Atrocities_Genocide_Genocide_Rwanda-240409-902.html</link> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:16:31 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Remembering-the-Rwandan-ge-Atrocities_Genocide_Genocide_Rwanda-240409-902.html</guid> <dc:creator>Mark Lansvin</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-523662-500-Uploaded-populum_visuals_2024_04_2024-04-523662-3403032782_186ebcb9ed_c-269.jpg" length="148030" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>Unfortunately, the international community often struggles with political will and international solidarity to take decisive action to prevent or stop atrocities.</description> </item> <item> <title>And So, This Is What?</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/And-So-This-Is-What-America-Culture-Of-Violence_American-History_Children_Fascism-240409-628.html</link> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:06:57 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/And-So-This-Is-What-America-Culture-Of-Violence_American-History_Children_Fascism-240409-628.html</guid> <dc:creator>Dr. Lenore Daniels</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>This is an article in response to the attack against children in Palestine and the WCK.</description> </item> <item> <title>interesting anecdote on healing my psychic / dream body (how that works)</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/interesting-anecdote-on-he-Healing_Health-240409-610.html</link> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:42:46 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/interesting-anecdote-on-he-Healing_Health-240409-610.html</guid> <dc:creator>Gary Lindorff</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>So, I think what happened here was I tended to my psychic / dream body and that resulted in eliminating one layer of my distress,</description> </item> <item> <title>The Eclipse as Cosmic Muse</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Eclipse-as-Cosmic-Muse-Eclipse_Poetry_Symbolism-240409-97.html</link> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:21:57 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Eclipse-as-Cosmic-Muse-Eclipse_Poetry_Symbolism-240409-97.html</guid> <dc:creator>Meryl Ann Butler</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://farm66.static.flickr.com/65535/51237325767_161215896f.jpg" length="38297" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>As I watched today's eclipse, I pondered the cosmic symbolism.</description> </item> <item> <title>2024 Serialization of Steven Jonas' "The 15% Solution:" Chapter 2</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Chapter-2-Fascism-in-Amer-America-Freedom-To-Fascism_America-Is-A-Christian-Nation_American-Capitalism_American-Center-For-Law-And-Justice-240408-649.html</link> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 17:20:41 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Chapter-2-Fascism-in-Amer-America-Freedom-To-Fascism_America-Is-A-Christian-Nation_American-Capitalism_American-Center-For-Law-And-Justice-240408-649.html</guid> <dc:creator>Steven Jonas</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>This column presents Section 1, Chapter 2, of the 2024 serialization of Steven Jonas' book: "The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022" (from the third printing, 2013). The book was first published in 1996. This Section is entitled "Setting the Stage," and this Chapter, 1, is entitled "The United States in 1995: Setting the Stage for Fascism."</description> </item> <item> <title>The dumbing down of America, cont.</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-dumbing-down-of-Americ-American-Education_American-History_American-Schools_Dumbing-Down-240408-615.html</link> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:33:55 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-dumbing-down-of-Americ-American-Education_American-History_American-Schools_Dumbing-Down-240408-615.html</guid> <dc:creator>Bob Gaydos</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://live.staticflickr.com/1510/24476703916_cebb9f2f67.jpg" length="81905" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>I don't know who needs to hear this, but the American education system is in crisis. Too many young people don't know things that used to be considered basic information you learned if you got through high school.</description> </item> <item> <title>Schools For Thee, Not For Me</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Schools-For-Thee-Not-For-Charter-School-Failure-240408-171.html</link> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:29:20 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Schools-For-Thee-Not-For-Charter-School-Failure-240408-171.html</guid> <dc:creator>Carl Petersen</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-503224-charter-schools-by-board-district-734.png" length="19694" type="image/png" /> <description>The Charter School Industry spends millions trying to influence LAUSD School Board elections but fails to win in areas saturated with its schools.</description> </item> <item> <title>Walter Ong, Judith Butler, and the Vatican on Gender (REVIEW ESSAY)</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Walter-Ong-Judith-Butler-Catholicism-Vatican-Pope_Jesuits-240408-444.html</link> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 10:34:35 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Walter-Ong-Judith-Butler-Catholicism-Vatican-Pope_Jesuits-240408-444.html</guid> <dc:creator>Thomas Farrell</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/V%C3%ADctor_Manuel_Fern%C3%A1ndez-%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-V%C3%ADctor_Manuel_Fern%C3%A1ndez-%28cropped%29.jpg" length="27963" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>In this wide-ranging and lengthy review essay, I highlight the American Jesuit Walter Ong's 1981 Book Fighting for Life: contest, Sexuality [Gender], and Consciousness (Cornell University Press); the American leftist Judith Butler's new 2024 book Who's Afraid of Gender? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); and the Vatican's just released new 2024 document on, in part, gender theory.</description> </item> <item> <title>Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Guanta'namo Forever (Yet Forgotten)?</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Tomgram-Karen-Greenberg--Detention_Guantanamo-Bay_Human-Rights_Imperialism-240408-477.html</link> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 10:24:33 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Tomgram-Karen-Greenberg--Detention_Guantanamo-Bay_Human-Rights_Imperialism-240408-477.html</guid> <dc:creator>Tom Engelhardt</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>Last weekend my father, Larry Greenberg, passed away at the age of 93. Several days later, I received an email from the French film director Phillippe Diaz who sent me a link to his soon-to-be-released I am Gitmo, a feature movie about the now-infamous Guanta'namo Bay detention facility. As I was soon to discover, those two disparate events in my life spoke to one another with cosmic overtones[...]</description> </item> <item> <title>Film Review: The Zone of Interest</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Film-Review-The-Zone-of-I-Dead-Zones_Green-Zone_Human-Interest_Novel-240404-788.html</link> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 03:00:33 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Film-Review-The-Zone-of-I-Dead-Zones_Green-Zone_Human-Interest_Novel-240404-788.html</guid> <dc:creator>John Hawkins</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-517692-500-Uploaded-populum_visuals_2024_04_2024-04-517692-the-zone-of-interest-poster-157.jpg" length="30432" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>Review if The Zone of Interest directed by Jonathan Glazer. Compared to the novel by Martin Amis.</description> </item> <item> <title>On Arms Control in a Lawless World</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/On-Arms-Control-in-a-Lawle-Nuclear_World-Peace-240407-912.html</link> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2024 16:16:53 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/On-Arms-Control-in-a-Lawle-Nuclear_World-Peace-240407-912.html</guid> <dc:creator>Jason Sibert</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>This story addresses the new nuclear arms race and how to take steps to timmer it.</description> </item> <item> <title>General Election School Board Candidates Finalized</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/General-Election-School-Bo-Los-Angeles-240407-878.html</link> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2024 16:12:27 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/General-Election-School-Bo-Los-Angeles-240407-878.html</guid> <dc:creator>Carl Petersen</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-503224-candidates-703.jpg" length="64826" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>The Los Angeles County Clerk's preliminary certification of the primary results shows no change in the winners but a clear shift in momentum.</description> </item> <item> <title>The Aries Solar Eclipse: Search for Identity The Whale Rider - How to Claim Your Identity</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Aries-Solar-Eclipse-S-American-Identity_Aries-Solar-Eclipse-2024_Astrology_Identity-240407-761.html</link> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2024 11:47:02 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Aries-Solar-Eclipse-S-American-Identity_Aries-Solar-Eclipse-2024_Astrology_Identity-240407-761.html</guid> <dc:creator>Cathy Pagano</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://live.staticflickr.com/4397/35885963694_e1d00c2e13_b.jpg" length="46629" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>Since everyone in the US is being hit by eclipse fever, this will let you know what it all means. And if you take the time to watch "Whale Rider" you'll understand on a heart level what this eclipse means. It's time to heal and figure out your personal identity -- as well as your identity as an American.</description> </item> <item> <title>The Grim Story of the Homeless dead on L.A. Streets</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Grim-Story-of-the-Home-China_Dead-Bodies_Homelessness_Homelessness-240407-55.html</link> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2024 10:59:04 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Grim-Story-of-the-Home-China_Dead-Bodies_Homelessness_Homelessness-240407-55.html</guid> <dc:creator>earl ofari hutchinson</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>The oft-told tale of horror has become both the stuff of legend and the stuff of caution about poverty and destitution. That's the tale of woe of Shanghai China in the 1920s. Every morning dozens of bodies were swept up off that city's streets. They were the poorest of the poor who were desperately sick, impoverished, scorned, and of course, homeless.</description> </item> <item> <title>Me and Woodstock - a moment caught in amber</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Me-and-Woodstock--a-momen-Poems_Poetry-240407-221.html</link> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2024 10:42:32 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Me-and-Woodstock--a-momen-Poems_Poetry-240407-221.html</guid> <dc:creator>Gary Lindorff</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://farm66.static.flickr.com/65535/52463366542_679f5a4f6b.jpg" length="50884" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>Clark (with his shoulder-length raven hair----To kill for is saying,----"We're heading for Woodstock.----Do you want to come?"</description> </item> <item> <title>Step-by-Step to HACCP Certification: A Comprehensive Guide</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Step-by-Step-to-HACCP-Cert-Certification-And-Testing-240406-49.html</link> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2024 16:22:34 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Step-by-Step-to-HACCP-Cert-Certification-And-Testing-240406-49.html</guid> <dc:creator>dikshi seo13</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-524817-500-Uploaded-populum_visuals_2024_04_2024-04-524817-haccp-certification---1--48.jpg" length="46887" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>B2Bcert's HACCP certification is a hallmark of a business's dedication to rigorous food safety protocols, guaranteeing compliance with international standards and enhancing market competitiveness.</description> </item> <item> <title>Jean Houston's Psycho-Historical Recovery of the Self: Sacred Psychology in Western History</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Jean-Houston-s-Psycho-Hist-Group-Ritual_Self-Improvement_Self-awareness_Story-Mythology-Archetypes-240406-441.html</link> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2024 16:16:20 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Jean-Houston-s-Psycho-Hist-Group-Ritual_Self-Improvement_Self-awareness_Story-Mythology-Archetypes-240406-441.html</guid> <dc:creator>Barbara and Bruce MacLean-Lerro</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-506194-jean-huston-picture1-727.jpg" length="24531" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>Can we draw any meaningful connection between the macro world of the evolution of societies and the micro world of individual development? Jean Houston argues that both macro and micro-worlds go through crisis and pathology that can be overcome through group rituals as they have existed throughout Western history.</description> </item> <item> <title>Three announcements, 4 negative news, 7 positive news items</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Three-announcements-4-neg-Genocide-240406-856.html</link> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2024 14:31:55 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Three-announcements-4-neg-Genocide-240406-856.html</guid> <dc:creator>Peter Barus</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>Israel used artificial intelligence to set 37,000 bombing locations. Even--when a potential single fighter was found in a building with 100 civilians,--it was OK. But most buildings had no hHamas fighters (they were and are in--tunnels). Read this unprecedented language and orders (never in history did--any military do this)</description> </item> <item> <title>Imagine There Are No Borders</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Imagine-There-Are-No-Borde-Border-Cruelty_Border-Dispute_Border-Fence_Border-Patrol-240406-152.html</link> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2024 11:37:18 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Imagine-There-Are-No-Borde-Border-Cruelty_Border-Dispute_Border-Fence_Border-Patrol-240406-152.html</guid> <dc:creator>David Swanson</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>Hundreds of thousands of people are charged with the crime of crossing a line that could not be a crime if there were no line, a crime that was invented in the United States in 1929 by enthusiastic racists of whom if there are any statues, I say, by all means tear them down. But tear down the border walls first.</description> </item> <item> <title>Biden's Dilemma -- Gaza and an Election Year</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Biden-s-Dilemma--Gaza-an-Biden-Administration_Gaza-Aid-Convoy_Killing_Workers-240405-562.html</link> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 15:52:48 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Biden-s-Dilemma--Gaza-an-Biden-Administration_Gaza-Aid-Convoy_Killing_Workers-240405-562.html</guid> <dc:creator>Arshad M Khan</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>The killing of aid workers in Gaza has outraged Biden, he says. Not enough to stop him sending more bombs that kill civilians, however.</description> </item> <item> <title>The Danger of Biden's Pier in Gaza</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Danger-of-Biden-s-Pier-Biden-Administration_Danger_Gaza-Strip_Gaza-War-240405-333.html</link> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 15:49:09 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Danger-of-Biden-s-Pier-Biden-Administration_Danger_Gaza-Strip_Gaza-War-240405-333.html</guid> <dc:creator>Robert Weiner</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>President Biden and the Pentagon's emergency mission to establish a pier in Gaza could expand the war by making US builders and protectors an easy target for terrorist attacks.</description> </item> <item> <title>"In Eastern Europe, 'It's Just Like 1939'." Well, no.</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/In-Eastern-Europe--It-s-France_Germany_Russia_Ukraine-240405-537.html</link> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 10:26:44 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/In-Eastern-Europe--It-s-France_Germany_Russia_Ukraine-240405-537.html</guid> <dc:creator>Steven Jonas</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>It is being said by certain authorities that the situation in Europe, and in the U. S., is "like 1939." This column is the first of two-parter dealing with that matter. This one is about Europe/1939, especially Eastern Europe. Indeed, what is going on there, beginning with Russia's War on Ukraine, has nothing in common with the situation in 1939. Next week we shall discuss "The U.S. in 1939." Indeed, there are similarities.</description> </item> <item> <title>Thought Cops On They Way (poem)</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Thought-Cops-On-They-Way--Cop-Culture_Matter_Thought-Crime-240321-912.html</link> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 02:56:34 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Thought-Cops-On-They-Way--Cop-Culture_Matter_Thought-Crime-240321-912.html</guid> <dc:creator>John Hawkins</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/03/2024-03-517692-500-Uploaded-populum_visuals_2024_03_2024-03-517692-olawd-81.jpg" length="186143" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>The duture is here and is grim. Hard to fathom its details. It may or may not matter if you can swim.</description> </item> <item> <title>Spring, Rebirth, Fresh Start</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Spring-Rebirth-Fresh-Sta-Mistakes_OPPORTUNITY_OPPORTUNITY_Rebirth-240404-863.html</link> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:29:30 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Spring-Rebirth-Fresh-Sta-Mistakes_OPPORTUNITY_OPPORTUNITY_Rebirth-240404-863.html</guid> <dc:creator>Bob Passi</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-75660-350-CreativeCommonsPhotos-7646_16237471033_a1cdcf4f65_b.jpg" length="63600" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>We can let go of old systems and mistakes and use spring as an opportunity to find new and better solutions to our human problems on this planet.</description> </item> <item> <title>Buy Now Pay Later Models for Greater Accessibility and Flexibility</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Buy-Now-Pay-Later-Models-f-Insurance-240404-307.html</link> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:26:16 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/Buy-Now-Pay-Later-Models-f-Insurance-240404-307.html</guid> <dc:creator>Patricia Hernadez</dc:creator> <enclosure url="https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/fblogo.png" length="" type="image/png" /> <description>The article explores the transformative adoption of Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) payment models in auto insurance, offering increased accessibility and financial flexibility to consumers and insurers, while navigating regulatory and operational challenges.</description> </item> <item> <title>The World's Final Response to Climate Change: Hospice Care for a Dying Planet</title> <link>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-World-s-Final-Response-Climate-Change-Costs_Climate-Change-Deniers_Climate-Change-Protest-Activism_Climate-Report-240404-903.html</link> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 10:42:33 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-World-s-Final-Response-Climate-Change-Costs_Climate-Change-Deniers_Climate-Change-Protest-Activism_Climate-Report-240404-903.html</guid> <dc:creator>Bernard Starr</dc:creator> <enclosure url="http://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2024/04/2024-04-56926-500-Uploaded-populum_visuals_2024_04_2024-04-56926-nasa-the-relentless-rise-of-co2-2.jpg" length="47550" type="image/jpeg" /> <description>After decades of fighting climate change, the world is in worse shape than ever teetering on "climate hell" While this dire crisis should mandate all hands on deck worldwide with a laser focus on stopping climate change, we are witnessing feeble responses of nations backtracking on commitments, making concessions to climate change deniers and corporations that put profits first.The restrained world response is suicidal.</description> </item> </channel> </rss> 
