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HIERARCHY, EQUALITY, HUMAN NATURE, AND WAR...

This is how the propaganda of the NATO countries in particular is proceeding in the Ukraine war. The wisdom that a war always has a history is ignored...It becomes clear that those responsible are manipulating the public to their own ends by ignoring NATO's breach of European treaties through its eastward expansion....

AB 715 swaps explicit Israel-Palestine bans for an IHRA‑aligned, “Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator” led instruction materials regime that channels “compliance” through advocacy networks, relabels Israel‑critical scholarship as “bias” and discrimination, chilling classroom speech. AB 715 must be rejected in favor of viewpoint‑neutral standards, established K–12 speech/harassment thresholds, transparency, and clear classroom guidance....

Sign up to help shut down the Port of Oakland. We're not just blocking a boat, we're blocking the whole damn port...

A vast field of rubble. There is much speculation about the motives behind Israel's warfare. While those who hate Israel make little effort to differentiate and crudely see Jewish “supremacy” at work, others assume that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fueling the chaos in order to avoid the legal consequences he could face if he loses office....

International law thus becomes a kind of request show: sometimes you want to follow it, sometimes you just don't feel like it. Germany in particular finds it difficult to openly confront its “friend” with his crimes. But this is precisely how the Germans show that they do not care about human rights when it comes down to it....

To the extent that we judge and condemn others and think that they are made of worse stuff than ourselves, we feed the energy that finds its fullest expression in genocide. Sociopathic and narcissistic leaders reflect back to us in extreme form the everyday dehumanization of those we condemn....

New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled by Israel’s killing in Gaza on Sunday of four Al Jazeera staff — correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal — and two freelancers Moamen Aliwa and Mohammad al-Khaldi....

Those who repress the brutality and seriousness of war and violence in order to be able to endure it may achieve short-term relief, but in the long term they will be prepared to accept increasingly extreme measures. Recognizing reality is painful, but it also offers the possibility of changing it....

Whoever wants to understand the US, the selfish worldview of its top politicians, their disregard for the problems of (increasing!) poverty, and the administration's ruthlessness toward the lower classes must read the books of Ayn Rand. The Jewish woman who emigrated from Russia and immigrated to the US propagated pure egoism as the only correct moral behavior....