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Voter intimidation in 2022 follows a long history of illegal, and racist, bullying
Atiba Ellis: In Travis County, Texas… local Republican Party official allegedly knocked on people’s doors in November 2022 to accuse people who cast ballots by mail of having been ineligible to vote… In Beaumont, Texas…white poll workers allegedly followed Black voters to voting machines and stood close enough behind them to see how they voted… In Arizona, armed citizens […]
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Germany’s position in America’s New World Order
Michael Hudson: Germany and other NATO countries have been told to impose trade and investment sanctions upon themselves that will outlast today’s proxy war in Ukraine…. U.S. … State Department spokesmen have explained that Ukraine is just the opening arena in a much broader dynamic that is splitting the world into two opposing sets of […]
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Japan’s ‘waste not, want not’ philosophy has deep religious and cultural roots, from monsters and meditation to Marie Kondo’s tidying up
Kevin C. Taylor: Many Americans are familiar with the famous decluttering technique of organization guru Marie Kondo, who wrote “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.”… As a scholar of Asian philosophy and religions, I believe the popularity of “mottainai” expresses an ideal more than a reality. Japan is not always known for being environmentally conscious, but […]