We often hear arguments for or against certain practices and behaviours based on what is “natural” for humans. These arguments range from saying that vaccines are not natural and therefore not suitable for humans to claiming that we should not eat bread because it was not a food available to proto-humans. The belief that something …
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Last week, Trump’s Secretary of Defense announced a plan to withdraw half of US troops currently stationed in Afghanistan before Biden takes office. It is true that we have heard this promise before from the Obama presidency as well, and both the Obama and Trump administrations are guilty of doing false drawdowns of troops …
Time and time again you hear the refrain: we need more bipartisanship in DC. If there was only a little more cooperation between the parties, so the theory goes, then the entire country would be in a better place. Yet the individuals who make this argument appear to be unaware of the many ways that …
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On 25 October, American journalist and author Max Blumenthal was arrested in Washington DC. Blumenthal is the founder and the current editor of the Grayzone, an independent news website that challenges the narratives of media outlets that call for endless war and the continuation of American empire. He has written extensively about events in Venezuela, …
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