A Cascadian Declaration of Independence The New York Times has discovered Cascadia. Specifically, it has found news of an emerging Cascadia independence

It has long been the dream of the U.S. foreign policy elite to bring Japan and South Korea into a tighter alliance. Notoriously dismissive of history,

Way back in 1995 Bob Brown, the Republican president of the Montana Senate, called me into his office. He had co-sponsored a bill with a pro-logging

The 60-day extension of the ceasefire between the United States and Iran may lead to lasting peace or it may be over within a week, doomed by the

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance

Prologue A Greek friend from Canada, Dr. Nikos Chrystodoulou, sent me an article about an American company, Cambrian Nuclear, working with Athlos Energy,

Fatal physics Astrophysicists analyzed light and energy into their components, and figured out how they work together to form stars, black holes,

Pauline Hanson has been a fixture of Australian politics since 1996, when she appeared with piercing, shrill bravado as the federal member for Oxley,

Leonard Nimoy used to do the Vulcan mind-meld with his fingers spread on your face -- my mind to your mind, my thoughts to your thoughts -- and just like

It is often said that generals are ready to fight the last war. In other words, after every war, the military evaluates the results in order to avoid

On June 23, the European Union hosted a five-member Taliban delegation in Brussels for discussions on migration and the return of Afghan nationals whose

Two imperialist wars have challenged the international Left: the U.S. and Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Some have

The changes to Medicaid outlined in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) are still coming into view – and so are the policy adjustments that states

America is saturated with sexuality. Advertising and the media endlessly promote sexuality through fashion, cosmetics, news articles, TV and online

It’s official: El Niño is back. By late fall 2026, forecast models give a 2-in-3 chance of a strong-to-very strong El Niño affecting the weather, climate

By some miracle, Donald “Blockade Everybody” Trump may have achieved a peace deal with Iran. That is, if and only if he decides to snap a leash on the

“The pump don’t work ‘Cause the vandals took the handles.” – Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues Sometimes Donald Trump’s diatribes reveal his own