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Moldova already became a de facto member of NATO and those of its citizens who want to (re)join Romania already have dual citizenship so this is a moot issue by now but might still be interpreted by Russia as hinting at sinister intentions towards Transnistria that only the US could deter. Moldovan President Maia Sandu…

Rebecca McKean and I started this program asking why so many U.S. Americans call Mayor Mamdani a “communist” and then explore the humanist idea that we all live in individual “landscapes” that form our perspectives and emotions — and that those landscapes can be re-considered. We recorded at 5 Napkin Burger on Broadway and 84th Street in…

The Facebook page The Other 98% reports on the latest disturbing developments in the standoff between federal authorities and Minneapolis citizens: the Pentagon announces that it is ready to send 1,500 soldiers “in case violence in the State of Minnesota escalates”. The Pentagon has ordered 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota…

The Facebook page The Other 98% tells how the freezing winter in Minneapolis has become a valuable and surprising ally for the local population determined to resist the brutality of federal immigration agents by any means necessary, even the most creative. In Minneapolis, the showdown between ICE and the local resistance has taken an unexpected…

The world is undergoing a seismic shift, transitioning from a unipolar order into an era of tense bipolar rivalry. In this new landscape, the ancient impulse to destroy one another is not diminished but systematized, as competing powers amass vast arsenals and wage proxy battles across the globe. This represents a modern, geopolitical form of…

In a world marked by globalization and cultural standardization, some people continue to preserve a strong and ancient spirituality. Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, and Kabylia, an Amazigh region in Algeria, are two examples. Despite the distance and religious differences, these territories show the same ability to welcome outside influences while protecting their spiritual roots.…

A conversation with three men who recently traveled to Palestine to witness the state of Palestinian Christian communities living in Israel-occupied West Bank. What they experienced was horrific and hopeful. Horrendous in the brutality of the young Israeli settler gangs and optimistic in the readiness of the Palestinian Christians to be accepted into a peaceful…

The US might abandon its new interest in backing radical “security guarantees” for Ukraine due to worsening ties with Western Europe; increasingly Polish-led Central & Eastern Europe could replace Western Europe’s strategic importance for the US; and intra-EU rifts might accordingly widen. Trump announced that the US will impose 10% additional  on those NATO allies next…

The Myth of Innocence: Why Late Birth Was No Grace at All One of the dumbest sayings of the postwar era is the phrase “the grace of late birth,” coined by former Chancellor Helmut Kohl. It suggests that because one was born late, one could not have taken on any guilt during the Nazi era.…

As we despair about Gaza, Venezuela, and many other disasters caused by human beings, an even more sinister threat looms over us: The Golden Dome. In spite of its shiny name, the Golden Dome threatens both those it’s supposed to protect – the people in the US, and those  in the countries from which the…