The American Dream
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From The East Coast To The West Coast, The U.S. Continues To Be Hit By An Endless Series Of Disasters
Over the past several years, it has just been one thing after another. Just when we think that things are starting to settle down a little bit, another disaster suddenly strikes. In all my years, I have never seen anything like this. Month...
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5 Signs That The War Between Russia And NATO Is About To Spiral Out Of Control
Have you ever found yourself completely losing your temper in the middle of a heated struggle of some sort? Whether it is a hotly contested sporting event, an actual fist fight or a bitter battle against an online foe, it can be way too easy to...
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Fentanyl In The Halloween Candy???
America has a big problem with fentanyl. It is up to 100 times stronger than heroin, it is insanely addictive, and an amount the size of a grain of rice can potentially kill you. Thanks to fentanyl, overdose deaths have been absolutely exploding...
CNET
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'Eclipse Season' Continues With Total Lunar Eclipse on Election Day - CNET
A blood moon is coming on Nov. 8. 'Tis the season for heavenly bodies to blush.
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No One's Safe From the Spirit Halloween Costume Parody Meme - CNET
This year's fake costumes make fun of venture capitalists, aerospace interns, professional screenwriters and Lisa Rinna, among others.
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McDonald's Brings Back the McRib But Says This Is the Final 'Farewell Tour' - CNET
The McRib is supposedly disappearing once and for all, but you still have time to enjoy one.
Dandelion Salad
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Crossing the Border into Ukraine, by Brad Wolf
by Brad Wolf Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad October 26, 2022 “Mihail Kogălniceanu, Romania — The U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division has been deployed to Europe for the first time in almost 80 years amid soaring tension between Russia...
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If We Can Find Just 238 More Congress Members Who Don’t Want Us All to Die…, by David Swanson
by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy, Oct. 24, 2022 October 25, 2022 When an election has been very close, many factors can be pointed to as each having been enough to make the difference. One of those in 2016 was very...
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Read Glen Ford, by David Swanson
by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy, Jan. 12, 2022 October 23, 2022 Someone asked me the other day for advice on collecting the best essays of the past 20 years. I recommended the new collection of Glen Ford’s called The...
The Economic Collapse
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Teetering On The Brink: 63 Percent Of Americans Are Living Paycheck To Paycheck
We have reached a point where nearly two-thirds of all Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. So what happens if millions of those people suddenly lose their paychecks during the severe economic downturn that is ahead of us? In 2008...
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12 Reasons Why It Is Impossible For Any Rational Person To Be Optimistic About The U.S. Economy At This Point
Things haven’t looked this bad for the U.S. economy since 2008. We are in the midst of the worst inflation crisis in decades, the housing market has started to collapse, some of the largest companies in America have begun laying off workers...
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The Middle Class Is Dying! 50 Percent Of All American Workers Made Less Than $3,133 A Month Last Year
Inflation is systematically destroying our standard of living, and the middle class is shrinking a little bit more with each passing day. The Social Security Administration just released wage statistics for 2021, and the numbers that...
Eurasia Review
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Turkey: Erdoğan’s Regional Charm Offensive – Analysis
By Burak Bekdil* Turkey’s relations with other regional actors over the past decade have all followed a similar course: frequent radical shifts between alliance and hostility in accordance with the vicissitudes in the political fortunes...
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Kidnapping For Ransom On Rise In North Cameroon – Analysis
By Remadji Hoinathy and Agha-Nwi Fru* Since 2013, communities in Cameroon’s Far North Region have suffered attacks from the violent extremist group Boko Haram. The divisions of Mayo-Tsanaga, Mayo-Sava and Logone-et-Chari have been...
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Tactical Nuclear Fantasists – OpEd
Bogeyman politics tends to be flatly unimaginative. The image of the nuclear-mad Russian President, counting his diminishing options, has caught the imagination of press and propaganda outlets across the West. Will Mad Vlad go the...
Geoengineering Watch
intelNews.org
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A dramatic kidnap case in Malaysia may point to changes in Mossad’s tactics
REPORTS FROM KUALA LUMPUR SUGGEST that Malaysian agents operating in the service of Israeli intelligence carried out the kidnapping of a Palestinian engineer, Omar al-Balbaisi, on September 28. According to the Malaysian newspaper The...
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More on Russian alleged spies expelled from the Netherlands and Belgium
More on Russian alleged spies expelled from the Netherlands and Belgium
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Journalists reveal names of Russian diplomats expelled by Netherlands for espionage
AN INVESTIGATION BY A consortium of journalists from the Netherlands and Belgium has revealed the identities of 17 Russian diplomats, who were expelled in April by Dutch authorities for allegedly engaging in espionage. The expelled diplomats...
Joniopolis
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The Ultimate in Multi-Tasking
I kid you not, I just read that a guy just played the saxophone for nine hours during his own brain surgery. This is more than multi-tasking. It’s ultima-tasking, if you ask me. Not only that, but he’s not the...
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Mirror, Mirror
Women have a love/hate relationship with magnifying mirrors. We all want one so we can see our faces super duper close, but then we gasp and shriek, aghast at what we see. You’ll have pores that look like the Sea of...
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Tattoops
Have you ever seen a tattoo that wasn’t there? Aha. Both St. Bob and I did this within the same week. We were in an elevator with a woman who had multiple tattoos on her arms and legs. Bob turned to her and said...
Niqnaq
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military summary
Military Summary And Analysis Military Summary, Oct 26 2022 This video describes the military situation in Ukraine on Oct 26.
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south front
Ukraine Is A Black Hole Sucking Money From The West South Front, Oct 26 2022 https://s4.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/video/26.10.2022_IMR_Ukraine.mp4 Kiev’s demands to its Western patrons are growing. Apparently, the Europeans...
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sputnik news
Kiev Made Dummy Missile for Provocation With ‘Dirty Bomb’ Over Chernobyl Zone – Source Sputnik News, Oct 26 2022 Chernobyl NPP, Feb 26 2022 MOSCOW – The Kiev regime has already completed technical preparations for a provocation with...
Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service
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How China Can Retire Coal Early in Pakistan and Elsewhere Through the BRI
With COP 27 approaching, pressure is mounting on wealthy countries to increase their support to poorer ones in the face of climate change. The recent floods in Pakistan have amplified this issue. China, as the world’s second largest economy...
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War, Greed and Mass Manipulation
In his treatise On War, the Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) stated that war is “merely a continuation of policy with other means”. With his experience from the Napoleonic Wars von Clausewitz knew that totalitarian...
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Swat Women Won’t Be ‘Duped’ by Militants This Time
The rise in militancy in Swat still haunts many locals with flashbacks of what they went through 15 years ago. Dr Jamila Khan can recall every last detail of the day she and her family were forced to leave their hometown of Matta, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s...
The Moderate Voice
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Young voters are more likely to skip midterm elections than presidential races
How many people vote matters, but so does their age. Scott Eisen/Getty Images Jan Leighley, American University School of Public Affairs Midterm elections typically have lower voter turnout than presidential elections, but there is another...
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FETTERMAN-OZ DEBATE (CARTOON AND COLUMN)
Did you watch the debate between Pennsylvania Senate candidates Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Crudites Oz? Did you at least watch the highlights? If so, did you mute or turn away out of the sheer awkwardness of it all? I watched...
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Yet another one: Senate hopeful Herschel Walker faces fresh claim of paying for abortion
Published by Reuters By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker, who has said he opposes abortion with no exceptions, faced fresh allegations on Wednesday from a second woman who said he paid...
Mother Jones
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Mark Meadows Ordered to Testify in Georgia Election Interference Investigation
On Wednesday, a South Carolina judge ordered Mark Meadows, the former chief of staff of Donald Trump who played a key role in his attempt to retain power after losing the 2020 election, to travel to Atlanta and testify in an investigation...
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Three More Far-Right Militia Members Convicted in Gretchen Whitmer Kidnapping Plot
One day after Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer faced off against Republican challenger Tudor Dixon on the debate stage, a jury found three more men guilty of materially aiding a terrorist and being gang members in association with the plot to...
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MAGA Candidate Jim Marchant Says He Was a Highly Successful CEO. His Divorce Records Say Otherwise.
Jim Marchant, the far-right Republican candidate for Nevada secretary of state, sells himself as a skilled entrepreneur. “I’m a business guy,” Marchant has said in his pitch to voters. “I had three very successful technology businesses.”...
The Watchers - Editor's Picks
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Floods affect over 1 million people in Chad, more than half of capital N’Djamena underwater
Authorities in Chad declared a state of emergency last week due to widespread floods affecting more than 1 million people. The floods affected 18 of the country's 23 provinces. Source
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Large fissure opens up in Grímsfjall, Iceland
A large fissure opened up last week in the southern part of Grímsfjall, near Grímsvötn subglacial volcano in Iceland. Pictures show that there’s a lot of hydrothermal activity in this fissure, but there is no eruption at this moment...
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Asteroid 2022 UR4 flew past Earth at 0.04 LD
A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2022 UR4 flew past Earth at a distance of 0.04 LD / 0.00011 AU (17 043 km / 10 591 miles) from the center of our planet at 22:45 UTC on October 20, 2022. Source
WebMD Health
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A Special Part of the Brain Lights Up When We See Food
Researchers have discovered a previously unknown part of the brain that lights up when we see food. Dubbed the “ventral food component,” this part resides in the brain’s visual cortex, in a region known to play a role in identifying faces...
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How Does Stress Affect Pregnancy?
Normal stress is expected during pregnancy, but find help for serious anxiety, which increases the risk of early birth or later problems.
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Biosimilars May Finally Stop the Rocketing Cost of Insulin
The high cost of insulin is largely due to a lack of competition and too few makers of the current products. One of the best hopes for more affordable insulin is to increase market competition and drive down prices with so-called biosimilar drugs...
WhoWhatWhy
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Most in US Want More Action on Climate Change: AP-NORC Poll
PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please...
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How to Vote If You’ve Been Displaced by Hurricanes
There’s still time to find out how to cast your ballot, even if you’re dealing with other recovery efforts.
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Letter From London: A Visit to Cecil Court
Join the author as he slips down a narrow alley in London into another world, and another time.
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