The Trump Threat to Democracy Has Only Grown

Click Here to Read: The Trump Threat to Democracy Has Only Grown  by Daron Acemoglu on the Project Syndicate website on August 30, 2024.

Former President of the United States Donald Trump speaking with attendees at a “Chase the Vote” rally at Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona .Image: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Russians Love YouTube. That’s a Problem for the Kremlin

Click Here to Read: Russians Love YouTube. That’s a Problem for the Kremlin: YouTube remains the only major US-based social media platform available in Russia. It’s become “indispensable” to everyday people, making a ban tricky. Journalists and dissidents are taking advantage on the Wired website.

Vladmir Putin.  Image: The Russian Presidential Press and Information Office.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education

Click Here to Read: The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education: Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university By George Packer on the Atlantic website on APRIL 25, 2024.  Available to those with a subscription or who do a free trial.

Protests in and around Columbia University in support of Palestine and against Israeli occupation. A side gate by the bookstore where the crowd is—inside and out.  Image: SWinxy  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Columbia University president rebuts claims she let school become a hotbed of hatred

Click Here to Read:  Columbia University president rebuts claims she let school become a hotbed of hatred: Antisemitic incidents are up 110% year over year in New York and 140% nationwide, a new Anti-Defamation League report finds  By Annie Ma and Collin Binkley on the NBC News Local Website on April 17, 2024.

Nemat Shafik Image:  UK’s Department of International Development  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Gaza’s Underground: Hamas’s Entire Politico-Military Strategy Rests On Its Tunnels

Click Here to Read:  Gaza’s Underground: Hamas’s Entire Politico-Military Strategy Rests On Its Tunnels by John Spencer on the Modern War Institute website on January 18, 2024.

Click Here to Read: Click Here to Read: The Road To October 7: Hamas’ Long Game, Clarified  by  Devorah Margolin, Matthew Levitt in the Combatting Terrorist Center Journal website on October/November 2023, Volume 16, Issue 10,

Click Here to Read: Section from The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna and W. Ernest Freud by Daniel S. Benveniste (IPBooks 2015) on W. Ernest Freud’s time in Palestine 19351936.

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