Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) As has been documented by such authorities on U.S. military spending as Winslow T. Wheeler, Robert Higgs, and others, America spends each year around $1.5 trillion for its military but hides at least around $800 billion of it (so as for the U.S. not to be publicly recognized as spending […]
‘I have photographed fathers and sons holding hands from Bulgaria to Armenia and beyond. I approached these two as a stranger – and had just seconds before it got too awkward’A few years ago, while walking my sons to school, I found myself thinking that, although I held their hands daily, one day they wouldn’t need me alongside them, that we would lose that sense of physical closeness. I decided to photograph my own father and grandfather holding hands – but it was the start of the pandemic, my...
The South Dakota governor’s proud dog murder tells a lot about how posturing Trumpists like she and Greg Gianforte thinkAfter South Dakota’s Republican governor, Kristi Noem, proudly admitted in a forthcoming memoir to marching her young puppy Cricket to a gravel pit to kill her with a shotgun, she rationalized the despicable act by arguing that Cricket had been aggressive.She also said that she used the same gravel pit to shoot a “disgusting, musky, rancid” unnamed goat – but botched the job,...
The High Court of Dominica has overturned a colonial-era law banning same-sex relations between consenting adults after a gay man filed a lawsuit claiming the ban was unconstitutional. The complainant, […]
Weinstein found guilty in 2020 of raping and assaulting two women, and is serving 23 years at a prison in upstate New York
It’s the boyband collaboration we’ve all been waiting for – Westlife’s Nicky Byrne had Take That’s Gary Barlow over for a pint of Guinness in his Malahide home yesterday.
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Congressional correspondent Annie Karni got snarky against Republicans (and, perhaps, some of her fellow reporters?) in Sunday’s New York Times, after House Speaker Mike Johnson received some backhanded praise from some quarters of the media/Democratic alliance for pushing a military aid bill for Ukraine through: “Mike Johnson, Like Pence, Does What Passes for Brave in Today’s GOP: His Job.” The accolades directed at Speaker Mike Johnson in recent days for finally defying the right wing of his...
Congressional correspondent Annie Karni got snarky against Republicans (and, perhaps, some of her fellow reporters?) in Sunday’s New York Times, after House Speaker Mike Johnson received some backhanded praise from some quarters of the media/Democratic alliance for pushing a military aid bill for Ukraine through: “Mike Johnson, Like Pence, Does What Passes for Brave in Today’s GOP: His Job.” The accolades directed at Speaker Mike Johnson in recent days for finally defying the right wing of his...
CORNING, N.Y. (WETM) -- Centerway Square in Corning was voted as the fifth best public square in the U.S. by USA Today's 10Best readers after previously coming in first and second place. Centerway Square was one of 20 public squares from across the country to be nominated to be on 10Best's 2024 list of Best []
Current antisemitic protests on U.S. campuses are “horrifying” and “the worst that we've seen since the 30s,” according to Israel's Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli, who described the “orchestrated, organized, [and] funded” demonstrations as the “nightmare” of America and Western civilization, arguing that supporters of Hamas are enemies of both.
GUNTHER was asked by the hosts of the Gorilla Position podcast whether he thought Vince McMahon’s continued leadership of WWE would have made his run there any more successful. He said, “I don’t know, but it was one of the reasons why, for a long time I didn’t want to go to the US. The […] The post GUNTHER Says He Didn’t Enjoy WWE’s Main Roster Product Before Triple H’s Regime first appeared on PWMania - Wrestling News.