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Lebensraum was the political philosophy that guided twentieth-century German expansionism. It reached its most lethal expression under Hitler. Rooted in racism, nationalism, and imperialism, it asserted that Germany possessed a natural right to dominate land within its “sphere of influence.” Territory, resources, and peoples were to be absorbed or subordinated in the name of national destiny. This was not defensive policy. It was ideological expansion dressed up as security. Trump’s ambitions... Читать дальше...

The night sky—the silent dark between stars—is a living commons bridging Earth, life, and spirit. As the 13th‑century Zen master Eihei Dōgen taught in Keisei Sanshoku or “The Sound of the Streams, the Shape of the Mountains,” rivers, forests, mountains, and night are not mere backdrops but the body and speech of the Buddha—sacred, alive, More

Like all new frontiers touted as necessary and worthwhile, the cashless society is advertised as a supremely convenient way to facilitate financial transactions while avoiding such silly inconveniences as carrying cash and scouting for a money dispenser.  A cashless society also facilitates inequality, manifests a pattern of conduct easily monitored by both private companies and State More

Donald Trump keeps saying that foreigners are paying his tariffs. He talks as though he thinks China, Japan, and other trading partners are sending the Treasury checks every month. (They go on the “tariff shelf.”) Who knows what Trump actually thinks, but insofar as there is a story of foreigners paying the tariffs it would More

The first of a series of “Forums for a Nuclear-Free New York” was held last week following New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposition for an expansion of nuclear power in New York State. Earlier in the week she called in a “State of the State” address for an additional four gigawatts of nuclear power in More

As protesters and federal law enforcement clashed in Minneapolis in the wake of a second shooting of a civilian on Jan. 14, 2026 by federal agents, President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to send troops to Minnesota in response to protests. This is not the first time Trump has invoked the act. More

Human history is a crime scene, and the perps have been, more often than not, men in uniform, often agents of the law, deployed by the political class to carry out their criminal intent. A defining refrain of Adolf Hitler was: “law and order.” Law enforcement entailed the enforcement of authoritarian ideology on the German More

On a cold January morning, a small group of visitors walks through a National Park, expecting to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. The gates are open—but the celebration is gone. Juneteenth has vanished, Black History Month was paused last year, and President Donald Trump became the first president since Reagan not to issue an More

Shatat-USA-Palestine Mental Health Network Calls on US Social Work to Demand the National Federation of Social Workers Vote to Expel the Israeli Union of Social Workers From the International Association of Social Workers Israeli social workers serving as “combatants” in Gaza In June of 2024, the Palestinian Union of Social Workers and Psychologists (PUSWP) wrote More

If soldiers in a war zone can avoid killing innocent civilians in a split second, why couldn’t a federal agent do the same thing in an American city? I didn’t imagine when I joined the Army and volunteered for the infantry that one of my duties would involve anything resembling census work. But in 2004, More