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November 2022
Newsflash: Republicans Are Largely Faking Their Opposition to Ukraine War “Aid”
Unless you’re a particularly civic-minded resident of the Pittsburgh area, “Jeremy Shaffer” is not a name you’ve probably ever heard in relation to the…
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Congressman Can't Answer Simple Question About His Own Bill, So Accuses Me of Working for the Russian Government
Here’s a good rule of thumb: however blinkered and debased you might find the current political climate to be around matters of foreign policy, always…
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October 2022
It's Official: "Progressives" Confirm They Are 100% Aggressively Pro-War
I wrote an article today for Compact magazine (where I’m a “contributing editor,” although I admit I’m still not sure exactly what that means.) It’s on…
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"The US and the Holocaust" Documentary by Ken Burns is "Revisionist History" Designed to Foment Support for Nuclear War
A new documentary came out last month that I’ve been beseeched to watch, in light of recent discussions. It’s called The US and the Holocaust, by the…
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September 2022
Yes, Americans Overwhelmingly Opposed US Entry into World War II
The reaction to my September 23 article, “A Fairy Tale Version of World War II is Being Used to Sell the Next World War,” has been significant. Many…
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A Fairy Tale Version of World War II is Being Used to Sell the Next World War
World War II remains the ultimate cudgel with which to beat people over the head if they dare to depart from prevailing foreign policy consensus. Anyone…
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August 2022
Democrats and Republicans Pretend They Have Massive, Unbridgeable Differences So They Can Unite Seamlessly on War
After endless rounds of Hamlet-style legislative tedium, Congressional Democrats finally muscled through a $430 billion spending bill this month which…
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"America First" Hawks Admit US Weapons in Ukraine are Plunging Down a "Black Hole"
If you ever try to define what the concept of “America First” means in contemporary political vernacular, you can expect to be promptly deluged with a…
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July 2022
Introducing the World's Fakest Journalist
My planned “mini series” on the recent NATO Summit in Madrid, which as you may recall I was amusingly authorized to attend, got interrupted last week…
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The Fakery of the NATO Summit, continued: Joe Biden's Fake Press Conference
This is the second installment of my “mini series” on the NATO Summit last week, which I was surprisingly and amusingly authorized to attend. The first…
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The NATO Summit: a Historic, Triumphant Exercise in Media Fakery
Lo and behold, I was able to attend the NATO Summit in Madrid this week. There’s plenty to discuss on a substantive level about what emerged from the…
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