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Seeds Of Doubt - 15 MAY 2025

16 May 2025 2 minute read 1 comment Myxoplixx

In just eight hours, the world’s headlines unfurl like a carefully choreographed dance, each step seemingly random yet secretly arranged to shape our very reality. It begins with triumphant proclamations of a critically ill infant restored to life th...

Trump, Ceasefire, Surveys - is the Gaza Ceasefire going to hold or fail?

13 Feb 2025 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

TL;DR In We Interviewed Hundreds of Israelis and Gazans – Here’s Why We Fear for the Ceasefire, Nils Mallock and Jeremy Ginges (The Conversation, February 12, 2025) analyze public attitudes in Israel and Gaza, highlighting profound psychological barr...

ONE-SIDED REPARATIONS: If it were Ever the Other way Round...

3 Mar 2025 10 minute read 6 comments YouveBeenGreeked

There's often a large call in many western countries today for reparations to be paid to... well, vague, non-western countries I guess because of actions committed by our ancestors. The narrative seems to be that European and American history is brim...

Defend and improve the institutions against populism and nationalism

9 Feb 2025 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

TL;DR In Once and Future Liberal Institutionalism, published in Liberal Currents, Rob Tracinski explores the growing anti-institutional sentiment in American politics, particularly within the conservative movement. He argues that while the left histo...

"DOGE is SMOGE"

17 Feb 2025 1 minute read 6 comments Vladan Lausevic

TL;DR  In Trump’s Mass Firing of Inspectors General Bulldozed the Way for Elon Musk’s Unaccountable Shadow Government, Paul Matzko (The UnPopulist, Feb 2025) examines how Trump’s dismissal of 17 inspectors general (IGs) weakened federal oversig...

But what if you don't steal? Let's look at the example of Estonia

28 Apr 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aA0wj5sPyHqtzDjw Today we will talk about the small Estonian town of Narva by Russian standards. It is located right on the border with Russia, and therefore, it is in great demand among our com...

MAGAA: Morons Are Governing America, Again

27 Apr 2025 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark

Having watched 30-minutes or longer videos containing breaking news and opinion pieces on YT from the likes of MSNBC, CNN and other sources, I am now heartily sick of the first hundred days of Donald Trump's second term of farcical incompetence and i...

Don't miss the important stuff

20 Apr 2025 1 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/b/aASm98Ow5THErkAp Christ does not live in painted eggs,Not in the glitter of the lush cares of the Easter cakes -He is in the heart, where breathing light and faith,He carries love behind Him unh...

Seeds Of Doubt - 14 MAY 2025

15 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Myxoplixx

As one world leader jets between Riyadh, Doha, and Abu Dhabi, whispers mount over a shadowy realignment. A U.S. president’s sudden “diplomatic breakthrough” with Syria, a nation once branded a pariah, coincides with Gulf states funneling billions int...

J.D Vance and 50 shades of right-wing collectivists vs free speech and human security

18 Feb 2025 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

TL;DR In his text about Europe, America, and freedom (Europa bygger vidare – med eller utan USA), neo-liberal opinion-maker  Mattias Svensson analyzes U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference criticizing its populist rh...