A Desire Named Streetcar; Or, What Happened to Mass Transit?

Thomas Knapp: I like mass transit. When I’m living in or visiting a substantial city, there’s simply no better way to get around than the local bus or (if I’m lucky) train system. Why battle heavy traffic when I can relax, crack a book, and let someone else drive me  to within easy walking distance of almost … Continue reading A Desire Named Streetcar; Or, What Happened to Mass Transit? → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Ukraine’s Latest Paranoia About Russian Sleeper Cells Is Dividing Its Security Services

Voice of East: Ukraine’s Latest Paranoia About Russian Sleeper Cells Is Dividing Its Security Services By Andrew Korybko Zelensky himself set this divisive process into motion by recently warning that Russian agents are supposedly plotting to carry out a “Maidan 3” against him. Ukrainian... Read More › - Voice of East


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New Zealand’s “Generational” Smoking Ban Repeal: Finally, Taxes Do Some Good

Thomas Knapp: As part of its deal to put together a majority coalition (and therefore a government), The Guardian reports, New Zealand’s National Party has agreed to  a demand from the New Zealand First Party for repeal the country’s “generational” tobacco ban, due to come into force in 2024. The ban — a “world first” that’s since … Continue reading New Zealand’s “Generational” Smoking Ban Repeal: Finally, Taxes Do Some Good → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Saudi Arabia Is Expected To Eventually Resume Its Secret Normalization Talks With Israel

Voice of East: Saudi Arabia Is Expected To Eventually Resume Its Secret Normalization Talks With Israel By Andrew Korybko To deflect from predictable accusations of “selling out to the Zionists”, Mohammed Bin Salman might have his country offer to fund Gaza’s reconstruction. Biden speculated on Friday... Read More › - Voice of East


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Why Don’t The EU’s Reported Security Guarantees To Ukraine Include Mutual Defence?

Voice of East: Why Don’t The EU’s Reported Security Guarantees To Ukraine Include Mutual Defence? By Andrew Korybko The West doesn’t want to risk getting embroiled in a larger conflict with Russia by miscalculation once that bloc’s failed proxy war against it inevitably freezes.... Read More › - Voice of East


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X Marks the Spot Where Advertisers Must Decide What Their Advertising is For

Thomas Knapp: On November 20, X Corp. — the corporate entity through which Elon Musk owns X, formerly known as Twitter — filed suit against Media Matters for America, which styles itself a “progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.” At issue is a Media Matters … Continue reading X Marks the Spot Where Advertisers Must Decide What Their Advertising is For → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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NATO’s Proxy War On Russia Through Ukraine Appears To Be Winding Down

Voice of East: NATO’s Proxy War On Russia Through Ukraine Appears To Be Winding Down By Andrew Korybko Considering all the disadvantageous dynamics that are rapidly converging nowadays, there’s little doubt that NATO’s proxy war on Russia is winding down, though that doesn’t automatically... Read More › - Voice of East


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War: Thanks But No Thanks

Thomas Knapp: When I think of Thanksgiving, I seldom think of the Pilgrims and Wampanoag people dining together (likely sans turkey, stuffing, and pumpkin pie) in Massachusetts in 1621. Rather, my thoughts wander to Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 proclamation inviting his fellow citizens “to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a Day of … Continue reading War: Thanks But No Thanks → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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The Quran And The Fate Which Awaits Israel – Sheikh Imran N. Hosein – 2

Voice of East: The Quran And The Fate Which Awaits Israel – Sheikh Imran N. Hosein – Part 2 In his second video message on Israel’s war on Gaza, Sheikh Imran N. Hosein has explained an important topic from the Quran. He has... Read More › - Voice of East


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Is Reading This Column Really a Choice? And Does That Matter?

Thomas Knapp: Maybe I didn’t really want to write this column. According to Robert Sapolsky I just couldn’t help myself. Sapolsky, a Stanford biology professor and author of Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, argues that everything we do is pre-destined. Not by an all-knowing and completely controlling god, but by biology. Our brains work in … Continue reading Is Reading This Column Really a Choice? And Does That Matter? → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Arbitrary Detention Of Kashmiri Journalists: Modi Administration Must Turn To Sanity

Voice of East: Arbitrary Detention Of Kashmiri Journalists: Modi Administration Must Turn To Sanity By Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai The 98th session of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) started on November 13, 2023, in Geneva. It will conclude on... Read More › - Voice of East


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The Supreme Court’s New “Code of Conduct” Is About Appearances, Not About Ethics

Thomas Knapp: On November 13, the US Supreme Court — presumably motivated by bad publicity after the exposure of bribery schemes involving justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, use of judicial aides to promote justice Sonia Sotomayor’s books, and other unsavory activities — announced what it calls a “Code of Conduct,” and what most media outlets describe … Continue reading The Supreme Court’s New “Code of Conduct” Is About Appearances, Not About Ethics → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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How Could Russia Mediate A Series Of Deals Between Djibouti, Ethiopia, And South Sudan?

Voice of East: How Could Russia Mediate A Series Of Deals Between Djibouti, Ethiopia, And South Sudan? By Andrew Korybko This piece aims to inspire their policymakers to further contribute to this idea with a view towards eventually facilitating such talks between them. Their... Read More › - Voice of East


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“It Can’t Happen Here” … If We Stop It

Thomas Knapp: “Any activists who doubt President Trump’s resolve in the slightest are making a drastic error,” Trump advisor Stephen Miller tells the New York Times. “Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown.” The disgraced former president’s promised second-term program includes (according to the Times) “round[ing] up undocumented people … Continue reading “It Can’t Happen Here” … If We Stop It → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Vox Populi, Vox Humbug

Thomas Knapp: The people of the state of New York don’t like Donald J. Trump  much. They think he falsified business records, and have him in court over it. Protecting abortion and legalizing marijuana are the will of the people of Ohio. They said so in a recent election. Why does the United States have a constitution? … Continue reading Vox Populi, Vox Humbug → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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Arabs Or Turkiye Will Not Go To War To Prevent Israel’s Reoccupation Of Gaza

Voice of East: Arabs Or Turkiye Will Not Go To War To Prevent Israel’s Reoccupation Of Gaza By Andrew Korybko There’s been a deluge of fake news since the onset of the latest Israeli-Hamas war alleging that the Arabs, Hezbollah, Turkiye, and/or even Russia... Read More › - Voice of East


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Election 2024: How Democrats Could Get Their Swing Back

Thomas Knapp: “It don’t mean a thing,” Duke Ellington and Irving Mills informed us in 1931, “if it ain’t got that swing.” Does Ohio still have that swing? Over the last few years some, including University of Cincinnati political science professor David Niven, have cast doubt on the state’s long-held “swing state” or “belwether” status in national … Continue reading Election 2024: How Democrats Could Get Their Swing Back → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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What Did The Houthis’ Attempted Bombing Of Israel Aim To Achieve?

Voice of East: What Did The Houthis’ Attempted Bombing Of Israel Aim To Achieve? By Andrew Korybko The Houthis’ attempted bombing of Israel is a major move because it was arguably approved by Iran, which authorized this attack despite the risk that it could... Read More › - Voice of East


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How An American Woman Became The Voice Of People Of Kashmir

Voice of East: How An American Woman Became The Voice Of People Of Kashmir By Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai Washington, DC – A memorial service was held today for Marguerite Helen Velte Hasbrouck at Houghton Chapel, Wellesley College Campus, Massachusetts, USA. It began... Read More › - Voice of East


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Three Reasons Why The Wall Street Journal’s Report About Wagner And Hezbollah Is A Psy-Op

Voice of East: Three Reasons Why The Wall Street Journal’s Report About Wagner And Hezbollah Is A Psy-Op By Andrew Korybko The Mainstream Media and its supporters have self-explanatory reasons for lending false credence to this information warfare provocation, but the Alt-Media Community should... Read More › - Voice of East


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Jack Smith v. the Public’s Right to Cameras in the Courtroom

Thomas Knapp: On November 3, Special Counsel Jack Smith filed  the “United States’ Opposition to Applications to Broadcast the Criminal Trial of United States v. Trump” with the US District Court for the District of Columbia. A “coalition of media organizations” has petitioned the court to allow recording and broadcasting of former president Donald Trump’s federal trial … Continue reading Jack Smith v. the Public’s Right to Cameras in the Courtroom → - by Thomas L. Knapp


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No Equivalence In War Between The Oppressor And The Oppressed – Sheikh Imran N. Hosein

Voice of East: No Equivalence In War Between The Oppressor And The Oppressed – Sheikh Imran N. Hosein   - Voice of East


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Denying the Security of the Oppressed Imperils the Security of the Oppressor

Kim Petersen: Presumably, if Israeli Jews were not occupying the majority of historical Palestine, laying siege to Gaza, oppressing, humiliating, dehumanizing, liquidating, and refusing statehood to the Palestinian people that Hamas, a Palestinian resistance, would not have been driven to launch an attack on Israelis. Placing the Palestinians under oppression, occupation, and siege was an undeniable denial […] - Kim Petersen


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Rioting In Purported Support Of Palestine Discredits Its People’s Independence Cause

Voice of East: Rioting In Purported Support Of Palestine Discredits Its People’s Independence Cause By Andrew Korybko It’s unrealistic to expect Russia to deviate from its aforesaid policy, especially in the face of foreign-instigated rioting, not to mention after anti-Semitic slogans were shouted amidst... Read More › - Voice of East


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