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Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan play the whole Desperado album for you.

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Washington Post Goes All Bezos Against Food Stamps

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Before the election in 2024, the normally moderate to liberal Washington Post, had its editorial independence eviscerated when its owner, Amazon-billionaire Jeff Bezos, blocked their endorsement of Harris and mandated the editorial policy move towards business and the right. Regular readers might still find hope in the general willingness of the editorial page to make efforts to hold some of the more egregious Trump policies and extremes to account around immigration, foreign policy, and other issues. But, with today’s end of the year editorial mouthing far right anti-poor rhetoric, bashing food stamp programs, and beating the drums for the worst of Trump’s big, bad, budget bill, it’s clear that Bezos hand is getting heavier and any continuing hope for the Post editorial policies to be different than the Wall Street Journal will only find them by degree, not distinction.

            Let’s look at their bias and compare the facts. The Post editorial says:

Columbus 2025: Big Announcements, Bigger Bills, Same Old Questions

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Columbus did not simply “have a year” in 2025. It ran an experiment.

The experiment was straightforward: Can a region stack national-scale industrial development on top of local-scale fragility and call it progress? It can — if the definition of progress is press conferences, ribbon cuttings and renderings that stop before the line item titled “who pays.”

A year-end recap that reads like a scrapbook misses the point. Columbus is a paperwork town pretending to be a destiny town. The only way to understand 2025 is as a ledger — what happened, what changed, and who absorbed the cost.

What follows is not a countdown. It is a map of the stories that defined Columbus in 2025.

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Trump Lets Us See Who We Are

In the Donald Trump era — praise be! — so much is possible that previously no one had ever even imagined. For instance, not only has “the late, great Hannibal Lecter” come back to life, he might even join Trump’s cabinet.

Well, that’s just a guess, but why not? I think he’d fit right in. All of which is to say: “There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear . . .” It’s not simply that Trump is unique (i.e., uniquely crazy). He definitely is, but he’s also American to the core. Under his leadership, our political structure is naked and exposed, stripped of its political correctness. The emperor has no clothes! Suddenly we can’t avoid seeing this.

Happy New Year 2026

Emergency Webinar: Illegal Orders Under U.S. Military Law

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Tuesday, December 30, 2pm

Attorney James M. Branum of the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild (NLGMLTF.org) and the Oklahoma Objector Community (OKObjector.org) will be teaching a 2-hour live webinar on the topic of Illegal Orders Under U.S. Military Law. Veterans For Peace.  

Trading Lives for Aid: The Unstable Nations Paid to Take America’s Immigrants

When you imagine being safe, you imagine comfort and predictability. You imagine your bed, your backyard, a warm shower. You do not imagine kidnapping, armed conflict, or countries so unstable that U.S. troops are ordered to stay behind fortified walls.

But this is what the Trump administration has labeled “safe,” a place it can now send not only the 232 South Sudanese people who just lost protected status, but anyone who dares to seek asylum in the United States.

Trump and Netanyahu Meet Again

As has been reported, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will yet again be in Washington on Monday December 29th. It is a visit that initial media reports claimed had been requested by Trump, which would underline the value of the relationship to the US president. Nevertheless, there have also been some suggestions that Netanyahu, working through his Embassy in Washington and employing the considerable resources of the domestic US Israel Lobby, might have been the real force behind the fifth such meeting in Washington this year plus an additional meeting on October 13th in Israel to celebrate the non-ceasefire with Gaza which was being promoted as some kind of victory.

What do the colors of keffiyeh mean?

The Jewish lobby & the embassy of Israel in Italy are having a total meltdown over artwork by an Italian artist,Constantino Cervo,depicting Anne Frank wearing a keffiyeh and demanding the artwork be removed.

In November 2017, a doctored image of Israeli President Rivlin wearing a keffiyeh was seen in 2017 following the president's refusal to grant the Hebron shooter Elor Azaria a pardon. Azaria is an Israeli Death Forces (IDF) soldier who fatally shot Abdel Fattah al-Sharif, a Palestinian, in the head as the latter lay wounded and immobile on the ground near Hebron.

In November 1995, before PM Rabin was assassinated, Netanyahu attended a right-wing political rally where protesters decried Rabin as a "traitor" and "Nazi" and held signs of him wearing a keffiyeh. 

I do not recall that Palestinians took offense or felt insulted by either act. In fact, both Israeli leaders looked more dignified wearing the Palestinian head dress, better known as "keffiyeh" or "victory scarf."

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