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Columbia University’s Nazi Tradition
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War
According to Columbia Magazine , published by Columbia University’s Office of Alumni and Development, but ultimately named for a brutal imperialist mercenary, in 1933 while Nazis in Germany were burning books by Jews, Columbia’s president — and future Nobel Peace Prize recipient — Nicholas Murray Butler “welcomed Hans Luther, the German ambassador to the United States, to Morningside Heights, insisting that he be accorded ‘the greatest courtesy and respect.'” Columbia’s Daily Spectator newspaper “denounced what it saw as Butler’s courtship of the German government and its universities.”
Butler — “a longtime admirer of Benito Mussolini” — mocked protests of his relations with Nazi Germany. In 1934, Butler “fired Jerome Klein . . . a promising young member of the fine arts faculty, for signing an appeal against the Luther invitation; and he expelled Robert Burke, a Columbia College student, for participating in a 1936 mock book burning and anti-Nazi picket on campus.”
Is Putin Being Boxed In by Trump and Zelensky
Paul Craig Roberts
Trump and Zelensky have agreed on a cease fire, a pause in the conflict. How does this benefit Russia?
It doesn’t. The Ukrainian military is collapsing on all fronts. 86% of the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk has been retaken, and the remaining Ukrainian forces are surrounded. What remains of the Ukrainian military is retreating from the few kilometers of Russian territory still occupied in the Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions that have been reincorporated into Russia. A cease fire is the last thing Russia needs when Russia is on the verge of total victory.
Russia should be imposing surrender terms on Zelensky, Trump, and Europe. Russia has won the conflict. Why agree to a negotiation? The victor dictates the surrender terms. If Russia’s surrender terms are not accepted, Russia should proceed with the conquest of the entirety of Ukraine and reincorporate Ukraine into Russia where it historically belongs. It was Washington taking advantage of the Soviet collapse that cut out Ukraine from its historic multi-century home as part of Russia.
The United States Chupacabra Society: The Ugly Reality of Greedy Americans
Tracy Turner
Life in Post-Ignorance America
Few of the monsters of contemporary legend inspire as much terror and interest as the Chupacabra, a creature of legend said to suck the blood from its victims, leaving them a dried-up husk. However, were this monster stripped of myth and placed in the unforgiving urban jungles of contemporary America; one would discover that the Chupacabra is anything but mythical.
It is a real animal, its teeth deep in the jugular of a nation that had previously prided itself on being capable of inventing, fighting, and superior to all else on the grounds of morality.
America, as it currently exists, is a Chupacabra nation—a thug society, narcissistic society, sociopathic society of thugs, in which mafia-ism is disguised as government and greed is virtuous. As the rest of the world steers into an era of technological magic and environmental stewardship, America staggers on, bloated on its decadences, once-great drivers of betterment coughing along on fumes of self-deception.
The Decay of Modern Christianity: Scandals, Schisms and the Rise of Socioeconomic Stratification
Cathy Smith
Rise of Charlatanism and Heretics
The modern Western Church is embroiled in a complex matrix of corruption, scandal, and disillusionment. With widespread discrediting of its moral leadership and spiritual guidance, the Church has witnessed a steep loss of trust from scandals implicating high-profile pastors and televangelists. These men, the moral guides they were supposed to be for their flocks, have instead become the living embodiment of betrayal, dishonesty, and greed. This scandal has caused splits within the Church, further adding to the decline in attendance and abandonment of once-thriving congregations.
Here we explore the sleazy realities of these scandals, the socioeconomic splits that plague modern churches, and how these have de-Christianized our world-without ever ceasing to point toward a central, abiding reality: the religiosity of the early Church, a one marked by fire and infilling Holy Spirit, has been eclipsed by materialism and a counterfeit vision of "God's love."
Syria's Alawites' Suffering Violence and Paranoia of the Christian Community Being Next
Chris Spencer
Early 2025 saw Syria's fragile post-Assad situation degenerate into a brutal cycle of sectarian violence that rang through the country. The slaughter of over 1,300 Alawites, a Shia minority that had been intricately associated with the overthrown government of Bashar al-Assad, rocked the country to its core, leaving it in ruins. The brutal assaults, which were centered in Latakia and Tartus on the coast, were launched by Islamist militias loyal to the new regime headed by Ahmed al-Sharaa, a veteran al-Qaeda member. Although the Alawites were the prime target of these assaults, Syria's Christian population looked on in horror as the massacre was unfolding, wondering if they would be the next.
The White House Tesla Sales Event: Legal and Ethical Analysis of the March 11, 2025, Scandal
Fred Gransville
There was something unusual on the White House driveway on March 11, 2025. Elon Musk was selling Tesla vehicles in collaboration with Donald Trump, the sitting President of the United States. From conducting business at the White House to allowing the unprecedented mixing of private business and the Presidential administration, all is questionable and has grave legal, ethical, and historical consequences. Mixing the White House with business presents a glaring deviation from the previously set standards of government and has brought an assortment of legal problems and ethical crises.
Cancerville USA: The Government-Corporate-Military Carcinogenic Complex
By Tracy Turner
The United States of America, a nation more times than not hailed as a beacon of progress and advancement, has a dark underbelly. Beneath its veneer of prosperity lies a poisonous landscape, where the wedded interests of government and corporate powers have created an environment pockmarked by cancer clusters, ecological destruction, and human suffering. This essay chronicles the ghastly record of this cancer-causing complex, presenting the worst records of military contamination by state, with on-the-ground accounts of cancer clusters in dozens of cities and states.
Fear is a Blessing in Our Time of Western Complicity: Part 1
By Mark Aurelius
70% of Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza are women and children
This essay contains controversial statements that could alarm people who are not tolerant of contentious assertions or questions, such as regarding religious beliefs, and how religious belief spills over into political conflict. However, questioning religious sensitivities is not something a sensible person would readily do and share, except for the fact that we, peoples of this planet, are in danger on multiple fronts. It is not any purpose herein to offend readers, but rather to hopefully create awareness, because without truer awareness there is little hope for our survival.
Broadly speaking, in some critical ways, we live in a unique time, even while we retain our old human conditions and habits.
Modernity’s critical issues include population growth and demand on finite resources, fast paced technological innovation, such as military warfare, speed and sophistication of computing power, industrialization and robotics, and artificial intelligence.
The Trump-Musk Project 2025: A Comparison of Hoover and Mellon's 1929 Policies and the Threats to U.S. Infrastructure
Tracy Turner
The economic whirlwind sweeping the United States during the presidency of Donald Trump in 2025, and further exacerbated by Elon Musk's business antics, has a disturbing similarity to the initial years of the Great Depression. The economic philosophy that Herbert Hoover and Andrew Mellon promoted in 1929 resulted in a catastrophic economic collapse, and now, with Trump and Musk, there are ominous indications of making the same mistakes all over again.
Hamas, Palestine, and Israel
Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic
Hamas, or according to its full name, “Islamic Resistance Movement”, is a Palestinian political-national organization with a military wing of a conservative Islamic nature and orientation. Its purpose is to resist the Israeli occupation, maintain resistance, and fight for the creation of an independent Palestinian state. It was officially established on December 10th, 1987, with the Gaza City at the Gaza Strip headquarters. What is Gaza? Gaza can define either a strip of Palestinian-controlled land sandwiched between Israel and Egypt or can be used to designate a city of the same name within the so-called “strip”. The Gaza City is the largest in the disputed Palestinian Territories. It lies along the Mediterranean Sea coast in the Gaza Strip. The Arabic word hamās itself means “bravery”, “zeal”, or/and “strength”. The political ideology of the organization is multifaceted: Islamism, anti-Zionism, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic nationalism, but above all Palestinian nationalism. It is important to stress that Hamas’s religion (as of all Muslim Palestinians) is Sunni Islam, not Shiia Islam, and, therefore, the organization does not enjoy direct support from Shiia Iran (like Shiia Hezbollah in South Lebanon does).
