TH REJERTS—s might be expected from a state where politics is often (depending on how you look at it) taken more seriously or more cynically than in other parts of America, the New York Democrat primary is shaping up to be one for the history books.
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‘Martyrdom and Martyrdom’ & martyrdom: understanding Iran
45 minutes readRAMIN MAZAHERI—Martyrdom: to arise and bear witness in our culture and in our religion is not a bloody and accidental happening. In other religions and tribal histories, martyrdom is the sacrificing of the heroes who are killed in the battles of the enemy. It is considered to be a sorrowful accident, full of misery. Those who are killed in this way are called martyrs and their death is called martyrdom. But in our culture, martyrdom is not a death which is imposed by an enemy upon our warriors. It is a death which is desired by our warrior, selected with all of the awareness, logic, reasoning, intelligence, understanding, consciousness and alertness that a human being has.
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We live in strange times: People on the right are the decent voice sof reason,while the liberals and some of the left, obsessed with Trump, and cynically in bed with the Deep State, push for war with Russia and China and Iran.
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The truth about Venezuela is complicated, but what is clear as a bell is that the US government, in cahoots with the Venezuelan oligarchy is working hard to overthrow the legitimate government. They are following the same CIA coup template as they did in Chile in 1973, and even earlier. In that they are shameless, but they now the US mdia will always cove rtheir filthy asses.
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Jimmy Dore highlights Tucker Carlson’s brave criticism of the intel community’s leadership, and the war consensus by both parties, the media and just about everything else in the US establishment.