It has long been widely accepted as orthodoxy that the world was saved from nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis because of the wisdom of John F. Kennedy and the diplomatic backchannel his aides had with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. But this is only half true. The Soviet sources that have emerged since the end of the Cold war as well as recently declassified KGB archives suggest that, more than anything, we were saved from nuclear annihilation by sheer luck.
In what perhaps might give alternative meanings to the terms home schooling or early intervention, a woman took to TikTok to identify the picture books that she’s apparently going to read to her infant son so that the purported future feminist won’t wind up as an “awful” white male.
The framing of this, “I have a white male son and I need to teach him not to be awful which clearly he will be because he’s a white male,” seems just designed to mess up a kid. pic.twitter.com/AwKlUns8MY
— Thotton Mather (@ThottonMather) May 22, 2021
Hollywood clutched its collective pearls over President Donald Trump, particularly his bruising rhetoric.
Except many stars bruised right back.
Some wished for Trump’s death, including Joss Whedon, Charlie Sheen and, indirectly, Johnny Depp. Others, like Madonna, imagined planting a bomb at the White House, presumably to take out Trump for good.
A Rabbi has been charged by police after helping organize a protest that left the steps of the Israeli consulate in Toronto painted red.
Some members of the Jewish community, as well as other activists, condemned Israel’s violence in Gaza Friday morning by painting the steps of the consulate—something they say was meant to symbolize a river of blood.
Discussions about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), which used to be taboo, are now becoming more common. Skeptics say that any suggestions that UFOs might be real are ridiculous, while others have urged the government to take UFOs more seriously.
The phenomenon of UFOs rose to the spotlight recently after the Pentagon confirmed the authenticity of footage recorded by Navy personnel that showed an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) seeming to defy the laws of physics. The footage, taken aboard the USS Omaha in 2019, is now being investigated by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force.
Sasha Johnson, the self-styled ‘Black Panther of Oxford’, was ‘brutally’ attacked after receiving multiple death threats, her political party said.
It is believed that the shooting occurred in the vicinity of a house where a party was taking place and that a number of people may have been in the area. However, police said there is ‘nothing to suggest’ that the woman shot was the subject of a targeted attack.
The Taking the Initiative Party, which Ms Johnson founded, said she was shot after she received death threats as a result of her political activism.
Nazi hyperbole has infected our political talk for so long that it takes something special to make another instance of it noteworthy. Leave it to the Palestinian Authority (PA) mouthpieces to come up with a truly gasp-worthy Nazi accusation.
Alpha News is Minnesota’s scrappy alternative news service. Scott serves on Alpha’s board, and my organization both supports and collaborates with Alpha. Today Alpha reported that Facebook has threatened to ban its page for posting a cartoon that Facebook found offensive…
Every time a shooting war between Israel and Hamas breaks out — the latest is the fourth one since 2007 when Hamas took over Gaza — Jew haters whine they can’t criticize Israel without being accused of anti-Semitism.
From the river to the sea… I don’t see anyone being censored here.
A large group of protesters marched through #Toronto on Saturday afternoon, drumming and chanting in support of #Palestinians following 11 days of violent conflict in #Gaza#Palestine #Palestinelivesmatter #PalestineWins pic.twitter.com/nWGN4KEjR6
— Harun Elbinawi (@HarunaNAbdullah) May 23, 2021
“We should remember that Greece spent 400 years under Turkish Islamic rule and that the fight for freedom was bloody. With that in mind it is even more dramatic seeing these images of fighting age migrants desecrating Greek holy places and having no respect for the country they are allegedly seeking refuge in.” — Greek City Times, April 12, 2021.
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee just released a report citing “significant circumstantial evidence” that COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, and that Washington “may have funded or collaborated” in research leading to the outbreak — suspicions that in recent weeks have become pretty mainstream.
So two points: 1) Why didn’t Democrats sign on? 2) How foolish Facebook now looks for blocking The Post’s February 2020 column that first raised the Wuhan-lab-leak possibility.
A factory that makes Iranian drones has suffered a major explosion days after Israel had claimed that Iran was providing drones to Hamas in Gaza.
The blast at the weekend injured at least nine workers at the petrochemical factory in Isfahan. The Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (Hesa), which produces a variety of aircraft and drones for Iranian and pro-Iranian forces, is located in the complex owned by Sepahan Nargostar Chemical Industries.
Iran has been busy lately, making demands for sanctions relief and the freeing of some of its frozen assets. All of these complaints have been geared toward bringing them back to the table regarding their nuclear program. Behind the scenes, it’s long since become obvious that the Biden administration has been negotiating with Iran while denying that they are doing so.
A professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder claimed that “white supremacy does not require a white person to perpetuate it.”
Jennifer Ho — a professor of ethnic studies and critical race studies — wrote an article for The Conversation entitled “White supremacy is the root of all race-related violence in the US,” which alleged that even though “Black people are also attacking Asian Americans,” White people “are the main perpetrators of anti-Asian racism.”
Kamala Harris was condemned for wiping her hand on her trousers immediately after a handshake with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
Kamala Harris wipes her hand off after shaking South Korean President's hand. A tremendous insult to South Koreans. pic.twitter.com/za6te0QYM5
— Tim Xeriland (@Xeriland) May 23, 2021
