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When Dealing with an Area’s Natural Resources a Little Nationalization Can Go a Long Way
“The only country that a corporation has allegiance to is its own management.” Trenz Pruca When Dealing with an Area’s Natural Resources a Little Nationalization and Mercantilism Can Go a Long Way — 2025 Update In 2012, I wrote that Argentina and...
Trenz Pruca 12/02/2025 8
Cartoon: Couples therapy
A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related |� Mike Johnson looks like an idiot after the Epstein ...
Mike Luckovich 12/02/2025 16
House Dems Release Report on (Some of) the Felon's and His Families' Corruption
There is so much corruption and criming being done by the felon, the felon’s family,�and his cronies and minions. On top of it, he has pardon power, which means many of them are getting�away with ...
chloris creator 12/02/2025 66
Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday
Energize An Ally Tuesday Call me crazy, but I've never been a fan of the day-after-Thanksgiving shopping event known as Trample Your Neighbors At The Mall Friday. Now that I'm finally out of the coveted 25-54 demo, I can kick back at home and let the...
Bill in Portland Maine 12/02/2025 73
GNR for December 2, 2025
Good Day, Gnuville! I hope you all had a pleasant Thanksgiving. 🥧🧡🍗 I’d like to open with this nice discussion about Thanksgiving by Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman. Something that really caught my interest and which...
niftywriter 12/02/2025 155
Renewable Tuesday: A COP30 Reckoning is Coming
Far too many around the world consider that if the COP process does not immediately and totally condemn fossil fuels and order the end of their use, then the whole process is a failure. This is not ...
Mokurai 12/02/2025 23
DOD's Own Manual Uses Firing on Shipwrecked People as an EXAMPLE of an Illegal Order
The Department of Defense [sic] maintains a manual on the Law of War, last updated in July 2023. The foreword opens with these words: The law of war is of fundamental importance to the Armed Forces of the United States. The law of war is part of who we...
Dan K 12/01/2025 14
Europe Might Leave America Hanging By Dumping $2.34 Trillion In U.S. Debt If Trump Sells Out Ukraine
This doesn’t sound good... Daily Express European nations are reportedly weighing the "nuclear option" of destabilizing the American economy should Donald Trump abandon Ukraine and compromise continental security. Discussions between American and...
PvtJarHead 12/01/2025 311
At the center of the Dark Heart of MAGA delusions
I’m certain you seen stories similar to this, a single family half MAGA, half not. Two kids, a son (Chad) and a daughter (Haley) who are essentially progressives living in LA and New York(?) while their parents in Oklahoma are both hard-core full-on...
Frank Vyan Walton 12/01/2025 119
The First Time America Treated Epidemics Like Military Threats— Trump Administration Kills It.
“Why would anyone be morally bound or wish to be morally bound to a civil society that does not share the goal that it’s citizens deserve a fair distribution of wealth, income and power? If the civil society is not dedicated to that end what else could...
Trenz Pruca 12/01/2025 5
A Leaky Ship Is a Sinking Ship: Nine Examples in the Badministration
No administration likes leaks, except for the leaks they send out on purpose, such as trial balloons in order to find out how popular an idea might be, or to smear a foe or to praise a friend. The ...
chloris creator 12/01/2025 57
Cheers and Jeers: Monday
"The true father of our national literature." That's how H.L. Mencken described the force of nature that was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain. If ever there was a person whose bullshit detector went to 11, it was him. Also in his corner:...
Bill in Portland Maine 12/01/2025 130
From the GNR Newsroom, its the Monday Good News Roundup
Welcome back friends to the Monday Good News Roundup, that time of the week when your intrepid GNR Newsroom (Myself, Killer300, Bhu, and the GNR Discord ) bring you all the good news to start your ...
Jessiestaf 12/01/2025 97
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The high seas murders are not being overlooked
New York Times : Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime Top Republicans have joined Democrats in demanding answers about the escalating military campaign the Trump ...
Greg Dworkin 12/01/2025 352
Vegan Christmas Feasts
The day after Thanksgiving I commented to my friends in the Good News Roundup that I should write up our family’s plant-based Thanksgiving for this Christmas etc. holiday season, along with my ...
Mokurai 12/01/2025 7
KosAbility: What do I write when I have nothing planned?
The diary�for today’s meeting didn’t manifest, so I’m throwing this together and asking you a�basic question to give us a place to hang comments. It’s�one of the top five basic questions for ...
Besame 11/30/2025 27
Opting to be on the leading edge: Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris's missed opportunity
Yes, some will label a Democrat “radical” if they’re on the leading edge of an issue. And? Will a Democrat be immune from criticism from the right or from the chattering class if they take a more middle-of-the-road position? Not likely! But they’ll get...
Rob in Vermont 11/30/2025 64
Forgotton Women of History: Tomyris of the Massagetae
Speech to a man is not an invitation to a dialog as it is with women but the declaration, in a simple laconic statement, of their world view at the moment as uncontested fact — even if no one else either agrees or has any idea what he is talking about....
Trenz Pruca 11/30/2025 10
GNR Sunday ☀️ 67 Good Pips ☀️ 2 Polls: WWtW? + Donate to replace the damage done to the White House?
We began posting Good News Roundups (GNRs) in 2017. Our writers collect upbeat news about the nation and world, news that we do not get from down-beating corporate media. Choosing not to flee or freeze, with the help of Good News Roundups we engage...
2thanks 11/30/2025 97
Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Guard commanders sounded the warning, but the DOJ called it 'speculative'
Just to supplement Sabrina Haake’s post currently on the Rec list: Juliette Kayyem was Massachusetts’�Undersecretary for Homeland Security and served as Undersecretary for Intergovernmental ...
Dartagnan 11/29/2025 118