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Nigel Farage (left), comic Al Murray (centre) & Thanet South winner, Conservative Craig Mackinley During last night’s General Election coverage – with the Scottish National Party effectively wiping out the other three parties in Scotland, Labour...

Honoring Lynne Stewart by Stephen Lendman Just societies erect statues to do so. They bestow tributes. America persecutes its best. Lynne is a longtime human rights champion. She deserves high praise, not punishment.  She remains unjustifiably...

Like Herodotus, Thucydides, Montaigne, and Proust, Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) was a one-book wonder. True, he wrote a couple others, a long youthful French essay and a posthumously published memoir, but the sum of his genius he poured into The History...

by Keith Farnish at the Earth Blog Uprooting Civilization (Part 1) I have a great fear. It has been with me for years now, haunting the background to my thoughts. This fear surmounts climate change, deforestation, peak oil, global pandemic, soil depletion...

Kevin is a 2013 blogging resident visiting us from his home blog over at Melting Asphalt. To scandalize a member of the educated West, open any book on European table manners from the middle of the second millennium: “Some...