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My Longest Day Wednesday last week was the longest day I’ve ever lived. From midnight to midnight, my day lasted forty hours. Literally. Tuesday night I hit the bed early, exhausted from a fortnight of wild adventures. Wednesday, I woke with the dawn,...
by Brecht
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 05:10 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. The Last Superpower? And the Longest Paragraph By Tom Engelhardt I was born on July 20, 1944, almost two years after Joe Biden...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Feb 06, 2024 at 07:14 AM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Here’s something strange about our all-too-nuclearized planet: in my youth during the 1950s and early 1960s, the possibility of an...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Sep 28, 2023 at 07:10 AM PDT
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This is another in my series on promising young musicians who keep old traditions alive. Links to YouTube are scattered throughout — click to listen. I do not embed them to save space. Most pictures are also from YouTube. The History part Jazz is a...
by PalmFrond
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on Sat Jul 22, 2023 at 04:17 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by side pocket
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on Sun Jan 29, 2023 at 09:00 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by side pocket
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on Sun Jan 01, 2023 at 08:59 PM PST
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Clerk of the House Cheryl Johnson presided over the fifth most balloted Speaker election in US history, all other House business at a standstill. (They didn’t even know if they had healthcare, or would their staff be paid at midmonth as usual.) Voting...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Jan 07, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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Ever since Russia carried out its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022 I’ve been thinking about ways to prevent an invasion, whether by land, sea or air. After all, prevention is far better than cure. Obviously the Feb 2022 Russian...
by Jim Carner
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on Mon Dec 05, 2022 at 09:27 PM PST
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One YouTube channel I subscribe to is Maangchi. I donât have a lot of experience with Korean food, although to Iâve been to a few restaurants. But Kimchi is a gift from the gods. 🌈 Or maybe the ...
by Youffraita
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on Fri Jul 29, 2022 at 07:30 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck and Rise ...
by side pocket
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on Tue Apr 05, 2022 at 09:02 PM PDT
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Hobak Gonu (“the pumpkin game”) is a traditional children’s board game from Korea.
"Hidden History" is a diary series that explores forgotten and little-known areas of history.
by Lenny Flank
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on Tue Jul 04, 2023 at 12:38 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck and Rise ...
by side pocket
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on Sun Dec 12, 2021 at 09:00 PM PST
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Bureaucrats get a bad rap. A good deal of the responsibility for this falls on Republicans, who love to place the adjective “unelected” right in front while slamming them. Democrats more typically think of such folks as “public servants.” During the...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sat Oct 09, 2021 at 05:59 AM PDT
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It seems like tabloids and magazines aren’t the only ones concerned with just appearances. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has become the talk of the town after making an appearance at a military parade this week, looking a lot slimmer. Of course,...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Fri Sep 10, 2021 at 02:27 PM PDT
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This is one of those stories that proves, well, I guess it proves humans can come up with the most amazing/infuriating ways to drive each other crazy. This one comes from South Korea. If you think America has a thing about ‘traditional values’ and how...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Jul 31, 2021 at 07:10 AM PDT
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From Yahoo News: President Biden on Friday awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration, to Ralph Puckett Jr., a 94-year-old Korean War veteran and retired Army colonel who was wounded in a battle against Chinese soldiers in...
by Dartagnan
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on Fri May 21, 2021 at 10:00 PM PDT
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Welcome to an all day open thread hosted by “Foreign Policy and International Events Group”. Drop by to share links and stories or for commentary. ( or just play peekaboo and say look what I ...
by Torilahure
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on Sat May 01, 2021 at 05:31 AM PDT
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This is the kind of story that brings your faith in humanity back, after so many years of darkness and despair. Randy Park is the eldest of two sons being raised single-handedly by Hyung Jung Grant, one of the victims of the anti-Asian murder...
by CyberMindGrrl
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on Sun Mar 21, 2021 at 12:12 PM PDT
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By Hal Brown Correction: I originally used China as part of the title by mistake. When I first read North Korea Warns U.S. Against ‘Causing A Stink,’ Breaking Silence on HUFFPOST I thought they made a typo and referred to the North Korean as a...
by HalBrown
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on Tue Mar 16, 2021 at 07:24 AM PDT
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A professor is being pilloried for supporting a denial that the Japanese military sex workers provided in a variety of colonial settings were entering into voluntary arrangements, without coercion and in contradiction to the historical evidence. The...
by annieli
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on Fri Feb 19, 2021 at 05:09 PM PST
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