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24/01/2025

Vice Vance shadowed and limited by Marja Heikkinen

The man who once declared himself the voice of Middle America, the cultural warrior armed with a copy of his own memoir and a Twitter account, now finds himself suspiciously quiet.

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24.01.2025

24/01/2025

Vice Vance shadowed and limited by Marja Heikkinen

The man who once declared himself the voice of Middle America, the cultural warrior armed with a copy of his own memoir and a Twitter account, now finds himself suspiciously quiet.

Read the full article here: https://realovi.wordpress.com/2025/01/24/vice-vance-shadowed-and-limited-by-marja-heikkinen/

It’s almost impossible to ignore when someone as loud and opinionated as J.D. Vance suddenly fades into the background. The man who once declared himself the voice of Middle America, the cultural w…

24/01/2025

Let’s talk politics: Plato vs. Harry S. Truman talk Trump – Part I. by Theodore K. Nasos

Plato: (adjusting his cloak) My dear Mr. Truman, you hail from a time of great turmoil and decisions of moral gravity. Tell me, who is this Trump I’ve heard whispers of in your future? A philosopher-king, I presume?

Plato: (adjusting his cloak) My dear Mr. Truman, you hail from a time of great turmoil and decisions of moral gravity. Tell me, who is this Trump I’ve heard whispers of in your future? A philosophe…

24/01/2025

The dollhouse of souls by Julia A. Girard

It arrived on a cold, crisp morning, the kind of morning that made you shiver in your bones and question the warmth of the world. The house was quiet that day, too quiet, as if the air itself was holding its breath.

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It arrived on a cold, crisp morning, the kind of morning that made you shiver in your bones and question the warmth of the world. The house was quiet that day, too quiet, as if the air itself was h…

24/01/2025

The problem of the , and , the problem of by Aaron Musa

All over the world the Muslims are associated with failure. And violence. The Christmas season now brings a new anxiety in Europe – Muslims ramming Christmas shoppers with cars or trucks.

All over the world the Muslims are associated with failure. And violence. The Christmas season now brings a new anxiety in Europe – Muslims ramming Christmas shoppers with cars or trucks. The…

24/01/2025

Always something; the family edition #100 by Thanos Kalamidas

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23/01/2025

Settling a non-peace ceasefire by Emma Schneider

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has shown no signs of curbing its expansionist policies or its relentless pursuit of control over Gaza and the West Bank.

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23.01.2025

23/01/2025

Settling a non-peace ceasefire by Emma Schneider

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has shown no signs of curbing its expansionist policies or its relentless pursuit of control over Gaza and the West Bank.

Read the full article here: https://realovi.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/settling-a-non-peace-ceasefire-by-emma-schneider/

Israel’s recently signed ceasefire with Hamas may momentarily quiet the sounds of rockets and bombs, but it is far from a resolution to the broader conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Prime…

23/01/2025

My Ithaca & by Nikos Laios

Drinking ouzo
On my balcony,
Listening to old
Greek love songs,
Bathed in Greek,
Exiled and lost,
When will I return
To my Ithaca?

Drinking ouzoOn my balcony,Listening to oldGreek love songs,Bathed in Greek,Exiled and lost,When will I returnTo my Ithaca?  *******************************With a digital painting from Nikos L…

23/01/2025

The flying mail by Meïr Aron Goldschmidt

“Now, name, date, and address. Have you that? ‘Postscriptum. I give you my word of honor, that I neither know who you are, or how this letter shall reach you.”

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“Now, name, date, and address. Have you that? ‘Postscriptum. I give you my word of honor, that I neither know who you are, or how this letter shall reach you.” The flying mail Fri…

23/01/2025

AntySaurus Prick #104 by Thanos Kalamidas

https://realovi.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/antysaurus-prick-104-cartoon-by-thanos-kalamidas/

22/01/2025

Silicon Valley’s bending backs by Timothy Davies

The spectacle of billionaires and Silicon Valley tycoons bowing before Donald Trump is one of the more peculiar phenomena of recent years. On the surface, their financial empires dwarf his, their technological innovations shape the world far more profoundly than any Trump-branded skyscraper or golf course ever could, and their influence on society rivals that of governments.

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22.01.2025

22/01/2025

Silicon Valley’s bending backs by Timothy Davies

The spectacle of billionaires and Silicon Valley tycoons bowing before Donald Trump is one of the more peculiar phenomena of recent years. On the surface, their financial empires dwarf his, their technological innovations shape the world far more profoundly than any Trump-branded skyscraper or golf course ever could, and their influence on society rivals that of governments.

Read the full article here: https://realovi.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/silicon-valleys-bending-backs-by-timothy-davies/

The spectacle of billionaires and Silicon Valley tycoons bowing before Donald Trump is one of the more peculiar phenomena of recent years. On the surface, their financial empires dwarf his, their t…

22/01/2025

U. Thant (1909-1974): Member of the Human Race By Rene Wadlow

U. Thant was the third UN Secretary-General. This gentle Burmese Buddhist was regarded as unremarkable which was exactly what the major powers, led by the USA. and the USSR, wanted after the lightning bolt of the second Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold.

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I am always conscious of the fact that I am a member of the human race. This consciousness prompts me to work for the great human synthesis which is the implicit goal of the World Organization I ha…

22/01/2025

But not this guy by Eol Stoltio

“I simply cannot understand,” Lady Agatha was saying to her nephew, Reginald, who was in the midst of attempting to stifle a yawn behind his newspaper.

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“I simply cannot understand,” Lady Agatha was saying to her nephew, Reginald, who was in the midst of attempting to stifle a yawn behind his newspaper. But not this guy It was a rather unremarkable…

22/01/2025

fARTissimo #001 by Thanos Kalamidas

https://realovi.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/fartissimo-001-cartoon-by-thanos-kalamidas/

21/01/2025

The surrogate son by Harry S. Taylor

It’s no secret that Donald Trump has long had a flair for the theatrical and an insatiable need for adoration. From gilded penthouses to reality television, his life has been a stage, and he’s always played the leading man. But in the past few years, a peculiar relationship has emerged that seems ripped straight from a Shakespearean drama, Trump’s curious paternal affection for Elon Musk.

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21.01.2025

21/01/2025

The surrogate son by Harry S. Taylor

It’s no secret that Donald Trump has long had a flair for the theatrical and an insatiable need for adoration. From gilded penthouses to reality television, his life has been a stage, and he’s always played the leading man. But in the past few years, a peculiar relationship has emerged that seems ripped straight from a Shakespearean drama, Trump’s curious paternal affection for Elon Musk.

Read the full article here: https://realovi.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/the-surrogate-son-by-harry-s-taylor/

It’s no secret that Donald Trump has long had a flair for the theatrical and an insatiable need for adoration. From gilded penthouses to reality television, his life has been a stage, and he’s alwa…