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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
If Biden can avoid bitterness in dealing with Senate Republicans he may find he's pushing against an open door. It’s been a Washington joke that when President Donald Trump wanted to deflect attention from something he was being criticized for, he started talking about infrastructure and declaring “infrastructure weeks.” Love the guy or hate him, you have to admit he’s an artful political dodger. Everybody likes infrastructure. It’s the perfect thing to quiet criticism.
Although the pandemic is the principal issue on all of our minds, other major issues threaten the longevity of our species and of our planet. A robust internationalism is necessary to pay adequate and immediate attention to the perils of extinction: extinction by nuclear war, by climate catastrophe, and by social collapse. The tasks ahead are daunting, and they cannot be deferred.
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from Front Porch Republic
The End of Childhood Play
County Kildare, Ireland. Recorded history is the history of adults–generals, statesmen, explorers and scientists–but all of those adults began their path as children. And running beneath this official history is the unofficial history of childhood games and rituals, many of which were passed down for generations; children inhabited a separate universe of traditions, contests, solemn rituals and codes of honour, like a Viking horde living in your house unnoticed. It was in this world that every future general first learned to lead, every future scientist first turned over logs to delight in the tiny nightmares underneath, and every future explorer first plucked up the courage to enter the haunted woods. Elderly people here in Ireland, who grew up without electricity or many cars, still remember the feral exploration and creative play that was once the birthright of every child.
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from Huffington Post
LEFT BIAS, MIXED, news and commentary site headquartered in New York City
An old tweet by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) about President Donald Trump is resurfacing in light of Tuesday night’s election results in Georgia. Graham has been a staunch Trump ally in recent years, but that wasn’t the case during the campaign for the 2016 Republican nomination when he tweeted: "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it."
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
Our nineteenth Center of Progress is Philadelphia, nicknamed the “cradle of liberty” and the “birthplace of America.” This early U.S. capital is where the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence. It is also the place where a new form of government was debated and put into practice. Previously, the prevalent form of political organization was monarchy. But the Founders of the American republic attempted to create something new.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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