
From our Books, movies and music section: Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972), a powerful anti-war film from director Kinji Fukasaku, about a woman’s travails in seeking the truth about her Japanese soldier husband years after WWII has ended…
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Well worth a watch. From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Flag_of_the_Rising_Sun
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Let’s join the rest of the world and stop the unnecessary political charade that is having a debt ceiling and needing to raise it…
From the Council on Foreign Relations: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-happens-when-us-hits-its-debt-ceiling Thanks, also, to Nick Anderson. GOP hypocrisy, raised debt ceiling without question under...
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From our Books, movies and music section: an informative and well-written collection of essays by Rebecca Solnit, on feminism, rape culture, toxic “masculinity” and related subjects…
Undoubtedly, you know one or more people in your life who should read this.
From our History section: since no one knew when Jesus was born the Catholic Church decided to usurp a fun-sounding pagan festival as the time of year of Jesus’ birth, but Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays regardless…
From history.com: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/christ-is-born?
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