Kamala Harris is a daughter of Silicon Valley, not Scranton.Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post (9/8/24) On February 20, 1933, Adolf Hitler held a secret meeting with 25 German industrialists before the federal election of March 5th. President Hindenburg had appointed…
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Will the GOP Do Worse than British Conservatives?
by Nick Gier, professor emeritus at the University of Idaho Like the GOP the British Conservatives are just as detached from reality. —Peter Osborne, The New York Times (10/21/22) Read about Bernie Sanders and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn at bit.ly/3Y5i3cO. After…
France’s Macron and Biden Face Right-Wing Surge
Many countries are shifting from a universalcivil nationalism towards the blood-and-soil, ethnic sort.—The Economist (Nov. 19, 2016) I just returned from a 3-week trip to France, and there were two days where I was close to tears. The first was…
France’s Economy Defies Libertarian Dogma
by Nick Gier The watchwords of the American and French Revolutions were liberty, equality, and, for the French, fraternity. Redefining fraternity as traditional community values, I see today’s conservative and liberals attempting to balance these three principles. America’s conservatives focus…
Fear Mongering and Lying about the Southern Border
by Nick Gier Encounters of known and suspected terroristsat our borders are very uncommon.—U.S. Customs and Border Protection I was a stranger and you did not take me in,naked, and you did not clothe me.—Jesus, Matthew 25:42 Donald Trump lies…
Wealth and Welfare States: What Is the Real Story?
A welfare state may cost a lot but it provides a lot. . . A part-watchman, part-welfare state [as in the US and UK] does not work very well. —The (free market) Economist, Nov. 22, 2022, p.53. Institute for Research…
A Bitter Christmas for Palestinian Christians
by Nick Gier There may be as many as 15 million Arabic-speaking Christians living in the Middle East, and they, along with their indigenous Jewish brothers and sisters, had prospered there in relative peace for centuries. Discrimination and violence against…
The Heavy Price the Palestinians Have Paid in Gaza
The Heavy Price the Palestinians Have Paid in Gaza by Nick Gier, the Palouse Pundit On October 7 last month, Hamas fighters invaded kibbutzim, communal villages known for their peace activists near the Gazan border. In Be’eri Hamas killed 100 people, including…
The ‘whole truth’ about the Hamas-Israel war
by Nick Gier, the Palouse Pundit An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi The murderous attack by Hamas in Southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing about 1,200 innocent men, women and children,…