“Man is the cheapest commodity on the market, and among all our important rights of property, the rights of the individual are always considered last of all.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“Man is the cheapest commodity on the market, and among all our important rights of property, the rights of the individual are always considered last of all.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” — Marie Curie (1867–1934)
“The sunset is not the end, beloved. It is the soul bowing in reverence to the night.” — RUMI 💙💙
Terrible earthquake in Afghanistan 🇦🇫 😭😔 apnews.com/article/afgh...
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“If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges. . . One goes to the unprotected — those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most! — and listens to their testimony.” — James Baldwin
“The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.” — Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” — Margaret Mead
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“Lovers share a sacred decree – to seek the Beloved. They roll head over heels, rushing toward the Beautiful One like a torrent of water.” — RUMI 💙💙
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More about the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO): apnews.com/video/ap-exp...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has its own challenges and internal contradictions. But with enough interests at stake, even an incoherent SCO could mount a challenge to U.S. influence in Asia-Pacific! apnews.com/article/shan...
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99% of my books are nonfiction! Started to like Stephen King’s books 📚 😊
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Decades of American efforts to woo India has been tarnished by the whims of childish trade wars! 🤯
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” — Carl Sagan (1934–1996)
“Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.” — William Beveridge
“Love is such a blazing fire which, when it blazes up, burns up everything except the Beloved.” — RUMI 💙💙
Tyrants like parades! China’s Sept. 3rd military parade is a carefully orchestrated act of strategic communication, weaving together messages of military strength, diplomatic positioning, and historical narratives, directed at audiences both at home and abroad. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/28/c...
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More than 20 world leaders attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, which is now the world’s largest regional grouping by population. The summit is set to be overshadowed by Trump’s trade war against much of the world. aje.io/01z45c
The United States is boosting its maritime force in the waters off Venezuela to combat threats from Latin American drug cartels with the expected arrival of more vessels next week. apnews.com/article/trum...
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“Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” — Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives.” — Howard Zinn (1922–2010)
“Don't slide into the cracks of ground like spilled mercury. When the full moon comes out, look around." —RUMI 💙💙
South Asia’s missile race is heating up. But India and Pakistan aren’t only eyeing each other. India continues to view China as its primary threat in the neighborhood and it’s at China that India’s development of medium and long-range missiles is primarily aimed. . . aje.io/ncxbdw
On Friday, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC, largely upheld a decision in May that found Trump had overstepped his authority in imposing universal tariffs on all US trading partners. aje.io/va5x7d
Protests erupted for a fifth day Friday in multiple cities and tensions soared across Indonesia, a day after a delivery rider was allegedly run over by a police armored vehicle during clashes between riot police and students protesting lawmakers’ allowances. apnews.com/article/indo...
It’s Onagrocracy!🤡 In 1925, Italian philosopher and historian Benedetto Croce, observing Mussolini’s misgovernment, coined the term “Onagrocracy” ónagros (figurative meaning of “ignoramus, uncultured person”) + crazia (“-cracy”, suffix indicating a form of government)
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The leaders of France and Germany on Friday vowed to step up pressure on Russia over its war against Ukraine, warning that President Vladimir Putin was showing little appetite to end Moscow's three-and-a-half year onslaught against its neighbour. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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A growing water deficit driven by heat and drought is set to devastate local and national economies, resulting in food insecurity, displacement and political upheaval. p.dw.com/p/4xxCi
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“Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.” — Doris Lessing (1919–2013)
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” — Kahlil Gibran
“If I hold you in my heart, you'll wither; Become a thorn if I hold you in my eyes. No, I'll make a place for you Within my soul instead So you'll be my love In lives beyond this life.” —RUMI 💙💙
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, “You owe me.” Look what happens with a Love like that, It lights the whole sky — Hafiz (14th-century Persian poet)
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The China-India relationship has been strained in recent years. But as tensions rise between the U.S. and India over new U.S. tariffs on Indian goods, this meeting could mark a major turning point for the two Asian giants, with implications for U.S.-India relations. www.cfr.org/article/chin...
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Kim Jong Un is becoming a world leader, it seems! 🙄 Kim Jong Un will make his first visit to China in 6 years to attend a military parade next week. The event would bring him together with a large group of world leaders for the first time since taking office in late 2011. apnews.com/article/chin...
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