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La Confessione (Costa Gavras)

“La libertà dell’Occidente si difende sotto le mura di Gerusalemme” (Ugo La Malfa).

"Communism lost the Cold War not because Western tanks came to the Soviet Union but thanks to soft power — jazz, jeans, cinema, and books."
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56.
An average age in the medevial period.
December 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Tragic...

He was having a nice cup of tea when he had a sudden heart attack which caused him to lose his balance and fall out of a sixth floor window onto an exploding car.
December 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"The United States is currently undergoing a “once in a generation” nuclear modernization program that will cost nearly $2 trillion over its lifetime and, ironically, take multiple generations to complete due to delays."
Excited to announce that my @ucs.org colleague and @scovillepf.bsky.social fellow Sean Manning has his first piece on the UCS blog. He provides a critical analysis of rising military spending & the expanding influence of the military-industrial complex. Take a look: blog.ucs.org/sean-manning...
The Exploding Scope of the Military-Industrial Complex
Members of both major political parties have begun to question ballooning defense expenditures, which have almost tripled since the 1990s.
blog.ucs.org
December 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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“The research done at NCAR is an investment by every single tax-paying citizen in the United States, and it benefits all of us,” said UCS's @marc-alessi.bsky.social. “We are able to predict the weather days in advance, giving warning for hurricanes, extreme precipitation events, and droughts.”
We're all at risk if Trump dismantles this legendary lab
Breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research would be a "genuinely shocking self-inflicted wound."
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December 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Yesterday, Rep. @joeneguse.bsky.social joined us via Zoom at #AGU25 to reject the Trump admin’s proposal to dismantle the Ntl. Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), one of the US’ leading weather & climate research institutions.
Urge Congress to halt this dangerous action: act.ucsusa.org/4oWtCwz
December 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Nuclear Times magazine is on Bluesky! Beginning our journey to relaunch the only magazine dedicated to nuclear disarmament. Say “Hello!”

www.nucleartimes.com/why-relaunch/
Relaunching the Nuclear Times
The world is closer to nuclear war than any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis. We are relaunching the Nuclear Times magazine in print, in order to end the nuclear times.
www.nucleartimes.com
August 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
“Just on national security grounds, Europe should be pushing for renewable energy. I mean, they were getting gas from Russia, and that has turned out to be a really bad idea. Being dependent on liquefied natural gas from the United States is almost equally bad as an idea.” (Krugman)
December 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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"A model of crony state capitalism that tries to resuscitate a long-dead industrial economy is hardly an antidote to neoliberalism." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/n...
The Post-Neoliberal Consensus Is Here
Dani Rodrik identifies three tenets of a new consensus that is uniting the left and the right in the United States.
www.project-syndicate.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The worst collateral damage of Russia's unprovoked war of aggression is the reawakening of the German monster.
December 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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