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Yes, the Doomsday Clock keeps ticking — it’s now at 90 seconds to midnight, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — but the ultimate time bomb never gets the attention that it deserves. Even as the possibility of nuclear annihilation looms, this century’s many warning signs retain the status of Cassandras.

In our first hour we start with TIM JUDSON of the Nuclear Information & Resource Service who joins with KARL GROSSMAN on the realities of America’s bogus “Nuclear Renaissance.”

MYLA RESON, TATANKA BRICCA, and CONNIE KLINE update us on a wide range of issues.

We’re then updated by ANNE BATIZA on a postcard campaign and other attempts to free Julian Assange.

We then hear from STEVE GOLDSMITH on the perils of a lethal poison gas now threatening Los Angeles.

STEVE CARUSO gives us the latest on the crazed efforts of Ohio officials to kill democracy.

With pop music on our music, we hear from the brilliant ALAN MINSKY the intersection of sports & politics as we head into the SuperBowl.

SANDY BOLZENIUS, MIKE HERSCH, MYLA RESON, WENDI LEDERMAN, STEVEN GOLDSMITH chime in.

ELISSA MATROSS explains the classic dilemma of a powerful political activists who roots for the home team….in this case the 49ers.

ALEX WILLIAMS adds his opinions about whether NFL games are fixed.  

TATANKA BRICCA reminds us of the sacrifice of Tommy Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.

“Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital . . .”

No, this is not the official “you are now entering Dearborn, Michigan” sign, at the corner of Michigan and Wyoming avenues, or whatever. This prosperous Detroit suburb — not only the hometown of Henry Ford but my hometown as well, the place where I grew up —which has one of the largest Arab-American populations in North America, was recently the target of a snarky, racist op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal. The above words were its title.

It seemed strange, if not out of context, when Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin told Arutz Sheva-Israel National News that “Muslims are not afraid of us anymore”.

 Feiglin’s comments were made on October 25, less than three weeks following the Palestinian Al-Aqsa Flood operation and the genocidal Israeli war which followed.

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https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2024/02/what-surprises.html

First thank you to the many of you who wrote to us about the annual report
(and many who decided to donate or contacted us about helping in other
ways). Many in the world were surprised that we do such great environmental
work in very difficult circumstances to say the least (plus the genocide in
Gaza). But we Palestinians are resilient, we do resist oppression on the
one hand and build for a better future on the other (even when Zionists
keep destroying). We have and cherish our life. For those who did not have
a chance, please do read this and do contact us:

Writer/director Trần Anh Hùng’s The Taste of Things, a tasty full-course movie meal that serves up spectacular cuisine and rarefied romance, is an acquired taste. For popcorn munching multiplex denizens conditioned by frenetic superhero histrionics and antics, the 135-minute Taste will likely unspool at an excruciatingly slow pace, and requires reading dreaded subtitles, to boot. Likewise, those who expect dollops of politics in their pictures may be sorely disappointed. But Taste probably hits the spot for most cinematic connoisseurs and gourmets of fine dining.

Rogue Machine’s first play of its 16th season is a worthy, thought provoking addition to the canon of what is arguably Los Angeles’ best theatre company. There’s an expression that was popularized by second-wave feminists in the sizzling sixties that “the personal is political,” and playwright Juan José Alfonso’s Middle of the World skillfully succeeds in synthesizing both. This one-act drama mixes race, romance, class, idealism, egoism, age and more as Glenn Joyner (Christian Telesmar), a 30-ish African American who works in New York’s financial sector, enters the backseat of a rideshare at JFK Airport.