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Here’s how this works each year.

1) Biden proposes a massive increase in military spending — above and beyond both what he proposed the year before and what the Congress increased that to. If you look at U.S. military spending according to SIPRI in constant 2021 dollars from 1949 to now (all the years they provide, with their calculation adjusting for inflation), Obama’s 2011 record will probably fall this year. If you look at actual numbers, not adjusting for inflation, Biden has set a new record each year.

If you add in the free weapons for Ukraine, then, even adusting for inflation, the record fell this past year and will probably be broken again in the coming year.

The future tapped me quietly on the shoulder the other day and suggested that I take a moment to learn about the writing bots.

They’re coming!

Excuse me, they’re here. And they struck me as alien invaders, this recent manifestation of artificial intelligence on the Internet, which college students, high school students — anybody — can download, feed a topic and get it to write an essay for them. Is this technology’s next step, after Roomba the robot vacuum cleaner? Humanity is relieved of one more odious task — writing stuff.

 That was the summary of a news report published on the homepage of the pro-Israel group, UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI).

In GREEGREE #128, VINNIE DESTEPHANO fills us in on the on-going tour of “Ithaka,” the stirring documentary about Julian Assange, now touring the US.

We then hear from RAY MCCLENDON about the escalated attempts to crush democracy in Georgia.

Finally we do a deep dive on the critical Wisconsin Supreme Court race that could redefine national politics.

GREG LEWIS of Souls to the polls joins legendary journalists RUTH CONIFF and NORM STOCKWELL in dissecting the realities of what may be the most important election of 2023.

HOWIE HAWKINS of the Green Party also joins the discussion.

With control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court comes critical decisions on women’s rights, voting rights, gerrymandering and much more.

As Wisconsin is certain to prove critical in the 2024 election, this state Supreme Court race could decide much of the American future. 

Rarely does the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations make an official remark expressing happiness over any UN proceeding concerning the Israeli occupation of Palestine. 

 Indeed, the Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour is "very happy that there was a very strong united message from the Security Council against the illegal, unilateral measure" undertaken by the Israeli government. 

At last week’s Rage Against the War Machine peace rally in Washington there was no shortage of speakers who denounced the Biden Administration’s hypocritical foreign policy, which essentially judges any violent action undertaken by the United States and its friends as good by definition while anything done by rivals or competitors, sometimes conveniently referred to as “enemies,” as “evil.” In the current context of Ukraine versus Russia, where the US is engaged in proxy warfare, speakers were able to cite and compare the formidable list of America’s armed interventions worldwide since World War Two ended. Neither Russia nor any other nation comes anywhere near the United States in terms of constant bellicosity, conflicts which hardly ever reflect any real vital national interest or imminent foreign threat.

This February, two major film institutions – the Pan African Film Festival and a movie museum – in Los Angeles, the world capital of cinema, honored Black History Month through the medium of moving images with screenings, presentations, panel discussions and more. Here’s the second of a two-part series.

THE ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES

Regeneration Summit