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John Oliver riffs about ads camouflaged as news

This is good. And quite funny. “News is like porn. People don’t want to pay for it on the Internet.” — John Oliver    (Facts and Opinions does not sell advertising. If you think our journalism has value, please support us with a $1 site day pass, or an inexpensive subscription.)

On the “Great Black Tornado” of WWI

Every person who fought in World War I is now dead – and yet no one alive today is unaffected. The war consumed much of the globe for, arguably, decades. Many contend that the unresolved conflicts of the “Great War” re-ignited to become the conflagration we call World War II, then set in motion events from the Cold War to today’s Middle Eastern conflicts. A century after it began, I am most astonished at the hubris…. read World and War in THINK/Commentary, by Deborah Jones. Facts and Opinions is a boutique for slow journalism, without borders. Independent, non-partisan and employee-owned, F&O performs journalism

Chris Wood: How to respond when a world is at stake?

Writes Chris Wood: “We heard this week that a few members of a previously ‘un-contacted’ tribe in Brazil, provoked by the appearance of outside prospectors in their roadless territory, had emerged from the jungle. The event prompted hand-wringing in ethno-cultural circles over how to preserve the tribe’s existence once they and the global economy had encountered each other …” How do we even start to consider such a problem? Wood has a solution. An excerpt of this week’s Natural Security column, Triage: learning to say goodbye: I shared breakfast recently with a bunch of other guys over 60. With the disinterest of

Russia steps into North Korea/China split

Discord between China and North Korea has provided fertile ground for Moscow, itself increasingly isolated over Ukraine, writes International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe in a new column, Jilted Putin courts Kim Jong-un for comfort. Excerpt: The ripples set in motion by Russia’s annexation of Crimea and Moscow’s ever more blatant involvement in fighting in eastern Ukraine have reached the other side of the world, and are lapping on the shores of the hermit kingdom of North Korea. As the European Union and the United States impose increasingly onerous sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his court, and a long term chill in relations

America’s Race-relations Agony

Six decades ago this year, the United States Supreme Court outlawed “separate but equal” schools. Fifty years ago this summer, hundreds of black and white volunteers converged on Mississippi in an effort to — as they put it — make Mississippi a part of America. And still, even with the country led by a president with dark skin, whose father hails from Africa and whose mother is of caucasian ancestry, the United States is torn by racial tension. Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones of ProPublica has spent much of this year documenting the the civil rights movement on these historic anniversaries. Facts and Opinions highlights

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