How Iran’s drones hit America’s Achilles heel - POLITICO

“What worries me is a growing possibility of ‘drone terrorism’ and ability of different semiorganized groups and vile individuals to act against our infrastructure by cheap, even household made, means,” said a senior European defense official…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/08/iran-drones-us-military-weakness-01110970

 

New LEGO Video For Americans | Americans Please Wake Up

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUBalH54QDU

 

Erasing America.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2L_X3mZjDWs

 

🚨Jeff Daniels Just Revealed the WORST THING About TRUMP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmUTPso7scI

The Science of Sagan (Seth Andrews; The Thinking Atheist podcast)

We lost the great cosmologist and science educator Carl Sagan in the month of December...way back in 1996. His words resonate and inspire as much as ever.

Interview: 

https://www.thethinkingatheist.com/podcast-1/episode/77bc9f1e/the-science-of-sagan

How Religious Was America in 1776?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YAojOP3bQs

US health system ranks last compared with peer nations, report finds

Despite Americans paying nearly double that of other nations, the US fares poorly in list of 10 countries

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/18/american-health-system-ranks-last

Opinion | America Is an Empire in Decline. That Doesn’t Mean It Has to Fall. - The New York Times

…America will need to give up trying to restore its past glory through a go-it-alone, America First approach. It was the same impulse that pushed the Roman Empire into the military adventurism that brought about its eventual destruction. The world economy has changed, and the United States will never again be able to dominate the planet as it once did. But the possibility of building a new world out of a coalition of the like-minded is a luxury Rome never had. America, whatever it calls itself, should seize the opportunity...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/04/opinion/america-rome-empire.html

Jared Yates Sexton asks, is America still the greatest country in the world? (Anthony Davis; The Weekend Show)

Author of American Rule Jared Yates Sexton asks, with all its troubles, is America still the greatest country in the world? 

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-27fzi-17444683

Myth America review: superb group history of the lies that built a nation

Republican strategy shifted so quickly that by the time the party gathered in 1964 to nominate Barry Goldwater for president, for the first time in 50 years there were no Black delegates in any southern delegation. One of the few Black delegates who did attend "had his suit set on fire". The Black baseball star Jackie Robinson, a longtime Republican, declared that he knew "how it felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany"...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/28/myth-america-review-history-zelizer-kruse

America Is on the Right Track - The Atlantic

"Streeter observes that it's not the poorer members of the conservative coalition who are pessimistic; it's the affluent white Republicans who watch Tucker Carlson and believe the nation is on the verge of total destruction. Many of them believe that radical action, even violence, may be necessary to save it..."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/american-optimism-productivity-innovation-rise/672714/

The World Is Splitting in Two - The Atlantic

Separate events are accelerating a shift that is transforming global politics...

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/03/ukraine-war-china-covid-lockdowns/629401/

Record 7.1% of Americans identify as LGBTQ, Gallup poll finds | LGBT rights | The Guardian

Percentage has doubled over the past 10 years as 21% of 'Gen Z' Americans identify as LGBTQ…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/17/lgbtq-americans-gallup-poll-survey

Why Americans Pay Through the Nose for Brand-Name Drugs – Mother Jones

"I fiercely defend the patent system," Feldman says. "I also am appalled when it's misused."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/06/patent-extensions-keep-drug-costs-high/

Opinion | A new Pew Survey reveals that the U.S. is no longer a global model for democracy - The Washington Post

… U.S. allies see our democracy as a shattered, washed-up has-been. We used to provide a democratic model for the world, but no longer. The chaos, dysfunction and insanity of the past several years have taken a predictable toll...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/11/pew-research-global-opinion-us-democracy/

David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything

America: the greatest, richest, freest country in the world – or is it? David Cross, of Mr. Show, Arrested Development, and The Dark Divide, joins us to discuss why Americans, despite living in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, have a much worse standard of living than people who live in poorer countries. The "American Dream" isn't just dying: it's dead and buried. Cross tells us why.
https://youtu.be/aNghg1Y-WIc

Trump damaged Russians' opinion of America, exiled Putin critic says

...The handover of power and the Capitol riot, "dealt a blow to the reputation of America as the moral leader in the world, particularly in the eyes of the Russian public," Mikhail Khodorkovsky told NBC News in an exclusive interview in London...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-damaged-russians-opinion-america-exiled-putin-critic-says-n1259122

America’s image has tumbled during Trump’s presidency. Can Biden turn it around? - The Washington Post

... Four years ago, before Trump became president, 43 percent of Germans had a positive impression of the United States as a leader in the world. Today just 6 percent approve. In the United Kingdom, 15 percent say they approve. More Russians — 18 percent — approve of American leadership internationally than Brits or Germans...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/americas-image-has-tumbled-during-trumps-presidency-can-biden-turn-it-around/2020/12/19/f16654c2-420c-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html

Global treaty to tackle plastic pollution gains steam without US and UK

Support is growing internationally for a new global treaty to tackle the plastic pollution crisis, it has emerged, though so far without the two biggest per capita waste producers – the US and the UK – which have yet to signal their participation...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/16/us-and-uk-yet-to-show-support-for-global-treaty-to-tackle-plastic-pollution

How America Got Divorced from Reality: Christian Utopias, Anti-Elitism, Media Circus

Since a boat of religious fanatics with buckles on their hats hit the shores near Plymouth Rock and claimed that this was their utopia, America has always been a little bit crazy. It's this kind of wide-eyed "anything can happen if you believe" mentality that, at its best, can produce incredible art. But at its worst, it can be cruel and conspiratorial. We live in a country where people refuse to believe vaccination can help you and where a White House is spinning "alternative — but Kurt Andersen is here to say that this is nothing now. At the time of the Civil War, society had become split by two sides that refused to listen to each other. Back then, the political and social divide is stoked by a hyperbolic partisan media where anyone could publish whatever they wanted in a pamphlet without fact-checking. Sound familiar? It definitely should. Kurt's latest book is appropriately titled Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire....
https://youtu.be/XirnEfkdQJM