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      NATO Has Got to Go   By David Starr   The United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have continued to ignore the chance for immediate negotiations to stop the Russian–Ukraine war. Thus, they ignore a chance for peace.    The U.S./NATO alliance continues to push for a military solution to the war. In mid-to-late June 2023, the alliance put on a show of strength with a new round of war games. Germany invited the U.S. and other nations of the alliance to simulate an air war over most of Europe. John Wojcik, Editor-in-Chief of the People’s World,  wrote  that it was “the biggest war provocation in history in its airspace…”   Wojcik added that it involved “10,000 armed participants from 25 countries.” The U.S. sent “2,000 Air National Guard members and more than 100 of the 250 jet fighters that [participated].” The alliance also used ships to “close in on European coastlines in their massive simulation of what they say NATO would have to do if it were necessary t

  A Flat-Earther? GOPer from Georgia Regresses Back to the Medieval Era By David Starr   While this is a silly thing to write about, it does show how low the Republicans have lowered the intellectual bar to where it’s almost touching the ground. There is a Republican in Georgia who at the least implies the Earth is flat, but after claimed she’s not a Flat-Earther.    Georgia GOP Chair Kandiss Taylor has a podcast with the immature name, “Jesus, Guns, and Babies.” And that is par for the course for the right. They are obsessed with conspiracy theories, out-of-touch policies, and just plain ignorance.    Taylor goes all out with her belief, based on religious fanaticism, that the Earth is flat; reflecting the mentality of someone out of Medieval Europe. With two Flat Earthers on her podcast, David “Flat Earth Dave” Weiss and Matt Long, Taylor  was quoted  in  Salon  magazine by Tatyana Tandanpolie, which shows Taylor’s gross ignorance: “The people that defend the globe don’t know anythin