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The Same Families Who Tried to Overthrow FDR Are Running The Government Right Now

Dissent in Bloom

In 1933, a circle of Wall Street financiers allegedly hatched a plan to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt. They didn’t want to kill him. They wanted to keep him in his chair, smiling for photographs,…

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Divergent American Hegemonic Responses to Nuclear Ambitions: Why the United States Deters North Korea but Strikes Iran

Nader Rahimi

The nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran pose two of the most persistent and consequential proliferation challenges facing the United States in the post–Cold War era. Yet while both…

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Shooting from the Lipp: Domination porn

Dave Lippman

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The USA is in a non-war to free Iranian women, like we done here for our Handmaids and of course for the schoolgirls over there,…

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Reel Time With Richard Ades: Search for daughter leads father, son into peril

Richard Ades

Of the five films up for an international Oscar, Sirat is by far the most unsettling.

I say that without fear of contradiction, even though I have yet to see most of its competitors…

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Free Press Staff

This moment has been years in the making. Thanks to the relentless organizing of residents like you, the Columbus City Council has officially referred the collaboratively written Community Crisis Response Amendment to the May 5th, 2026 primary election ballot!

For half a decade, the Columbus Safety Collective has fought to reimagine public safety. Because of the nearly 30,000 signatures collected by our incredible volunteer canvassers, we reached a historic compromise with the Mayor, City Council, and labor leaders to put forward a common-sense, life-saving proposal.

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Google’s Columbus data center secrets exposed

Free Press Staff

What many may not be aware of is that a high-yielding aquifer lies deep under most of Central Ohio. Keeping the aquifer on the down-low, so to speak, was perhaps the plan by local power brokers who foresaw how major corporations would someday…

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Leonard Cohen song covers on Everybody Knows

Suzanne Patzer

Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan bring us some incredible covers of Leonard Cohen songs.

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Listen live at 11pm Fridays, March 6 and 13 streaming at wgrn.org or on the radio at 91.9FM
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Mondays at 2pm…

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The Trump-Netanyahu Iran Crusade

Eric S. Margolis

Why did President Trump launch a war against Iran? Two reasons.

First, electoral polls indicated a dramatic victory for anti-Trump Democrats in this fall’s Congressional elections. This would put a welcome end to Trump’s…

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Trump Attacks Minnesota, the Media, Iran, 2026 Elections With the Future at Stake

Harvey "Sunny" Wasserman

GREEP Zoom #258 opens with a report from HEDY TRIPP on the ICE attacks in MN.

She’s followed by JONATHAN KENT’s report on Sunday’s demonstration for freedom at the  Whipple Center in Minneapolis.

We hear MYLA RESON’s report on…

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