Tracy Pyles: Lessons unlearned
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In April of 1970, I was deployed as a third-class petty officer on the USS Richard E. Byrd, DDG-23, “Sea Power from Pole to Pole.”
Search Results for national security
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This is what tyranny looks like now: No crowns. No coups. Just unchecked power.
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In January 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a pamphlet that gave voice to the discontent of a nation struggling to free itself from a tyrannical ruler who believed power flowed from his own will rather than the consent of the governed.
Trump wants military plans for invading Greenland: Brass pushing back
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Donald Trump has asked the U.S. military to come up with a plan for invading Greenland, and is getting resistance from military brass, for probably obvious reasons.
Alon Ben-Meir: How Democrats, the U.S. public, need to respond to Trump’s piracy
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Donald Trump’s actions in Venezuela are morally calamitous, showing a perilous disregard for human dignity and the rights of ordinary Venezuelans to be free from external forces.
Staunton to cancel Flock Safety camera contract, citing issues with ideology of CEO
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Staunton has announced that it will end its contract with Flock Safety and remove all automated license plate readers installed in the city.
Flock cameras, while under fire, helped find the Brown University killer
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Flock Safety cameras are getting credit for helping police find the murderer of two students at Brown University and a MIT professor.
Greene County: $10K check presented to food pantry for backpack program
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Children in America shouldn’t have to worry if they will have food to eat when school is closed, but the reality is that many do.
Climate and Energy News Roundup: December 2025
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Fresh off a decisive election win, Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger is promising a sharp turn in Virginia’s energy policy, vowing energy affordability for regular ratepayers, boosting in-state power generation, and forcing data centers to “pay their fair share.”
Donald Trump is doing everything he can to strip workers of basic rights
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Although Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives, America’s labor unions.
Winslow Myers: Ukraine, and the rest of us, at a crossroads
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Our global security system, based on who has the most and the most modern weapons to enforce deterrence, is gradually becoming irrelevant, undermined by the ever-intensifying climate emergency.
