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The United States of America                   #381 By Hank Silverberg  Commentary As many as nine million people took to the streets this past weekend in the latest round of "No Kings" protests. The movement has not taken very long to attract large crowds across the country, making it one of the largest protests in U.S. history.   The White House reaction? Before the huge protests in dozens of cities and towns across the country, there was a claim from the White House that the protestors "hate America".  As the protests were happening, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Newsweek,  "the only people who care about this Trump Derangement Therapy Session are the reporters who are paid to cover them."  She couldn't be more wrong. So let's take a closer look. What is America?  America, from its very beginning, was a place where diversity was common.  White Europeans take all the credit, but Co...
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Why Mourn for  CBS Radio News?               #380 By Hank Silverberg   Was   it really a financial decision or was it a political one? That is what many people are asking about the impending death of CBS Radio News.    (This image was posted on Facebook by Former  CBS employee, Larry Magid)    CBS   News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss and President Tom Cibrowski, w ho are  now in charge of the legendary news division at CBS, announced a 6% cutback this past week that included closing the 100-year-old radio network news division in May. It hit me emotionally because of my past association with CBS Radio.  I never worked for CBS News proper, but over the 16 years I worked at CBS affiliate WTOP in Washington, I earned thousands of dollars stringing for the network. In case you don't know, a stringer is a local reporter who will file a story of national interest for the network and will be compensated a se...
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Hard To Write                                                                                           #379           By Hank Silverberg      Commentary It is becoming extremely difficult to write an opinion blog on anything right now. The world situation is slowly getting worse, the polarization in the American population is growing, and if you express your opinion on just about anything, you are probably going to get attacked verbally or even physically by someone who is offended.  A friend of mine advised me to stop writing about Israel or Iran, or the war, or even antisemitism  because it might make someone mad enough to do harm to me.   So I could try something less polarizing, like baseball...
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                                                                                                                                 #378 The Truth  By Hank Silverberg              One of the more difficult things for many people to understand is how an event that happened just five years ago, that most of us saw on TV as it was happening, can get so distorted with myth and conspiracy theories that a state legislature has to pass a bill requiring that the truth about the event be taught in schools.   But that is what has happened here in Virginia where many federal workers live. Governor Abigail Spanberger signed the bill ...
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WAR!                                                  #377 By Hank Silverberg On the surface, getting rid of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is a good thing. He has been the devil for the last 40 years, oppressing his own people and supporting proxy terrorist around the world, including Hamas, the worst of them all. Thousands of Israelis, Americans, Iranians and Gazans have died, directly or indirectly because of him.  But watching the attack on Iran unfold over the weekend, the big question on everyone's mind was "why now?" The U.S. had been negotiating with Iran over its potential nuclear weapon's program, which was quickly restarted after President Trump killed a previous deal during his first term and restarted again after air attacks last June that the President said had "obliterated" Iran's nuclear capability.  So now Trump has...
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Antisemitism Comes In Many Forms                          #376 By Hank Silverberg   I am having a great deal of trouble understanding fully the distinct rise in antisemitism in America.  Let's be clear. I am not naïve. The bigots have always been here. They pick on Jews, and often other minorities, because somehow it makes them feel better about themselves. There is someone else to blame for their misfortune in life-- Jews, Blacks, immigrants. That has always been here, and probably always will be.  But it is the war between Israel and Hamas that has brought on this new wave, and it is clear A lack of education and internet propaganda is driving it.  Here's a good example: what happened with the Israeli bobsled team at the Olympics. Just being there was an accomplishment for Israel, which traditionally doesn't send athletes to the winter Olympics. There's not much snow in Israel. The bobsled team was ou...
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