Staff Report – ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland’s Republican Governor Larry Hogan announced Monday the state will dissolve its sister-state relationship with Russia’s state of Leningrad due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The governor directed the secretary of state to terminate the relationship that was established in 1993, Hogan said in a statement. In a letter…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration will not challenge a federal court ruling saying the Department of the Interior under former President Trump failed to take climate change into account when it auctioned off 1.7 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling last year. The decision invalidated…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court pick, has more initial support for her confirmation than any of the three jurists nominated by President Donald Trump, according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll. Only 17 percent of voters oppose the nomination. A plurality of voters, 46 percent,…
Staff Report – BERLIN (Feb 28, 2022) – Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks, scientists say in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, and people and ecosystems least able to cope…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — This country and the world seemed to be perched on the edge of a precipice, a double edged sword. While the world has appeared to be lurching toward autocracy in recent years, it appears quite possible that there is actually a way, a chance,…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The people of Ukraine have taken up arms to help their defense forces fight off the unprecedented Russian invasion and their efforts appear to be working to slow the advance toward Kyiv, the capitol city, according to on the ground reporting by The New York Times and other news…
Staff Report – ST. PAUL, Minn. — A federal jury in St. Paul, Minnesota found three former police officers guilty of federal civil rights offenses this week for their involvement in the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 that sparked international outrage and spawned a movement of protest against racist, corrupt cops who…
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” – Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. — When the news gets weird, the conspiracy nuts turn pro. It was Twosday, 2-22-22, at 2:22 p.m., 22 hours ago according to Facebook, when…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON. D.C. — A Massachusetts man was arrested this week for assaulting police during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted a joint session of Congress in the process of certifying the electoral votes confirming Joe Biden as the winner in the presidential election of 2020. Vincent…
Will the American People Be Told the Truth About Who is Responsible? By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The mysterious Havana Syndrome, called an “alleged set of medical symptoms with unknown causes experienced mostly abroad by U.S. government officials and military personnel,” is so mainstream now that it has its own Wikipedia page. So…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — They say time flies when you’re having fun. Of course that has become a cliché. The Roman poet Virgil first alluded to this phenomenon in Latin, in Georgics Book 3, using the line “fugit inreparabile tempus” which means, in proper English, “time escapes and…
“Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.” – John Muir, 1869 The Yosemite (1912), page 256. Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In reporting annual visitation numbers to America’s national parks for 2021, the…
By Glynn Wilson — WASHINGTON, D.C. — It shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that being offered payment in cryptocurrency to hide nuclear submarine secrets in a peanut butter sandwich and a chewing gum package might be an under cover agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, not a spy for Russian dictator…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Let’s face facts and tell it straight, never mincing words. That’s what we do here at the NAJ, which is why we have a loyal following — and also why we have detractors and even outright enemies who would at the very least put…
Full text of “John Brown. An address by Frederick Douglass, at the fourteenth anniversary of Storer College, Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, May 30, 1881”: source text edited from print style to web press style JOHN BROWN: AN ADDRESS FREDERICK DOUGLASS, FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY, STORER COLLEGE, Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, May 30, 1881. DOVER, N. H.: MORNING…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of progressive Democrats inspired by the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders in 2016 is going after a far right Trump supporting candidate for governor of Maryland, Dan Cox, who is now a Republican member of the state House of Delegates and has filed articles of impeachment…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes you wake up in the morning, make the coffee, check the news and feel all hope is lost, like Frodo Baggins near the end of The Two Towers in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. That’s kind of how I felt on Sunday…
Also, Facebook Finally Peaked and Meta Lost $230 Billion in Value – “So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people – greedy, barbarous, and cruel…” — T.E. Lawrence in ‘Lawrence of Arabia‘ 1962 The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C.…
“Winners and losers, which one will you be today?” — Social Distortion Winners and Losers Video The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The California punk rock band Social Distortion summed it up in this song by Michael Ness. “We’re all good and evil … there’s cowards and heroes … lovers…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The news is not as huge as an indictment and show trial of former President Donald Trump would be. But the announcement by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that he will retire at the end of this court term and give President Joe Biden a chance to nominate…
