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How Combining Filibuster Reform, Expanding the Supreme Court, and Granting Statehood for DC and Puerto Rico Can Help Bring Balance Back to Our Politics: My 3-Tier Plan As a Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate for Maryland
Yes, I am using my own news website to promote my ideas I am putting forth as a candidate for U.S. Senate for Maryland and I won’t apologize for it! This is the first in a series of articles discussing ...
Sad Realities but Plenty of Reason to Hope As Russia’s Escalatory Ukraine Invasion Enters Third Year
The U.S. was Ukraine’s strongest ally until Trump MAGA Republicans began blocking aid, resulting in Ukraine struggling in ways not seen for some time, but don’t bet against Ukraine just yet: my long-overdue Ukraine update (Russian/Русский перевод; Если вы состоите ...
Haley, DeSantis Set for Embarrassment as Fascist Trump Train Set to Roll Through Primaries & Caucuses; It Begins with Iowa
By Brian E. Frydenborg (Twitter @bfry1981, LinkedIn, Facebook, Substack with exclusive informal content, my Linktree with all my public links/profiles) January 15, 2024; minor cleanup/grammar edits and a few links added for sourcing; see my related podcast; because of YOU, ...
The Real Context News Podcast #13: The Iowa Caucuses, GOP Primaries, & Why Haley & DeSantis Are Done & Biden Will Beat Trump
By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @bfry1981, YouTube) January 15, 2024 (recorded January 14, 2024); because of YOU, Real Context News surpassed one million content views on January 1, 2023, but I still need your help, please keep sharing my work and consider also donating! Real Context News produces commissioned content for ...
The Real Context News Podcast #12: Rula Jebreal—Palestinian Journalist, Analyst, & Author—on Palestine and Israel
By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @bfry1981, YouTube) January 6, 2024 (recorded December 29, 2023 intro/conclusion recorded January 5, 2024); see Brian’s other coverage the Israel-Hamas war here; because of YOU, Real Context News surpassed one million content views ...
The Real Context News Podcast #11: Aquilino Gonell, Staff Sgt. (U.S. Army Ret.) & Former Capitol Police Sgt., on January 6 & the Threat to Our Democracy
By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @bfry1981, YouTube) December 30, 2023 (recorded December 17, intro/conclusion recorded December 25); see most of Brian's work on the insurrection here; because of YOU, Real Context News surpassed one million content views on ...
The Real Context News Podcast #10: Journalist Noga Tarnopolsky on Israel’s 2 Wars: One vs. Hamas & One vs. Netanyahu
By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @bfry1981, YouTube) December 26, 2023 (recorded December 17, intro/conclusion recorded December 25); see Brian's other coverage the Israel-Hamas war here; because of YOU, Real Context News surpassed one million content views on January 1, 2023, but I still need your help, ...
The Lord of the Rings, Israel, and Palestine: Reflections of the Gaza-Hamas War in Tolkien
From Jenin to Jerusalem, from Kibbutz Be'eri to Al-Shifa Hospital, how Tolkien's tale evokes the horrors of war but also our common humanity By Brian E. Frydenborg (Twitter @bfry1981, LinkedIn, Facebook, Substack with exclusive informal content, my Linktree with all ...
The Concept of Roman Peace
As we are confronted with horrific wars even in 2023, a look back at how the Romans conceptualized peace may be instructive. By Brian E. Frydenborg (Twitter @bfry1981, LinkedIn, Facebook, Substack with exclusive informal content, my Linktree with all my public links/profiles) November 7, 2023, ...
The Geopolitics, Politics, and Military Realities of the Past Year of U.S. Arms Transfers, Sales, and Authorizations to Taiwan
October 29, 2023 Brian E. Frydenborg A Special Commissioned Report of Real Context News Intelligence (PDF version here) by Brian E. Frydenborg (Twitter @bfry1981, LinkedIn, Facebook, Substack with exclusive informal content, my Linktree with all his public links/profiles); contact Brian with ...
Facts, Context Don’t Care About Your Narrative: Gaza Hospital Edition
I believed one thing at first. As more information came in, I let the facts and context guide me and came to believe something else. And while the specific responsibility for this one horrific incident of carnage belonging to one ...
6 Steps for Israel to Take to Still Win, but with Far Better Outcomes for Itself and Gaza
A catastrophe at a hospital, regardless of its cause, highlights the need for careful, not rash action, on the part of Israel for the sake of both Israelis and Palestinians, that tragic scene of mass death the exact type of ...
