Despite admitting the U.S. killed civilians in a 2018 attack in Somalia, the Pentagon has neither apologized nor offered compensation.
The post Rep. Sara Jacobs Urges Pentagon to Make Amends to Family of Drone Strike Victims appeared first on The Intercept.
Kit Klarenberg investigates the sinister connections that may explain why Israel considered the accused pedophile and close Epstein associate Alan Dershowitz to lead their ICJ defense without concern over a public backlash.
The post Conflict of Sin-terest: Why Israel Dumped Accused Pedophile Alan Dershowitz appeared first on MintPress News.
This week marks the 22nd anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, the infamous prison on the island of Cuba designed to hold detainees from this country’s Global War on Terror. It’s an anniversary that’s likely to go unnoticed, since these days you rarely hear about the war on terror — and for good reason. After all, that response to al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks, as defined over the course of three presidential administrations, has officially ended in a cascade of silence. Yes, international terrorism and the threat of such groups persist, but the narrative of American policy as a response to 9/11 seems to have faded away. Two and a half years ago, the Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal... Read more
Chicago humorist Mark Peters is obsessed with reading, writing, hearing, telling—and now, writing about—jokes. In each essay, he looks at a perfect joke by a master of the form.
Jack Kirby created thousands of comic book characters, from the X-Men to the Fantastic Four to the Dingbats of Danger Street. But which one was the funniest?
(If you’re not familiar with Jack Kirby, imagine everything you think Stan Lee created, plus a lot more creating, plus killing Nazis. And smoking cigars. That’s Jack Kirby.)
Since Kirby composed every character and page extra-large and mega-bombastic, plenty of them have an element of humor.
Dear Mr. White,
It is with an uneasy mixture of consternation and lust that we received, via Instagram, your latest thirst trap. We see that you have finally assumed the mantle of Calvin Klein Underwear Boy, and while we love this for you, we are compelled to say that you’ve done enough. You may have, in fact, done too much.
We appreciate the work that’s gone into creating your perfect six- (eight? Five-thousand?!?)-pack abs. Your shoulders look hewn from the same Carrara marble that Carmy’s ancestors used to build temples. That pelvic line is a perfect road map to [REDACTED]. But, sir, this level of hotness has scrambled our GPS, and we are frankly terrified to explore your highways and side streets, even within the cozy confines of our private fantasy life.
A quantitative analysis shows major newspapers skewed their coverage toward Israeli narratives in the first six weeks of the assault on Gaza.
The post Coverage of Gaza War in the New York Times and Other Major Newspapers Heavily Favored Israel, Analysis Shows appeared first on The Intercept.
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- by Ayşe Zarakol
Four chapters remain. We are a little over $1,200 from our final reward of the fundraiser ,an article on the Middle Ages Academic crisis (overproduction and collapse.) Chapters to come include:
8. Interaction ritual (how daily life creates identification and personality)
9.The Ritual Masters (How rituals create different types and classes of people)
10. The Ideologues (How identity is tied into story, ideology and meaning)
11. Reign of the Ideologues (How ideology is used to create civilizations and the payoffs for ideologues)
Humanity’s first invention was either simple stone tools or rituals.
My money is on rituals.
