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Join Lowkey for a special episode with Darin J. Sallam, creator of the Netflix film "Farha". Sallam and Lowkey discuss the Israeli government's efforts to silence the film, which tells the true story of a Palestinian girl's fight for survival during the Nakba.

The post Farha: The Netflix Film the Israeli Government Fears, with Darin Sallam appeared first on MintPress News.

No agenda except trolling I missed this observation but Marcy didn’t: Former House Speaker Nacny Pelosi told CNN that the GOP heckling during the State of the Union Address was “showbiz” to cover putting Medicare and Social Security “on the table.” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) told reporters after the SOTU that he considers Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) “a sick puppy” who had no business being there. Cameras caught their exchange on the House floor but not the dialogue. It’s who they are. It’s all they have left. Talk about waste, fraud, and abuse, we’re paying their salaries.

Annexation of the Jordan Valley, which makes up approximately 30% of the occupied West Bank, is back on the agenda with the return of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing extremist coalition.

The post As Israel Pushes to Annex the Jordan Valley, Is the Threat Already Here? appeared first on MintPress News.

In June 2020, as Spain’s public spaces slowly began to come back to life following one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe, two young men appeared for the first time in Barcelona. Little, if anything, would have seemed to connect them at the time. Marc, a prospective Social Education student at the University of Barcelona, […]

On this week’s Lever Time Premium: David interviews Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska); and speaks with Getty whistleblower Marlena Sonn.

Lee Camp speaks to filmmaker and peace activist Pitasanna Shanmugathas about Canada's sordid colonial past and its modern role as a purveyor of US foreign policy.

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'When you raise concerns about sexism in your union, you get “the right-wing press will get hold of this”. We’ve heard it so many times', one whistle-blower told Byline Times

He wielded them both “Here’s my message to all of you out there: I have your back,” President Joe Biden told Americans in his second State of the Union Address. Biden’s 2022 SOTU audience topped 38 million. His speech Tuesday night would be his most-watched of the year. He might not be able to match the right’s 24-hour disinformation networks for daily screen time, but for 75 minutes last night he had as much of the nation’s attention as he would have this year. He knew it and he used it. Democrats cheered. Republicans, many of them, jeered. Their style is their only substance. Biden brought both. If he meant to contrast his administration with his opposition’s chaos, he succeeded famously. “Biden made perhaps the best speech of his presidency,” tweeted The New Yorker‘s Susan Glasser.

The market can't save us.

Fiction writers are world builders.

GOP sees higher rates and higher taxes as the enemy… 

Cuts to Medicare and Social Security are off the table.

Defaulting on our debt is not an option.

But neither is a future of higher taxes, higher interest rates, and an economy that doesn’t work for working Americans. pic.twitter.com/KhLEEhaNNx

— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) February 6, 2023

 

Democrats = Higher taxes + higher interest rates… GOP = lower taxes + lower interest rates

Now that Lebron James has become the NBA’s all-time scoring leader, the debate about who is the greatest NBA player ever has heated up again. Today, we try to settle the debate that has plagued sports talk shows, message boards, and Twitter threads for years.

Decision-Making/Clutchness

Lebron is the most willing passer of the three, which means he occasionally forgoes late-game shots that many fans feel he should take himself (as Jordan likely would). While both Jordan and Lebron have logged more game-winning shots than Pythagoras, there is more to basketball than shooting. Over his entire career, Pythagoras recorded an astonishing ZERO turnovers in the last two minutes of games. Never stepped out of bounds. Never made a bad pass. And never missed a game-winning or tying shot. Something that can’t be said for the other two.

Advantage: Pythagoras

New data has revealed the barriers single parents face in getting back to work, while rates of in-work poverty exposes Tory 'myth' that work is the route to riches, Sian Norris reports

At a Refresco plant outside of New York City, KKR masters of the universe say that weekends come only six times a year.

Bennett says the US and its Western allies decided to 'keep striking Putin' and not negotiate.

The post Former Israeli PM Bennett Says US ‘Blocked’ His Attempts at a Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Some firms have ruled out using agency workers to break strikes - but others aren't so discerning, Josiah Mortimer reports

Jeff Gerth’s investigation for The Columbia Journalism Review exposes the dark heart of the news media’s coverage of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.

The post Patrick Lawrence: The Press Reckoning on Russiagate appeared first on scheerpost.com.

"Over 100,000 of our loved ones being lost to avoidable overdoses a year is not because of a lack of enforcement, it's a direct result of it," the director of the Drug Policy Alliance argued.

The post Critics Push Back Against Biden Revival of Failed ‘War on Drugs’ Approach to Fentanyl appeared first on scheerpost.com.

By Roger Harris / CounterPunch Sixty years ago, a crowd of us young people anxiously massed around a black-and-white TV in my college student union building. The US and the USSR were in an existential standoff. The US had deployed ballistic nuclear missiles in Turkey. When the Soviets responded by placing missiles in Cuba, the […]

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Host Jordan Smith and law professor Hila Keren discuss a Colorado case that could expand the right to discriminate under the guise of free speech.

The post Dissent Episode Four: The Right to Discriminate appeared first on The Intercept.

Researchers agree that social trust causes many positive social outcomes. But they differ on its definition and causes

- by Kevin Vallier

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Unfolding like a haunting dream, life’s big, unsolvable questions turn one man’s existential crisis into a stunning animation

- by Psyche Film

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