Viktor Orbán’s obsequious letter to Benjamin Netanyahu offering him sanctuary from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Hungary is not a surprise. It is another red flag in the Islamophobic world of the transnational Right. The mass and prolonged slaughter of Palestinian Muslims (and Christians) cannot be seen as a crime committed against other humans Continue reading »
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Even as more than 40 lives were lost last week in the latest resurgence of sectarian violence on Pakistan’s northwestern flank bordering Afghanistan, the nation’s media remained focused primarily on a nationwide “do or die” protest focused on the capital, Islamabad, and organised by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI). The apparent aim is to liberate PTI Continue reading »
Pam Bondi is right out of Central Casting Many Americans were sorely disappointed this week when Special Prosecutor Jack Smith decided to drag up and withdraw the January 6th indictment and the appeal of the classified documents case dismissal against Donald Trump. Smith said in his filings that the government stood by the charges but because of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel’s rule that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted, he had no choice but to drop the charges.The judges in the cases acceded to his requests and dismissed them both without prejudice although the idea that anyone will bring these cases in 2029 when Trump is 82 years old is fanciful. It’s over. He got away with it once again. It’s not that we didn’t know it was coming one way or the other. In fact, from the moment the Supreme Court issued their shocking opinion about presidential immunity, the writing was on the wall that Trump would face no accountability even if he didn’t win the election. It went without saying that if he won, he would order the cases dismissed and that would be that.
Times are hard for a hell of a lot of people and I’m very grateful to everyone who’s given this year.
We have raised approximately $9,350 out of a goal of $13,000.
Along the way we’ve unlocked six book reviews.
- “India Is Broken”
- “The Invention of Capitalism”
- “One Disease, One Cure” by Whip Randolph
- “The Sociology of Philisophies”
- “MITI and the Japanese Mircale”
- “Wealth and Democracy” by Kevin Phillips.
At $10,000 I’ll write an article on one of the fundamental processes which keeps societies together and breaks them up.
I’m going to add another book review at $11,000 and $12,000. If we reach $11,000 I’ll review “A Paradise Built In Hell”, which is about how during and after catastrophes people pull together, help each other and made the community wonderful.
With Trump returning to the White House, only mass commutations will stop another federal execution spree.
The post Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings? appeared first on The Intercept.
Insular definitions of the national past overlook the very things we should take pride in
. In modern times legal currencies are totally based on fiat. Currencies no longer have intrinsic value (such as gold and silver). What gives them value is basically the simple fact that you have to pay your taxes with them. That also enables governments to run a kind of monopoly business where they never can […]
Palestinians from Gaza feel relief for the people of Lebanon. We are also heartbroken that we are still being slaughtered.
The post There’s a Ceasefire in Lebanon, but Israel Keeps Gaslighting Palestinians About Ending the Assault on Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.
Will the press play ball? Trumpflation is coming. Better buy your knee pads before Donald Trump’s tariffs kick in after Jan. 20. He’ll expect us all to kowtow, dontcha know. Greg Sargent’s Daily Blast features Margaret Sullivan, former public editor for The New York Times, regarding Trump’s recent demand that the paper apologize for unspecified bad coverage. “He actually thinks [the Times] should grovel and show submission to him now that he won,” says Sargent. Bad coverage being any story that doesn’t fluff his stuff: Sargent: I want to read a key part of Trump’s rant about the times. He said, I don’t believe I’ve had a legitimately good story in The New York Times for years, and yet I won in record fashion, the most consequential presidential election in decades. Where is the apology? Now, it wasn’t in record fashion, but either way, Margaret, this neatly captures how Trump understands the media. He actually thinks it should grovel and show submission to him now that he won. I don’t think he accepts on the most basic level that the press’s role is to challenge power.
"America’s enemies will only watch with glee, as America self-destructs from within", says former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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“Gaslighting of Trumpian proportions” It’s infuriating. The media narratives post-Nov. 5 focus on what Kamala Harris did wrong in her upbeat, mere three-and-a-half month presidential campaign. What did Democrats do wrong? How did they lose this group, that group, etc. How must they reinvent themeslves after a sufficient period of sackcloth and ashes? “Democrats Lost Their Base and Their Message,” declares the New York Times’ Nate Cohn. Trump’s reelection means “the end of the Democratic Party as we knew it.” Really? Millions face violent deportation, Ukrainians face losing their country, Gazans face continued slaughter, and the world faces the collapse of NATO and the rise of fascism American-style because Democrats have a messaging problem? And the 77 million Americans who chose those outcomes (by a “landslide” of 1.6 points)? Their hands are clean? Mehdi Hasan is not buying it either.
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you McDonald’s.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him use an all-gender bathroom.
It takes a village to run the Department of Government Efficiency.
Two wrongs do make a right-wing conspiracy theorist.
Wow, that costs an arm and an egg!
The early bird gets the brain worm.
When the going gets tough, the tough google “how move country?”
Childless cat lady got your tongue?
Fool us once, shame on us. Fool us twice, shame on us.
It’s not whether you win or lose; it’s how soon you find a coping mechanism.
Keep your friends close and your friends with disaster shelters closer.
The road to hell is paved with the President’s Collectible Trading Cards.
Honesty is the worst policy.
People who live in White Houses shouldn’t throw tantrums.
They’re barking up the wrong coconut tree.
It’s like taking candy from a baby you were forced to have.
The ball’s in your Supreme Court.
You made your bed; now you have to tell lies in it.
He’s throwing caution to the windmills.
Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, Alex Haberis, Federico Di Pace and Brendan Berthold To achieve the Paris Agreement objectives, governments around the world are introducing a range of climate change mitigation policies. Cap-and-trade schemes, such as the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), which set limits on the emissions of greenhouse gases and allow their price to be … Continue reading The heterogenous effects of carbon pricing: macro and micro evidence
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My Dutch friend chose to die a peaceful, painless death at the time of his choosing. Everyone else should be free to make that same choice
A MintPress News study has unearthed a network of former agents of Israeli spying agency Unit 8200 working at TikTok, a company charged with supposedly being a Chinese-owned hub of anti-Semitic content.
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