Contrary to conventional wisdom, matter can escape the center of the Earth.
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Durbin’s willingness to tiptoe ahead of his colleagues is all the more surprising given his own electoral history.
The post Dick Durbin, AIPAC’s First Successful Recruit, Becomes First Senator to Call for Gaza Ceasefire appeared first on The Intercept.
Who doesn’t like good pizza? Delicious mozzarella that stretches as you pull the slice from your mouth. Sauce from the finest Roma tomatoes plucked from the storied shadows of Mount Vesuvius. Flavor-packed pepperoni cups, each like a salty little kiss from Santa Maria herself. There is simply no greater pleasure.
Anyway, don’t expect that stuff here.
Remember when you lived in the city? The hustle and bustle infiltrated every cell in your body. You even had a MetroCard. Then you moved here. You gave up. I will not reward that kind of mediocrity. You’re lucky I even stay open. If I weren’t locked into another four years of local Little League sponsorship, I would’ve left you strip-mall regulars in the dust years ago. The pizza I will make is the pizza that best matches my assessment of you and your choices. It is barely adequate.
[Editor’s Note: The Steady State Press has a new title. Gag-Ordered No More: The 800-Pound Gorilla in the U.S. Government (by Brian Czech) has gone to print. If the preface isn’t enough to whet your literary appetite, see the blurbs on the back cover (embedded below). And, be one of the first to order the book.]
Preface: They Wanted Me Out; Now I’m Out
They say the ironies never cease.
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The true power to halt Israel’s latest push to fulfill Zionism’s genocidal founding mission may not lie in Washington DC but in London. Specifically, Buckingham Palace, reveals Kit Klarenburg.
The post The Mask Has Fallen: King Charles Supports Israel appeared first on MintPress News.
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I have come to the conclusion that the most essential element of the Silicon Valley ideology is its collective faith in technological acceleration. More than the mix of libertarianism and tech determinism that Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron described as the “Californian Ideology” in 1995, more than the breakdown of donations between Democratic and Republican […]
I remember hearing the news and thinking that this was going to end badly for everyone. I had no idea just how bad things would get.
This month’s catastrophic violence in Israel and Gaza — specifically, the contradictory statements from each side on the other’s war crimes — has taken me back to a revealing personal moment almost exactly 18 years ago, recalling a different war in a different part of the world. That day in the fall of 2005 I was in Yerevan, Armenia, where I was teaching a post-graduate journalism course at the state university. In class that morning, my six students, all of them young women (as was not unusual in that time and place), began discussing the terrible treatment of young recruits in the Armenian army, where the vicious hazing that had been notorious in the Soviet armed forces was still common... Read more
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UJA-Federation of New York, a tax-exempt nonprofit, has sent more than half a million dollars to groups supporting Israeli settlements.
The post Kathy Hochul’s Israel Trip Bankrolled by Group Funding Illegal Settlements appeared first on The Intercept.
The road to Jerusalem, it has so often been said, runs through Cairo. Writing from a regime prison cell in the months after Palestine’s ‘unity intifada’ of 2021, the Egyptian revolutionary Alaa Abd El-Fattah modified this historic injunction: ‘The road to Jerusalem looked like it ran through Cairo — but what is certain is that […]
Mike Johnson is the least experienced member to become speaker in more than a hundred years. His positions – on divorce, non-procreative sex, contraception, dinosaurs – are almost cartoonishly right-wing, and he’s not entirely on board with free and fair elections. ‘Do you know what a democracy is?’ he said in 2019. ‘Two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner.’
The letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 45 No. 22 (Friday 03 November 2023)
(after visiting The World of Stonehenge at the British Museum)For Ange MlinkoWhen did museums devolve to the didacticSpelling out our wonder? Not enoughTo show us something wonderful...
Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 45 No. 22 (Friday 03 November 2023)
In recent years the UK government has become increasingly hostile to Freedom of Information requests on arms, but there is enough publicly available data to be certain that the planes currently flattening apartment blocks and refugee camps in Gaza rely on components engineered and manufactured in Britain.
In contrast to feudal society, where everyone, lord or serf, remained rooted to the land, and words were ‘passed on from generation to generation’, life in the democratic age was unmoored, indeterminate, even meaningless. Tocqueville refused to accept this anarchic new world at face value.
Rather than complacently celebrating Poland’s ‘return to Europe’, we should be trying to understand why self-declared anti-liberals succeeded in the first place, and in what ways their politics might endure even if they lose at the polls.