A lunatic is the leading GOP candidate for president I’ve said it before: Donald J. Trump is one grain alcohol and rain water away from pulling a Browning machine gun out of his golf bag. This person is a fucking lunatic, Republicans have just stopped talking him, and everyone is going along as if the next election is business as usual. Strange times. https://t.co/RZvcQbLCV9 — Tim Miller (@Timodc) October 12, 2023 And his fans want more: Big cheers here at this Trump event in West Palm Beach after one of the speakers tonight, Rogan O’Handley, said: “My favorite memory of [Trump] is January 6th … I thank him every single day for holding that rally on January 6. I was there, I was damn proud to be there.” pic.twitter.com/V3dz3V9WLg — Kate Sullivan (@KateSullivanDC) October 11, 2023 I’m trying to heed Obama’s advice. “This country’s seen darker moments before”: Not saying it’s easy. pic.twitter.com/9AJQfZqAq5 — mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) October 9, 2023 Do your best to cope.
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The current escalation in bloodshed in Israel and Palestine reflects the fact that peace cannot be built on decades of oppression; it can only be built on justice. The Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) condemns not only the recent attacks, but also the failure – despite concerns expressed by many leaders and governments Continue reading »
Regardless of how many Palestinians Israel kills and will kill, in retaliation, although tragic, it will hardly salvage the tattered image of an undisciplined army, a divided society, and a political leadership that is solely focused on its own survival.
The post The New Gaza Generation: Rising Against Desperation and Defying Israel appeared first on MintPress News.
Various versions of the aphorism “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography” have been making the rounds ever since the rise of U.S. imperialism in the late 1800s. The quip (which, despite legend, appears not to be attributable to Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, or any other famous person) has proven all too accurate when the war in question directly involves American troops. When, however, non-U.S. combatants and civilians suffer and die from conflicts relatively unrelated to Washington’s “strategic interests,” our media outlets tend to avert their eyes, aid agencies get stingy, and Americans learn no geography whatsoever. Oh, and given this country’s power and position on this planet, millions suffer the consequences of that neglect. Terror Days in... Read more
Emotional policing is again in vogue Have you condemned Hamas vigorously enough for [insert viral unconfirmed atrocity here]? The murderous rampage by Hamas last weekend against Israeli civilians of all ages and how Israel responds will reverberate for years to come. Israel’s 9/11. In the wake of terrorist attacks here two decades ago, some pundit asked: Would America keep its head? I wrote later: We invaded Iraq on trumped-up intelligence. We conducted illegal surveillance on our own citizens. We imprisoned people without charge, here and abroad. We rendered prisoners for torture and tortured others ourselves in violation of international law. All the while, millions of staunch, law-and-order conservatives supported and defended it, and still do. Vigorously. Did America keep its head? Uh, no. It is happening again. Pro-Israel protesters in New York City think Gaza should be flattened to a parking lot. Wipe out all the Palestinians. There are calls for revenge, for collective punishment. War fever is on the rise again. Someone on Bluesky last night posted that “every single Israeli child will one day be an active member of the IDF.” Thus, none are innocent.
Protestant pagans are everywhere in the post-Christian West.
Stephen Jackley, a former prisoner turned author and campaigner, pulls back the curtain on the UK prison system in an exclusive interview with Byline Times, as he launches his new book ‘Just Time’.
It’s Tuesday Night at Labour Party Conference and I have just walked past the drinks reception held by Progressive Britain, one of the leading organisations of Labour’s Blairite right, formerly known as Progress. The group have much to celebrate: polls are in Labour’s favour, Conference is getting positive press, and Starmer’s latest re-shuffle cemented Labour’s […]
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2. Talkin’ ’bout PEOPLE
3. I hear ’em whisperin’
4. You won’t believe it
5. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
6. They think we’re lovers… kept undercover
7. Uh-huh
8. I’ll just ignore it
9. But they keep sayin’
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Paranoid recluse talking to his cat: 14
For almost all of its thirty-year duration, it seemed quite natural to think of the conflict in Northern Ireland, unfolding just a few dozen miles away from my hometown of Dublin, as an anachronism. The local joke was that when planes landed at Belfast airport, the pilot announced, “Welcome to Belfast. Put your watches back […]
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The Government has talked tough on crime while creating the scandal of violent criminals now being let free, writes Josiah Mortimer
As the long-running quagmire erupts into more bloodshed and destruction, we need to stop dehumanizing the conflict and acknowledge both sides’ pain and suffering.
Robin Boardman, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, says we need solutions to a knotty unintended consequence of moving to renewables.
Things couldn’t stay as they were — and so, they didn’t. After almost a year of escalation, which was largely ignored by the international media despite near-daily death tolls, Israel and the Palestinian territories have erupted into a brutal and devastating war. The political backdrop to this war was stark. After more than fifty years […]
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An analysis looks at where the idea of ‘long and variable lags’ in monetary policy originated and offers some reasons for why they might occur.
I was meant to write a post this week, but then Hamas’s horrific assault on Israel happened, and now the civilian inhabitants of Gaza are once again living in fear (some of them have put themselves in the firing line; many have not). Since I have Arab friends and family, and have fond memories of […]
The ripple effects of this latest upsurge in violence will go far beyond Israeli and Palestinian territory, writes former British diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
The British Labour Party officials and politicians have all been cock-a-hoop over the last week in Liverpool as they participate in their Annual Conference with the latest modelling suggesting they may win a “landslide 190-seat majority” at the next national election leaving the miserable and incompetent Tories with only 149 seats (currently 352) (Source). The…
