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For years, Republicans made spurious allegations of antisemitism against Rep. Ilhan Omar for her criticisms of Israel — and Democrats joined in.

The post How Democrats Paved the Way for Kevin McCarthy’s Attack on Ilhan Omar appeared first on The Intercept.

For 23 years, REDDOG officers regularly terrorized poor Black neighborhoods and Black residents of Atlanta.

The post In Memphis, Tyre Nichols Beating Carries Echoes of Atlanta REDDOG Unit appeared first on The Intercept.

Another episode in the long-running soap opera, "Can the Left Be Saved?"

Geraghty exudes the conspiratorial mindset that afflicts conservative thinking.

The post Meet New Washington Post Columnist Jim Geraghty and His Malfunctioning Noggin appeared first on The Intercept.

The press talked up the UK's drop in the Corruption Perception Index. But the UK has long been an engine of corrupt conduct around the world.

The pandemic is over when we say it's over.

Many of the accounts we hear of the current Russia-NATO conflict are deeply flawed. and risk degenerating into pure farce – a crude melodrama, in which an upright, democratic Ukrainian government headed by hero Zelensky is pitted against a corrupt and brutal autocracy led by the deluded ogre, Putin. What is really in question, is Continue reading »

Scientific research shows that the environmental impacts of human civilisation have exceeded several planetary boundaries. To avoid societal collapse and to assist the transition to an ecologically sustainable civilisation, we must transition to a steady-state economy. Like Roger Beale, Michael Keating is reluctant to accept the scientific assessments of the threat to civilisation. Keating restates Continue reading »

In Ukraine and in other parts of the world, Western violence and supremacy has been abetted by its educated more than any other group. This has been clear for the history of the British Empire, one of the most violent to traverse the globe along with its offspring; even the warmongering and provocations of the Continue reading »

The actions of Israeli Defence Force troops last Wednesday — entering the Jenin refugee camp and killing nine Palestinians — seemed inexplicable from the brief reports I heard on the ABC and SBS. The major Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported: “Three and a half months ago … a terrorist from the Shoafat refugee camp named Uday Continue reading »