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I know Tony Blair knew there was no stockpile of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before Britain and the United States launched the invasion. The revelation came in a bizarre encounter in a spartan, windowless room at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) headquarters in Whitehall. The meeting with the government’s expert on Iraq’s WMD […]

Luckovich again Gov. Wokety-woke DeWoke has even lost Bret Stephens (like I care): “He’s showing he’s just another George Costanza Republican, whose idea of taking a foreign-policy stand is to “do the opposite” of whatever the Democrats do.” Gail Collins and Stephens got distracted by DeSantis before making a passing reference to the prospect of a Donald Trump indictment this week. Joe Scarborough (like I care) believes any indictment will fire up Trump’s base briefly before fading, and any indictment will erode Trump’s support in Wisconsin, in Michigan, in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Sounds about right. But before that fade happens:

California's Covid censorship law has not yet been killed by the judiciary, sadly.

Some numbers (nominal and adjusted). Short.

A Son of the New American Revolution
GDP Data Confusion
Guest Post by Observer R

It’s not just that media figures who sold the most devastating war crime of the 21st century never faced any professional consequences—they’re more powerful and influential now than ever.

The post US Media’s Iraq War Pushers 20 Years On: Where Are They Now? Rich and Influential appeared first on scheerpost.com.

This is an article I’ve been avoiding writing for a few years now because there’s no upside to it, much like a man weighing in on feminism or a white person writing about first nations or anyone who isn’t a Zionist racist piece of garbage writing about Israel. But because trans-rights have become a political wedge issue, I feel it has become necessary to discuss them.

I’m fifty-five years old. When I was growing up two things were true about transvestites (which we universally thought of as male to female). People didn’t like them, and people mostly didn’t think it was any of their business unless they were tricked into a romantic or sexual encounter with one.

I don’t want to underplay how much they were disliked. Watch the end of the first Ace Ventura movie to get a feel for it.

Regime change, not disarmament, was always the driving factor behind U.S. policy towards Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.

The post Iraq 20 Years: Scott Ritter—Disarmament, the Fundamental Lie appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Or How Americans Learned to Stop Worrying and Forgot the Bomb.

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Just over one year ago, ten young Black men were charged with conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to GBH in Greater Manchester. The prosecution arguing the case said that they were part of a gang and linked them to the killing of a man they framed as revenge for the death of their friend. A […]

I have argued that there are four major problems in the way of using the counterfactual account for causal inference. Of the four, I argued that the fourth — the problem of indeterminacy — is likely to be the most damaging: To the extent that some of the causal principles that connect counterfactual antecedent and […]

Coming soon to a red state near you Further evidence this morning that opposition to democracy has become a feature of the Republican Party. And not of the Trumpublican Party, mind you. This trend predates the Menace from Mar-a-Lago. Will Bunch comments on doings in Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s Texas that merit attention yet again. Texas officials last week announced the state’s takeover of the eighth-largest public school system in the country: Houston’s. Take note, Bunch cautions: First of all, the move is outrageous. Despite facing the same struggles as most large urban school districts around poverty and disinvestment, topped by the double whammy of COVID-19 and the natural disaster of Hurricane Harvey, Houston schools have been improving under metrics set by the state.

An Eros Encyclopedia by Rachel James sometimes feels like an autobiography of an eros. Sometimes it feels like a set of dream reports or a chorus of voices or a set of transmissions from a lost diary somewhere on earth. There are snippets from a play, too—voices in a psychedelic choir that pop up with the minimalism and verve of Aram Saroyan. It is, without a doubt, one of the most moving debut collections of poetry I’ve read in years. Stunning, electric, shimmering, unclassifiable. “Collection” might not be the right word. The individual pieces—fragments, I would say, if they weren’t in their individual ways so radiant and contained, so each complete—all without titles, cascading across 150 pages moving from prose to song to sardonic but sweet aphoristic quotes that turn the whole idea on its head, like:

Now I am a rock far away from the shadow of an idea
                 —exiled piece of mountain

Kicking off later this year, here's what you need to know (including a teaser) about the Doctor Who multimedia storyline event, Doom's Day.

Mark Gillespie looks at the chaos and death the US unleashed on Iraq following the invasion in 2003—and why we need a new movement against war.

The post Iraq war showed the brutal cost of US power—don’t let them do it again appeared first on Solidarity Online.

Some people want a life partner who’s the perfect adult: always on top of the lawn care, the taxes, and who to vote for in the next municipal election.

Me, personally? All I want is a lover who makes every moment fun and hilarious. That’s why my dating app bio says, “Please don’t take life too seriously!”

When I meet the woman of my dreams, she’ll be a goofball, a rascal, and a fun-loving troublemaker—in that order. I can just picture our first date. We won’t greet with some awkward, straitlaced hug. We’ll instinctively do a fist bump, leading into a fist kaboom, leading into finger birdies, leading into a pirate dance, leading into a light make-out.

We won’t care about that dumb biographical exchange that normies love: “What do you do for work? Oh, do you like teaching? Any siblings? Thoughts on Roth-IRAs? Favorite toothpaste?” Stop, because I need to kill myself.

Instead, my date will smile deviously and say, “Guess where I’m from.”

And I’ll say, “Is it… terrestrial?”

And she’ll say, “Not exactly.”

And I’ll say, “In that case… Glorp glorp glorp glorp.”

And she’ll say, “Glorp glorp. Glorp?”

Andrew Taylor-Dawson reports on £30bn plan which relies on controversial ‘carbon capture’ and appears to be dependent on developing a deregulated Welsh freeport

In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: The Walking Dead, William Shatner/Leonard Nimoy, X-Men '97, The Last of Us, Ahsoka, Doctor Who, and more!

Elected representatives told they can’t meet with barrister commissioned to investigate leaked Labour report – who has said party is not tackling racism and treats other forms as less important than supposed antisemitism As Skwawkbox reported last week, Martin Forde KC has gone public on the Starmer regime’s lack of response to his report – […]

March 20th marks the 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq. The ensuing war and occupation resulted in, in all likelihood, more than a million deaths and saw the Iraqi state smashed to smithereens. It sent shockwaves reverberating around the wider region, greatly strengthening the terrorism it professed to be combating. A month before […]

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The Fed has a lot of 'splaining to do, yet seems determined to keep doing the wrong thing.

A Byline Times investigation reveals 20 MPs working the equivalent of at least one day a week on second jobs