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“Before the normalization happened, the Israelis would collaborate with the Moroccans, but also wouldn’t feel comfortable going beyond this covert intelligence or military or ad hoc cooperation, but with normalization, this has now reached a whole new level that is unprecedented.” -- Riccardo Fabiani, International Crisis Group

The post Exporting Occupation: Israeli Business is Booming in Morocco-Occupied Western Sahara appeared first on MintPress News.

Facing questions about Gail Gitcho’s work as a foreign agent, the GOP-affiliated Women’s Democracy Network scrubbed her from its site.

The post GOP Lobbyist Claimed to Be “Empowering Women” — but Worked for Saudi Theocracy’s LIV Golf appeared first on The Intercept.

To say that Megan Fernandes writes funny—often devastatingly funny—teeming, jittery, compassionate, impatient lyrics is still to miss the deeper point. In her third collection of poems, I Do Everything I’m Told, there is something else flowing under the dazzling surfaces, the ribald talk, the dancing in and out of narrative: there is a profound engagement with the question of history. Personal, political, global. The question of history might seem a dry one, but as Fernandes demonstrates, it is perhaps the question—as alive and twisted and full of lust and disaster as any human life or community. And so the question of what to do with history is the question of its weight and muchness. The book includes a crown of “wandering” sonnets—“Lisbon Sonnet,” “Palermo Sonnet,” “Philadelphia Sonnet”—as wide-ranging as the poet’s own international background, but the book takes forms of all sorts and bends them in gloriously obscene ways.

In 1791, the writer and revolutionary Thomas Paine commented in his pamphlet The Rights of Man that ‘the town of Old Sarum, which contains not three houses, sends two members; and the town of Manchester, which contains upwards of sixty thousand souls, is not admitted to send any.’ This was an extreme example of a […]

“You should never ask a lady that.”

“Why? Did someone say something?”

“I can’t say that I haven’t not been flossing.”

“Yes… Oh, my teeth? No.”

“Are you going to put your hand in my mouth and feel around?”

“I’m so glad you brought it up. Do you want to discuss this over a couple of root beers?”

“Oh, I was going to ask you about that. I couldn’t remember if we were supposed to floss or supposed to not floss? It’s the first one, right?”

“I lost all my floss in the Great Molasses Flood of 1919.”

“I know that the second I open my mouth it’s going to be painfully obvious that I haven’t been, but I’m probably just going to say yes anyways and make the rest of this appointment weird and awkward for both of us.”

“I’ve been meaning to start that for a while now. Do you recommend it? I’ll definitely put it on my list.”

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Within the Labour Party, many have concluded that a small, central London-based group has launched an assault on our pluralistic character, democratic structures and our culture. You may have thought that you were safe because they only took out Jeremy Corbyn and removed a number of us from the Shadow Cabinet. But the truth is they […]