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End of the Myth won a Pulitzer. Empire of Necessity, Kissinger’s Shadow, Fordlandia, Empire’s Workshop, Last Colonial Massacre, Blood of Guatemala.
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“as bracing an analysis of post-2016 America as any I have read.Grandin’s book is so sharply argued, so rooted in careful historical detail, so morally clear, that it makes a strong claim to be the most essential political text yet to emerge from the shock of Trump’s ...”
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Every year, a significant number of unexploded bombs laying in fields in Laos and Cambodia detonate. In other words, even in death, Kissinger is still killing people.
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Nate Silver is an example of what Noam Chomsky in 1967 called “the terror of our age,” technicians who reduce moral questions to effectiveness.
Is Biden losing votes because of his position on Gaza? Yeah, probably.
However, he'd probably lose more votes if he took any other position on Gaza. Issues that divide your coalition in half are really nasty.
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Tlaib and Bush have nothing on former prez John Quincy Adams who as MA representative in 1836 said that Indian raids, including scalping, on frontier settlers were “retributive justice from heaven” for their crimes against Indians. “The last agonies of a people."
Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Cori Bush (D-Mo.) are facing criticism from fellow Democrats over statements in which they labeled Israel as an apartheid state and called for the U.S. to end funding to the nation, following a deadly attack by Hamas.
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Two million people, half of them children.
Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant:
"I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly."
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I’ll ask, but I know the answer is going to be ‘very well:’. How will people justifying this live with themselves?
Screaming orphaned children, amputations and the stench of rotting flesh | The Independent
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Or maybe, just hear me out, maybe they are straight out of a country like the United States.
The allegations against Sen. Menendez of New Jersey feel like they’re straight out of a tin-pot country like Venezuela. Gold bars and $480,000 stashed at home. Favors for businessmen. Messages on how to squeeze more money out of corruption schemes.
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What’s that about human shields?
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The social pathology that spawned today’s political hellscape, created and maintained by bipartisan consensus, in one comparative image.
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Brace for unrelenting bullshit that Biden’s strategy worked. This could have happened a month and a half ago, and saved not only the lives of over 10,000 Palestinians but the multigenerational trauma and radicalization that will plague the world we leave to our children.
Thanks to President Biden’s leadership, a deal has been struck between Israel and Hamas to release more than 50 hostages that Hamas has been holding.
This deal will also allow for a pause in the fighting and a much-needed surge of humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza.
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Wait? Trump’s an existential treat to democracy. Ok. But he’s legitimate enough to be elevated to presidency-level to hash out policy with Biden. What tactical genius thought this move up.
President Biden invites former President Trump to work together on a border bill while challenging congressional Republicans to “show a little spine.”
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Thomas Piketty on Bernie Sanders: "Let it be said at once: the treatment received by Bernie Sanders in the leading media in the United States and in Europe is unjust and dangerous."
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Honduras, Chile, Bolivia, now Colombia, next Brazil. The inextinguishable social Democratic ideal in Latin America, despite all the formidable obstacles, despite the pain, suffering, death.
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They want Lula to apologize for saying that a Palestinian life is equal in worth to a Jewish life and that the mass murder of either is equally wrong.
Lula's chief foreign policy advisor says the president will not apologize for his comments about Israel over the weekend. "Israel is the one placing itself in a condition of increasing isolation," he insisted.
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Evo should immediately recognize interim government and call for speedy elections.
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Democrats are going to blow it. We gave Biden a large, center to left coalition, which he blew up by strapping himself to Netanyahu.
There's a lot of room to debate how much attention one should pay to polls at this time. But IDK might be nice if Democrats had a competitive primary process rather than just crossing their fingers and hoping the polls change or are wrong.
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We invaded 2 countries, killed 100s of thousands of people, legitimated torture, displaced 50 million (just reported in his own paper), passed a 2nd tax cut, and put the world on the spiral its own now.Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and we took the one leading to apocalypse
Overall, Americans took 9/11 pretty calmly. Notably, there wasn't a mass outbreak of anti-Muslim sentiment and violence, which could all too easily have happened. And while GW Bush was a terrible president, to his credit he tried to calm prejudice, not feed it 2/
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other votes in other worlds. Hayek’s 1980 Constitution of Liberty about to go down in Chile, the fruit of decades of heroic protest and at the cost of untold lives. Many lessons to be learned as US liberals start to awaken to how profoundly anti-democratic the US Constitution is.
VIDEO: Mass celebrations in Chile as pro-change camp holds big lead in vote.
Thousands flock to Santiago's emblematic Plaza Italia as the pro-change camp holds a big lead in the historic referendum to rewrite Chile's dictatorship-era constitution, according to partial results
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Milton Friedman arguing that a caste system, with a large group of non-citizen workers is optimal for capitalism.
What are your thoughts on economist Milton Friedman’s take on illegal immigration?
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Five years ago, David Buckel burned himself to death in prospect park, in protest of climate policy. My sense is that his name fast fell down memory hole. Let’s remember it together with Aaron Bushnell.
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pro tip 1: there has never been a coup in Latin America where the president being overthrown wasn't, um, "problematic." (yes, not even Allende)
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I hereby recognize Boots Riley as the legitimate president of the United States.
So, the US is enabling an actual coup in Venezuela.
If you've been worried about Russian bots influencing elections here, I'd hope you express outrage about this.
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Listen to how the life of this man, a year older than me, ends in humiliation, confusion, and terror. cop city is everywhere and to paraphrase Stuart Hall, domestic repression is the modality in which foreign policy is experienced.
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Seems like The End of the Myth won the Pulitzer for general nonfiction and was a finalist for history.
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Considering that Colombia has played an analogous role as Israel in US foreign policy, a militarized proxy outpost in an often hostile region, this is a big deal.
Colombian protesters are burning US and Israeli flags. This isn't just a strike against austerity measures. It's a full on uprising against imperialism 🔥
Video via
@AnonySudamerica
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Mike Davis is ill as has opted for palliative care. One of the sharpest, clearest minds among us, so far high above all the bullshit that passes for intellectual debate. So many great books.
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pro tip 3: if the military intervenes after the president agrees to protest demands (as what happened in Bolivia, when Evo agreed to new elections), its a coup. Pretty much anytime the military intervenes to change regimes, its a coup.
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I’m with Mike. When asked by Nation editions in 1991 what patriotism meant to him, his answered below. I’d add the fish in Alito’s hand, the depleted radium and cluster bombs we are sending to Ukraine, soon to enter the black-market arms trade, and the return to child labor.
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The Democrats don’t deserve her.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) chokes up while condemning the resolution to censure her that the House is considering:
“Speaking up to save lives, Mr. Chair, no matter faith, no matter ethnicity, should not be controversial in this chamber.”
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The whole world owes Haiti that debt.
The United States owes a great debt to Haiti’s people: let them in.
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This is super important: 16 audio clips have been released, detailing coup plot. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez are implicated. Some are harder to understand than others (perhap Cuban intelligence needs better equipment....)
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Trump: “we embrace the vision of Martin Luther King”
Martin Luther King: “Our nation was born in genocide”
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Want to know who else was most definitely weeping?
Almost weeping, George W. Bush rebukes those Americans who have turned their backs on “the America I know.” Important speech.
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I worked on the Guatemalan truth commission where there was heated debate over whether the mass killing of Maya was ‘genocide’ or ‘counterinsurgency’ and distinction tween ‘motive’ and ‘intent.’ I think the concept, genocide, has problems. But this is genocide:
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Considering Colombia’s long history as an Israel-like proxy to counter the regions’s various lefts, this move is tectonic. Assuming the shift Petro’s election represented endures.
BREAKING: President Gustavo Petro says that Colombia will open an embassy in Ramallah, Palestine, and send aid to Gaza's borders to await the opening of a humanitarian corridor.
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Using Clinton’s hideous 1996 “Illegal Immigration” law, Biden is fast tracking a border wall through fragile ecological zones and communities. There’s no end to this insanity.
BREAKING: Biden admin will waive 26 laws to build border walls through South Texas wildlife refuge & nearby communities.
Biden's DHS will take “immediate action" to speed wall construction, casting aside protections for endangered species, clean water, Indigenous graves & more.
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Too late.
We cannot be complicit in the current approach of the Israeli government.
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“They’re not getting off the planet, they’re not going to live forever. They’re just living out their fantasies. They are eugenicists. There’s a reason why they got along with Jeffrey Epstein and Richard Dawkins”. He calls them sociopathic capitalists.
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He is.
Bill Clinton on illegal immigration.
1995. State of the Union.
Today he would be considered a MAGA extremist and labeled as a racist on CNN.
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I don’t know if Bernie would have won but I do know he wouldn’t have tapped the daughter of a Contra to run point on the “Latino” vote In Florida.
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Body blow to the world’s poor. He destroyed Mexico. For the every point Volker raised the rate, $2.5 billion was added to third world debt. For every 20% $ appreciated, 20 % was added to balance of what 3 rd world owed.
Paul Volcker fought to rein in Wall Street banks making risky financial bets, and we sat together as the Volcker Rule was signed into law as part of Dodd-Frank. My heart goes out to his friends and family.
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What’s not anti-semitism?
Netanyahu: Investigating Israel's war crimes is "pure anti-semitism"
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Democrats have been funding border walls and barriers since Carter. But quietly. Trump’s innovation was to do it as spectacle, as red meat. What Biden’s doing now would in past seem like routine business. Trump did us the favor of seeing how brutal routine business was.
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Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. “That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. “It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
From NYT:
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reversing coups matter
BREAKING: Bolivia has cancelled and returned the full sum of the US $346.7 Million IMF loan taken out by the coup regime, in rejection of IMF impositions on internal economic policy.
As of February 2021, the loan had already racked up $24.3 Million in interest and commissions.
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Serious question: what is stopping Biden from declaring climate change a national security issue and taking the money for this program from military budget, as Trump did for border wall, confirmed as legit by Supreme Court?
He plans to gut Biden's climate plan, and with it the chances for swift global progress.
This is high on the list of most consequential actions ever taken by an individual Senator; you'll be able to see the impact of this vain man in the geologic record.
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In 1968, Eartha Kitt, invited to the White House, shocked LBJ by condemning the Viet War. Retaliation was swift: her career was ruined for nearly a decade. Biden just had group of historians to lunch.I hope at least one of them had Kitt’s courage re Gaza.
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Around this time , Musk’s father was driving Zambians into his open-pit emerald mine.
Going through some old files and found Bernie Sanders' 1961 participation in a project to prove that university-owned at University of Chicago housing wouldn't rent to black students. Which led to protests on campus that garnered national attention.
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A week ago someone posted that they feel like WWIII has started but nobody had yet noticed.
BREAKING 🇾🇪 The US-UK bombing campaign in Yemen has begun.
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Border patrol. The nationalization of border brutalism. Border repression as a way of life.
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Publicly funded research. Release the formula and vaccinate the world.
EXCLUSIVE: Walter Reed scientists expect to announce that they have developed a vaccine that protects people from COVID-19 and all its variants, even Omicron |
@TaraCopp
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A People’s Obituary: “Henry Kissinger, who was born in Weimar Germany in 1923, is dead. He made it to 100, and in the last years of his life, politicians, writers, and celebrities feted him as if he were the American Century incarnate. In a way, he was.”
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Incredible. When Rafael Correa was prez of Ecuador he proposed that wealthy countries pay to keep Amazon area with large oil reserves untapped. Obama, and Kerry as Sec of state, scotched the deal.
“Let me stop you right there…”
Caribbean nation Guyana is booming after discovering oil. BBC’s Stephen Sackur puts it to President
@presidentaligy
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Dude wasn’t having it. Mans was ready!
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You know who else is “still” angry about Chile 1973? Chilean activists fighting to democratize the country who weren’t yet born in 1973.
Bret Stephens is mad at Sanders because he disliked CIA coups of duly elected Latin American leaders in 1973 and still does today. The horror.
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So bizarre to hear Scarborough going on about Israel funding Hamas sitting next to the daughter of the man who funded the mujahideen. History collapsing into spectacle. Scarborough seemed honestly outraged. Do you think he really doesn’t know “why?”
MORNING JOE hosts erupt at Israel’s economy minister and his government’s handling of the war in Gaza.
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Jefferson in 1793, tears for the slavers driven out of Haiti by revolutionaries: “The situation of the St. Domingo fugitives (aristocrats as they are) calls aloud for pity and charity. Never was so deep a tragedy presented to the feelings of man.”
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China did this since Obama’s 2008 election.
China’s high speed rail 2008 vs 2020
Actually, there were trials and errors behind the building drive: Huge fight between incrementalists and radicals, debate between wheeltrack and maglev, Wenzhou accident that capped speed spikes across country. Despite all that, China made it
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Woodrow Wilson restored slavery in Haiti and put into place a torture regime that would have made Cheney blush.
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pro tip 4: the main driver of destablization need not be the CIA or international capital -- it could very well be honest fed up grassroots non-christian white supremacists -- for the outcome of the coup to benefit international capital (and lowland white supremacists).
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In case the chatter proves true, retweet far and wide so people can get their people’s obituary, what Noam Chomsky called among the most insightful book written on Kissinger.
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Wow, Elliott Abrams in the running for
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ghoul behind Henry Kissinger. Bipartisan! Again, the only way the US can imagine domestic consensus is over the bodies of foreigners, usually Latin Americans.
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happy MLK day. Brace yourselves. Reject the halo. Celebrate his fight against poverty, racism, war, militarism, moderates, and an “individualism that destroys the individual.” killed one year to the day he broke over Vietnam. King was a socialist.
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the only time the democrats act with coordinated determination is when it has something to do with stopping bernie from doing something.
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We said this on October 10 and we’re called anti-Semitic.
Biden’s embrace of Netanyahu and initial blank check for bombardment was a tragic mistake. It left the U.S. complicit in what followed.
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pro tip 2: there has never been a coup in Latin America that didn't have some degree of popular support (ie, not linked to CIA or international capital) . (yes, not even the one against Arbenz, or the two against Aristide, or Zelaya, Lugo -- remember him?).
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Maybe the US can create a white phosphorus offset market. Those countries that don’t use phosphorus bombs on their captive populations can sell the credits to those that do.
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Until 1992 El Paso was a relatively safe crossing route where seasonal migrants could go back and forth. Bill Clinton militarized El Paso, forcing migrants into the desert, and in effect trapping those who made it across in the US. Now we have these scenes.
This is the moment when TX National Guard became overrun by migrants rioting to get across the border here in El Paso today
We were there and saw it all happen. Absolute chaos here.
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This is where decades of chin stroking has gotten Walzer in all his philosophizing about ‘just war:’ “not a bad ratio.” At the end of the day, it really is just war. Nice epitaph for a life’s work: “Not a bad ratio.”
Michael Walzer, justifying genocide through the logic of human shielding: "It's not easy for me to say such a thing, but if there were almost 10,000 Hamas fighters among the 30,000 Palestinians killed, it’s not a bad ratio for such a war on urban terrain"
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tfw history is sub-tweeting everything I’ve ever written.
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Those mass-produced hostage posters, which I find an offensive effort to parlay grassroots grief that followed 9/11 (I was living in downtown Manhattan and was moved to tears by the original ones make by families), were made with the intention of filming someone ripping them down
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Cormac McCarthy is dead. A tough read to be the empire’s muse, with little of the joy one finds in Melville. But he knew the US began with Mexico. Blood Meridian was End of Myth’s lodestar. “He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”
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The OAS green-lighted a military coup in Bolivia for a delay that seemed shorter than this.
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9 out of ten people. Remember when we were told that Putin was going to use food as a weapon.
This is a crime against humanity.
Israel is deliberately starving 2.3 million of Palestinians caged in Gaza, half of them children.
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Where does this fall in spectrum of debate here? Outside the bounds? Or legitimate?
Ex- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says about Netanyahu and his Government:
"They are killers, they are murderers, they are terrorists."
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remember when Michael Walzer, Paul Berman, and Christopher Hitchens all said the global war on terror, which included defending Israel, was the moral equivalent of the Spanish Civii War? Guess which side we are on?
NYT interview with a West Bank settler, she proudly admits that she is a fascist. I wonder if this mentality is pervasive among the illegal settler community.
#Gaza
#Gaza_Genocide
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Good riddance to bad garbage. Toby Keith was country music’s Leni Riefenstahl, ginning up for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Read this bit on how Kris Kristofferson confronted him at Willie’s 70th birthday .
Kris Kristofferson dragging Toby Keith to his face for being an ignorant chickenhawk, and following it up with an all-time zinger, sums up both men better than anything one could write about them.
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This back history to rise of Hamas has gone down the memory hole
Learning that Benjamin Netanyahu actively supported Hamas in order to undermine Palestine is so extraordinarily horrifying, I don't know what to say. From Haaretz
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Bush was re-elected. 7 months after Abu Ghraib story broke in press.
Oh, and the Iraq war wasn't about mass prejudice. It was an elite project that exploited 9/11 and fear of terrorism (even though the ostensible justification was WMD), but I don’t think you can cite it to justify claims that the American people as a whole reacted badly. 6/
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No,
@joshtpm
, what makes her a hack isn’t that I disagree. what makes a hack is that under Trump, HCR condemned Trump’s border policies. Now, with Biden in the WH and the Dems trying to make hay of issue, she supports brutal border bill, one that effectively ends asylum.
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I’m no doubt wrong, but cautiously optimistic about events in Brazil. If the military stands for constitutional order, which it may, than this is chance to get the class confrontation out of the way early lula’s term, and launch a real prosecution that disarticulates Bolsonarism.
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What enrages me about the DNC/Obama people lining to defeat BS is, this is going to sound sappy, the “kids.” What %, after deed is done, of 18-20 year olds do we lose to the right , or to apathy, or just lose cause they can’t make it in this punishing world we will leave them?
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Israel is killing what Du Bois called the talented tenth, that strata of an oppressed people needed to help construct a liberated peoples.
There's no question the IDF is targeting Gaza's best and brightest...
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@joshtpm
wrote a post saying that Biden should get credit for hostage release. I responded that deal could have happened a month ago, saving lives of 1000s of children were it not for Biden’s public cheerleading of Netanyahu. Marshall said I was wrong on “ten levels.” 1/6
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No “screams without words” for the starving Palestinians shout dead for a scoop of flour from NYT, just the usual “many are killed” and “starkly different accounts.”
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I heard a lot of those 300 workers crushed in the Rama Plaza factory in 2013 in Bangladesh were conservative, so maybe you were right, their deaths were no biggie.
The Palestinian cause is a left-wing issue in the West but Palestinians are very conservative.
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Yell County, where the Cotton family worked their slaves, was Choctaw and Cherokee, forced out by Jackson’s Removal Act. Trail of Tears ran right through county. 1619 isn’t the only date of infamy. 1870 federal government gave Cottons 40 acres of indigenous land.
#NecessaryEvil
Learn about
@TomCottonAR
slave-owning ancestors and why he really doesn't want you to learn the truth about slavery
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Liquidate these fuckers as a class
$8.5 Trillion in Untaxed Assets: Data Shows Why 'We Need a Billionaire Income Tax'
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Contexxt re Fetterman’s horrid immigration and Gaza stances: he comes from old settler-colonial stock. In 1750, three Vetterman brothers sailed from Rotterman to Philadelphia, settling on formally Lenape land near a town called -- wait for it – Zionville. 1/2
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Really crap analysis with a headline that makes rise of organized white Christian supremacy sound like a random geologic event. Ethnic Rifts in Bolivia Burst Into View With Fall of Evo Morales - The New York Times
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This is going to make their heads explode: TayTay as my daughter calls her supporting Gaza relief.
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As The Economist tells us to move on and forget Allende, we are blessed by two wonderful essays, this by Ariel Dorfman on Allende and
@PacoGoldman
on the miracle in Guatemala.
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