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“An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez.”
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.- Kissinger kept the bombing of Cambodia secret for years because the bombing itself, of a country we weren’t at war with, was illegal. Now we bomb where and whom at will, and the press and anti-Trump politicians don’t give it a thought.
- My god. What a way to explode the premise of the question and go straight to the illegality if the war itself.Ventura: Maybe Mr. Vance should ask the real question. What is the National Guard doing deploying to a foreign country?
00:00 - This is how you beat fascism/authoritarianism.🇲🇽🩺 Sheinbaum announces plan to hire 20,000 doctors and nurses to visit every single elderly and disabled person’s home regularly, providing them with free medical attention. A census will be carried out in the coming months, and the program will start by February 2025.
- Just imagine: Schumer and Jeffries see no value in making this a political issue.
- The Atlantic wrote 35 articles on this.If only the US was this smart!
- 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.
- Not to be a downer, but if ZM wins today there’s still the general: keep in mind Buffalo 2021, when the dem socialist India Walton beat the incumbent Cuomo-linked Byron Brown only to have Dem establishment close ranks around Brown as write-in candidate to beat Walton in general.
- The Harris’s team decision to downplay Walz as a farmer-labor social democrat and turn him into a clown dad was one of the things — apart from support for genocide— that cost her the election.
- 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. trib.al/sCOJoZg
- Shouldn’t Harris be delivering, on a stage in Springfield, Ohio, a defining, prime-time speech, on immigration, tolerance, racism, and US openness to the world?
- Salvador Allende, Patrice Lumumba, Jacobo Arbenz, Mohammad Mosaddegh, and Jeremy Corbyn would like a word.Joe Rogan says the ‘greatest media psy-op in history’ was waged against Trump: ‘They’ve distorted who he is’ trib.al/6umNuVv
- Re mamdani’s free-bus proposal. Even if it is true that many poor people don’t pay, and this benefits those that can afford to pay, there’s a larger point: making it universal removes the stigma, a small step to creating sense we are in this together.
