The 15 rounds of voting it took to install Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House is part of the carnival of folly that passes for politics.
Chris Hedges: America’s Theater of the Absurd
Chris Hedges: America’s Theater of the Absurd
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Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek
One of the most prominent intellectuals in the contemporary world was named to the list of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012. He shares this distinction with the likes of Dick Cheney, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Mossad director Meir Dagan. The theorist’s best idea—according to this well-known publication that is a virtual arm of the U.S. State Department—is that “the big revolution the left is waiting for will never come.”
Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek
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Upcoming: Gabriel Rockhill | Why Slavoj Žižek is Capitalism’s Court Jester (YouTube)
Raped, abused, exploited: Ukrainian women seeking refuge in Israel find no haven
A harrowing examination reveals much abuse sliding under the authorities’ radar — or being willfully ignored — while the perpetrators remain free to commit further crimes
Raped, abused, exploited: Ukrainian women seeking refuge in Israel find no haven
How the POW/MIA flag took over America: Have You Forgotten Him?
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PROMISED a return to normalcy, but one of its most telling acts of restoration passed with barely any comment. Early last year, the administration hoisted the POW/MIA flag above the White House, where it had flown for decades until Donald Trump abruptly relocated it to the South Lawn in 2020. In an era when even the most minor symbolic sparks can ignite endless outrage, few Americans noticed Biden’s gesture—and why should they? Reverence for the POW/MIA flag is a truly bipartisan position. Left, right, and center united when Senators Elizabeth Warren, Tom Cotton, and Maggie Hassan penned a letter asking Biden to “restore the flag to its place of honor” just days after his inauguration.
Have You Forgotten Him?
Israel sinks to new low by smearing slain children as “terrorists”
Leave it to innovative Israel to sink to ever-new lows.
It isn’t anything new for the state to smear Palestinians killed by its police and military as terrorists. But it seems to be a fresh twist for Israel to try to convince the UN that most of the Palestinian children slain by its forces had “terror” ties.
Israel sinks to new low by smearing slain children as “terrorists”
The origins of the anti-Qatar lobby on the World Cup Parts 1 & 2
As the World Cup gets fully underway, we can review the massive international campaign to make sure it never happened. The campaign was – obviously – not a success, but it involved at least seven countries and a host of lobby groups, PR firms, think tanks, and front groups. The first part of this investigation looks at the role of “Israel” which started the ball rolling back in 2014.
The origins of the anti-Qatar lobby on the World Cup
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UN adopts resolution on Syrian, Palestinian sovereignty over natural resources in Israeli-occupied territories
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted a resolution declaring that Syrians and Palestinians have sovereignty over their natural resources in the Israeli-occupied tracts of land in the strategic Golan Heights and the West Bank, including East al-Quds.
UN adopts resolution on Syrian, Palestinian sovereignty over natural resources in Israeli-occupied territories
Undocumented Migrant Workers Are Building the Venues for the 2024 Paris Olympics— Are We Going To Boycott That Too?
Can we stop having huge sporting events built with semi-slave labor?
Undocumented Migrant Workers Are Building the Venues for the 2024 Paris Olympics— Are We Going To Boycott That Too?
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