Seriously heretic from an Orthodox Christian perspective.
It's been replaced by a picture of Joe Biden, so I dunno. That said:
- Human Rights Watch: Lebanon: Israel’s White Phosphorous Use Risks Civilian Harm
- Amnesty International: Lebanon: Evidence of Israel’s unlawful use of white phosphorus in southern Lebanon as cross-border hostilities escalate
Israel has no credibility when it comes to war crimes against civilians.
Hey, look, that's white phosphorus, it's a war crime on the featured image! Yay normalization of barbarity UwU
I bet you that the Right is going to performatively do to a few companies the kind of "don't you dare raise prices" bullying that the Democrats should have been doing when inflation had started spiking. And it's going to go down in history that the Right held corporations to account.
Nah, man, the ultimate cause is always anti-black racism.
It probably is under USMCA:
"[T]he 2020 deal allows for national security exceptions", which is why he's blathering about the crap he's blathering about.
In theory, USMCA is a law (his own law...) that has been passed by the US Congress. So in theory, he shouldn't be able to just tear it up at a whim.
In practice, with US institutions captured by the trumpist republicans, lol yea.
EDIT: also "the 2020 deal allows for national security exceptions", so that's why he's blathering about the crap he's blathering about. EDIT2: Here, article 32.2.
Does the Post editorial board, which published a farcical pro-Netanyahu, anti-ICC op-ed, even read the reporting of its own reporters?
Yea but those are not his kind of Christians (evangelical Protestants).Armenians, Greeks, Palestinians, who gives a shit for those guys? Definitely not this americanist racist.
Or you know, allow free movement if people wherever free movement of capital and commodities is allowed. An American Schengen if you will.
Israeli support for apartheid is not dependent on Hamas. Proof: the West Bank.
Any popular movement will never be monolithic. By it's very nature as a popular movement it will contain all sorts. From fanatics and hardliners to opportunists, to idealists, to moderates, to people who had no other choice. So saying "Hamas is fighting for this or that" as if "this or that" is an immutable non-negotiable goal set in stone is ignoring the realities of armed struggle. If anyone is interested in peace, they would need to either completely annihilate Hamas, like Isis was, which the last year has shown is impossible, or more realistically to try to play on the internal dynamics of the factions, hoping to strengthen those that can make peace. For example, Marwan Bargouthi is ex-Fatah, but has worked with Hamas and the PFLP, and is more of a moderate than Sinwar ever was. If Israel was to release him, he could use his fighter credibility to push for peace.
It's interesting that our first instinct is to think of cancelling. Cancelling is a way for us to assert that we are not "that", to affirm our disgust for those people. It's flushing the shit away, if you will.
Until you realize that it's all shit, all the way down (cue in Ohio meme). The Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Aztecs, the Incas, the Arabs, the Malians, the Turks, the Babylonians, the Indians, the Europeans, ...every civilization until, what, 200 years ago, was a slave owning society.
You can't cancel all of human history, you can't flush away the entire earth, even if ultimately, all soil is shit and rotting crap mixed with rocks.
We have to go beyond cancelling. Instead, we have to recon with the fact that we are somewhat woke on the shoulders of giant douchebags. We can't cancel our history away, we have to sit with the shit and see what it means for us today. Instead of absolving the past, cancel it out of sight and think we're done with it, we have to wrestle with its legacy.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
First Al-Jazeera, now Haaretz. Freedom of the press going strong in the apartheid state.
If you had grown up in the open air prison camp called Gaza, and wanted to fight for your country, you too would have joined Hamas or one of the smaller militant organizations (PFLP and the like). Think of the average US election discourse: you don't vote whomever, you vote for who's on the ballot, least evil and so on. Same logic applies: when your family is repeatedly traumatized and your country is occupied, you don't join whatever organization western liberals imagine, you pick one of the existing ones and join the fight. Simple as.
Common practice in many places. Not the government per se, but various state organizations to from healthcare to infrastructure to administration etc.
Western Europeans after repeatedly denying Romania entry to the Schengen zone: "why would anti-European politicians be popular there?".
Ps. My argument works even with alleged Russian interference baked in. Austrian and Dutch intransigence create the fertile ground for Russian arguments to catch.
Hezbollah orders evacuation of 25 Israeli settlements in north
Hezbollah issued an evacuation order yesterday evening for Israeli settlers in 25 northern settlements, mirroring the occupation forces’ actions in Lebanon. The move follows widespread Israeli evacuation orders targeting areas including Beirut’s Southern Suburb, Southern Lebanon, the Bekaa, and parts of Tyre, with claims of Hezbollah military presence in civilian homes.
Hezbollah stated that the settlements had become military outposts for Israeli forces attacking Lebanon, making them “legitimate military targets” for its air and missile forces. Settlers were told to “evacuate immediately,” as their settlements had become bases for the enemy military. A video issued by Hezbollah’s Military Media reiterated this warning.
Guayas- Ecuador – The Hind Rajab Foundation, in partnership with the March 30 Movement, has filed a ground-breaking legal complaint with the Ecuadorian authorities. The complaint targets...
Hind Rajab Foundation <3
Turkey says some dead, injured after attack at state aviation site
ANKARA, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Turkey said on Wednesday that a deadly attack was carried out at the headquarters of Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAS) near Ankara, while media reported a loud explosion at the site and showed footage of an exchange of gunfire there. "A terrorist attack was carried out against the TUSAS facilities in Kahramankazan, Ankara. Unfortunately, we have martyrs and injured people," Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on social media X.
The oil company, the bank and the car parts company want you to spend even more time commuting by car.
They are trying hard to make you not notice you're spending a week of your life driving each year.
Quebec mulls scrapping family doctors for healthy patients
Taking away people's family doctors: How to make sure you lose the next election.
Jordanian FM: Arab world willing to guarantee Israel’s security if Palestinian state established
“The Israeli prime minister came here today and said that Israel is surrounded by those who want to destroy it,” Safadi said at a Friday press conference shortly after Netanyahu finished his speech at the UN General Assembly.
“We’re here — members of the Muslim-Arab committee, mandated by 57 Arab and Muslim countries — and I can tell you very unequivocally, all of us are willing to guarantee the security of Israel in the context of Israel ending the occupation and allowing for the emergence of a Palestinian state,” Safadi passionately argued.
Netanyahu “is creating that danger because he simply does not want the two-state solution. If he does not want the two-state solution, can you ask Israeli officials what is their end-game — other than just wars and wars and wars?”
Also, video of the statement.
German police chase a 10-year-old boy with Palestinian flag during pro-Palestine protest in Berlin
TFW you support Israel so much that you start treating Palestinian children just like they do.
New abuse allegations emerge against once-venerated French priest
A French priest is to be expunged from his worldwide charity following revelations of his sexual abuse of women.
Turns out Abbé Pierre was a creep... This is like learning Mohter Theresa was a sexual predator.
Canadian mega landlord using AI ‘pricing scheme’ as it massively hikes rents
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28449417
> Canadian mega landlord using AI ‘pricing scheme’ as it massively hikes rents
When a Russian prisoner swap hit headlines recently, a jailed musician’s fatal hunger strike went unnoticed.
Ojibway-dubbed Star Wars film brings 'a new hope' for endangered language, say cast members
Scarcity-in-the-small
Discussions about scarcity and anarchism that I've seen online seem to always talk about "scarcity in the large", i.e. how does an anarchist society allocate production, food, labour, materials etc.
I've a question about anarchism and scarcity in the small. Say, a really nice location, eg. a breezy location in a very hot climate, or the room with the nice windows in the community centre, or Bag End at the top of the hill. Say, an anarchist community has decided to use the location for purpose X, but a minority wants to use it for purpose Y. Maybe an even smaller minority wants to do Z, and a bunch of other people have their own little ideas about how to use it. Some are transient and could be accommodated (you get it on Tuesdays 5-7) but others might not be ("our sculpture project needs to dry out in that specific spot for the next 4 months, we know it blocks the view but it's the only place the breeze hits just right!") or could be contradictory (the siesta people vs the loud backgammon players can't both use the spot at high noon) or antagonistic (the teenagers who want to party late vs the new parents who need quiet for the babies). And dis-association doesn't really help here because that's the nice spot for many kilometers around or there is literally no way to create another beach for our small island community because that's literally the only place on the island where sand exists, so we can't just off and leave. (* Many of these examples are imagining a hot summer in an anarchist Greece, sorry it's almost August.)
It looks to me like a simple non-life-and-death scenario like this could potentially completely poison and destroy a community and in the face of that it would be the little death of anti-authoritarian organizing. Like yea, when life and death matters are at hand, anarchists will band together and conquer the bread. But petty small-scale little shit where it's managing annoyances and small grievances, I don't think non-authoritarian decision making can solve. And I suspect it's crap like this that has killed off many intentional communities and experiments or made them veer away from non-hierarchical, anti-authoritarian organizing.
Have anarchist thinkers seriously thought of this?