The world finding another oil and gas reserve is like an alcoholic finding a secret door to a fully stocked bar.
We’re probably going to drink ourselves to death.
The world finding another oil and gas reserve is like an alcoholic finding a secret door to a fully stocked bar.
We’re probably going to drink ourselves to death.
For any other country, state dept reports like this have to clear before we start shipping weapons.
But for Israel, the Biden administration carves out exceptions and delays the reporting so the illegal weapons shipments can continue.
This is the banality of evil, Palestinian children are starving and exploding and we are arguing over reports.
This is why Biden has earned the moniker “Genocide Joe”.
Civil war? Not even close.
Outright corruption? Business interests have always ruled the country, this is not new.
The bigger picture is that America is the most violent country since Nazi Germany. No other country comes close to our death toll. We spend $1trillion each year on violence and weapons- and those bombs must be dropped, because we need a reason to spend >$1trillion next year.
One of the major issues in this case is that Obama set a precedent when he assassinated 16 year old American citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki without a trial.
The reality is that the Democrats go low, and Republicans use that as a new standard to go even lower.
…Look in the mirror: The horror, the horror! The butt of your M-16 on my cheekbone The yellow patch it left The bullet-shaped scar expanding Like a swastika, Snaking across my face, The heartache flowing Out of my eyes dripping Out of my nostrils piercing My ears flooding The place. Like it did to you 70 years ago Or so.
I am just you. I am your past haunting Your present and your future. I strive like you did. I fight like you did. I resist like you resisted And for a moment, I’d take your tenacity As a model, Were you not holding The barrel of the gun Between my bleeding Eyes.
…The very same gun The very same bullet That had killed your Mom And killed your Dad Is being used, Against me, By you.
Mark this bullet and mark in your gun. If you sniff it, it has your and my blood. It has my present and your past. It has my present. It has your future. That’s why we are twins, Same life track Same weapon Same suffering Same facial expressions drawn On the face of the killer, Same everything Except that in your case The victim has evolved, backward, Into a victimizer. I tell you. I am you. Except that I am not the you of now.
I do not hate you. I want to help you stop hating And killing me. I tell you: The noise of your machine gun Renders you deaf The smell of the powder Beats that of my blood. The sparks disfigure My facial expressions. Would you stop shooting? For a moment? Would you?
All you have to do Is close your eyes (Seeing these days Blinds our hearts.) Close your eyes, tightly So that you can see In your mind’s eye. Then look into the mirror. One. Two. I am you. I am your past. And killing me, You kill you.
Sorry to be pessimistic. Voting local is a good thing, but I just dont see how local elections could ever add up to large systemic change that we agree is necessary. There is no way to vote out the military industrial complex.
What else is there to do? I think broad-based protest movements, like the moment for Palestinian liberation that we are watching today, have a shot at changing things. It’s a long shot though - the same forces that crushed George Floyd, Occupy Wallstreet, anti-WTO, etc. will be back again with their winning tactics.
Overall I think our best hope is with organized labor. Join a union or create one.
But the roots of the compromised DNC are its corporate donors, not your choice of county commissioner. How do you suggest we actually tear it out by the roots?
Even if we overlook the unimaginable horror these humans are enduring, this is terrible policy.
Sde Teiman detention is now the world’s leading terrorist recruitment center, and I have little doubt that its graduates will be seeking revenge on the West with suicidal furor.
Yes the Ford F-150 can be used to commute, but you dont see UPS purchasing a new fleet of F-150s to deliver packages. People dont usually accept that level of inefficiency when the price tag is measured in billions.
My point was that the US has a variety of child-shredding and apartment-exploding warplanes that they would be happy to sell to Israel, so why did Israel choose the plane-destroying version instead?
Other commenters gave a good answer: these are likely in the F-15E family, which are equipped to shred children and explode apartments.
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Hamas would be in a far superior negotiating position if the released hostages were saying that they were treated kindly and cared for
You should read the accounts of released hostages then, many of them have publically stated they were treated kindly.
This horrific recounting of captivity and rape is an outlier.
Biden lost my vote when he told the American people he saw pictures of 40 beheaded babies.
I still have hope he can earn it back- but that would require a significant, unlikely change in foreign policy.
I dont understand why Israel, deeply reliant on US military assistance for its defense, also routinely humiliates the US in public.
They are busy drawing up plans for their new beachfront condo in Gaza.
I’m not trying to say Jesus was a pacifist, but all of those quotes are Old Testament, written centuries before Jesus supposedly existed…
The document said several UNRWA Palestinian staffers had been detained by the Israeli army, and added that the ill-treatment and abuse they said they had experienced included severe physical beatings, waterboarding, and threats of harm to family members
So UN employees were abducted and tortured, then forced to repeat Israel’s propaganda line, in an attempt to justify their whole genocidal endeavor.
JDAM-equipped bombs hit a target with an error range of only 20 feet.
Israel has full air control, as well as numerous spy satellites to monitor Gaza in real time.
I believe the attacking force does care exactly where their strikes hit. This is deliberate.
Its hard to think of anything more heroic than going overseas to run a charity kitchen in a famine-stricken warzone.
The doctors say the government should first address pay and working conditions before trying to increase the number of physicians.
One translation I read suggested a probable explanation.
Rasputin’s phone advice was the same as many modern quacks: keep the patient away from modern medicine and doctors.
So the hemophiliac prince was no longer given his normal cocktail of drugs, which probably included a new medicine for the time: aspirin.
Stop giving a blood thinner to a hemophiliac and his condition (temporarily) improved. The best explanation for the people at the time was “magic”.