New York Times: More than 100 former staff members for Senator John McCain are supporting Joseph R. Biden Jr., a show of support across the political divide that they hope amplifies the “Country First” credo of the former Arizona senator. Many of the onetime McCain...
What this society needs is men and women who can write: It’s the Fourth of July, and revolution is in the air. Only in America would it look like this: an elite-sponsored Maoist revolt, couched as a Black liberation movement whose canonical texts are a corporate...
Well, it's an article by David Sanger in the New York Times, so who knows if a single word of it is true. But what it says is that the U.S. plans on reentering the Iran nuclear deal of 2015, just to try to force a "snap-back" of the UN sanctions regime and ban on...
I don't have much sympathy for them given all the death and disease they have caused in Yemen. The infections are supposedly a key element in the Saudi decision to announce a ceasefire in Yemen, where Riyadh has been battling Iran-backed Houthi rebels on behalf of the...
New York Times: "In the 24 hours through 12 a.m. on Friday, 562 people — or one almost every two-and-a-half minutes — died from the virus in New York State, bringing the total death toll to nearly 3,000, double what it was only three days before. In the same period,...
They don't give a liquid shit about you or your family. I posted a note in this space a week or so ago from my sister begging people to stop hoarding (that is, stockpiling more than they need) the highest quality N95 masks that healthcare workers need desperately. But...
https://youtu.be/70oW1bau5Tg Th e strategy was dictated by the quasi-libertarian, stateless medieval starting point, and it suggested itself “naturally,” fi rst and foremost to the top ranks of social authority, in particular to feudal kings. In a nutshell, it boils...
I just finished some work in the city. I was working with a pair of carpenters, men in dirty clothes with splinters in their hands. As we worked the nicely dressed office class ignored those building the world around them, the delivery drivers, the cleaners, the...
Osama bin Laden like Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega and a legion of other malefactors discovered that alliance with the US and its coalition partners can be a mercurial and potentially lethal relationship.
It’s a modest house, a unit trapped inside of a suburb within a suburb. Mostly elderly live here. A woman in her late seventies greets me, “I’m Rosanne, the neighbour.” She takes me through the house and shows me what needs to be carried out. Heavy furniture and the...
