What a perfect metaphor for America's involvement here. Supply the weapons that cook children alive, then give the mutilated survivor a lollypop. There's your aid, kid. How "pampered" those Palestinians are. RFK Jr. was right....
Officials and human rights organizations denounced the Israeli actions in Gaza as deliberately provoking a humanitarian crisis that is now on the brink of an outright famine. Israel has created widespread starvation and dehydration in Gaza by preventing aid from...
Damn right, this time: Democrat Strategist James Carville: If Democrats Lose In November It’s Israel’s Fault “This Gaza stuff, this is not just a problem with some snot-nosed Ivy League people,” he said. “This is a problem all across the country. And I hope the...
I guarantee you that William Norman Grigg would agree. Oh but you people love government so much. You will believe any lie to justify their violence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgZncve_fDQ&rco=1
1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCoYrfmJBcI Shine on, shine on Bright star in the night And drown out the cries With your divine light Sleep without care And dream sweet dreams While rockets red glare And the innocent scream Blood rains from the sky The...
https://youtu.be/8V1_acTYaaQ The very same people who say that government has no right to interfere with sexual activity between consenting adults believe that the government has every right to interfere with economic activity between consenting adults. – Thomas...
South Africa has petitioned the International Court of Justice to issue emergency orders aimed at halting Israeli military operations in Gaza that are causing a famine in the Strip. The ICJ has issued a preliminary ruling that Israel is plausibly conducting a genocide...
Special rapporteurs with the United Nations have rebuked Israel after its forces opened fire on hundreds of Palestinians gathered around aid trucks in the Gaza Strip
The predominance of Western military superiority in weapons systems is unraveling and the increasing dissonance in the US military complex coming to grips with existential changes in how peer competition in war is evolving is causing tremendous reduction in both both...
The Global Censorship Complex and the Local Voice of Liberty with John Weeks John Weeks (@weeksjf) examines the evolution of free speech, the nature of state power, and the rise of what he calls the "global censorship complex." Drawing from anthropology, political...
This is reprinted from Jim Bovard's blog and expands on a post originally from 2023. Today is the 163th anniversary of the battle of Front Royal, Virginia (the town near where I was raised). On May 23, 1862, almost all the Yankee soldiers in Front Royal were captured,...
Aircraft carriers are the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. Very expensive 20th century modalities not fit for purpose in 21st century peer naval combat. Carriers like the USS Ford can barely function but the sentence above applies to even best of class in...