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Israel And Its Supporters Deliberately Foment Hate And Division In Our Society

I’ve noticed a lot of angry comments underneath my posts these past few days which bizarrely mention the words “Islam” and “Muslims” completely out of the blue.

“Why don’t you turn your attention sometimes to the genocidal intent of the radical Muslims, or does that suit your racist narrative?” reads one tweet.

“What can you say about Islamic Jihadists Muslims murdering thousands of Christians in Sudan and other parts of Africa?” reads another.

“The muslims must be irradicated,” reads another.

There are too many examples to quote here, but here’s what’s so funny about all this: I haven’t been saying anything about Islam or Muslims on Twitter — I’ve been tweeting about Israel. Hasbarists just babble about Islam when they can’t defend Israel’s actions.

Exactly this.. https://t.co/eKla11BADl

— Abier (@abierkhatib) January 2, 2026

It is not a coincidence that they’ve been doing this. In September of last year Drop Site News published a leaked polling report that had been commissioned by the Israeli government which found that while Israel’s reputation is crumbling throughout the western world, one way to salvage it would be to foment panic about Muslims.

Drop Site reports the following:

“Israel’s best tactic to combat this, according to the study, is to foment fear of ‘Radical Islam’ and ‘Jihadism,’ which remain high, the research finds. By highlighting Israeli support for women’s rights and gay rights while elevating concerns that Hamas wants to ‘destroy all Jews and spread Jihadism,’ Israeli support rebounded by an average of over 20 points in each country. ‘Especially once the situation in Gaza is resolved, the room for growth in all countries is very significant,’ the report concludes.”

So if you speak critically about Israel online and suddenly find your replies inundated with Zionists shrieking about Islam and Muslims, that’s why. Their research has concluded that convincing westerners to hate Muslims is easier than convincing them to love Israel.

Leaked Israeli government research:

“Israel is considered a ‘genocidal, apartheid country’ abroad, according to Israel’s own research.”

“Israel’s best tactic to combat this, according to the study, is to foment fear of “Radical Islam” and “Jihadism.” https://t.co/ZmfdoJJHVv

— Peter Cronau (@PeterCronau) December 23, 2025

In addition to committing genocide and starting wars and working to stomp out free speech throughout the western world, Israel is also doing everything it can to make our society more racist and hateful. A foreign state is actively fomenting division and discord in western countries, in exactly the way western empire apologists claimed Putin was doing at the height of Russia hysteria. But because it’s a western “ally”, nothing is being done to stop it.

In addition to being evil and disgusting, this tactic is also just sloppy argumentation. Deflection is the lowest form of argument. Even if Islam really was as dangerous as they pretend it is and even if Muslims really did present a threat to our society, pointing this out would not address a single criticism of Israel. Yelling “Muslims bad!” does not magically erase Israel’s abuses or address the grievances of its critics; it just diverts attention to another target and says “Stop looking at Israel’s actions and hate THOSE people instead!”

Mention Israel and you’ll get hasbarists babbling about Islam, but Islam and Israel are not opposites, and the mention of one has no bearing on the other. One is a worldwide religion with nearly two billion adherents, while the other is a genocidal apartheid state. Framing the issue as a conflict between two diametrically opposed parties is a false dichotomy created by propagandists and manipulators.

BREAKING: Israeli PM Netanyahu says that Israel will devote significant intelligence and technological resources to combat Islamist persecution of Christians worldwide.

He pledged Israel will be at the forefront of fighting forces murdering Christians.
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— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) January 1, 2026

And that’s exactly the false dichotomy Netanyahu is trying to feed into when he tells Americans that Israel is in an alliance with Christianity against “radical Shiite Islam” and “radical Sunni Islam,” calling it “our common Judeo-Christian civilization’s battle.” He’s working to foment fear of Islam among Americans to boost support for Israel.

All this to manufacture consent for human butchery and apartheid. Israel could improve its support among westerners by simply ending its genocidal atrocities in Gaza and ceasing to try to start a war between the US and Iran, but instead it’s working around the clock to foment racism and division while demanding increased censorship and authoritarianism to stomp out pro-Palestine sentiment throughout western society.

Israel is doing this because it cannot exist in its present iteration as a state without nonstop violence and abuse. Under the political ideology known as Zionism, peace, justice, truth and freedom are simply not an option.

Trump SEIZES RUSSIAN OIL SHIP Fleeing Venezuela

U.S. Seizure of Russian-Flagged Oil Tanker a DANGEROUS ESCALATION – Col. Macgregor

Venezuela ‘turning over’ up to 50m barrels of oil to the US, Trump says

Donald Trump has said Venezuela will be “turning over” 30 to 50m barrels of sanctioned oil to the US, as the South American country seeks to avoid deep cuts in output amid an ongoing blockade on exports imposed by Washington since mid-December.

“This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States!” Trump said in a post online.

Venezuela has millions of barrels of oil loaded on tankers and in storage tanks that it has been unable to ship due to the blockade imposed by Trump, as part of the pressure campaign that culminated in the toppling of Nicolás Maduro who was seized from his country by US forces over the weekend.

.@StephenM yelling on @jaketapper about how sovereign countries don’t get sovereignty if the U.S. wants their resources is genuinely unhinged. Belligerent. And a disturbing window into how this administration thinks about the world. https://t.co/HoA1BkY7Hz

— Seth Moulton (@sethmoulton) January 6, 2026

Fatal Mistake: U.S. Oil War BACKFIRES As Major U.S. Ally Flips To China's Economy

Trump says US companies will invest billions in Venezuelan oil production. Experts aren’t so sure

Industry experts have expressed skepticism over Donald Trump’s bullish prediction that US big oil firms will rapidly invest tens of billions of dollars to fix Venezuelan infrastructure and ramp up production after the rendition of the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro. Without an “iron-clad guarantee” that the US federal government will fully reimburse them for the cost of rebuilding the country’s oil market, analysts expect global energy giants to proceed with extreme caution.

The US president has nevertheless insisted the oil industry will move quickly, boldly predicting that dominant US players could get an expanded oil operation “up and running” across Venezuela – reputedly home to the world’s largest crude oil reserves – in less than 18 months. “I think we can do it in less time than that,” Trump claimed in an interview with NBC News on Monday. “But it’ll be a lot of money.”

In the face of such sweeping declarations, US oil firms such as ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Chevron – the only US oil major still operating in Venezuela – have so far declined to publicly outline any such plans for investment. “It would be premature to speculate on any future business activities or investments,” a Conoco spokesperson said this weekend. Hours earlier, Trump had stated at a press conference that “our very large United States oil companies” were poised to “go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country”.

The ambitious timeline laid out by Trump could prove unrealistic. “It’s probably going to take three years for any kind of production bounce,” said Dan Pickering, chief investment officer at Pickering Energy Partners, who expects an increase of around half a million barrels per day (bpd) by “2029, maybe late 2028”. Energy firms will probably spend the first year sorting through new government and security contracts, he suggested, the second year investing in reconstruction, and only find themselves in a position to meaningfully increase output in the third.

“Either the US is going to step up with guarantees, or we’re going to spend six to 12 months watching the dust settle,” added Pickering, who noted that multinationals’ interest in Venezuelan oil does not necessarily correspond with their appetite to invest heavily in a country with an uncertain future. Trump has repeatedly raised the prospect of oil giants being reimbursed by the federal government for any investments they make in Venezuela. But the administration has yet to come forward with any detail on whether the US taxpayer will back them.

US Russia Clash; US Seizes Tanker; Moscow Sends Submarine; US NO Support UK/EU Troops Ukraine Plan

Armed militias deployed in Venezuela as regime attempts to impose authority

Venezuela’s rulers have deployed armed militias to patrol streets, operate checkpoints and check people’s phones in a crackdown to consolidate authority after the US attack on Caracas. Paramilitary groups known as colectivos criss-crossed the capital with motorbikes and assault rifles on Tuesday in a show of force to stifle any dissent or perception of a power vacuum.

The patrols stopped and searched cars and demanded access to people’s phones to check their contacts, messages and social media posts in a stark demonstration to the population that the regime remained in charge despite the abduction of president Nicolás Maduro. Anyone who was suspected of supporting Saturday’s US raid was liable for arrest, said Mirelvis Escalona, 40, a resident in the western Caracas neighbourhood of Catia. “There’s fear. There are armed civilians here. You never know what might happen, they might attack people.” ...

The interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, has sought to project a sense of calm and control since being sworn in on Monday but there was no disguising the government’s shock and jitteriness. On Tuesday, Rodríguez appeared to harden her tone against the US, saying in a televised address that “no external agent governs Venezuela” – a clear rebuttal to Donald Trump’s claim that the US was running the South American country. ...

Gunfire erupted on Monday night when security forces shot at unauthorised drones which reportedly were mistaken for another US operation. “There was no confrontation, the entire country remains completely calm,” Simon Arrechider, the deputy information minister, told reporters. But it is a tense calm.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations tells the world why the U.S. has kidnapped the Venezuelan ambassador:

“You cannot continue to have the largest oil reserves in the world under the control of adversaries of the United States.” https://t.co/oXdQ7Ft8EJ

— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) January 5, 2026

María Corina Machado vows to return to Venezuela and rejects rule of Maduro’s deputy

The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has vowed to return to the country as soon as possible and rejected the authority of the interim president backed – for now – by the US after it forcibly removed Nicolás Maduro from power. Machado told Fox News from an undisclosed location that her movement was ready to win a free election, and praised Donald Trump for toppling Maduro.

Many in Venezuela and abroad had expected Machado to take charge of the country after Maduro’s detention on Saturday, but Trump sidelined her and gave his backing to Maduro’s former vice-president, Delcy Rodríguez.

“I’m planning to go back to Venezuela as soon as possible,” Machado said in the interview. “We believe that this transition should move forward. We won an election [in 2024] by a landslide under fraudulent conditions. In free and fair elections, we will win over 90% of the votes.” She accused Rodríguez of being “one of the main architects of torture, persecution, corruption, narco-trafficking” in Venezuela and said repression had increased since the weekend.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had decided to back Rodríguez after CIA analysts briefed him that Machado and her electoral candidate, the retired diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia, “would struggle to gain legitimacy as leaders while facing resistance from pro-regime security services, drug-trafficking networks and political opponents”.

The Washington Post, however, reported the decision may have been more personal, that Trump may have been irritated that Machado accepted the [Nobel Peace] prize. “If she had turned it down and said: ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” a source told the paper.

John Mearsheimer: Venezuela, Greenland & the End of NATO

Behind the DOJ’s Politicized Indictment of Maduro

The Jan. 3 U.S. military raid on Venezuela to kidnap President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores was followed by the Department of Justice’s release of its superseding indictment of the two abductees as well as their son, Nicolasito Maduro, and two close political allies: former Minister of Justice Ramon Chacin and ex-Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace Diosdado Cabello. The DOJ has also thrown Tren De Aragua (TDA) cartel leader Hector “Niño” Guerrero into the mix of defendants, situating him at the heart of its narrative.

The indictment amounts to a 25-page rant accusing Maduro and Flores of a conspiracy to traffic “thousands of tons of cocaine to the United States,” relying heavily on testimony from coerced witnesses about alleged shipments that largely took place outside U.S. jurisdiction. It accuses Maduro of “having partnered with narco-terrorists” like TDA, ignoring a recent U.S. intelligence assessment that concluded he had no control over the Venezuelan gang.

Finally, the prosecutors stacked the indictment by charging Maduro with “possession of machine guns,” a laughable offense which could easily be applied to hundreds of thousands of gun-loving Americans under an antiquated 1934 law.

DOJ prosecutors carefully avoid precise data on Venezuelan cocaine exports to the U.S. At one point, they describe “tons” of cocaine; at another, they refer to the shipment of “thousands of tons,” an astronomical figure that could hypothetically generate hundreds of billions in revenue. At no point did they mention fentanyl, the drug responsible for the overdose deaths of close to 50,000 Americans in 2024. In fact, the DEA National Drug Threat Assessment issued under Trump’s watch this year scarcely mentioned Venezuela.

By resorting to vague, deliberately expansive language larded with subjective terms like “corrupt” and “terrorism,” the DOJ has constructed a political narrative against Maduro in place of a concrete legal case. While repeatedly referring to Maduro as the “de facto… illegitimate ruler of the country,” the DOJ fails to demonstrate that he is de jure illegitimate under Venezuelan law, and will therefore be unable to bypass established international legal precedent granting immunity to heads of state.

[Much more at the link. -js]

The Israeli Connection: Venezuela & the US Kidnapping of Maduro

White House says using US military is ‘always an option’ for acquiring Greenland

Donald Trump and his advisers are looking into “a range of options” in an effort to acquire Greenland, noting in a White House statement on Tuesday that using the US military to do so is “always an option”.

“President Trump has made it well known that acquiring Greenland is a national security priority of the United States, and it’s vital to deter our adversaries in the Arctic region. The president and his team are discussing a range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal, and of course, utilizing the US military is always an option at the commander-in-chief’s disposal,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.

Leavitt’s comments came as the leaders of major European powers pushed back against Trump’s long-running desire to seize the Arctic territory.

In a show of solidarity on Tuesday, the leaders of France, Germany, Britain and other nations issued a joint statement with the prime minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, urging the US to respect its sovereignty. They wrote in the statement that Arctic security was a top priority for Nato, a defense alliance that includes the United States and Greenland. “Greenland belongs to its people,” the statement said. “It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland.”

Frederiksen previously warned that an attack by the US on a Nato ally would mean the “end” of the military alliance and “post-second world war security”. It would, she said, be the end of “everything”.

Yanis Varoufakis: From Liberal Wars to Traditional Imperialism

Gutting the most basic norms of #InternationalLaw to facilitate a genocide in #Gaza has made possible the kidnapping of a sitting head of state & the commandeering of a sovereign state & describing it as “self-defense”The atrocities committed in Gaza cannot b contained #Venezuela

— Noura Erakat (@4noura) January 3, 2026

Israel pushes ahead with vast illegal settlement in heart of West Bank

Israel is moving to start construction on a vast illegal settlement in the heart of the West Bank, designed to “bury the idea of a Palestinian state”.

The Israel Land Authority in mid-December quietly posted a tender for construction of 3,401 homes in the “E1” project, which will effectively sever the north and south of the occupied West Bank for Palestinians, and further cut off East Jerusalem.

The tender, which has not been reported previously, lays out terms for companies to bid for part of the work, with a deadline for submissions in mid-March.

It “reflects an accelerated effort to advance construction in E1”, said Yonatan Mizrachi, a co-director of Settlement Watch with the advocacy group Peace Now, which found the document online. “This timeline suggests bulldozers could start work in less than a year,” he added.

Building settlements in this area is a decades-old idea with cross-party backing in Israel, mooted initially in the 1990s by Yitzhak Rabin, the Labor prime minister and Nobel peace laureate who was assassinated in 1995 by a rightwing nationalist.

People who believe in the Israel's Promised Land theory probably won't have an issue with this. pic.twitter.com/iv0IZYlKZ2

— Ounka (@OunkaOnX) December 30, 2025

FULL PRESSER: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Speaks on ICE Shooting, National Guard & Public Safety

US justice department has released less than 1% of Epstein files, filing reveals

The Department of Justice has released less than 1% of the so-called Epstein files, a court filing has revealed, as Democrats step up criticism of the Trump administration’s “lawlessness” for keeping records under seal.

The department conceded that only 12,285 documents, totalling 125,575 pages, relating to the disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have been published to date, despite a federal law requiring the vast majority to be released by 19 December.

Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, wrote a five-page update to Paul Engelmayer, the federal New York judge overseeing the case, on Monday, asserting that efforts to protect the identities of Epstein’s victims were a priority, and had slowed the process.

“There are more than two million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are in various phases of review,” she wrote in the letter co-signed by Todd Blanche, her deputy, and Jay Clayton, US attorney for the southern district of New York. “This work has required and will continue to require substantial department resources.” She said about 400 justice department lawyers were supporting “efforts to comply”, along with 100 FBI document analysts trained in handling sensitive material.

Democrats, however, remain determined to press the justice department over the Epstein documents despite other stories such as the capture by US forces of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, dominating the news cycle.

Wyoming supreme court strikes down near-total abortion bans

Abortion will stay legal in Wyoming after the state’s supreme court struck down two near-total abortion bans on Tuesday, ruling that the laws violate the constitution of the profoundly conservative state.

In a 4-1 decision, the justices decided that the two bans – which include the nation’s first exclusive ban on abortion pills – violated a 2012 state constitutional amendment. That amendment affirmed competent adults’ right to make their own healthcare decisions and was originally passed as part of Wyoming’s response to the Affordable Care Act.

One of the laws overturned Tuesday sought to ban abortion except to protect a pregnant woman’s life or in cases involving rape or incest. The other law would have made Wyoming the only state to explicitly ban abortion pills. (Notably, other states have instituted de facto bans on abortion medication by broadly prohibiting abortion). In the four years since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, unleashing a wave of state-level abortion restrictions, abortion pills have grown increasingly popular, especially as abortion providers have begun to mail them into states that ban the procedure. ...

Attorneys for Wyoming argued that the bans could not violate the Wyoming constitution because the state does not view abortion as healthcare. “If as the state contends, the people did not intend to include abortion care among the health care decisions this constitutional amendment protects, the solution is not for this Court to add language to the constitution. It is beyond our power to do that,” the justices wrote in a footnote in their majority opinion.

“The Legislature, however, could put the question to the people of Wyoming in the form of a constitutional amendment that clearly states what it seeks to accomplish.”

I guess the Orange Thugocracy must need them to invade Greenland or something...

Pentagon demobilizes federalized national guard troops in Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago

The US military’s Northern Command announced on Tuesday that hundreds of national guard troops, called up in support of immigration enforcement raids in Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago, are being returned from federal service to their respective states.

All of those troops “will return to their home units once their demobilization is complete,” the military command said in a statement.

Trump taking ‘drill, baby, drill’ plan to Venezuela ‘terrible’ for climate, experts warn

Donald Trump, by dramatically seizing Nicolás Maduro and claiming dominion over Venezuela’s vast oil reserves, has taken his “drill, baby, drill” mantra global. Achieving the president’s dream of supercharging the country’s oil production would be financially challenging – and if fulfilled, would be “terrible for the climate”, experts say. ... Leading US oil businesses such as Exxon and Chevron have so far remained silent on whether they would spend the huge sums required to enact the president’s vision for Venezuela. But should Venezuela ramp up output to near its 1970s peak of 3.7m barrels a day – more than triple current levels – it would further undermine the already faltering global effort to limit dangerous global heating.

Even raising production to 1.5m barrels of oil a day from current levels of around 1m barrels would produce around 550m tons of carbon dioxide a year when the fuel is burned, according to Paasha Mahdavi, an associate professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This is more carbon pollution than what is emitted annually by major economies such as the UK and Brazil. “If there are millions of barrels a day of new oil, that will add quite a lot of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and the people of Earth can’t afford that,” said John Sterman, an expert in climate and economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The climate costs would be especially high because Venezuela produces some of the world’s most carbon-intensive oil. Its vast reserves of extra-heavy crude are particularly dirty, and its other reserves are “also quite carbon- and methane-intensive”, Mahdavi said. The world is close to breaching agreed temperature increase limits – already suffering more severe heatwaves, storms and droughts as a result. Increased Venezuelan drilling would further lower global oil prices and slow the needed momentum towards renewable energy and electric cars, Sterman added. “If oil production goes up, climate change will get worse sooner, and everybody loses, including the people of Venezuela,” he said. “The climate damages suffered by Venezuela, along with other countries, will almost certainly outweigh any short-term economic benefit of selling a bit more oil.”

‘Mad fishing’: the super-size fleet of squid catchers plundering the high seas

In a monitoring room in Buenos Aires, a dozen members of the Argentinian coast guard watch giant industrial-fishing ships moving in real time across a set of screens. “Every year, for five or six months, the foreign fleet comes from across the Indian Ocean, from Asian countries, and from the North Atlantic,” says Cdr Mauricio López, of the monitoring department. “It’s creating a serious environmental problem.”

Just beyond Argentina’s maritime frontier, hundreds of foreign vessels – known as the distant-water fishing fleet – are descending on Mile 201, a largely ungoverned strip of the high seas in the South Atlantic, to plunder its rich marine life. The fleet regularly becomes so big it can be seen from space, looking like a city floating on the sea.

The charity Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has described it as one of the largest unregulated squid fisheries in the world, warning that the scale of activities could destabilise an entire ecosystem. “With so many ships constantly fishing without any form of oversight, the squid’s short, one-year life cycle simply is not being respected,” says Lt Magalí Bobinac, a marine biologist with the Argentinian coast guard.

There are no internationally agreed catch limits in the region covering squid, and distant-water fleets take advantage of this regulatory vacuum.

The consequences extend far beyond squid. Whales, dolphins, seals, sea birds and commercially important fish species such as hake and tuna depend on the cephalopod. A collapse in the squid population could trigger a cascade of ecological disruption, with profound social and economic costs for coastal communities and key markets such as Spain, experts warn. “If this species is affected, the whole ecosystem is affected,” Bobinac says. “It is the food for other species. It has a huge impact on the ecosystem and biodiversity.” She says the “vulnerable marine ecosystems” beneath the fleet, such as deep-sea corals, are also at risk of physical damage and pollution.

Pesticide industry ‘immunity shield’ stripped from US appropriations bill

In a setback for the pesticide industry, Democrats have succeeded in removing a rider from a congressional appropriations bill that would have helped protect pesticide makers from being sued and could have hindered state efforts to warn about pesticide risks.

Chellie Pingree, a Democratic representative from Maine and ranking member of the House appropriations interior, environment, and related agencies subcommittee, said Monday that the controversial measure pushed by the agrochemical giant Bayer and industry allies has been stripped from the 2026 funding bill. The move is final, as Senate Republican leaders have agreed not to revisit the issue, Pingree said. “I just drew a line in the sand and said this cannot stay in the bill,” Pingree told the Guardian. “There has been intensive lobbying by Bayer. This has been quite a hard fight.”

The now-deleted language was part of a larger legislative effort that critics say is aimed at limiting litigation against pesticide industry leader Bayer, which sells the widely used Roundup herbicides. An industry alliance set up by Bayer has been pushing for both state and federal laws that would make it harder for consumers to sue over pesticide risks to human health and has successfully lobbied for the passing of such laws in Georgia and North Dakota so far.

The specific proposed language added to the appropriations bill blocked federal funds from being used to “issue or adopt any guidance or any policy, take any regulatory action, or approve any labeling or change to such labeling” inconsistent with the conclusion of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) human health assessment. Critics said the language would have impeded states and local governments from warning about risks of pesticides even in the face of new scientific findings about health harms if such warnings were not consistent with outdated EPA assessments. The EPA itself would not be able to update warnings without finalizing a new assessment, the critics said.

And because of the limits on warnings, critics of the rider said, consumers would have found it difficult, if not impossible, to sue pesticide makers for failing to warn them of health risks if the EPA assessments do not support such warnings. “This provision would have handed pesticide manufacturers exactly what they’ve been lobbying for: federal preemption that stops state and local governments from restricting the use of harmful, cancer-causing chemicals, adding health warnings, or holding companies accountable in court when people are harmed,” Pingree said in a statement. “It would have meant that only the federal government gets a say – even though we know federal reviews can take years, and are often subject to intense industry pressure.”

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Why ‘Might Makes Right’ Is Dangerous For All of Us

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