The Evening Blues - 2-13-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 02/13/2025 - 3:11pm
Open Thread - Thurs 13 Feb 2025 - Cease Fire?
Submitted by Sima on Thu, 02/13/2025 - 5:00am
Cease Fire? Yea, Right.
So the supposed cease fire in Gaza (yea, right - one of many articles about the multiple failures of the cease fire and how it's really about ethnic cleansing), supposedly orchestrated by Trump, is already going to h*ll in a handbasket, or whatever (yet another example of how it's failing). It's not like we knew this would happen, is it? /* sarcasm */ It's not like it just gave a pause to Israel, so it could ramp up whatever it's going to do now. It's not like Trump is sending Israel stuff (the bulldozers, for example see Caitlin's post linked below) that even Biden didn't send, or maybe Biden's controllers couldn't get that done fast enough.
A week or so ago Chris Hedges wrote a pretty good article about all of this called 'The Western Way of Genocide'. He talks about what Gaza is like now, and it's, frankly, absolutely awful - 9 out of 10 homes destroyed or damaged, hospitals deliberately ruined, the university deliberately bombed into pieces, roads completely destroyed, shops, bakeries, towns obliterated, no food, no clean water, no sanitation, no power, no... nothing. The towns and villages are in rubble; they stink because of all the body parts and corpses underneath the rubble. These are the result of Israel killing at least 14% of Gaza's population, 306,000 people as Donziger writes.
Explore Gaza by Mr. Fish. Image from Hedges' article linked above.
The Evening Blues - 2-12-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 02/12/2025 - 3:00pm
OT WE 12 FEB 25 ~ Full moon
Submitted by QMS on Wed, 02/12/2025 - 6:36am~
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Something like poetry
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The Evening Blues - 2-11-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 02/11/2025 - 3:49pm
Trump makes corruption great again: part 5
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 02/11/2025 - 12:17pmI didn't expect to need to post an update on this series already, but here we are.
The brewing storm
Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 02/11/2025 - 9:52am
All hell is breaking loose in DC. Trump and his cadre of billionaire ghouls are creating havoc in the halls of power, sometimes called the swamp, blob, deep state, or shadow government.
Whole agencies are being exposed as corrupt tax wasting parasites on the rump of America, where they cannot be seen but painfully felt.
The Evening Blues - 2-10-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 02/10/2025 - 3:00pm
02/10 Open Thread - Plimsoll Day
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 02/10/2025 - 5:00am
~~ Plimsoll Line
Caitlin Johnstone on "Trump's" Ethnic Cleansing
Submitted by fire with fire on Sun, 02/09/2025 - 10:21pmThe Plan To Ethnically Cleanse Gaza Didn’t Start With Trump
By Caitlin Johnstone on February 10, 2025
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I still can’t get over how absurd it is how everyone’s acting like the plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza is some new idea that Donald Trump just came up with. “Wait, so you’re saying we make the Palestinians go away and replace them with Jews?? What bold, innovative thinking! By golly, that’s just crazy enough to work!”
