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Featured Editorials

Ice Cream & Surveillance--- Israel is Used to Having its Ice Cream and Eating it, too.

Submitted by NYCVG on Tue, 07/27/2021 - 9:40am

"By excoriating Ben & Jerry’s, the Bennett-Lapid coalition is, in effect, defending decades of illiberal policies: military rule of the occupied territories, creeping annexation and a blurred distinction between 1948 and 1967 borders that insists on Israeli sovereignty between the river and the sea.

“Where No Man Has Gone Before”

Submitted by Lily O Lady on Mon, 07/26/2021 - 2:54pm

As economic inequality has continued to dominate our society, I am constantly reminded of the original Star Trek series, and more specifically a particular episode. This essay has really nothing to do with the future of space travel or exploration (a word the precedes exploitation). Instead I use that series to address what is going on Earth in the present as the original series did.

Rachel Maddow Full of Shit, Judge Confirms, and No One Reports

Submitted by Le Frog on Sun, 07/25/2021 - 8:51pm

So I'm minding my own business today, engaged in a little work avoidance and procrastination, watching videos of Joe Biden on Twitter that pretty clearly show how far his dementia has advanced (I won't even bother to link to it, but I've spent 15 minutes watching the same clip to determine if he actually did exclaim "my butt's been wiped!"), and I learned that Glenn Greenwald is over at Substack. Well, well, well, well, well, I said to the cats, hie me over there!

The Weekly Watch

Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 07/25/2021 - 7:12am

Eternal Infernal US Imperialism

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The consequences of US imperialism are far reaching and global. Most people don't draw the connection to climate chaos and the US war machine but it is catastrophic. In fact Abby Martin's new film describes it as Earth's greatest enemy (2 min trailer)

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