‘My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.’
In interview with The Nation as part of an upcoming profile of he in the August issue, Kamala Harris says this on pro-Palestinian protests:
“They are showing exactly what the human emotion should be, as a response to Gaza. [...] But we have to navigate it. I understand the emotion behind it.”
It is disorienting to see what the New York Times will cover with an active voice (that is demonstrably more accurate) and what it'll obscure with passive voice.
The perception of an inevitable fascist victory in Europe is largely just the wishcasting of mainstream media publications saying that fascist victory is inevitable. See how the BBC spins National Rally's loss.
Mathilde Panot, President of the La France Insoumise in Parliament which is part of the New Popular Front that just shocked the world, says that France will recognize a Palestinian state in the next two weeks.
I have always found it amusing that leaders of countries and political organizations will arrange their public meeting rooms to have one or two portraits on the wall, nothing else, and a bunch of random ass seats.
By my count five Labour MPs lost seats tonight to people who capitalized on the discontent from Muslims / pro-Palestinian voters, otherwise known as a group that one Labour person called "fleas"
Magid, diplomatic reporter, wrote yesterday that the Authority and US have a reform package on how the Authority's welfare deals with the families of fighters that have killed Israelis and that it was agreed upon months ago, but it can't move forward because the US is afraid Israel will sabotage it.
People who pearl clutch over the idea that Jews might be interpreted as having a racial status in Israeli law should be upset at Israeli law for conferring a racial status onto Jews and not the people who accurately describe that situation as it exists.
Just how "liberal" is one's Liberal Alliance if its lynchpins in the Middle East are a racial supremacist apartheid state which has perpetrated the longest military occupation in postwar history and a literal theocratic monarchy?
The 1912 platform of the Socialist Party of America called for "the abolition of the power usurped by the Supreme Court of the United States to pass upon the constitutionality of . . . legislation enacted by Congress," and "term limits for all judges, “ as well as changes to the amendment process.
"They pressed for term limits, retirement ages, dramatic expansions to the number of judges on the Supreme Court (deemphasizing the power of any one judge), and either the total elimination of judicial review (as in the 1912 platform) or massive shifts in how review operated."
"But critically, for Socialists, unless the amendment process was far easier, court reform alone could not succeed. The country needed to have avenues for constitutional change that did not rest on litigation, a tool that reinforced the power of a professional legal elite"
"...But the U.N. Development Programme assessment notes that Gaza would need "approximately 80 years to restore all the fully destroyed housing units" under a scenario assuming the pace of reconstruction follows the trend of several previous Gaza conflicts."
It is estimated that the total scope of reconstruction of the Strip will take anywhere between 40 and 80 years depending on whether Israel reimposes its illegal blockade and the degree to which its blockade is enforced. 40 to 80 years. If the war ends today, I will be 63 years old at the youngest.
The irony of one of Israel's most famous historians using one of Israel's most prestigious outlets to call for a nuclear first strike on Iran is that it will further rationalize the logic of nuclear deterrence from the Iranian POV. If your rival keeps saber rattling, why not rush for the bomb?
