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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

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2 years

Affirmative.

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2 years

Do you think our Military would fire on US citizens, if it comes to that?

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9 months

When you declare total war against Gaza, what is it you're going to war against? There are no airbases, no army bases, no tank battalions, no air defense systems, no naval ports, no oil refineries, no rail system, no troop barracks, no armored personnel carriers, no howitzers,

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2 years

Brittney Griner was just sentenced to 9 years in a labor camp for a small amount of cannabis vaping oil. This is an outrage, but perhaps not as appalling what happened here in June, when the Mississippi Supreme Court upheld a life sentence for a cannabis possession charge.

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11 months

About 8 years ago, an irate Sinead O'Connor rang up the CounterPunch office and threatened to sue us over a piece we'd run. Becky sensibly gave her my number. I was walking the dog when my iPhone buzzed. "This is Sinead." "Sinead who?" I inquired.

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2 years

Should be the lead story in every paper in the country.

Universal Health Care Could Have Saved More Than 330,000 U.S. Lives during COVID

The numbers of lives lost and dollars spent would have been significantly lower if coverage had been extended to everyone, a new study says

www.scientificamerican.com

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"You want me to write for you?" "Absolutely," I said. "Thank you, thank you! Nobody's ever responded that way to one of my calls before," she said. And she did. Over the next few months we got a few pieces from her that were funny and smart and wicked.

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11 months

"Who the fuck do you think, asshole!" "Oh, O'Connor," I muttered. As if there could be any other. It turns out this was the beginning of a fraught but beautiful relationship. I let her unload on us for about 40 minutes and then said, "Why don't you write that up for us?"

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10 months

First they knocked on the wrong door. Then they didn't identify themselves. Then they shot the family dog. Then they shot Lopez in the back of the head. Then they cuffed his corpse. Then the city said Lopez had no civil rights to violate because he was an undocumented migrant.

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10 months

Police officers in Mississippi shot and killed an innocent man while serving a warrant at the wrong address, but a civil lawsuit was thrown out by a jury that says the cops didn't violate the civil rights of Ismael Lopez by killing him. Where's the media outrage, @elonmusk ?

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9 months

no satellite systems, no attack helicopters, no fighter jets, no anti-tank batteries, no submarines, no command-and-control centers. Just people, most of them women & kids. It's why the entire population must be dehumanized, turned into "human animals" whose lives don't matter.

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

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2 years

The leadership of the Democratic Party, which for 20 years has said the only reason to vote for them is to protect Roe, should resign en masse. Their failure is absolute.

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9 months

The most powerful nation in the world has been chased out of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Lebanon, Somalia, Haiti, Afghanistan, & Iraq and has the lowest life expectancy in the post-industrial world. However, our arms manufacturers are the most profitable in the world...

Herbie Ziskend

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9 months

QUESTION: “Are the wars in Israel and Ukraine more than the United States can take on at the same time?” POTUS: “We’re the United States of America for God's sake! The most powerful nation in the history of the world!” 1/

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2 months

How's it feel, America, getting a thank-you note from a mass murderer?

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1 year

Since the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols on January 7th, police have killed at least 51 people across the US.

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1 year

They should post batting averages for columnists....

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2 years

Tell it to Julian Assange...

Sarah Reese Jones

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2 years

Trevor Noah with an amazingly powerful close reminding journalists in the United States, some of whom seem to take for granted what they have, of how lucky they are to have the freedom to speak truth to power.

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7 months

Nothing better captures the true nature of the Obama White House–the toxic arrogance and bigotry lurking beneath the rosy rhetoric–than this racist rant by Stuart Seldowitz, a former State Dept "diplomat" who worked who served as a National Security Advisor under President Obama.

Layla 🪬

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7 months

This man wearing a green jacket was berating and harassing a halal cart vendor off 83rd and 2nd Ave in NYC. Does anyone know who this man is? Planning to report to the authorities.

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2 months

You can take Elon Musk out of Apartheid South Africa, but you can't take Apartheid South Africa out of Elon Musk...

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2 months

Twitter has suspended Nelson Mandela's grandson, as he's about to set off on the Freedom Flotilla to take aid to Gaza.

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2 years

Number of children sexually assaulted by Catholic priests: 3,677 Number of children sexually assaulted by drag queens during library story time: 0

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1 year

Garner: "Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president. I was a vice president of SAG when he was its president....The only thing I remember is that Ronnie never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say."

Tim Shorrock

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1 year

Yes, Reagan was president of the Screen Actors Guild in 1960, the last time SAG went on strike with the Writers Guild. But it was the great James Garner, the executive vice president, who did all the work & wrote all the speeches. His recollections of Reagan's term are hilarious.

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9 months

Only "one side" has an air force. Only "one side" has a Navy. Only "one side" has guided missiles. Only "one side" has tanks. Only "one side" has an air defense system. Only "one side" has nuclear weapons.

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5 months

It probably took a team of five CNN editors, along with their IDF liaison, to write this disgusting headline...

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2 years

There's more opposition in Moscow tonight to the Russian invasion of Ukraine than there was in the US over the regime change operation in Libya or the bombings of Syria or Somalia or the proxy war on Yemen or wars in Afghanistan and Iraq at any time under Obama or Trump...

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2 years

A week after Bush launched the War on Terror Bob Woodward asked Cheney how long it would last. Cheney replied: “It may never end. At least, not in our lifetime.” The wet-dream of weapons contractors had materialized. The Pentagon Budget in 2001 was $287B. Now it’s $857B & rising.

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2 years

People dying in US jails for lack of a couple hundred bucks for bail on minor "crimes," while this crypto geek, facing several lifetimes in prison, gets home confinement in one of the most elite communities on the West Coast.

Court orders FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried to be confined to parents' Stanford home

Samuel Bankman-Fried, the founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, will stay at his parents' Stanford home as a condition of his bail arrangement.

www.paloaltoonline.com

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

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27 days

It took Clinton to destroy welfare, Obama to assassinate American citizens abroad, and Biden to end the right to asylum.

Biden’s Wins

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27 days

BREAKING: President Biden will sign an Executive Order that will allow the U.S. Government to deny asylum and deport immigrants who cross the border illegally. Reminder, Republicans voted against the toughest border security legislation in decades.

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11 months

Your smear is her vindication.

Catholic League

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11 months

Sinead O’Connor was a troubled soul who was badly educated. She was no more a “truth-teller” than are her fans who have written on this subject.

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2 years

The mad "no fly zone" stunt at the Guggenheim, –effectively a call for a nuclear exchange with Russia–is even more perverse than it sounds, given the fact that it profanes a building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, whose anti-war activities earned him a 1000+ page FBI file.

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8 months

During World War II, Christian Dior, working for the French fashion house of Lelong, designed dresses for the wives of Nazi officers and French collaborators...

Al Bawaba News

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8 months

Dior replaces Palestinian Bella Hadid with Israeli model Mai Tager as brand ambassador in their newest campaign. The decision highlights Dior's support for Israel amidst the ongoing war. #PalestineIsraelwar #IsraelPalestineWar #Gaza_Geniocide

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3 years

Meet the protesters cars aren't allowed to run over in Florida...

DeSantis’ anti-riot law didn’t apply as Cuba protesters shut down a Miami-Dade road. Hmmm . . . |...

Gov. DeSantis should have just laid it on the line when a reporter asked about the scores of Cuban-American demonstrators and their supporters who shut down a portion of the Palmetto Expressway in...

www.miamiherald.com

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5 months

The brazenness of this–the appalling act itself, filming it and then proudly releasing the footage–is evidence of an entire culture gone sociopathic.

Younis Tirawi | يونس

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5 months

Gaza | Burning & destroying food warehouses Israeli soldiers post a video on social media showing the destruction & burning of food warehouses in western Gaza City 3 days ago. This comes after a severe famine affecting North Gaza, where people are struggling for survival 1/2

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4 months

You can get rid of Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, Smotrich and Gallant and you'll still be left with this...

Mondoweiss

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4 months

A new Israeli Democracy Institute survey shows that 68% of Jewish Israelis oppose “the transfer of humanitarian aid to Gaza residents.”

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7 months

Soon each county will have their own abortion court, where local preachers, tax accountants, insurance salesmen and HS football coaches will decide whether your daughter or wife can abort her dying fetus before it kills her...

Kyle Griffin

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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky woman seeking court approval for abortion learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity, attorneys say.

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2 years

The eXile was one of the best magazines to emerge in the 90s. The problem wasn't the satirical pieces–worthy of Paul Krassner–but Taibbi's cowardly renouncement of them–and blaming his partner @MarkAmesExiled , all to curry favor with people he once rightly despised & ridiculed

Julia Ioffe

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2 years

I would just like to remind everyone that when Matt Taibbi was based in Moscow, he ran a magazine called "The Exile," where he and its co-founder wrote that Russian women liked to be raped.

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2 years

The Roberts court is a judicial version of the neutron bomb, which has leveled the administrative state but left the police state in tact to prowl the ruins to torment and torture the survivors.

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9 months

Crusade I, Crusades II, the Albigensian Crusade, the Northern Crusades, the Aragonese Crusade, Spanish Inquisition, the conquest of the "New" World, the French Wars of Religion, the English Revolution, Jacobite Rising, the Irish Revolution, The Troubles, the War on Terror...

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@gijoe6pack @William_E_Wolfe Can you name one instance of a group of Christians attacking and killing people and declaring it to be the mandate of God?

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2 months

In Kai Bird's biography of Oppenheimer, warped unrecognizably by Nolan's film, he recounts how Berkeley's administration routinely used the football team and frats to bust striking teachers and student protesters on campus.

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

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If one sees white US frats and sororities as continuation of the regime of rule the Reconstruction tried to end, the logic of cops/frats alliance seems clearer.

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11 months

What is "Left" about him? He's to the right of Biden on Iran, Israel and the border. He thinks the "free market" will resolve the climate crisis and his war on public health is fatal to Single-Payer Health care, which he has repeatedly derided.

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@JeffreyStClair3 @joshua__frank Stop making Perfect the enemy of the Good. RFK Jr. is the best candidate the left has produced this cycle. Back him or move on

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27 days

Royalties: $13.03

Eric Alper 🎧

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Daryl Hall & John Oates' "You Make My Dreams Come True" has surpassed 1 Billion streams on Spotify. It's the duo's first song to reach this mark.

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

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7 months

There's no question the IDF is targeting Gaza's best and brightest...

Hanine Hassan حنين

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7 months

Here’s another “Nothing by accident” and “everything is intentional” murder: Dr. Alaa Al-Subaihi was killed today with his children and members of his family when Israel bombed his home in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

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2 years

Grimes may not own Twitter but she does own Elon Musk...

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5 months

If Israel funded Hamas while it was on the US terror list, shouldn't it be sanctioned by the US for material support of terrorism? Or is that something reserved for Cuba providing doctors to countries that need them?

Kenneth Roth

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“Hamas was financed by the Israeli government [via Qatar] in an attempt to weaken the Palestinian Authority,” says the European Union's foreign policy chief. That way Israel could avoid pressure to pursue a two-state solution.

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6 months

When the Saudis are urging restraint on the bombing of Yemen you know you've gone over the edge...

Barak Ravid

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6 months

Saudi foreign ministry: We are following with grave concern the military action in the Red Sea region and the air strikes in Yemen. We call for restraint and de-escalation in light of the events in the region

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1 month

"more thorough" "investigating" AOC's perfected the hollow language of the career Washingtonian, where it she sounds like she's saying something but when parsed is a something that means nothing.

All In with Chris Hayes

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WATCH-- @AOC : "I believe that we should be more thorough in enforcing a red line at Rafah. I believe that while there was one individual weapons transfer that was blocked, I think that we could be doing more to be investigating this."

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2 months

In a few years these fine men will be finding ways to dump toxic waste in your wetland, deny medical clams for your mother with leukemia, selling you cars whose accelerator pedal jams, hitting you up for bitcoins to fund a concert in the Caribbean, doing PR for a Saudi prince...

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2 months

🧵This is the crowd who surrounded the Gaza solidarity encampment at UChicago just a few hours ago. "Show your fucking face!" one man shouts as another smokes a cigar.

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2 months

This photo says more about the US press than all those insightful pages in Chomsky & Herman's Manufacturing Consent. The look of disdain on their faces as they stride in ridiculous attire thru a memorial to real reporters killed in Gaza–as if the mere sight spoiled their evening

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4 months

As we learned from Israeli airstrikes on Palestinian hospitals, once you clear the hurdle of getting away with the first one, you can bomb as many as you want with no recriminations from your funders and arms suppliers.

Nicola Perugini

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4 months

Another huge massacre. Deliberate annihilation of starving people. Monstrous.

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5 months

The "new phase" of the war the NYT was trumpeting this morning looks a helluva lot like the old phase we have seen for the last 3.5 months...

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This Khan Younis now. Hell on earth.

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4 months

She aggressively prosecuted the parents of black children in Oakland for truancy and minor drug crimes!

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This is such a powerful picture! 📸: Saul Loeb

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1 year

Trump has no influence and I'm not sure he ever really did. His function was remove political inhibitions. He showed the far right that they could say and do almost anything and get away with. Why would they restrain themselves now?

The House hard-liners blocking McCarthy aren’t listening to Trump

In another sign of the former president’s waning influence, his efforts to bolster McCarthy’s bid as House speaker have not persuaded 20 Republicans to drop their opposition.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

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6 months

I'm pretty jaded, but I didn't think I'd live to witness a political figure show less public empathy toward thousands of innocent people–many of them children–suffering and dying from the policies enforced by our government than Madeliene Albright. Joe Biden has proved me wrong.

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2 months

Remember when Pelosi campaigned for the anti-abortion Cuellar against a progressive challenger?

BNO News

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2 months

BREAKING: Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX) expected to be indicted by DOJ later today - NBC

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11 months

This performance by Sinead a few nights after all hell had broken loose from her SNL gig is one of the bravest I've ever seen. Mercilessly boo'd by 24,000 Bob Dylan fans & only Kris Krisofferson would come to her aid. What a bunch of frauds.

Sinead O'Connor: 'War' live at the Bob Dylan Tribute.

Sinead O'Connor sings Bob Marley's 'War' live at the Bob Dylan Tribute, after she ripped up a photo of the pope on Saturday Night Live...

www.youtube.com

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8 months

Rashida Tlaib has more guts than almost any politician in the US, nailing her own party's President for the soulless hypocrite and proxy-killer he is...

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib

@RepRashida

8 months

My statement on $14.3 billion in funding for Israel with absolutely no conditions on upholding human rights:

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4 months

South Africa is now the conscience of the world.

Abier

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4 months

This woman has balls, integrity, and wisdom more than the collective of western foreign ministers combined. Respect

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2 years

If protests don't "intimidate," they're not protests but something like group therapy sessions.

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7 months

Three Palestinian-American students are shot near the University of Vermont and congressional hearings are held on the threat of rising anti-semitism posed by (largely Jewish) anti-war goups on campuses. There's nothing Palestinians can do to have their lives taken seriously.

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7 months

After the revelation that the Biden administration is giving Israel the coordinates of humanitarian aid locations in Gaza which the IDF later bombs, one has to wonder, whether they r also giving Israel the coordinates of journalists in Gaza who are then targeted for assassination

Laila Al-Arian

@LailaAlarian

7 months

The Biden administration was concerned about allowing journalists to cover the aftermath of Israel’s horrific bombing of Gaza. Along with revelations that Blinken pressured Al Jazeera about its coverage, this administration’s record on the press is very troubling.

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

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2 years

The US bombed Iraq once every 3 DAYS between the END of the Gulf War & the BEGINNING of the Iraq war. Since the alleged END of the Iraq War it has bombed Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Niger, tribal areas of Pakistan, Somalia, decapitated the gvt of Libya & bombed Iraq 1000s of times

Julia Ioffe

@juliaioffe

2 years

@DeadlineWH @McFaul This is one of the fundamental differences between American and Russian political culture. As much as the American political system gets shit for being "pro-war," it's actually allergic to the thing (thus, drone wars). The Russian system is not scared of war, it welcomes it.

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3 months

How can a person beaten by Donald Trump remain so arrogant and patronizing? With every appearance, she reconfirms why so many people refused to vote for her...

Owen Jones

@OwenJones84

3 months

When asked about US voters upset with the choice between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton says: "Get over yourself. Those are the two choices." Really glad to see she's learned lessons from her 2016 defeat then!

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This violent crackdown on non-violent students is happening under a Democratic president, in Democratic-controlled cities, on some of the most elite campuses in the US, while being indulged, rationalized & sometimes cheered on by the guardians of liberal morality in the press.

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4 months

If we're going to start re-assigning land rights based on who lived where during the Iron Age, I think Rep. Tenney should probably prepare to get her own ill-gotten property seized...

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4 months

This is so fucking beyond. I’m speechless

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

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8 months

Israel says it is not bombing indiscriminately. Its airstrikes are targeted. So who have they targeted? Journalists, aid workers, doctors, teachers. This list is not surprising. As Ronen Bergman reported in Rise & Kill First, the investigative journalist's disturbing account

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9 months

Only Israel is allowed to act in "self-defense." It is a term reserved for the powerful, a shield against the daily acts of violence, coercion, land theft, illegal detention and economic strangulation imposed on a captive population,

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

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2 years

You mean when they tried to humiliate MLK Jr into committing suicide? When they compiled files on Louis Armstrong, Jackie Robinson, Lucille Ball? When they murdered Fred Hampton and Mark Clark? When exactly where these prelapsarian days?

Matt Taibbi

@mtaibbi

2 years

Once we had a standard in this country that the FBI had to at least have some indication of possible crime to initiate investigations. No longer. They can “pre-assess” at will, with no chargeable crime in sight, and people like you are fine with it.

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There are 100 members of the "Progressive Caucus," who capitulated within seconds to nearly every demand Pelosi made, and 40 members of the Freedom Caucus who don't mind waterboarding their own leader in public to get their way & ditching him if they don't.

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

2 months

Dana Bash's first husband, Jeremy Bash, was chief of staff of the CIA (2009-2011) and later chief of staff of the Pentagon, under Obama. Daughter of an ABCNews producer, she is a creature of DC. Raised there. Went to GW, then right to work for CNN, which she's never left.

Dana Bash

@DanaBashCNN

2 months

Today: Destruction, violence and hate overtake college campuses across the country with Jewish students feeling unsafe at their own schools. It is unacceptable, and harkening back to the 1930s in Europe. Our @InsidePolitics show open, here.

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

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7 months

Americans are experiencing a rare chance to relive in realtime some of the darkest episodes of our own history–like the howitzering of the exhausted Nez Perce in the Bear Paws or the slaughter of nearly frozen Lakota women & children at Wounded Knee–& have opted to change nothing

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

2 years

My expectations for Biden were very low. But he's managed to surprise me by not even rising to meet those.

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

1 month

Joe Biden will be the first incumbent president to lose reelection to a convicted felon.

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

2 years

Just got word from my friend Kevin Alexander Gray that he was put in Facebook jail for posting Norman Solomon's article from CounterPunch on Bob Dylan, Masters of War and Ukraine. Why? Because Solomon mentions the unmentionable: there are new-Nazis in eastern Ukraine,

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

1 year

There's a clip in the excellent new documentary on Reggie Jackson of Reagan as governor of California angrily saying, "There is absolutely no reason why out on the street today a civilian should be carrying a loaded weapon." He was referring to the Panthers. But in his speech

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

1 year

Heeeee's Back! Like Kissinger, Elliot Abrams flows seamlessly between administrations, a roving minister of interventions, coups, and death squads...

Biden nominates controversial former Trump-appointee to Public Diplomacy Commission | CNN Politics

President Joe Biden announced Monday his intention to nominate a former appointee under former President Donald Trump with a controversial past in Latin America to the bipartisan United States...

www.cnn.com

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

3 months

With each fresh Israeli atrocity, we are tempted to think: this is the one, this is the one which will wake the world up, this is the one that will stop the flow of arms, this is one that will finally end the slaughter. And the next day there's a new massacre & a new sale of arms

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

3 years

Apparently, you can now walk down many streets in America carrying what looks like a military assault weapon. This gun might make other people nervous about your intentions. You perceive their anxiety about your gun as a potential threat to your safety & shoot them. Case closed.

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

2 years

You're an essential worker when they need you to keep the economy running amid a killer pandemic and a low-skilled worker when it comes time to write your check.

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

5 months

The killings of Gaza's most enlightened and humane people are not accidents....

Rami Jarrah

@RamiJarrah

5 months

BREAKING: Dr. Taha Al-Shanti, along with his entire family, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Dr. Al-Shanti, was the General Director of Private Medicine at the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

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2 months

Beyond Orwell, beyond Heller, beyond parody...

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

8 months

Biden and Blinken knew exactly who they were dealing with and gave him an unfettered greenlight to commit genocide, anyway. They laid the trap for themselves and then walked right into it. I have no sympathy for them.

Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

8 months

BREAKING: Netanyahu says in a statement that he made clear to Secretary of State Blinken that Israel is going to continue the military operation in Gaza “with full force” and stressed Israel refuses to any temporary cease fire that doesn’t include release of hostages

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

2 years

When you realize we live in a country that is angrier at the homeless than homelessness, the results of today's elections will make a lot more sense.

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

8 months

What a pathetic way to end a career...

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

8 months

Sanders on a ceasefire: "I don't know how you can have a permanent cease fire with an organization like Hamas, which is dedicated to turmoil and chaos and destroying the state of Israel."

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

2 years

From Kurt Vonnegut's speech accepting the Eugene Debs Award...

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

1 year

Long "think" piece in the NYT trying to understand why the US invaded Iraq in which Judith Miller's name doesn't appear once...

20 Years On, a Question Lingers About Iraq: Why Did the U.S. Invade? (Published 2023)

Two decades after the Bush administration said it wanted to disarm weapons of mass destruction and free Iraqis, the debates rage on about who knew what when, and which motive mattered most.

www.nytimes.com

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

1 year

that day he went on to say, "[guns] are a ridiculous way to solve problems that have to be solved among people of good will." Why this hasn't been used in Democratic campaign ads would be a mystery if we weren't talking about the Democratic Party...

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

1 year

Checkmate...

ProsaicEchoChamber 🇮🇪 🇵🇸

@fiend_imaginary

1 year

@JeffreyStClair3 Not true. Correct answer is Foo Fighters.

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

8 months

NYT has a breathless report today on how Hamas hides its weapons in underground tunnels. (Newsflash: Most arms caches are buried in bunkers by almost every military in the world.) Where does Israel hide its nukes?

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

1 year

You know things are off the rails when the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is the only person in the administration and one of the very few in the entire govt. to urge deescalation of the war-mongering rhetoric on China...

‘Lower the Rhetoric’ on China, Says Milley

We’re not on the “brink of war” with China, and Taiwan is not so easy to conquer, says the top U.S. general.

www.defenseone.com

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

2 years

Sums up where we are...

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

2 months

Happy times in Bloomington...

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

1 year

I've always admired Sy Hersh, but I can't help but contrast his style of reporting, largely based on inside anonymous sources, with that of my old friend and fellow Hoosier Gary Webb. Webb's Dark Alliance series was a meticulously researched and documented investigation,

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

7 months

An Army that shoots unarmed people holding white flags is entirely consistent with an Army that blows up hospitals, bombs ambulances, leaves infants to die in unplugged incubators, targets schools, shoots relief workers and denies 2.3 million people food and clean water.

BBC Breaking News

@BBCBreaking

7 months

IDF says Israeli hostages in Gaza were holding white cloth on stick when Israeli forces mistakenly shot them

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

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8 months

We like to think that there's some level of killing–even the killing of children–that will cause Western democracies to say, enough is enough. We persist in this delusion even though we've been told by Madeleine Albright that the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children were "worth it."

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

8 months

Biden and Blinken didn't have to endorse Netanyahu's version of the hospital bombing. But once they did, they went all in and now can't afford for any international body to prove them wrong, and by "wrong", I mean complicit.

Dimitri Lascaris

@dimitrilascaris

9 months

A spokesperson of the U.S. government says the Biden administration doesn’t think it is “appropriate” for there to be an international investigation into the destruction of the hospital in Gaza. Why would the U.S. oppose such an investigation if it believes Israel didn’t do it?

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

2 months

They're like crack addicts. The more you give them, they more they demand. Cut 'em off and they have a breakdown.

Younis Tirawi | يونس

@ytirawi

2 months

Israeli MK and Likud Official Tali Gottlieb have a message to the US: “The US is threatening not to give us precise missiles . Oh yeah? Well, I got news for the US. We have imprecise missiles. I’ll use it. I’ll just collapse ten [in Gaza]. Ten buildings. That’s what I’ll do”

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

2 years

Proof of Chomsky's theory that the most unadulterated news is usually to be found in the business pages because the money people need their information straight...

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

10 months

Gitmo is a disgrace to the country. Lahaina getting burnt off the map is a disgrace to the country. Pregnant women being shot for shoplifting is a disgrace to the country. 600K homeless people is a disgrace to the country. Boebert is barely counts as a commercial interruption...

Mike Sington

@MikeSington

10 months

“Lauren Boebert is a disgrace to this country.” Howard Stern spends four minutes absolutely destroying Lauren Boebert. Warning: Do not play in front of children. (Audio via SiriusXM and Mediaite)

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

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Biden has voluntarily tied himself to a regime that burns children to death as they sleep in tents they were forced to move into by the people who incinerated them.

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

2 years

How many times have they killed Ayman Al-Zawahiri?

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Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

@JeffreyStClair3

2 months

Back-of-the-head shots to 8-year-olds seems like a legitmate thing to protest in about the most vociferous way possible...but that's just me.

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

2 months

A BBC report on how the Israeli Defence Force killed two Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank - 15 year old Basil and 8 year old Adam. 8 year old Adam was shot in the back of the head as he was running away from the soldiers.