This, by my boss, is as clear eyed and damning assessment as you may get from foreign policy types about where blames falls for the US role in all this newrepublic.com/article/1866...
Whatās happening in the Middle East was enabled by a president with ideological priors, aides who failed to push back, and a cheerleading media establishment.
There can be positive side-effects of both exercises -- I know that I have overassigned reading in the past and often get better results with shorter chunks -- but in aggregate: less is less. They are getting less information, doing less with it. They are learning less than the median past student.
Iām confused why you think they refused to vote in the primary when they literally voted in the primary and thatās why theyāre now at the DNC with delegates.
Beautiful!
The point is that this is the necessary result of the administration's position in Gaza. Once you embrace the principle that our friends can kill as many human beings as they want from a designated enemy population in one case, that principle is going to affect how you approach othr cases as well.
The point here is not just that Biden is active supporting some of the world's most murderous, anti-democratic regimes, making a mockery of whatever principle it's supposed to be upholding in Ukraine.
One of the big lies about this election is that its only consequence is who is the next president of the United States. If a Democratic president can win reelection as an open partner in genocide, a much more important consequence will be the space that opens up for state violence everywhere.
āPeople were crying and being like, āCan you call my mom, I need to call my mom, please help meā.ā The violence inflicted on anti-genocide protesters at UCLA by zionists and white supremacists was horrific.
we have a democratic mayor, a democratic governor, two democratic senators, and a democratic president and the cops are still free to treat protesters like enemy combatants.