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Trade wars are often depicted as a conflict between countries. But as Klein and Pettis argue in their acute analysis of the global economy, a trade war is a conflict within a country, transposed, wrongly, as a conflict between countries. In the process ordinary people like Americans that voted for President Trump, are led to believe tha…
In a stunning display of hypocrisy, British PM Keir Starmer, the same Keir Starmer who has been sending bombs and military equipment to Israel for the last 17 months, has “urged”, not threatened or sanctioned but “urged”, Israel to lift restrictions on aid and electricity to Gaza after Israel’s energy minister Eli Cohen blocked both.
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When you proclaim that anti-Zionism is antisemitism and then Zionism murders tens of thousands of children, you are naturally going to see a rise in "antisemitism" as you have defined it. That's all this whole "antisemitism crisis" narrative has been from the very beginning.
Zionism is not a religion, it's a fucking political ideology. It's always legitimate to criticize a political ideology. Saying it's evil forbidden speech to express disdain for Zionism is the same as saying it's evil forbidd…
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If I could offer advice to anyone it’s simple: too many words. Brevity is next to godliness. So many substackers bore me before they get to the point. Stop it. Working for a newspaper we had word counts. Just because the internet allows you to overwrite, stop it. My advice? Crisp piece, 350 words. 750 for more expansive. You’d better have something important to say to get to 1,000 words.
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" (Sir Walter Scott, 1808).
It makes me sick to my stomach when patriarchal power is used to exploit women and children — and men. It takes dreadfully twisted minds to turn the tables on the victims! Russell Moore’s words sear the core of my being.
“[The] report is so damning that Russell Moore’s first reaction was to say: ‘I was wrong to call sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention…a crisis. Crisis is too small a word. …
During the High Renaissance 40,000-50,000 people, presumed threat to the church’s beliefs, were burned as witches. The majority being women. Power becomes its own evil.
Exactly, Berry. "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." There is no religion that does not have abusive leaders among its believers. While all present day religions are male dominant, I'll resist the easy cliche that men misuse women. The truth, I think, is all about power and its tendency to delude those who wield it. HCR's letter today really ties that aspect together. If abusiveness has tentacles in every religion, it's doing fine in the secular world, too. I'm just about physi…
I have felt we were in a batman movie since 2016, or earlier, and not there are any superheroes to save Gotham City. Maybe WE are the superheroes?
I like how you think. We just may be the Superheroes! Maybe it is time that the superheroes remove their masks and join us.
I remember that Stan Lee did a Spiderman story on a young man that had been sexually abused who is rescued by Spiderman; in conversation, Spiderman (aka Peter Parker) reveals that he, too, had been the victim of sexual abuse as a young boy.
There's a decent Chicago Times article on this: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-02-10-8501080651-story.html
Also a Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries rundown of it: https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/368