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Crónica íntima de un corresponsal en Jerusalén
A ras de tierra es como escribe y como mira el corresponsal de RTVE en Jerusalén Marc Campdelacreu. La levedad de su tono, la voluntad de justicia, la evidencia de la masacre y los sentimientos acumulados contra el desastre están a flor de piel en un texto que no renuncia a encontrar una solución paliativa, pese a la sesgada información que reciben los israelis y pese a la desolación absoluta que habita hoy en Gaza…
... full article‘Orwellian’: Current and former prosecutors alarmed after DOJ scrubs mentions of Trump and January 6 from court records
The Justice Department’s decision to sideline two US attorneys and remove mentions of Donald Trump and the US Capitol attack from court papers before the sentencing of a pardoned January 6 rioter is being viewed by former and current career prosecutors as an alarming whitewashing of history.
The events around the case of Taylor Taranto, who was convicted of bringing illegal guns near Barack Obama’s Washington, DC, residence after talking online about violence toward the federal government, has shocked the network of Justice Department employees and alumni, several sources told CNN.
... full articleTyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.
‘The Trump Administration Needs to Be Isolated in Its Anti-Science Actions’:
The scattered headlines we’re seeing on COP 30, the annual UN climate conference, this year to be held in Brazil, indicate a distressing lack of appropriately urgent US media attention to the galloping harms of climate disruption, but also, or even more so, their negligence in calling countries and corporations to account.
... full articleMan’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
The Return of Right-Wing Anti-Zionism—and Antisemitism
Israel’s merciless slaughter of Palestinian civilians, which dates back decades but intensified after the Hamas attack of October 7, is remaking American politics on both the left and the right. As Kamala Harris acknowledges in her recent memoir, 107 Days, Joe Biden’s lack of empathy for Palestinians helped shatter the Democratic Party and was a constant anchor dragging down her campaign against Donald Trump. Even now, although more Democratic politicians are catching up with public opinion by criticizing Israel and eschewing AIPAC funding, left-of-center political leaders remain polarized. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer reportedly sees support for Israel as so core to his personal and political mission that he pointedly refused to endorse—or, by all available evidence, even vote for—New York City’s Democratic Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani due to Mamdani’s criticism of Israel.
... full articleHuman brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.




