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Los efectos de un año de guerra en Gaza: bombardeos, muertes y destrucción sin precedentes
October 6, 2024
En un año de guerra en Gaza, casi el 2% de los residentes de la Franja ha muerto por los ataques del ejército Israelí, según las autoridades de Hamás. Esa cifra no cuenta a los muchos muertos —se calculan en varios miles— que siguen bajo los escombros….
... full articleI know nothing about Hitler. I have no idea what Hitler said other than (what) I’ve seen on the news. And that’s a very, entirely different thing than what I’m saying.
Donald Trump’s Hitlerian logic is no mistake
October 7, 2024
If genealogy is destiny, as Donald Trump believes, then “poison in the blood” – a phrase Trump repeatedly uses – determines the fate of nations. By Trump’s logic, “blood” is the true and final measure. Trump, like Hitler, appears to classify people and countries by “blood” on a scale of their innate racial characteristics. Those features define the essence of nations, which are themselves delineated on a racial pyramid, with the purest and whitest, the most Aryan, at the pinnacle. True to his doctrine, the Nazis on his family tree must explain his penchant for Hitlerian rhetoric.
... full articleJust so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke, OK? I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists.
These 2024 Republican candidates disputed the 2020 election results
October 5, 2024
It’s not just Donald Trump and JD Vance. Numerous other 2020 election deniers are running in 2024 elections.
At least 23 of this year’s 51 Republican nominees for governor, state elections chief or the US Senate have rejected or contested the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s 2020 victory over Trump.
The list includes prominent Republican nominees in competitive states, like gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson of North Carolina and Senate candidates Kari Lake of Arizona, Bernie Moreno of Ohio, Sam Brown of Nevada and Ted Cruz of Texas. It also includes the favorites to become elections chief in Missouri and West Virginia and the favorites in the races for governor in Indiana, Missouri, Montana and West Virginia.
... full article— Rev. Benjamin Cremer (@Brcremer) October 5, 2024
Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
Exposing Bias Against Palestinians, Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Predictably Accused of Bias by CBS
October 4, 2024
Acclaimed journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates returned to nonfiction with his essay collection The Message, published on October 1, only to be met with patronizing dismissal and a whiff of racism on CBS Mornings (9/30/24).
Coates left journalism to spend several years teaching and writing fiction, and intended to return to essay writing by producing a piece similar to George Orwell’s “Why I Write.” What he ended up with was The Message, a collection of three essays that explore “how our stories—our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking—expose and distort our realities.” Coates visits Senegal, South Carolina and Palestine—exploring how the narrative of each place is constructed and perpetuated by journalists and media organizations.
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