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Let’s put it in language the Signal leakers will understand: what a bunch of pathetic sleazebags
March 27, 2025
The Maga-fication of American political discourse, which started, arguably, with Donald Trump mocking a disabled reporter in 2015, peaked this week with news of Pete Hegseth referring to European countries in the leaked Signal chat as “PATHETIC”, and enjoyed a detour last Tuesday when Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota and former running mate of Kamala Harris, appeared at a town hall in Wisconsin and called Elon Musk “a dipshit”. (This is not the first time he has referred to Musk this way. Right before the election last year, Walz told a crowd: “Look, Elon’s on that stage, jumping around, skipping like a dipshit.”)
... full articleI can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.
In Gaza, We Now Ask: Will It Be the Cold, Hunger or Airstrikes That Kill Us?
March 25, 2025
On Thursday morning, just two days after the deadly March 18 bombardment that ended the ceasefire, I was once again jolted awake, this time by the sound of people screaming. In the distance, the wind roared and we could also hear tank shells. I heard people urgently saying, “Food is running out, we must buy what’s left before it’s gone completely!”
After hearing this grim news, my mother and I decided to venture out in search of rice, flour and drinkable water. As we walked through my childhood neighborhood, the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza, I couldn’t even recognize the streets anymore — everything was lost in the wreckage.
... full articleWe must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security – and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use.
Israel Kills Palestinian Journalist Hossam Shabat as US Media Look Away
March 26, 2025
The Israeli military killed Hossam Shabat, a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist and correspondent for Al Jazeera and Drop Site News, on Monday, March 24. The deadly targeting of Shabat’s vehicle in the northern Gaza Strip was in fact Israel’s second journalist assassination for the day; hours earlier, Palestine Today reporter Mohammad Mansour was killed in an Israeli strike on his home in southern Gaza.
... full articleAn ethical man doesn’t need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.
Latest Signal leak revelations expose US officials’ lies about what was shared
March 26, 2025
The disclosure by the Atlantic of further devastating messages from the Signal chat group used by the Trump administration’s most senior security officials has nailed the lie that nothing that threatened the safety of US servicemen and women was shared on the group.
After the vague and evasive assertions by Trump officials at Monday’s Senate intelligence committee hearing, from the White House, and from the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, that no war plans or classified material was shared, readers can make up their own minds.
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