With the number of ecosystems that are predicted to collapse, and species that will go extinct, the future is going to be a rapid-fire drumbeat of “this died” and “that died” and “the other thing died” interspersed with human populations going into panic when the thing that died is something people depended on.
I’m sure that there will be many (some?) who argue with Mehdi Hasan’s analysis, that Hamas is at least partially a creation of the state of Israel.
In my previous posting about Israel/Palestine and language, I commented that not enough blame is directed towards Britain. I think that probably needs some support.
In the last week, for obvious reasons, there has been a lot of discussion using words like “war”, “terrorism”, “war crimes”, “human shields”, etc.
The legend of the Mar A Lago documents has blossomed like some kind of strange weed, with tendrils everywhere. And, it just seems more stupid the closer I look at it.
[Warning: This is not advocating violence.] [I can just say that, right?]
Right now, the popularity/interest in stable audio is so high that you basically can’t get to it unless you’re a journalist who has a public relations person making calls for you.
This is the scenario, as I see it:
In liberal(ish) circles, it seems to be a popular new pastime to try to separate out different categories of people who are concerned about climate change, to label them, and try to dismiss their views if they are not the correct ones in the author’s opinion.
I couldn’t resist.