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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has some thoughts in his Backchannel column: What Can the US Do To Bring the Israel-Hamas War to An End? (the link should allow full access) It’s not a secret that many people are upset that President Biden has not...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 03:40 PM PST
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The tragedy, 110 years ago on Christmas Eve in Italian Hall in Calumet Michigan, must never be forgotten. There were two sides in conflict at the time, the rich mine owners backed by their ruthless strike breakers and the miners striking against...
by CorpFlunky
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on Sat Dec 23, 2023 at 11:22 AM PST
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The blame for death and destruction in Gaza lies squarely with Hamas. The terrorist organization perpetrated a massacre, which then initiated a war, which Hamas is losing. And by hiding amongst civilians and using them as human shields, Hamas is...
by hammerinhank
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on Sat Dec 09, 2023 at 07:55 PM PST
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Photo source An Israeli research fellow, in a column published today in an Israeli newspaper under the headline “Hamas's horrific massacres smash Israel's longtime faulty strategy - opinion,” says the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas terrorists on...
by cfordlaw
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on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 01:11 PM PDT
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This arrived in my email inbox, but this appears to be the link to it. . "The Moral Depravity of the Pro Hamas Left Spare me the whataboutisms..." But the pro-Hamas left reacted very differently. Spare me the whataboutism, the lectures about...
by Dem
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on Wed Oct 11, 2023 at 02:51 PM PDT
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They want to hurt black people in America. I detailed here how my father, a military veteran, had to come home from foreign wars to sit in the back of the bus. He died in 2005 from drug addiction and a long struggle with illness. We were estranged...
by sepiasiren
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on Sun Jul 30, 2023 at 04:20 PM PDT
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… using hand grenades. While hand grenades are clearly ‘arms’, and can be ‘carried’, and therefor fall under the second amendment, they are illegal. While they might take out an entire classroom at once.. no one is using them. There have been no school...
by Mustellus
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on Wed Mar 29, 2023 at 08:15 AM PDT
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Uvalde surviving teacher relates harrowing account, corroborating the worst details still covered up The New York Times reported an interview with 4th grade teacher Arnulfo Reyes, who survived the Uvalde mass shooting by playing dead from his gunshot wounds as the fearsomely armed killer quickly murdered his eleven students. His classroom door was...
by willisnewton
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on Mon Jul 11, 2022 at 01:43 PM PDT
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Even before the horrible massacre in Uvalde that took the lives of 19 beautiful, innocent children and two devoted teachers, traumatizing an entire village, and now a nation...Even before the many deadly shootings that have occurred around the nation...
by rflctammt
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on Thu Jun 02, 2022 at 02:34 PM PDT
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by Nick Anderson
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on Thu Jun 02, 2022 at 02:50 PM PDT
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This monster who hates everything but the spotlight needs to be put in jail . 21 dead...19 of which are children and he blames kids and administrators. It’s their fault. He is a terrorist. IMO. He is not only twiced impeached and guilty of soooo much...
by Vetwife
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on Sat May 28, 2022 at 05:34 PM PDT
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It must be like a fever or something, but the more we learn about the Uvalde, Texas, massacre in which 19 children and two teachers were slaughtered, the fewer questions elected officials and others want to answer. The main problem here is that the...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Thu May 26, 2022 at 02:43 PM PDT
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In the days since 21 lives were stolen during a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, countless young people have stepped up to organize and demand action in the form of serious gun reform in this nation. Students should be able to...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Thu May 26, 2022 at 11:58 AM PDT
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Australian comedian Jim Jefferies was a big deal in Australia when he released his stand-up set entitled BARE in 2014. One of the chunks of comedy in Jefferies’ BARE routine is about guns. Specifically, it’s about the differences between how Australia...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed May 25, 2022 at 12:09 PM PDT
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The days of the blue & yellow flag waving, indignant, Ukrainian villagers, chanting “Go Home” and blocking the road of incoming Russian troop carriers, who actually chose to pivot and retreat, appear to be gone. The Ukrainian woman who gave seeds to...
by The Empath
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on Fri Apr 08, 2022 at 04:34 AM PDT
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On Thursday, Nov. 11, prosecutors in Sweden indicted two Lundin Oil executives for complicity in war crimes perpetrated in Sudan, between the years of 1999 and 2003. Chairman Ian Lundin and former CEO Alex Schneiter reportedly called upon the Sudanese...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Nov 16, 2021 at 12:06 PM PST
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Warning, there’s a graphic image of a man stoned to death at the link to the Chicago Tribune’s story. Eugene Williams was a teenager who drowned after being attacked for swimming at a segregated Lake Michigan beach. His death was a primary spark of the...
by DigitusImpudicus
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on Fri Jun 04, 2021 at 01:50 PM PDT
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It is perhaps fitting that on the anniversary of the Tulsa massacre 100 years ago that we now discover this: Calls are mounting for greater accountability and a search for more unmarked graves after the discovery last week of 215 bodies at a former...
by David B
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on Tue Jun 01, 2021 at 01:31 PM PDT
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Memorial Day in the United States honors men and women who died in the nation’s wars. It originated as Remembrance Day and Decoration Day commemorations by both sides during the American Civil War. From 1868 until 1970 it was observed on May 30th, when...
by Alan Singer
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on Wed May 26, 2021 at 02:30 PM PDT
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The world wonders why America, alone among the so-called advanced nations, tolerates repeated gun massacres. Today’s killing-field was a rail yard in San Jose, CA. A disgruntled employee killed eight. And nothing will come of it. To deflect an...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Wed May 26, 2021 at 04:19 PM PDT
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