Military intelligence official resigns over US support to Israel
Major Harrison Mann said his resignation was due to “moral injury” stemming from US support for Israel’s war in Gaza & the harm caused to Palestinians.
He resigned from the Defense Intelligence Agency in November, but said he "kept quiet about motives out of fear."
As much as Stewart's centrism can drive me up the wall, and as much as I wanted Roy Wood, Jr. to get the permanent host job, I do enjoy Stewart being back on Mondays only.
Despite the headline, this segment goes into bipartisan US congressional corruption, including insider trading.
I ❤️ Simone Zimmerman. She's an amazing young Jewish leader. She talks about how to secure real safety for Jewish people, about far-right attacks on universities in the US, about the weaponization of antisemitism, about her pro-Palestine activities, etc.
She's a courageous & principled fighter for peace. I want someone like her in the Senate and White House.
There is a difference in identities here. I am horrified that this woman and many others face persecution from a blood and soil nationalist movement that extends its reach in the US and Europe, especially Germany, who obligingly submit to engaging in this abomination to serve a foreign national interest.
They are disfigured by blood and soil nationalism, while Gazans pay with their lives.
First Aaron Bushnell and now Captain Mann, the American military members telling us they can’t bear to commit anymore war crimes should be listened to. His resignation lays it all out. #uspol#Gaza#Israel
"At some point - whatever the justification - you're either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you're not." - Cpt Harrison Mann in his resignation letter
“ One look at this chart should be sufficient to understand why the Great Crash of 1929 was both great, and a major cause of the Great Depression which followed it, and why levered speculation, rather than rational calculation, dominates the behaviour of asset markets.”
“ Therefore, credit is a major component of the demand for assets, and particularly for housing. We need a model of asset pricing that includes the role of debt. Given the growth in levered speculation on house prices over the last thirty years, this is especially needed to explain house price dynamics.”
Especially relevant to the US housing crisis. Post WWII, home loans were engineered to power the US economy from war footing.
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“ Treating the rates of change of and HQ as negligible, this implies that the rate of change of house prices is related to—and largely driven by—the acceleration of mortgage debt:”
Interesting, the acceleration in debt itself. Consider the Fed’s policy on interest rates.
Here is a direct relation of interest rates causing inflation.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) railed against Donald Trump’s hush money trial in remarks outside the Manhattan courthouse Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking lawmaker to visit Trump in New York amid the ongoing legal proceedings.
Antony Blinken claims that Hamas is blocking a ceasefire in Gaza, but it is Israel which has vowed to invade Rafah regardless of an agreement and is absolutely unwilling to declare an end to its genocidal operation.