I don't know whether #JoeBiden's false implication that the #ICC warrants assert equivalency between #Israel's government and #Hamas is based on willful blindness to the facts or cynical political maneuvering.
Either way, it is immensely disappointing.
I guess we'll have to wait 105 years for the U.S. government to acknowledge that what's happening now is #genocide, just as we had to wait that long vis a vis the #ArmenianGenocide. #Gaza#GazaGenocide#politics
An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness.
Branigan received the award for “Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution” at a gala in #Montreal on Wednesday evening.
Jurors describe the book as a “haunting” account of the #trauma endured by those who #survived#MaoZedong ’s power grab in the mid-20th century.
If end-stage capitalism has a motto, it's this: "Stop hitting yourself." The great failure of "voting with your wallet" is that you're casting ballots in a one party system (The Capitalism Party), and the people with the thickest wallets get the most votes.
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