The Chinese are just as deeply xenophobic and racist as the rest of us.
Their leadership and corporate captains also require a uniformly obedient and docile population in which ‘deviance’ and the subscription to other values can be stamped out in favour of enshitification, mass production, and the lowest, cheapest, most discardable form of labour to run it so long as human labour proves necessary.
The current American threats to sanction the ICC could spell the death of International Law. Whatever little hope people had for a just international system will disappear.
“…it is clear that Biden and Blinken fully intend to find a more creative way to press the ICC to deny Khan’s request for arrest warrants or, failing that, to withdraw them…”
One creative way would be to stop tipping billions in munitions on a starving population in the wasteland that was Gaza.
But then what?
As soon as the bombing & shooting stop, journalists will want to go in.
This is literally money talking and feeling it has been disrespected by someone expressing their opposition to further killing after 35,000+ Gazans (at least half women and children) have already been slaughtered and seen their open air confinement zone razed in reply to the Oct 7 loss of 1,200 Israelis.
We have here a picture of exactly the calculus our politicians are using to assess their larger interests in relation to Gaza.
"It is frankly incredible to me that advocating for a cessation of hostilities is seen as not only controversial, but somehow hateful.
"Criticism of the actions of the Israeli government does not in and of itself constitute antisemitism. That accusation… serves to trivialize the regrettably very real instances of antisemitism that do occur."
I recall conversations at the time about how the 9/11 attackers would never have made it past multi-layered Israeli airport security, something doubtless correct at the time.
So we went in for joint training.
Now here we are reaping the benefits by embracing a far broader range of Israeli ethnic cleansing tactics we happen to find helpful as well.
"Airport and airline security is different from condoning mass, calculated slaughter."
Indeed, that was exactly my point.
I have travelled in the US by air both pre- and post-9/11, bwt. In the old days, boarding a domestic flight was no more onerous or security-enhanced than boarding a bus.
Living in a Tory riding it’s a no-brainer for me - in past years my protest vote would have gone Liberal; today, under Trudeau’s genocidal cheerleading, forget that.
My heart aches for the children who will no longer have access to their local library because some arrogant assholes decided to be offended by books with new ideas and different perspectives.
One notes again and again how militancy and extremism seem to take root most deeply and fervently in environments of forced deprivation, as was the case with Germany in the post WWI era.
Israel’s answer: more force and deprivation.
Einstein himself, without doubt the world’s best known (and passionately moderate) commentator on Zionism once said: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”
I've boosted because this is interesting and has a distinct ring of truth to it, but there is no source referenced. How reliable is this material? I am not familiar with the author.
You're standing and looking out over the water at the city skyline. Suddenly, a small spaceship lands near you. Then a slightly larger one. Then an even larger one. And then ...
One of the most fun videos I've seen on #YouTube in quite a while! This channel does great work!
Funny how American republicans who object have no problem with a disordered fascist warlord threatening the use of nukes using those same refineries to fund a ‘patriotic’ ethnic cleansing campaign in Ukraine while insulting everything America claims to stand for…
Kinda disgraceful the CBC can't bring itself to mention the other half of the problem here, which is grasping major IT consultancies billing themselves as "world leaders" low-bidding then change-requesting the crap out of these gigantic systems development contracts, in this case IBM and Peoplesoft.
Yes, this Harper-era file has been brutally mismanaged by the feds—but neither is any restraint or accountability visible from vendors who've been feeding like jackals over a kill.
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.
“That theater has often veered into the absurd, as, just to cite one example, when the President has complained about Israel not allowing humanitarian aid in to Gaza—an unambiguous war crime under international law—only to have administration spokespeople assert that they have “no evidence” that Israel has broken international law.”
This is how Palestine has been managed for decades, not just since Biden took office…
“While the Biden administration has repeatedly said they “will not support” a Rafah invasion, they have not said there would be consequences if Israel goes ahead. In other words, they have done absolutely nothing to actually deter Netanyahu. This is how Biden has dealt with Israel since the day he took office.”