On the issue of Gaza, Biden is dramatically out of touch with the voters he needs to win re-election. If he will not be moved by morality to stop his support of this war, he should be moved by vulgar self-interest. Gaza is not a distant foreign conflict: it is an urgent moral emergency for large swaths of voters. Biden will lose...
I was held for two hours. The first round of questions was about my views on Hamas. Then the agents wished to know whether I thought Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip amount to genocide and what I think of the slogan “Palestine should be free from the river to the sea”. I said yes, I do think Israel is committing...
Did you know that if you downvote a news article on Lemmy, it stops being true? If we all just bury our heads in the sand bad news until November, Biden will totally win.
Just a reminder: Israel is not a democracy. It’s an apartheid state in which millions of its subjects are denied the right to vote because of their ethnicity.
WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - Several top White House aides say they are confident protests across U.S. college campuses against Israel’s offensive in Gaza will not translate into significantly fewer votes for Joe Biden in November’s election, despite polls showing many Democrats are deeply unhappy about the president’s...
Sorry, buddy, but no, we won’t let you and Biden have your genocide and another term, too. If it’s that important that he has four more years, Biden knows what he needs to do. Being able to look past genocide isn’t enlightened, pragmatic or strategic, it’s moral depravity.
Hahaha! Whenever I see someone arguing “Vote Blue no Matter Who” on here, I don’t have to look far to find evidence that they don’t actually mind the genocide at all. “SJW”
(Reuters) -Hopes are fading that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister have survived a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain and icy weather, an Iranian official said on Monday after search teams located the wreckage. “President Raisi’s helicopter was completely burned in the crash … unfortunately, all...
Unlikely as it may sound, it’s not the first time Mossad has claimed to have undertaken such an operation. In fact, this is the third such case in the last eighteen months. In April 2022, Israeli media reported on an alleged Mossad operation on Iranian territory. Israeli intelligence agents had reportedly detained and questioned Mansour Rasouly, a fifty-two-year-old IRGC agent, in his residence in Iran, where he had confessed to a plan to assassinate an Israeli diplomat in Turkey, an American general stationed in Germany, and a journalist in France. The Israeli media published an audio file of Rasouly’s confession without revealing their source.
Months later, in July 2022, London-based diaspora satellite channel Iran International claimed that Mossad had interrogated another IRGC official, Yadollah Khedmati, in Iran, publishing the footage of his confessions about the transfer of weaponry to Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen.
Australians stranded in New Caledonia are rationing food as they wait for a way out of the Pacific island territory, amid unrest that has killed six people, a traveller from Sydney said on Saturday....
The riots have been sparked by anger among indigenous Kanak people over a new bill, adopted by MPs in Paris, that give French people who have lived in New Caledonia for at least 10 years the right to vote.
Fuck colonialism. Fuck France. Viva New Caledonia.
Biden is dramatically out of touch with voters on Gaza. He may lose because of it (www.theguardian.com)
On the issue of Gaza, Biden is dramatically out of touch with the voters he needs to win re-election. If he will not be moved by morality to stop his support of this war, he should be moved by vulgar self-interest. Gaza is not a distant foreign conflict: it is an urgent moral emergency for large swaths of voters. Biden will lose...
I was detained at a US airport and asked about Israel and Gaza for 2 hours. Why? | Ilan Pappé (www.theguardian.com)
I was held for two hours. The first round of questions was about my views on Hamas. Then the agents wished to know whether I thought Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip amount to genocide and what I think of the slogan “Palestine should be free from the river to the sea”. I said yes, I do think Israel is committing...
Human Rights Campaign launches $15 million swing state strategy for Biden (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Biden’s political operation raises $51 million in April, a significant decline from March (www.cnn.com)
Biden slams ICC prosecutor’s ‘outrageous’ request for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders (thehill.com)
European leaders divided on ICC arrest warrant bid for Netanyahu (www.politico.eu)
Reactions ranged from welcoming the International Criminal Court’s decision to slamming it as “appalling” and “non comprehensible.”...
Biden slams ICC prosecutor’s ‘outrageous’ request for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, Netanyahu (www.thehill.com)
Despite polls, Biden aides insist Gaza campus protests will not hurt reelection bid (www.reuters.com)
WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - Several top White House aides say they are confident protests across U.S. college campuses against Israel’s offensive in Gaza will not translate into significantly fewer votes for Joe Biden in November’s election, despite polls showing many Democrats are deeply unhappy about the president’s...
Schumer announces Senate to vote this week on previously blocked bipartisan border bill | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
Iranian President Raisi feared dead as helicopter wreckage found (www.yahoo.com)
(Reuters) -Hopes are fading that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister have survived a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain and icy weather, an Iranian official said on Monday after search teams located the wreckage. “President Raisi’s helicopter was completely burned in the crash … unfortunately, all...
Australians stranded in New Caledonia 'running out of food' amid civil unrest (www.reuters.com)
Australians stranded in New Caledonia are rationing food as they wait for a way out of the Pacific island territory, amid unrest that has killed six people, a traveller from Sydney said on Saturday....
High levels of weedkiller (glyphosate/e.g. Roundup) found in more than half of sperm samples, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
The levels (of glyphosate that the) French researchers found in sperm were four times higher than in the men’s blood...
Australia’s richest woman seeks removal of her portrait from exhibition (www.cnn.com)
The Gaza Death Toll Is Confusing And Unreliable (www.theatlantic.com)
These numbers matter—first, because of the dignity of those killed or still living....