Fake electors settle in Wisconsin

benfell

Illiberalism

Gilead

Donald Trump
Coup attempt


Fig. 1. Donald Trump booking photograph by Fulton County (Georgia) Sheriff’s Office, August 24, 2023, via New York, August 25, 2023,[1] public domain.

Patrick Marley, “Wisconsin Trump electors settle lawsuit, agree Biden won in 2020,” Washington Post, December 6, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/06/wisconsin-trump-fake-electors-lawsuit/

Imperialism

Israel


Fig. 1. John Bolton and Binyamin Netanyahu at a press conference. Office of U.S. National Security Advisor, August 20, 2018, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

If war is what it takes to keep Binyamin Netanyahu in power,[2] then war is what we’ll have. Endless war.

Joe Biden’s administration has been desperately trying to prevent the war from expanding, possibly involving Hezbollah and Iran, possibly drawing in the U.S.[3] Too bad Netanyahu’s government has other ideas.[4]

I don’t know how I could live in a country that can so easily be drawn into a war on Israel’s behalf.

Jamie Dettmer, “Israel could open second front in Lebanon, defense minister hints,” Politico, December 6, 2023, https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-could-open-second-front-lebanon-defense-minister-hintsgaza-hamas-war-yoav-gallant/

Palestine

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Fig. 1. The ruins of a terminal at the Gaza airport. Image by Said Khatib (Agence France-Presse) on September 9, 2018, via the Times of Israel,[5] fair use.

Gazans reached by The Washington Post say Israel’s high-tech system has been no match for the brutal reality of its military campaign. In the chaos of combat, the Israeli directives are confusing, vague or contradictory, they said, often sending them from one battlefield to another.[6]

Loveday Morris, “Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas. Yet the group remains largely intact,” Washington Post, December 5, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/05/israel-military-offensive-hamas-destruction-gaza/

Ishaan Tharoor, “Israel’s Netanyahu is fighting two wars, and may not win either,” Washington Post, December 5, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/05/netanyahu-wars-win-lose-political-endgame-career/

Steve Hendrix, Miriam Berger, and Hazem Balousha, “Israel touts civilian warning system, but for Gazans, nowhere is safe,” Washington Post, December 6, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/06/israel-gaza-civilians-protection/

Neoliberalism

Work


Fig. 1. The spectre of Death, in the form of a large skeleton, rises with the smoke and flames of the burning Asch Building during the Triangle fire, as people jump and fall to their death. Artist unknown, from International Ladies Garment Workers Union Photographs (1885-1985) at The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

If it is indeed illegal for a county council to give county workers a pay raise,[7] then I think I need to get out of Pennsylvania. There is no universe where this is even remotely acceptable.

Steve Bonnel, “A court sides with Rich Fitzgerald in his fight with lawmakers over the minimum wage for county employees,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 6, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-local/2023/12/06/allegheny-county-government-workers-minimum-wage-court-ruling/stories/202312060105

  1. [1]Margaret Hartmann and Nia Prater, “All the Mug Shots of Donald Trump and His Alleged Co-Conspirators,” New York, August 25, 2023, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-mug-shot-gallery.html↩
  2. [2]Alon Pinkas, “Netanyahu is stuck as he battles Hamas: he can’t afford to lose, yet can’t find a way to win,” Guardian, November 30, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/30/netanyahu-hamas-lose-win-israeli-public-us↩
  3. [3]Jamie Dettmer, “Lebanese hold their breath as fears grow Hezbollah will pull them into war,” Politico, October 16, 2023, https://www.politico.eu/article/lebanese-hold-their-breath-as-fears-grow-hezbollah-will-pull-them-into-war/; Raya Jalabi, Najmeh Bozorgmehr, and Felicia Schwartz, “Border clashes prompt fears of Hizbollah joining Israel-Hamas war,” Financial Times, October 11, 2023, https://www.ft.com/content/213ce971-b93e-4756-8dd0-6ff163b21577; Liz Sly, “Mideast teeters on the brink of wider war as Iran weighs its options,” Washington Post, October 17, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/17/israel-iran-hezbollah-wider-war/↩
  4. [4]Jamie Dettmer, “Israel could open second front in Lebanon, defense minister hints,” Politico, December 6, 2023, https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-could-open-second-front-lebanon-defense-minister-hintsgaza-hamas-war-yoav-gallant/↩
  5. [5]Agence France-Presse and Times of Israel, “20 years after its opening, destroyed Gaza airport embodies grounded peace hopes,” Times of Israel, September 12, 2018, https://www.timesofisrael.com/20-years-after-its-opening-destroyed-gaza-airport-embodies-grounded-peace-hopes/↩
  6. [6]Steve Hendrix, Miriam Berger, and Hazem Balousha, “Israel touts civilian warning system, but for Gazans, nowhere is safe,” Washington Post, December 6, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/06/israel-gaza-civilians-protection/↩
  7. [7]Steve Bonnel, “A court sides with Rich Fitzgerald in his fight with lawmakers over the minimum wage for county employees,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 6, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-local/2023/12/06/allegheny-county-government-workers-minimum-wage-court-ruling/stories/202312060105↩

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