An opinion piece in the NYT: Manal al-Sharif, co-founder and leader of the #Women2Drive movement and founder and CEO of Women2Hack Academy, is author of the memoir “Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening.” As a Saudi Arabian woman who has lived most of her life under one of the last surviving absolute monarchies in theContinue reading “Hate in Context”
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Axis: Bold as Hate
Bernie Sanders sees in the global trend toward nationalism an “authoritarian axis”, and proposes a new progressive international front to oppose it in an op ed for the UK edition of the Guardian At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, when the world’s top 1% now owns more wealth than the bottom 99%,Continue reading “Axis: Bold as Hate”
Whose Treason?
From that notorious anonymous op ed in the NYT The dilemma — which [Trump] does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. Wait a minute. That part about working to frustrate parts ofContinue reading “Whose Treason?”
Tuesday’s World
A news round-up. Roxanne Barr says she might to move to Israel Former sitcom star Roseanne Barr is vowing to quit the United States and move to Israel, according to reports. Barr made her proclamation on another appearance on Rabbi Shmuley’s podcast where she said she is headed to the Holy Land, according to TMZ. “IContinue reading “Tuesday’s World”
Hegemony and Harmony
Jack Beatty writes in Age of Betrayal: …capitalism was up for debate in Gilded Age America; it had not achieved “cultural hegemony,” a concept introduced by the Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci to elucidate how regimes rule without force. Hegemony, for Gramsci, is “the ‘spontaneous’ consent given by the great masses of the population toContinue reading “Hegemony and Harmony”
Fake Views
Comes now the New York Times weighing in on Trump’s South Africa tweet Mr. Trump’s comment came after the Fox News host Tucker Carlson presented a late-night program on South Africa, including land seizures and homicides, and described President Cyril Ramaphosa as “a racist.”The tweet gives prominence to a false narrative pushed by some right-wing groupsContinue reading “Fake Views”
Predator, Prey
None other than the New York Times has exposed, it would seem, the hypocrisy of early #MeToo leader Asia Argento. Only now I learn her struggle: she was compelled to fake orgasm to get Harvey Weinstein’s face out of her vagina, just like Rose McGowan before her, except Argento maintained a consensual sexual relationship with Weinstein forContinue reading “Predator, Prey”
Chillstream
Aimless chat with Kaiter Enless, Babylonian Hebrew, ecce lux and Brundlefly.
Marginal Ross
Ross Douthat dares to go halfway there. In the aftermath of the 2012 election, when just about everyone assumed Mitt Romney lost because he didn’t win enough Hispanic votes, the election analyst Sean Trende produced a dissenting take. A close look at the results across the Midwest and Appalachia revealed a large population of whatContinue reading “Marginal Ross”
The Alt Right is Dead; Long Live the Alt Right
This Atlantic piece by Adam Serwer, “White Nationalists are Winning”, is a torrent of paranoid hyperbole from the bugman’s id, but gets the important part right. A year after white nationalists in Charlottesville chanted, “You will not replace us!,” their message has been taken up and amplified by Fox News personalities. Tucker Carlson tells his audienceContinue reading “The Alt Right is Dead; Long Live the Alt Right”
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