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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 1
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Frantz Fanon’s enduring legacy – The post-colonial thinker’s seminal book, “The Wretched of the Earth,” described political oppression in psychological terms
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Iran sends warship to Red Sea after US sinks Houthi boats
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India targets Apple over its phone hacking notifications
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German right wing extremists strategically purchase rural land
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of December 25
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The personal, political art of board-game design
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Colorado Supreme Court, in landmark ruling, bans Donald Trump from state’s ballot under insurrection clause
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Ethiopia's Nile dam [continues to] anger Egypt
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France could soon build several nuclear reactors in Sweden, according to a letter of intent signed by the two countries' energy ministers
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Russia has summoned the Finnish ambassador in Moscow, after Finland signed a new agreement on military co-operation with the US
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Cobalt-rich Congo votes with crucial role in climate change
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The divided states of football: The changing face of America's favorite sport
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California gas tax revenue will drop by $6 billion, threatening roads
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of December 18
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When the New York Times lost its way
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The most dangerous Canadian internet bill you’ve never heard of is a step closer to becoming law
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Thoughts on anti-Zionism?
I have been pretty consistently pro-Palestine and critical of injustices perpetrated by Israel, but the anti-Zionist stance has always seemed to me to be counterproductive. On the issue of just...
I have been pretty consistently pro-Palestine and critical of injustices perpetrated by Israel, but the anti-Zionist stance has always seemed to me to be counterproductive.
On the issue of just the legitimacy of the state of Israel, here's my basic stance: All land controlled by all governments was taken at some point through conquest (this is not a whataboutist stance, it's a tautology), but in the post-colonial era we all decided that might isn't right and that a mixture of international law, norms, and democratic principles should dictate the legitimacy of territorial claims. So, the Ottoman empire fell. The British seized control of the land of Palestine and retained a moderately weak mandate over the land (moderately weak in the sense that they were the essentially undisputed administrators of the land and had a military presence, but the territory would likely try to break away if the British tried to exercise significant control over it). With this moderately weak mandate, they pushed for the creation of the state of Israel that, by extension, I would consider a moderately-weakly legitimate state under the pre-WWII paradigm. Israel fights a defensive war against the Arab states and succeeds, converting the state of Israel as defined by the original 1948 partition plan from a weakly legitimate state into a properly legitimate state. At this point, the post-WWII frameworks kick in, and all the developments in the conflict past this point should be a function of that lens (ie. Palestine wrongfully denied sovereignty, illegality of settlements, etc.).
Zionism, in the most basic sense, is the belief in the creation of a Jewish state of Israel. There are more extreme and moderate versions of it, but that's all that it is at its core. Anti-Zionism is opposition to the creation of a Jewish state of Israel (I would not consider opposition to settlements or, strictly speaking, even to the accession of new territory into Israel proper past the 1948 borders after the two wars to be anti-Zionist itself). The anti-Zionist stance before the establishment of Israel was reasonable, but past that point is primarily a claim of one nation over the land of another nation. It's perfectly understandable at the end of the day for the Arabs and, particularly the Palestinians, to be upset about the whole situation and even to feel that a great injustice was done unto them. But that should all be relegated to the world of international affairs between established states. Ultimately, in my eyes anti-Zionism is not anti-semitic, but it's definitely anti-peace.
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San Francisco and Grants Pass Oregon lawsuits about homelessness highlight this question: Do those who reject shelter choose homelessness?
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Why we need degrowth
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US government court filing promises to spend $1 billion to help depleted salmon populations recover
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Finland and Italy seek to hinder restrictions on single-use packaging ahead of next week's gathering of EU ministers in Brussels
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The site of a mining town on Svalbard is now being returned to nature in one of Norway's biggest-ever restoration projects
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of December 11
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Masha Gessen’s Hannah Arendt Prize has been canceled because of their essay on Gaza
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Satellite images show China building houses on Bhutan's territory
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Thailand takes steps toward legalizing same sex marriage - bill from cabinet will be submitted to parliament
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Venezuelan referendum approves takeover of oil-rich region of Guyana
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The red US state brain drain isn’t coming. It’s happening right now.
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Top court clears path for Democrats to redraw House map in New York
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Amsterdam to cut speed limits 40% to improve road safety
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Danish parliament has voted to ban the burning of religious scriptures after a series of Qur’an desecrations in the country and neighbouring Sweden
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Links forged half a century ago with Gaza City mean that support for Palestine goes well beyond gesture politics in Tromsø, Norway
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How Russia punched an $11 billion hole in the West’s oil sanctions
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The rise and fall (and rise and fall) of Venezuela (2019)
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Norway's minority government and two opposition parties have agreed to allow seabed mineral exploration in the Arctic region
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of December 4
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Former US President Donald Trump falsely claims attack ad used AI to make him look bad
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How the US Secret Service keeps presidential motorcades safe
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No Fap: A cultural history of anti-masturbation
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You can’t even pay people to have more kids
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Lars Aagaard, Danish climate minister, says farmers deserving most success on the European market should be those who emit the least carbon per tonne of food produced
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of November 27
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Kenneth Chesebro (former Donald Trump lawyer) may testify in Nevada and Arizona election fraud cases
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Why did NEPA peak in 2016?
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Why we’re dropping Basecamp
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US real estate agents compensation challenged in suit from Joe Biden Department of Justice
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Norway's new gas field highlights tensions as COP28 climate talks open – new North Sea projects jar with push to phase out fossil fuels
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Sweden halts adoptions from South Korea after claims of falsified papers on origins of children
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