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The US GOP doesn’t want to punish trans people—it wants to eradicate them
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Billionaire backers of new California city seek voter approval after stealthily snapping up farmland
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 15
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Egypt backs Somalia in dispute over Ethiopia-Somaliland deal
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Moose, maple syrup and monopolies: Is Canada finally taking on its oligarchs?
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Sámi rights activists in Norway charged over protests against wind farm affecting reindeer herding
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Goodbye to the era of the professional spouse – There are not many jobs left in which people are expected to appear, smiling and waving, by their partner’s side
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Arab nations develop plan to end Israel-Hamas war and create Palestinian state
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Doing your own research is a good way to end up being wrong
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Book review - A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism by Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein
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Norway's Arctic deep sea mining plan will inevitably sink – industrialising the ocean floor in the middle of a climate crisis is not only reckless, it's cruel
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Oil companies will soon pay fees for emitting a climate ‘super-pollutant’
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Norway's decision to permit exploratory deep-sea extraction of valuable minerals breaks a promise to the other nations on the Ocean Panel and to scientists
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Humorous messages on electronic signs discouraged by new guidelines from US Federal Highway Administration
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Maldives pro-China leader gives Indian troops March deadline to go
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Ali Abdullah Saleh obituary [2017]
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Alexei Navalny disappears for three weeks; reappears at isolated Arctic penal colony
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Denmark's Frederik X becomes king after Queen Margrethe abdicates, with big crowds gathered in Copenhagen to witness history
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Queen Margrethe II is the first Danish monarch to abdicate in 900 years – but it is just a sign of the times
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Norway is to allow mining waste to be dumped in its fjords after the government won a court case against environmental organisations trying to block the plan
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West Virginia bill would mandate "curing" trans people under 21
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 8
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More than 1,400 Finnish music industry professionals have signed a petition urging a ban on Israel from Eurovision over alleged "war crimes" in Gaza
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Polish political tensions ramp up as PiS politicians arrested at Presidential Palace
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Senior EU politician launches bid to remove Hungary’s voting rights
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Joe Biden administration announces $1 billion for low-emission US school buses
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Norway is likely to become the first country in the world to move forward with the controversial practice of commercial-scale deep-sea mining
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On media outlets frequent use of the term "Iranian-backed"
Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Houthi rebels in Yemen, and militias in Iraq and Syria. Whenever western media outlets speak of these groups they seem to prefix the term Iranian-Backed. I'm...
Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Houthi rebels in Yemen, and militias in Iraq and Syria.
Whenever western media outlets speak of these groups they seem to prefix the term Iranian-Backed.
I'm starting to raise my eyebrows a bit at how universally the term is being used. It feels almost mandated. My understanding is these are indeed supported financially and materially by Iran, but they also very much operate independently. So the extent of the relationship is unknown or at least debated.
Does this strike anyone else as odd or suspicious? Is this use fair and justified?
My mind can't help but wander to the laying of a propaganda foundation for direct conflict with Iran.
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Iceland fisheries minister rebuked over 2023 whaling ban – Parliamentary Ombudsman says whaling ban lacked legal footing
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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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