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The Rise of Bullshit Jobs
The Rise of Bullshit Jobs
In his latest book, David Graeber, the best-selling author of Debt: The First 5000 Years, argues that many jobs today are essentially pointless — or, as the book’s title calls them, Bullshit Jobs.
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The Rise of Bullshit Jobs
Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’
Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’
The Republican nominee’s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening.
Over the past several years, Milley has privately told several interlocutors that he believed Trump to be a fascist.
unleash the military on “radical-left lunatics.”
We reached that point in the conversation where he looked frankly at General Milley, and said, ‘Can’t you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?’”
officials about the George Floyd protests. “The Chinese generals would know what to do,” he said, according to former officials who described the conversations to me, referring to the leaders of the People’s Liberation Army, which carried out the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989
Trump asked Kelly to explain who “the good guys” were in World War I. Kelly responded by explaining a simple rule: Presidents should, as a matter of politics and policy, remember that the “good guys” in any given conflict are the countries allied with the United States. Despite Trump’s lack of historical knowledge, he has been on record as saying that he knew more than his generals about warfare. He told 60 Minutes in 2018 that he knew more about NATO than James Mattis, his secretary of defense at the time, a retired four-star Marine general who had served as a NATO official. Trump also said, on a separate occasion, that it was he, not Mattis, who had “captured” the Islamic State.
Bob Woodward reported that Trump complained that “my fucking generals are a bunch of pussies. They care more about their alliances than they do about trade deals.”
death, in 2018.) McCain partisans believe, with justification, that Trump’s loathing was prompted in part by McCain’s ability to see through Trump. “John didn’t respect him, and Trump knew that,” Mark Salter, McCain’s longtime aide and co-author, told me. “John McCain had a code. Trump only has grievances and impulses and appetites. In the deep recesses of his man-child soul, he knew that McCain and his achievements made him look like a mutt.”
wrote extensively about Trump’s reaction to McCain’s death in August 2018: The president told aides, “We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral,” and he was infuriated when he saw flags at the White House lowered to half-mast. “What the fuck are we doing that for? Guy was a fucking loser,” he said angrily. Only when Kelly told Trump that he would get “killed in the press” for showing such disrespect did the president relent. In the article, I also reported that Trump had disparaged President George H. W. Bush, a World War II naval aviator, for getting shot down by the Japanese. Two witnesses told me that Trump said, “I don’t get it. Getting shot down makes you a loser.” (Bush ultimately evaded capture, but eight other fliers were caught and executed by the Japanese).
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Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’
Trump echoes Hitler’s rhetoric ahead of upcoming 'Nazi-esque' rally in New York: columnist - Alternet.org
Trump echoes Hitler’s rhetoric ahead of upcoming 'Nazi-esque' rally in New York: columnist - Alternet.org
One of former President Donald Trump's final campaign rallies won't happen in one of the seven must-win battleground states, but in deep-blue New York City. And one columnist is drawing parallels between that upcoming rally and a 1939 Nazi gathering.In a Saturday essay for the Guardian, Sidney Blume...
·alternet.org·
Trump echoes Hitler’s rhetoric ahead of upcoming 'Nazi-esque' rally in New York: columnist - Alternet.org
Ground News - UN report says 1.1 billion people live in acute poverty worldwide
Ground News - UN report says 1.1 billion people live in acute poverty worldwide
A striking UN Development Program report published Thursday revealed that more than one billion people worldwide are living in acute poverty. It also found that children account for more than half of those affected, and that poverty rates are three times higher in countries at war.
·ground.news·
Ground News - UN report says 1.1 billion people live in acute poverty worldwide
Does Your Feminism Include Palestine?
Does Your Feminism Include Palestine?
Women's Marches are being planned across the country ahead of Election Day to "show the strength of our feminist movement." However, curiously missing from the talking points around the strength of the feminist movement is the women of Palestine - who have endured the brutality of anti-feminist policies for decades under the illegal occupation by Israel.
·counterpunch.org·
Does Your Feminism Include Palestine?
Opinion | Harris Refuses to Change Course on US Complicity With Israel's Genocide in Gaza | Common Dreams
Opinion | Harris Refuses to Change Course on US Complicity With Israel's Genocide in Gaza | Common Dreams
Time is running out for Kamala Harris to distance herself from U.S. policies enabling mass murder in Gaza. Polls show a pivot towards moral decency could boost her chances against Trump. Will she continue to echo Biden's unconditional support for Israel's atrocities, or will she take a stand for justice and humanity?
·commondreams.org·
Opinion | Harris Refuses to Change Course on US Complicity With Israel's Genocide in Gaza | Common Dreams
The National: We publish a timeline of a year of Israel's bombardment of Gaza. It's all here in black and white - the war crimes, murdered journalists, flattened hospitals, orphaned children. 7567 words, 42,000 deaths. Don't look away
The National: We publish a timeline of a year of Israel's bombardment of Gaza. It's all here in black and white - the war crimes, murdered journalists, flattened hospitals, orphaned children. 7567 words, 42,000 deaths. Don't look away
460K subscribers in the socialism community. An international community for socialists, to discuss current events in our world from our…
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The National: We publish a timeline of a year of Israel's bombardment of Gaza. It's all here in black and white - the war crimes, murdered journalists, flattened hospitals, orphaned children. 7567 words, 42,000 deaths. Don't look away
Central Florida would love to ramp up reconstruction after the hurricanes - Can't because DeSantis chased off all the immigrant labor (about 200,000 jobs worth) in construction.
Central Florida would love to ramp up reconstruction after the hurricanes - Can't because DeSantis chased off all the immigrant labor (about 200,000 jobs worth) in construction.
8.7K votes, 338 comments. 1.1M subscribers in the LeopardsAteMyFace community. 'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for…
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Central Florida would love to ramp up reconstruction after the hurricanes - Can't because DeSantis chased off all the immigrant labor (about 200,000 jobs worth) in construction.
Where the World Sees Crisis, Israel Sees Opportunity
Where the World Sees Crisis, Israel Sees Opportunity
Since October 8, 2023, Hezbollah has been engaged in a limited war with Israel, which Netanyahu’s government escalated last month in a series of attacks on Lebanese society. Jacobin spoke to Lebanon scholar Joseph Daher about the dilemma the party faces.
Attention to the strategic constraints faced by Hezbollah, as well as its political limitations, should not, however, prevent socialists from maintaining that Palestinians and Lebanese have a right to resist Israel’s racist, colonial, apartheid state violence, including through military resistance. This includes defending the right of Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine, which are the main actors involved in the armed confrontation with Israel’s occupation army, to resist. Israel’s war against Palestinians and Lebanese is part of its attempt to pursue its historical objectives as a settler-colonial state serving Western imperialism. Central to this project is the elimination of the Palestinian populations through a continued Nakba and the consolidation of a regional order serving US imperial interests. These objectives are, without exception, a mortal threat to the whole region. Defending the right of people to resist oppression should not however be confused with political support for the specific political projects of Hamas or Hezbollah in their respective societies, or lead us to imagine these parties will be able to deliver Palestinian liberation or that they have a strategy that could lead to it. Finally, socialists must continue to denounce the complicit role of Western ruling classes in supporting not only the racist, settler-colonial, apartheid state of Israel and its genocidal war against the Palestinians but also the Israeli war against Lebanon. They must participate in movements pressuring those ruling classes to break off any political, economic, and military relations with Tel Aviv. No one should expect Western ruling classes to easily change their political positions regarding Israel. But never in history have the ruling classes granted genuine democracy or justice except under pressure from working-class mobilization from below.
·jacobin.com·
Where the World Sees Crisis, Israel Sees Opportunity
Undebatable: What Harris and Trump Could Not Say About Israel and Gaza - CounterPunch.org
Undebatable: What Harris and Trump Could Not Say About Israel and Gaza - CounterPunch.org
Kamala Harris won the debate. People being bombed in Gaza did not. The banner headline across the top of the New York Times home page -- “Harris Puts Trump on Defensive in Fierce Debate” -- was accurate enough. But despite the good news for people understandably eager for Trump to be defeated, the Harris debate performance was a moral and political tragedy.
·counterpunch.org·
Undebatable: What Harris and Trump Could Not Say About Israel and Gaza - CounterPunch.org