How to Not Get Along With Apocalypses in Other Countries
by www.counterpunch.org
www.counterpunch.org— Gaza is a US-backed apocalypse and all of the Global South has been living through various grades and shades of apocalypse for decades and centuries. Ignored starvation, colonization, massacres and coups, torture, media belittlement, and erasure of identity, culture and history. No or limited water and health care, and someone else controlling (robbing) resources and More
The A.V. Club—Fire Country gets spin-off with frankly terrible name. Let’s start with this: Fire Country is already a pretty bad name for a TV show. Besides setting you up for potential Avatar: The Last Airbender jokes from pitiless nerds—i.e., “We were having a good night watching TV until the Fire Country attacked”—it’s also just a little on the nose. What do they do in Fire Country? Fight fires, all the time, apparently. We’ll give it this, though: At least it’s not something truly silly, like, say, Sheriff Country, a title that implies that spontaneous bouts...
Washington Free Beacon—Biden’s Pier Gets Pummeled—Along With His Foreign Policy. Stung by the charge of indifference to Palestinian suffering, President Joe Biden attempted to refute the accusations during his State of the Union address. "It’s heartbreaking," he said about the cost of the war to Gazan civilians, so "tonight, I am directing the U.S. military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier." This "would enable a massive increase" in the humanitarian assistance reaching the beleaguered people of Gaza.
Sarnia Observer—Good dogs learning to get along at group walks in Sarnia park. Everybody was keeping it together until a couple of geese waddled across the walkway at Canatara Park. That’s when a few of the four-legged participants in Saturday’s group dog walk started to bark and pull at their leashes. But it was only for a moment or two. The geese wandered away unscathed, and the dogs […]