It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that Netanyahu’s government goal in Lebanon and Iran is as in Gaza: disorganized populations with their cultural heritage, history and educational facilities erased, perpetually being displaced by the threat of bombing of civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...

“It falls down and blows things up.” Always nice to get more incisive reporting from the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/b...

We often see objections to the return of the remains of Indigenous people from museums as mere ‘political correctness’. I wonder what the objectors would say about the remains of Canadian soldiers that have been sitting in a US museum for the past century. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

I’m Canadian. It’s pretty funny at this point to be happy that we don’t have a king. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/o...

Angela Gschwend wants to kill because she loves. “I believe in peace and love…. But sometimes you have to fight when you’re attacked. They want to kill because they hate, and that’s the opposite of my worldview.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

Which just illustrates how screwed-up the party is. “Labour MPs have said for weeks that the outcome they most feared at the Gorton and Denton byelection was a Green party victory.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Always good to have a functioning memory www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Exactly this.

It appears that the IDF bulldozed the graves of 23 Canadian UN peacekeepers in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Whoopsie. ‘The report quoted an official, saying: “Our estimate is that roughly 70,000 Gazans were killed in the war, not including missing persons.”’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

“Sandi Lipinski went to church on Sunday, and after a sermon and prayerful consideration concluded that the guy shot in the back had it coming.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Let’s see if this gets any reaction in the United States, which has a case of collective amnesia about NATO forces in Afghanistan. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“It’s not surprising, I don’t think, that in the midst of this indiscriminate killing, many of the Westerners doing the most active work in opposing genocide are Jews. Here is love born of pain, of the past century’s most horrific crime, love of one’s own spread outward into love of another….“

Easily the most important columnist at the New York Times at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...

Was wondering if there would be any acknowledgment of this in Canadian national media. On recent evidence, the United States will constitute an increasing threat to Canadian sovereignty in the coming years. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Given that the -Nigerian- military mostly doesn’t have any precise idea of where insurgent camp are … even in well demarcated areas like the Sambisa Forest or the borders of Lake Chad… it’s pretty safe to say that this accomplished absolutely nothing. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/w...

Ross Douthat’s column is just the written version of this cartoon. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

“There was a time, mostly forgotten now, when almost every centrist institution in this country bent over backward to describe Donald Trump’s appeal as a function of some kind of “economic anxiety.” The alternative…”

Kkklukkker-hugging at the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

You’d have to be drunk to think that firing an RPG inside a helicopter was a good idea. Oh, wait…

West Bank settlers are cowards and thieves… what a surprise. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Next step, Shabana Mahmood pledges to make sure asylum seekers can only sit at the back of the bus. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Friendship… it’s called Gripen.

Israel tried to render southern Lebanon uninhabitable with cluster weapon UXOs in 2006. Now they are using them there again. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

At a time when people are getting fired across the US for expressing ideas from the left, Len Gutkin pursues his zealous pursuit of the wokes.

Exactly this, from lioneltrolling.bsky.social: “In the way Buchanan used it… it’s what Western civilization means: It means white people…a certain racial stock that makes up Western people. And the division on the right, right now, is: Are Jews part of that Western white people?”

As PM, has Keir Starmer actually let with anything except that enormous chin? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I bought Count Zero by accident, in transit through O’Hare just after it came out in 1986 or 1987. It encapsulated a very particular concept of cool that has stuck with me ever since. Funny the things that work to define your life.

As an archaeologist, I want to emphasize what bullshit this is. “…this originated in the mists of prehistory, that men were organized to have warrior bands, which meant they needed to have hierarchical structures.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

“It’s not a war if the other side can’t shoot back.” “Whatever happens, we have got/the Maxim gun, and they have not.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

“The collision between Albanese and the Trump White House … It’s a conflict between someone who deeply understands the workings of a Mafia state and a U.S. administration that is building a Mafia state.”

Now I understand why I keep reading all of these smarmy, squishy conversations between columnists and extreme-right commentators in the New York Times. The Times columnists are doing job interviews: after all, they might be working for Bari Weiss someday. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

If Dave Hutchinson had started writing his Fractured Europe sequence five years later, it would’ve been accused of being a documentary. Except for the alternate universe and the Flu starting in Wuhan, of course.

“..mainstream right-wing commentators are claiming that black people cannot be English ..This is absolute poison, obviously, but it is also contrary to public opinion.. I would like to see a Labour communication strategy which punches that bruise. Make it the chief issue, focus remorselessly on it.”

“Gazans are being slaughtered, but they’ve been slaughtered for a while now and that’s going to continue. So just give it a rest for a day or two, OK? “The issues that are driving those protests have been going on for some time. They don’t look like they are going to come to an end any time soon.”

Not a coincidence that you get reports like this one at the same time as articles on the lawlessness of American Special Forces in places like Afghanistan. The objective is to have American families terrorized the way that Afghan families were. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...

Starmerism in a nutshell. youtu.be/KgUemV4brDU

As a partial antidote to this nonsense, I’d recommend Nadia Abu El-Haj’s excellent book ‘Facts on the Ground’. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

In an conversation that spends most of its time talking about how the first two Red Scares were the left’s fault… “And I want to be clear that I am not absolving them of their responsibility for this or saying this is the left’s fault. But…” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

‘…Vice President JD Vance said last week: “We don’t believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility….’ ‘….when one social media user told him that killing foreign civilians without due process was a war crime, Mr. Vance responded, “I don’t give a shit what you call it.”’

Erik Prince at work… using drones to kill children at a birthday party. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

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When you meet someone who wants you to be institutionalized, prosecuted, or killed, you should be asking yourself: what do I have in common with this person? Tomorrow from Ezra Klein

Eventually, these two idiots are going to run out of bad things to say about Democrats. However, it won’t be soon: if they are slagging Democrats, they are avoiding criticism of the present regime, and that’s primary.

Starmer’s never had an actual motive in government beyond screwing the Labour Left. Faced with the choice between condemning and embracing racism, he’ll take the easy route every time. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The most anodyne description of a double tap ever: these are meant to kill rescuers. Isabel Kershner as one of the writers, of course. “…a “double tap” strike…. Rights groups have deplored such attacks, which can put rescue workers and other civilians gathering to help the wounded in danger.”