Hard to be optimistic after everything that’s happened, but it’s quite possible that the 2026 elections mark a real and lasting paradigm shift around America’s support for Israel.
And if the U.S. posture changes, Canada and other democracies are unlikely to continue to hold the line.
One of the most underrated tragedies of the Biden interregnum is that he and his most trusted advisors looked at a model of regional order designed by Jared Kushner and, for whatever their reasons, thought it was a good idea.
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Revoking citizenship is one of the darkest paths a democracy can go down.
Canada actually grappled with this 10 years ago, and Trudeau's response that "A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian" was a very affirming moment of our culture and values: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/video...
Literally Trump's only redeeming quality is his ability to torture and humiliate the very worst people in the world.
sorry to thucydides post on main but just because the athenians were normatively preferable to the spartans doesn’t mean the former didn’t deserve to get their shit wrecked by the latter.
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It is true that Proton is located in Switzerland and responded to a legal request from the Swiss authorities. But it is also true that most people do not know what an MLAT is and there is a widespread misunderstanding that using Proton will protect your account from US govt requests.
What's particularly insane about saying this today is the unfolding market chaos is a preview of what a world without international rules looks like: no stability or predictability, just 193 self-interested psychopaths battling it out.
Abandoning international law makes everything harder not easier
Lindsey Graham surprised and dismayed that the guy who just did a genocide is not exercising appropriate caution or proportionality in this conflict.
5/ The fascism is coming from liberal insitutions. No speech, no expression will be allowed. If we can not make everyone be overseers, if we can't control what can be said at all times, then no one will be allowed to say anything. Total control, total domination, nothing else will suffice.
This is heart-breaking analysis that is likely true. As someone who is NOT distant diaspora I can only mourn for those who never went to Iran 4 whatever reason. They missed out on a stunningly beautiful, vibrant country with the most breathtaking geography, incredible art and culture, and warm ppl.
The guy below is a tenured professor at Concordia University who for some reason is still allowed to teach students.
This is a significant part of it. You will never go broke telling rich people what they want to hear.
Brett Stephens still has a sinecure at the New York Times!
Brett McGurk is yukking it up on Colbert. Jake Sullivan scored a cushy gig at the Harvard Kennedy school. After the most consequential foreign policy screw up in a generation.
If a civil engineer or a surgeon demonstrated their level of incompetence they’d be drummed out of the profession.
The fact that people like Goldberg are still treated as experts on the region is a huge part of how we got here.
Being repeatedly and catastrophically wrong does absolutely nothing to dent the career paths of guys like this, who just breeze onto their next influential and lucrative gig.
The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
Even Shapiro sees the writing on the wall. Any Democratic nominee for national office going forward is going to have to address tough questions re: their support for Palestinian rights.
I just had to correct a citation to “Benjamin Ruha”.
Straight from the horse's mouth: the destruction is the point. Force them to spend all their energy and resources on rebuilding critical infrastructure, and they won't have any capability to build anything else.
It's the Gaza strategy all over again.
It's cool though - soon we'll just be using AI to read the articles for us and the circle of life will be complete.
That, and a gigantic "rally 'round the flag" effect from ongoing American threats to Canadian sovereignty. It also helps that the main opposition party was torpedoed as a result of their perceived alignment with Trump's utterly toxic brand.
That'd be the fastest drone strike Trump ever ordered.
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This is wrong though: the destruction is both the strategy and the objective. It's the same thing we saw in Gaza for years. Destroy the country entirely, under the theory that a people focusing on day-to-day survival have no capacity to present an external threat.
Canadian self-help forum for depression faces enforcement action under the UK Online Safety Act for failing to implement universal ID checks even after blocking UK traffic.
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"But look at all the Israeli opposition! They're marching in the streets!"
Yeah - plenty of Israelis dislike the corruption and authoritarianism. But even they are, on the whole, super supportive of brutalizing Palestinians, Iranians, Syrians, and everyone else in the region perceived as a threat.
People keep trying to reduce the problem to Netanyahu, which conveniently ignores the fact that he’s democratically elected, and the worst aspects of his regime are overwhelmingly popular among the Israeli public.
Earlier this week I spoke with CBC's Shaina Luck about a new proposal to expand publication bans on vulnerable children beyond their death.
While this is being framed as advancing privacy, it does so at the expense of transparency and fostering debate on systemic problems www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
