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Casual racism? From a same place that casually obliterated the languages of the indigenous people of the island in favour of Mandarin? Say it isn't so...
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‘We need the world to wake up’: Sudan facing world’s deadliest famine in 40 years
(www.theguardian.com)
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Russia reckons with loss of regional influence as Armenia eyes exit from Moscow-led military bloc
(www.themoscowtimes.com)
US news, but a public safety warning. Stay healthy, everyone!
"the Chinese"
Not China (the country), not the PRC (the country), but "the Chinese."
Because that's what the US ambassador thinks of Chinese people.
There's record of ex-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon playing a role in orchestrating the coup. Tell me more about how America isn't intervening in foreign democracies.
The US wanted to strike Iranian targets without retaliation in order to not lose face globally. Tehran says no. If I were serving on a US military base in the Middle East, I'd be looking for ways to take leave because things are about to get hot.
I mean I too would not be happy about a two-state solution with a "state" that's releasing snuff films of my people.
Nobody wants to enter into a hot war with the US. Without Western support, Israel would be in a pickle right now.
Hezbollah Hits IDF Airbase in Northern Israel for Second Time in Two Weeks
Iran’s IRGC says 5 members killed in Israeli attack on Syria’s Damascus
Jordan accuses Israel of deliberately targeting its Gaza field hospital
Israel has comprehensively pissed off all of its neighbours. It knows it can get away with it too, because daddy US will always be there to support them.
North Korea supporting the side committed to ending illegal Israeli occupation and genocide, let's go!
Not internationally significant. This is US news.
Explains why Canada is so happy to dick around in the Middle East.
It should either fall under "not our problem" or under "conflict bad please stop fighting." Those are the two reasonable humanitarian positions.
Perfectly normal thing for independent media to do in support of a healthy democracy.
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MarcoPOLO
joined 8 months ago
Obama has absolutely absurd charisma. He's the Democrat version of Trump - knows exactly what to say to his base and knows how to convince moderates he's not insane.
Clinton and Biden have the charisma of a limp noodle. Sanders has absurd charisma, but he's seen as too big of a threat to Democrat lobbyists and big corporations.
Sanders would've mopped the floor with Trump because he would've actually been able to grab the 18-44 demographic (which last saw peaks in 1992 Clinton/Gore and 2008 Obama/Biden, both to unseat a Republican and, coincidentally, a Bush).
Sanders would have been able to avoid the collapse in turnout from working-class Black people in 2016.
Sanders would've stopped the increasing right-wing radicalization of the youth of America, or provided a counterweight for left-wing economic radicalization.
The US federal elections are basically a pony show and the DNC doesn't know how to play the game without throwing out their playbook.