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Calling Michelle "Nasty" Was Another Big Mistake for Trump

Oct 29, 2024 | laprogressive.com | Mark Karlin |Rob Maurer

The normalization of Trump’s authoritarianism is epitomized by race and misogyny. This is why he is so inflamed by Black women saliently criticizing him.
If You Want to Know Why the New York Times Puts Its Thumb on the Scale for Trump, Follow the Money

Sep 2, 2024 | flipboard.com | Mark Karlin

Wearing shirt that got her arrested at Trump's 2020 Tulsa rally, Sheila Buck faces trialSheila Buck appeared inside the Tulsa County Courthouse Friday morning — and she made it clear her convictions haven’t changed at all since she was …
NYT Misleads Readers That Radical Moms for Liberty is Mainstream Women's Group for Trump

Aug 30, 2024 | dailykos.com | Mark Karlin

The New York Times is known for its whataboutism and tendency to over criticize Democrats while covering deranged politicians such as Trump as normal and accepting his torrent of daily lies. Just ask Hillary Clinton about the boat load of articles the Times ran on the front page and elsewhere in 2016, while only rarely covering Trump’s theft of classified documents in recent months.
The Savvy Scientist Who Helped Democrats Become The Party Of Freedom

Aug 25, 2024 | nationalmemo.com | Mark Karlin

You wouldn’t consider George Lakoff a likely candidate to save democracy. But what the Harris-Walz campaign owes him is immeasurable. The repetitive use of the image and message of “freedom” in the Harris-Walz campaign, including in Harris’s video announcing her candidacy, comes directly from Whose Freedom? The Battle Over America’s Most Important Idea.
The Savvy Scientist Helping Democrats Become the Party of Freedom

Aug 22, 2024 | dcreport.org | Mark Karlin

Taking a Theme Back From the GOPYou wouldn’t consider George Lakoff a likely candidate to save democracy. But what the Harris-Walz campaign owes him is immeasurable. The repetitive use of the image and message of “freedom” in the Harris-Walz campaign, including in Harris’s video announcing her candidacy, comes directly from Whose Freedom? The Battle Over America’s Most Important Idea.
The Children of Gaza Do Bleed

Dec 23, 2023 | commondreams.org | Mark Karlin

Is there a scale that can measure the value of 7,000 dead Palestinian children versus 1,200 dead Israelis? What is to be measured, the weight of their souls? Can such a scale ascribe the worth of one group of the dead as being of greater value than the other group, one soul to a person or child?
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Dec 22, 2023 | commondreams.org | Mark Karlin

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If you Prick us, do We not Bleed? – Shakespeare in Gaza

Dec 20, 2023 | juancole.com | Mark Karlin |Juan Cole

(Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Is there a scale that can measure the value of 7,000 dead Palestinian children vs. 1200 dead Israelis? What is to be measured, the weight of their souls? Can such a scale ascribe the worth of one group of the dead as being of greater value than the other group, one soul to a person or child?
The Israeli Right Wing's Genocidal Dream of the "River to the Sea"

Nov 20, 2023 | juancole.com | Mark Karlin |Juan Cole

(Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – While the US mainstream media and most political leaders have condemned ceasefire rallies for embracing the cry “from the river to the sea” as being anti-Semitic, the government of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has been openly championing an Israel “from the river to the sea.” And while ceasefire rallies composed of Palestinians and other supporters, including Jews, have aspirationally chanted “from the river to the sea,” Netanyahu, his cabinet, and...
Israeli PM Netanyahu's Performative Genocide in Gaza

Nov 5, 2023 | juancole.com | Mark Karlin |Juan Cole

(Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow to destroy Hamas, whatever the cost to civilians in Gaza, is based on a brutally cynical reality that such a goal will not be achievable without completely decimating Gaza or forcing the Gazans into exile in Egypt (either of which many of his political partners endorse, calling all Gazans “beasts” or “sub-human.”) Recently, Netanyahu referred to a biblical old testament passage that called for the killing...