Michael Balter

Journalist/journo prof. Publisher: “The Croton Chronicle” https://t.co/gYXi3Vcixi and “Words for the Wise” https://t.co/1EBthERMGS

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Palm Sunday is a celebration, but also a remembrance of human hypocrisy.

1 week ago | michaelbalter.substack.com | Michael Balter

I hope that those who are celebrating Palm Sunday today, whether at home or in church, will keep in mind what the day actually means. While the palms symbolize peace and love, and the donkey symbolizes a king who came in peace and not in war, the day also notes the hypocrisy of the crowds that welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem and then brayed for his death just days later—because of who he was and what he taught.
The Trump administration does not want unaccompanied minor immigrant children to be represented in court. A federal judge blocks its latest brutal action with a TRO.

2 weeks ago | michaelbalter.substack.com | Michael Balter

Back in 2018, a number of media outlets reported on the case of Johan, a one-year-old child who landed in U.S. Immigration Court in Phoenix. Johan was all alone, except for an immigration attorney who had been appointed to represent him. Johan had become separated from his father when the latter voluntarily left the United States for his home country of Honduras, thinking that Johan would be going with him.
Jews are not natural born killers, but anti-Semites and racists think of us that way. They really love it when we kill Palestinians.

3 weeks ago | michaelbalter.substack.com | Michael Balter

At Columbia University today, Jewish students chained themselves to a fence to protest the attempted deportation of Mahmoud Khalil. In doing so, they expressed the highest and most lofty principles of Judaic values: A passion for social justice, a hatred for dishonesty, an abhorrence for murder. Those who want to deport Khalil are often racists and anti-Semites.
Mutations, Misinformation and the Mother of All Pandemics

3 weeks ago | truthdig.com | Michael Balter

Late last month, Brooke L. Rollins, the Trump administration’s incoming secretary of agriculture, unveiled her plan to combat the growing threat of avian flu to animal and human populations. In a commentary published Feb. 27 in the Wall Street Journal, Rollins laid out a five-step strategy to fight the virus.
Inside the mind of a radical activist judge.

3 weeks ago | michaelbalter.substack.com | Michael Balter

President Donald Trump and his minions have called for U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg to be impeached, leading to a rare rebuke from U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Why? Because he ruled in favor of due process for five Venezuelan non-citizens who were sent on flights to a notorious prison (concentration camp, actually) in El Salvador. The five deny that they are members of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang, as the Trump administration maintains.
Will Paris go even greener?

1 month ago | michaelbalter.substack.com | Michael Balter

In 2007, my wife and I were living in the apartment we had bought on the avenue Parmentier in Paris’s 11th arrondissement. We were about 20 years into our 30 year stay in the city, during which it underwent a lot of changes (although, fortunately, some of the best things did not change.)Suddenly, over just a few weeks, the street in front of our apartment building was transformed into a bicycle rental station, with the elimination of a number of parking spaces.
Chronicle Editorial: Croton's policy of limited cooperation with ICE follows the urging of our clergy, and the principles of basic decency in a time of rising hatred.

1 month ago | thecrotonchronicle.substack.com | Michael Balter

We in Croton-on-Hudson are lucky to have a highly professional and competent police force, as most anyone who has needed their services can attest. They are experts at defusing tense situations, including disputes between neighbors, and they only use force of any kind when it is absolutely necessary. They know that they are working for a community in which respect for fellow citizens is a principle (even if not always applied) and they follow that principle.
Let's ask Canada to be the 51st state, the 52nd, the 53rd, and .............. the 63rd!

1 month ago | michaelbalter.substack.com | Michael Balter

So Trump wants to make Canada the 51st state. A lot of people don’t take this seriously, but wait. First of all, let’s look at all the provinces and territories of Canada:ProvincesAlberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan. TerritoriesNorthwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon. Now, the population of Canada is currently around 40 million.
"No Other Land" is a an antidote to dehumanization of Palestinians. Now if audiences could only get to see it.

1 month ago | michaelbalter.substack.com | Michael Balter

Thanks to the fact that I live 18 minutes’ drive from the independent Jacob Burns Film Center in Westchester County, New York, I was able to see “No Other Land” the afternoon after it won the Oscar for best documentary feature film. I believe it is also currently playing at the Film Forum in Manhattan. The film does not yet have an American distributor, although it is being distributed in 24 other countries.
Will one good thing come out of Trump's presidency--the truth about Covid origins?

1 month ago | michaelbalter.substack.com | Michael Balter

Before “Words for the Wise” went on hiatus for more than a year (we are now back!) one of its major focuses was the debate over the origins of Covid-19. This made sense, since I have been a science journalist for nearly 50 years (25 of those as a correspondent for Science magazine) and often covered infectious diseases.

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Michael Balter

Articles

Palm Sunday is a celebration, but also a remembrance of human hypocrisy.

The Trump administration does not want unaccompanied minor immigrant children to be represented in court. A federal judge blocks its latest brutal action with a TRO.

Jews are not natural born killers, but anti-Semites and racists think of us that way. They really love it when we kill Palestinians.

Mutations, Misinformation and the Mother of All Pandemics

Inside the mind of a radical activist judge.

Will Paris go even greener?

Chronicle Editorial: Croton's policy of limited cooperation with ICE follows the urging of our clergy, and the principles of basic decency in a time of rising hatred.

Let's ask Canada to be the 51st state, the 52nd, the 53rd, and .............. the 63rd!

"No Other Land" is a an antidote to dehumanization of Palestinians. Now if audiences could only get to see it.

Will one good thing come out of Trump's presidency--the truth about Covid origins?

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