Thank you. I thought I had checked Wikipedia.
It seems smack in the middle between Eritrea and Yemen.
Thank you. I thought I had checked Wikipedia.
It seems smack in the middle between Eritrea and Yemen.
Does anyone know exactly where in the red sea this is?
I want to know if it's in Yemens territorial waters or not.
The most common and stable society since the dawn of agriculture has been the feudal/slave society.
Countries like China and Bangladesh are basically this type of society.
And even the USA had sharecroppers until very recently.
We have to be very diligent, every waking hour, if we want to preserve our modern western way of life.
And we are horribly failing, by getting sucked into divide&conquer tactics that polarize the working class and thereby neutralize our political power.
He said those things towards the end of his life after he had been smeared for years.
Prior to that interview in 1983, he had criticized Israel for the atrocities they committed in Lebanon and people called him an anti-semite for comparing Israel to Nazi-Germany.
Eventually, he said fuck it, and went full anti-semite.
I don't blame the guy. He's only human and people can only take so much shit before they turn into bitter old men.
I used to think Jeremy Corbyn was an anti-semite. I also used to think Roald Dahl was an anti-semite.
But after researching what they actually said, it's clear that they were just smeared, because they weren't racist enough against Palestinians and (shockingly) thought Palestinians deserve human rights.
Honestly, I am now highly skeptical whenever someone calls another person an anti-semite.
The eggs we buy in supermarkets come from hens who have never seen a cock.
It's basically bird menstruation in a shell.
The US never did anything about Rachel Corrie or the USS Liberty or Hersh Goldberg-Polin. And we can probably add hundreds of Palestinian Americans to the list, but even their names aren't known in the mainstream media.
It seems the USA capacity to care depends on how much AIPAC will allow it to care.
They aren't combatants or PoW, taking them hostage was a human rights violation from the beginning.
But Israel can't really expect Hamas to follow Geneva conventions when they themselves violate it a hundreds times as often.
Because they manage to attract investment.
As long as investors are willing to give cash in exchange for equity, a company can operate on that cash and run at a loss.
Look, I wouldn't trust the GOP with my shit stained underwear.
Of course they don't have a better plan.
But voters who vote for them are still voters.
And falling for a false narrative doesn't make them hypocrites.
And the apartheid, too.
It's more-or-less geographic destiny that Iran and Turkey will become the dominant powers in Western Asia.
They both basically ruled the area for most of history.
The best we (the West) could do is nudge them towards human rights and peace and friendship. For Turkey, that's mostly a done deal.
For Iran, that was exactly what Obama tried to do. And it's also what Iran has been trying to get for the past 25 years.
Iran is inherently on a path towards secularisation and more dovish policies. It's the threat of war by the US and Israel that keeps the defense hawks in power.
Iran, especially, will never fully trust the USA - and for good reason. But they do want better relations with the USA. They just don't want to get burned or bombed.