If this speech doesn’t persuade the Labour Parliamentary Party, there really is no point to Parliament.
NEW: Trump wanted an uprising. Instead, tens of thousands are in Tehran’s main square, risking their lives under bombardment, to pledge allegiance to the new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.
We’re witnessing the greatest miscalculation in US political and military history.
(🎥 Middle East Observer)
All my cats have always been anxiously puzzled when I look for a book along the books on a bookshelf.
What do you see in a double eclipse? Philosophers agree you see the far object. But which part? Not the front, and not the back. The edge? Daniel García Saavedra, argues you see the far object, without seeing any of its parts.
Read it here: philpapers.org/rec/GARBPS-2
I’d definitely go for the Merry Widow before that.
Strato of Lampsacus: radical break from Aristotle or original interpreter? This volume revisits the Hellenistic debate on nature, demonstrating how Strato reworked Aristotelian ideas on teleology, soul and generation. Edited by Luciana Repici, published by #EdizionidellaNormale: tinyurl.com/57b7dzyy
I’d imagine you’re not veering towards Britten though.
So the US has moved from liberating the Iranian people to carpet-bombing them into submission. That was rapid.
Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-iranian-girls-killed-double-tap-strikes-minab-school
Though, from what one gathers, without the absolute theological opposition to the possession of weapons of mass destruction.
Never let it be said that the BBC misses an opportunity to manufacture consent (2)
“Battered and isolated, Hezbollah drags Lebanon into another war”
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Have we told the US that it can’t use RAF bases on Cyprus for intelligence gathering that would support its illegal campaign against Iran? If not, they’re still legitimate targets.
Given that there’s apparently some contention as to whether 16-yr-olds are suitable voters, maybe it should become a live issue as to age at which someone’s horizon and interests become too short-term for them to have a say in who governs us. Over 80? 70? 65?
🗳️ NEW | Greens lead with all voters under 65, reveals latest YouGov survey:
-- 18-64s --
🟢 Grn: 26%
➡️ Ref: 20%
🔴 Lab: 17%
🔵 Con: 13%
🟠 Lib: 14%
-- Over 65s --
➡️ Ref: 33%
🔵 Con: 26%
🔴 Lab: 15%
🟠 Lib: 14%
🟢 Grn: 6%
Poll: @YouGov, 1-2 March
Let it never be said that the BBC misses an opportunity to manufacture consent.
"Clashes between Bahraini police and protesters who took to the streets to condemn the “Israeli-American” aggression against Iran."
مواجهات بين الشرطة البحرينية ومتظاهرين خرجوا للتنديد بالعدوان "الإسرائيلي الأمريكي" على إيران.
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#Bahrain #Iran #Israel #News #WorldNews
Kati Farkas and I have a new paper, 'Lack of Attitude', in a superb new volume edited by @eschwitz.bsky.social and @msgjonhere.bsky.social The paper is open access and available to download here: academic.oup.com/book/62410/c...
I seem to missing all the urgent calls to support the pro-democracy protests in Bahrain.
Maybe even Trump is sensible enough not to want nuclear war.
A modified principle might be that you shouldn’t support a war if your principal sources of information about it are the NYT, Guardian or BBC.
There is. Maybe demilitarising Israel would have been risky. Putting troops into Gaza (and the Occupied Territories) works have been feasible though.
Maybe that’s right. I mean, one could have mounted a very strong R2P case to protect Gaza by sending in a military force to disarm the Israelis —but it’s inconceivable given the political situation that such a case could have been propounded.
When Tucker Carlson in that widely shared interview with Ted Cruz discovered that Cruz, who was pressing for an attack on Iran, knew neither even roughly what the size of Iran’s population nor which tradition of Islam they followed, that did reveal him as sill simply unserious.
Which is, I guess, a way of saying that if one hasn’t expressed outraged opposition to the US blockade of Cuba, one’s in no position to be outraged by Iran’s closing the Straight.
There could be cases where you could know enough without knowing where a country is; simply knowing that a country will inflict nuclear devastation if you attack it should (at least almost) always be decisive. But I think the default should be knowledge that includes knowing where it is.
