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I love when journalists pretend not to understand the concept of framing. Has Naomi ever written an exposé about people being interviewed by, say, British state media? Is it "factual reporting" to start from the opinion that all Official Enemies™ of the US are aUtHoRiTaRiAn and work from there?

"My years-long campaign against two prominent but powerless critics of NATO is not relevant to the claim that I'm a NATO attack dog"

Here's two articles for you, clown

Naomi here pretending she's not NATO's bravest little attack dog

"B-b-but this one protestant I know *feels* it's sectarian so I simply must sit my ass down and listen"

and the E routes

Her cause is fascism

Your shithole white supremacist settler colony is dying, and that's the best possible thing for humanity. The only question is what kinda bullshit you and your fellow treatlerites are gonna pull on your way down. Fuck you

Fuck off

Fuck off

Shove it up your hole, dickhead

Eat shit you worthless cunt

Leopold particles

Fuck off

Yeah

"Clap against the abstract concept of human suffering so it looks like we did something" says former PD TD Liz O'Donnell

More important is that the vast majority of existing protests are aimed at the Irish govt, demanding they enact the OTB, instruct the Central Bank, etc.

The nonsense "protest" he's endorsing has no target and no demands

Fuck you

"I made history as a lady in the einsatzgruppen 💅"

Fuck you for your service, girlboss war criminal.

First, the long-term poverty graph (1820-present) recently tweeted by Bill Gates is misleading and has little empirical legitimacy. There are a few reasons for this. Real data on poverty has only been collected since 1981, by the World Bank. It is widely accepted among those who research global poverty that any data prior to 1981 is simply too sketchy to be useful, and going back to as early as 1820 is more or less meaningless.

The data for 1820-1970 comes from a source (Bourguignon and Morrisson 2002) that draws on the Maddison database on world GDP. That data was never intended to assess poverty, but rather the distribution of GDP – and that for only a limited range of countries. Data for the global South is particularly thin, and there is very little that exists for prior to 1900. The data is not robust enough to draw meaningful conclusions about what was happening to people’s livelihoods during the colonial period.

A letter to Steven Pinker (and Bill Gates, for that matter) about global poverty — Jason Hickel *Note: the discussion of historical poverty trends here is updated and developed more fully in the recent article, “ Capitalism and extreme poverty ”, published in World Development . Dear Steven...

Data before 1981 is garbage, and since 1981 all global poverty reduction has been achieved by the central planners of China. End of story

www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/...

AG: replacing Occupied Territories Bill a ‘political choice’ Replacing the Occupied Territories Bill would be a "political choice" and not legally necessary.

The attorney general told government that replacing the Occupied Territories Bill rather than amending it would be a "political choice" and not a legally necessary one.

He also said there's 'a stronger and more defensible legal basis' for the bill.

www.ontheditch.com/attorney-gen...

I was interested to read more about those findings, but the article they cite in that sentence is an opinion piece, not a research paper. Seems a bit misleading tbh

...aforementioned council. The change happened within a few hours of the article's publication, which to me illustrates that the resistance groups do have influence within the BNC so we shouldn't write it off

Ah. I remember the article in question. It defended the armed resistance in the region but questioned the utility of western solidarity groups cheerleading armed resistance from afar instead of focusing on local conditions, but the wording was changed in response to objections from within the...

The BDS National Committee includes the Council of National and Islamic Forces in Palestine, of which Hamas is a member

When did they condemn Hamas?

These civilians?

The mix of horror and hope over the past two months has fundamentally changed me. Like, something has broken in my brain

Between tailism, adventurism, and trotskyism, the Irish "left" is so fucked atm