Monthly Archives: October 2024

NYT: CBS Rebukes Anchor Over Tense Interview With Ta-Nehisi Coates

The New York Times reports: Executives said the interview, conducted by the morning show anchor Tony Dokoupil, had fallen short of network editorial standards… CBS News on Monday rebuked one of its star morning anchors, Tony Dokoupil, over an interview … Continue reading

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The Embodied Expression Of The Elite Attitude

In his Oct. 7, 2024 “Israel Update” video with the Hudson Institute’s Middle East analyst Michael Doran, right-wing Israeli historian Gadi Taub selected this as his dumbest media commentary moment of the week: “[Journalist] Ilana Dayan speaking on CNN to … Continue reading

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Functional & Dysfunctional Violence: Israel readies attack on Iran (10-7-24)

Foreign Policy magazine: “The conclusion therefore is that settler violence leading to the transfer of communities is functional, even if the army does not directly manage it, because it serves the goal of territorial control—something the IDF could not officially … Continue reading

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Decoding Israel’s Seven-Front War (10-6-24)

01:00 Steve Hsu: Iran vs Israel: Implications for Missile Defense, https://stevehsu.substack.com/p/iran-vs-israel-implications-for-missile04:00 Michael Doran on October 7 one year later, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ig9ftKAk413:30 Five reasons why Israel’s 7-front war is so hard to win, https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/10/five-reasons-why-israels-7-front-war-is-so-hard-to-win/14:20 Dooovid joins, https://x.com/RebDoooovid28:00 Dooovid has been anti-Zionist for … Continue reading

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Left Eclectism vs Right Eclectism

Religion has become less influential over the past century because many people have found their needs for comfort were better met by secular alternatives to religion. For example, instead of explaining natural phenomena such as earthquakes as the will of … Continue reading

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