Photo credit for photo of child: Mohammed Ibrahim, Unsplash All the News That’s Not Fit to Print The New York Times, the “newspaper of record” printing “all the news that’s fit to print,” won’t publish my comments about Israel’s genocide in Gaza. That is a bit strange since I was once what the Times called a “trusted commentator.” That category of those who commented on articles at the Times has long since vanished. I guess some of us…
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Photo credit: Library of Congress Now and Then: What We Focus On There’s a market and a following of salacious behavior in the US. I don’t know about the rest of the world, but we especially like or love to follow salacious behavior on the part of our leaders and so-called leaders. This fact has to be seen in the face of the mass murder going on daily in the Gaza…
Gaza, Genocide, and Antisemitism by Howard Lisnoff Amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza, much of the world is turning a blind eye. As someone opposed to war over a lifetime, the latter is incomprehensible. There are other important issues relating to the Israel/Gaza war. Besides the repression of protest and free speech on US campuses, war is unpredictable. International law and US law have been flaunted for decades in war. The lie of collateral damage,…
Photo credit: Wikimedia, Buffalo on a dry prairie, Unsplash Photo credit: Overlook Mountain, Woodstock, NY Howard Lisnoff The Last New Leftist I agree with the observation of a relative that there is no political left in the US. There certainly is no economic left. Try to make a dime writing on what’s called the left, and standing on a traffic island with a homeless sign will work better. There are many talking heads on YouTube…