Monday Miscellany!

[maxomai]

• It's starting to look like the Obama administration just plain made up the gas attacks in Syria. Meaning, if not for Russia and China applying international pressure, Obama would very likely have pushed us into an optional war. Justin Raimondo has more here.


• Netanyahu is using the prospect of peace with Iran as an excuse to continue the slow genocide of the Palestinians.


• Meanwhile, the prospect of peace with Iran is shrinking.


• It should surprise precisely nobody that the NSA has massively infiltrated most online games. Of course, Slashdot has a discussion.


• People hate creative thinkers, but they love the benefits of creative thinking. I've found a few exceptions: improv troupes, underground cultures, and so on. And those stagnate sooner or later.

Comments

[keith418.livejournal.com]

What's interesting to me, now, is to watch Jewish friends of mine who used to be PEP (Progressive Except for Palestine) start to turn around and see that Zionism is racism, that Israel is a colony, and that they no longer wish to be affiliated with Apartheid and bigotry.

But it's kind of late in the game for a few of them - and also for my other liberal friends who tried to ignore all of this so as not to tick people they liked off and get called antisemitic.

To paraphrase Wasserman

[maxomai.livejournal.com]

"It's okay to realize you were wrong and then do the right thing."

Ex-PEPs are fine by me. They signal that the court of public opinion may be finally turning against the Likudniks. This is what some of us have been hoping would happen for decades.

[keith418.livejournal.com]

The people who were sticking their necks out on this will always recall all the people who weren't.