Israel's genocidal Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who called Palestinians 'human animals', proposed a new city in the illegally occupied West Bank, so settlers can ethnically cleanse more Palestinians.

This is not about Hamas attacks. It's colonialism
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White House keeps repeating this lie even though Netanyahu explicitly says it’s 100% not true over and over again.

Hiroshima city, now 🇵🇸

Let's see... US car companies sold millions of cars in China in 2023 (2.1mn cars for GM news.gm.com.cn/en/home/newsro…, over 600k cars for Tesla teslarati.com/tesla-china-ov…, over 400k cars for Ford statista.com/statistics/475…, etc.) but there 'are currently no Chinese-branded passenger vehicles

Columbia University and NYU are the largest private landowners in NYC.

Columbia owns 320 properties valued at c. $4 billion, but has huge tax exemptions.

Columbia Uni's President Minouche Shafik is a neoliberal economist who helped lead the IMF, World Bank, and Bank of England.

Elite universities are hedge funds attached to real-estate empires run by right-wing billionaires with lucrative research arms enmeshed with the military-surveillance state and a side hustle in education that make their vast holdings tax free.

Britain was one of the most protectionist countries in the world until it established economic dominance in the mid-19th century. Then it began preaching 'free trade' (and imposing 'free trade' on its colonies).

The US was one of the most protectionist countries in the world

In 2002 Applebaum explicitly argued in favor of killing Palestinian journalists for the crime of making Israel look bad. If she’s going to opine on media and authoritarianism, can any of these high status media commentators ask her if she still believes this? I’d be good to know!

The US government is saying, 'We can subsidize our strategic industries with billions of dollars, but when China uses subsidies, it's unfair'.

I am not exaggerating. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is publicly arguing this: When we do it, it's good; when they do it, it's bad.

Fantastically revealing exchange with Janet Yellen.

The interviewer asks her: '[Regarding China's] overcapacity in advanced products, electric vehicles, batteries, all of those things. Is it possible we’re just being outcompeted by the Chinese in those fields?'

Yellen replies

This is ahistorical nonsense. Every advanced economy developed through significant state intervention.

Alexander Hamilton invented the developmental state. Economist Ha-Joon Chang showed how virtually all Western governments relied heavily on tariffs and infant industry