Araghchi thinking Americans remember General Westmoreland

It is so dangerous every time in history when only strictly extreme right-wing figures say some basic things that no one else in power or the media will, and which the overwhelming majority of the public knows to be true. Liberals and centrists will never, ever learn.

This is *exactly* how I imagined the Economist's Editor-in-Chief.

Brilliant essay in this month’s Harper’s on living in dark times, the immaturity and complacency of Western elites, especially journalists, and “the mental self-mutilation of mankind through its press.”

It was a fake Gucci purse.

“But on the Israeli side, the trauma was such that I believe the determination across that society to take the actions that they took in Gaza was such that irrespective of what we did, they would have continued to do what they did.” So if Israeli trauma justifies genocide, then

Welcome to the post-American world, you have nothing to lose but your illusions nytimes.com/2026/03/26/opi…

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We shouldn’t be surprised that when the editor-in-chief of The Economist was called out on Gaza by a far-Right conspiracist, notorious for flirting with anti-Semites, it was Carlson who emerged as the even-handed liberal while Beddoes was reduced to Israel’s stooge.

Barbarians

“One of the things I find very disturbing is when they’re bombing Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean, you have two [sets of] people talking on western media. One says we should bomb them and get rid of them and take their oil. And the other group days: ‘Well, Maduro is evil and

"a whole civilization will die" and "less radicalized minds" in the same paragraph is the most American thing ever

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Third-rate power

Someone really needs to write an essay on the problem with asymptotically dying liberal zionism and its pernicious role as the far left flank at NYT. How he can say all these (objectively true) things and still do the Right To Defend Itself box-checking is staggeringly unserious.

Everyone should read what the Israeli military did to journalist Amal Khalil today in this minute-by-minute account as the international community watched in horror. First the text messages threatening her then trapping her and a photographer in a house then bombing them then

‘The English language has three voices: an active voice, a passive voice, and a secret unlockable exhonerative voice that journalists only use when describing Israeli war crimes.’

Amal Khalil was alive for hours. She phoned her family and the Lebanese military for help. People followed in horror as her colleagues updated the world on what was happening. And yet Israel blocked the Red Cross from reaching her for seven hours. That is stone cold murder.

“I told her, ‘I’m next to you.’ She told me, ‘Don’t fall asleep and leave me.’ I said, ‘No, no.’ Then exhaustion took over. I closed my eyes for a moment. Then I heard Amal scream. They struck the room again. Amal was gone.” Reporter Zeinab Faraj recounts the harrowing hours her