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Urgent: Denounce Exxon

vendredi 10 mars 2023 à 15:32

Everyone: denounce Exxon for keeping its research about global heating secret.

People often mispronounce the name "Exxon".

Police as thugs, Louisville, KY

vendredi 10 mars 2023 à 15:32

An investigation found that the Louisville thug department has systematic tendencies toward thuggish behavior, especially towards blacks.

The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that promote it. But I make exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important. That article is one of the exceptions.

War crimes news

vendredi 10 mars 2023 à 15:32

The US military is allegedly refusing to give the International Criminal Court evidence of Putin forces war crimes.

That action is discreditable in itself, but the motive is even more discreditable: to protect US soldiers accused of war crimes from someday being prosecuted by the ICC.

The right way for a country to prevent its soldiers from being prosecuted by the ICC is for the national government to prosecute those war crimes. The ICC exists as a backup method for cases where countries fail to prosecute their own war criminals.

The US supports the right side of this conflict, but it supports the wrong side in others, including the war in Yemen.

Political unconstitutionality, GA

vendredi 10 mars 2023 à 15:32

Repression in Atlanta: protesters held a rally with music, about a mile away from the site where Cop City is supposed to be built. Thugs accused them of "domestic terrorism" for acts of vandalism which there is no evidence those people had anything to do with.

This reminds me of the Haymarket martyrs.

This calls to mind the absurd charges that fascists such as Putin and Modi use to crush dissent.

These thugs are sending a message: "We are fascists with the power. We spit on truth, justice, and law."

Freedom of speech

vendredi 10 mars 2023 à 15:32

A 2020 article about the need to defend freedom of speech even for those we oppose is just as pertinent today. Do keep in mind that "the president" criticized in this article was the bullshitter, not Biden.