should be that what Trump is planning is, yet again, completely illegal.
Trump is just stupid and gullible enough to believe Netanyahu when he talks about “finishing the job,” i.e., more illegal bombing. On the contrary, the job will have only just began.
Iran’s 47 million citizens and its powerful military will rally with a vengeance around their current leadership the moment an attack begins. Among the hundreds of civilians killed in Netanyahu’s illegal attack were some who had protested against the regime.
War fetishists like Thomas Friedman of the Times, and Senators Graham and Cotton, need to be confronted and held accountable for their relentless war mongering.
Our intelligent agencies confirm that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear bomb and Trump and Vance insist that they just don’t care. It’s the same traitorous behavior that we saw from Trump in Helsinki in 2018.
David Hogg is, once again, right: any Democrat who votes to trap America into another endless war in the Middle East must be primaried. And Hogg and his Leaders We Deserve are the ones to do it. He can accomplish much more to save the Democratic party from its sclerotically hardened leadership by working outside the Democratic National Committee. It’s a good thing for democracy that he was expulsed from the DNC.
Once again, the Editorial Board simply overlooks one of the most pressing problems the city faces: the grotesque over-development prompted by real estate developers who bribe NYC officials with campaign contributions. Almost all height and density limits have now been overturned using the specious justification of “affordable housing” that somehow rarely gets built. Instead, in the name of “affordable housing,” low-rise housing that actually is more affordable is demolished and luxury towers for the wealthy rise in their place. There isn’t even a pretense anymore that anything affordable will be mandated in exchange for giving developers carte blanche.
The closest the Editorial Board gets to land use in this piece is to make some highly reactionary noises about the Democrats being too left and daring to criticize “greedy landlords for high rents, instead of emphasizing the crucial role of housing supply.” That is both reactionary and a complete cop-out. We certainly don’t have greedy landlords in this city, do we? I mean, what’s $4,000 a month for a studio apartment? And what about those same landlords warehousing rent-regulated apartments? That kinda might affect supply, don’t you think? The Editorial Board doesn’t want to go near City Hall’s “affordable housing” scam because it knows that it is indefensible.
Once again, a Times editorial demonstrates the outsize influence on the Editorial Board of a Board of Directors dominated by financiers. It is telling that the Editorial Board actually praises Michael Bloomberg, without mentioning the way his up zoning blitz turbocharged New York’s housing affordability crisis. The Billionaire’s Row Bloomberg inflicted on Manhattan is one of the greatest civic failures in NYC history. Any semblance of scale diversity was obliterated and in its place are gargantuan towers that people don’t want to live in. It’s not just absentee tenants we’re talking about, but the inability of these buildings to sell their apartments, period.
As D.D. Guttenplan wrote in The Nation in 2021, the Times is the “cheer leader in chief for gentrification,” which has been “on the wrong side of nearly every fight dating back to the days of Robert Moses.”
Paves over the rose garden that’s been there for 200 years, then plants two gigunda, over-compensatory flagpoles in its place to palliate his size issues.
Wouldn’t it be nice if, instead of ravaging our White House, he went into therapy to explore the roots of his edifice complex as well as his concomitant compulsion to destroy everything.
via their outrageously skewed coverage of Trump that graded everything he did on a sliding scale, while ignoring Biden’s achievements and insisting that his mild cognitive decline was more dangerous than Trump’s treasonous insanity and senility.
If this insanely illegal attack on Iran’s uranium enrichment facility goes through, we need to be prepared for radiation fallout to waft over Israel as well as Iran.
Both Netanyahu and Trump are nihilist traitors who have betrayed the countries they are entrusted with leading.
until we get an answer from Trump about whether he is stampeding this country into an illegal and sure-to-be disastrous war against Iran on the orders of the criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, who has betrayed his own country over and over again. Remember how Netanyahu ignored the warnings given him about the Hamas attack?
Veterans may be denied health care because they are Democrats.
Transportation funds will be denied to states that allow peaceful protests.
Democratic-run states will be invaded by ICE.
So don’t let anyone tell you that protesting Netanyahu’s policies is manifesting anti-Semitic or anti[-Israel sentiments.
Even Brett Baier of Fox “News” is challenging Netanyahu’s shameless attempts to drag America into another war by claiming that Iran targeted Trump.
