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Seymour Hersh on US Bombing Nord Stream Pipelines - Radio War Nerd. Mark Ames talks with Hersh about his article on the bombing and the media’s reaction to it. Hersh also spoke with Fabian Scheidler at Jacobin here. It’s been striking that, despite the predictable accusations that Hersh is just marketing himself to the American right, his major media appearances over the past few weeks have been on relatively small left media platforms.
“Rage Against the War Machine” rally promotes alliance between the “left” and the extreme right - Joseph Kishore, WSWS. The hardline libertarian captialists who are headlining the RAWM rally may position themselves as anti-imperialists, but Kishore lays out a standard Leninist critique: “claims and proposals to oppose war that conceal its basis in the capitalist system are as false as they are hypocritical.” Over on Black Agenda Report, meanwhile, Jacqueline Luqman lays out a broader critique with a focus on the Mises Caucus’s history of white supremacy.
Childlessness Did Not Cause Birth Rate Decline - Matt Bruenig. An odd consensus has emerged among the “trad” right, manosphere incel activists, and a certain subset of feminists that birth rates are declining because women are being picky with men. The right says this is bad, some feminists insist this shows that women have more freedom than they used to, but both agree that it’s happening. Here, Matt throws cold water on the whole argument by showing that childlessness has actually declined over the last fifteen years.
US Eyes Resources In Latin America, Escalates Against China - Dispatches, Rania Khalek. An interview with Geopolitical Economy Report founder Ben Norton on the US’s efforts to monopolize rare mineral resources in Latin America.
Lever’s coverage of the Ohio train derailment - Lever. This story began with Lever’s reporting of disaster and the role that industry-driven deregulation played in making it happen. When their coverage shifted focus onto the Biden Administration’s refusal to address the problem, however — see this, this, this, this, and this — it faced a ridiculous backlash from allies of both the rail industry and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Faith Leaders to Biden: Lift Sanctions, Expedite Relief to Syria and Turkey - In the wake of this month’s earthquake in Turkey, a coalition of twelve major faith-based organizations have called on the Biden Administration to lift its sanctions on Syria and provide it and Turkey with humanitarian aid.
Armed Struggle and Nonviolence - FOSNA. Remarkable statement from Palestine’s rarely-covered pacifist movement “refusing to use or advocate violence—however legitimate and justified it might be.”
How much does it cost to shoot down a balloon? - Speaking Security, Stephen Semler. Imagine what you could do with this kind of money.