The Post-Partisan Emporium

  What the Left Gets Right—and Why Anti-genocide protestors deserve everyone's support KEVIN BARRETT   The Zionist genocide of Palestine is not a left-versus-right issue. It is a question of right-vs.-wrong. But the media don’t see it that way. They have created an “Overton window” of acceptable mainstream opinion, and divided into two windowpanes: a left windowpane overlooking a scene in which it’s okay to call for a ceasefire as long as you condemn Hamas; and a right windowpane looking out on a madly counterfactual landscape in which Israel is supposedly “defending itself” by slaughtering tens of thousands of women and children. Both perspectives are insane, in the sense that they bear little relation to objective reality. Nobody looking through the mainstream’s Overton window can see what’s really happening in Occupied Palestine. During recent weeks, a snowballing series of student protests on campuses in the US and around the world have challenged the mainstream media’s an...

  Whistling Past the National Train Wreck Pointlessly rearranging the deck chairs DONALD JEFFRIES There are only so many ways one can say that America is collapsing. That the Fat Lady is nearing the end of her song. That we’re running on fumes. If Yogi Berra were around, he’d say it’s over. We had a good run, as far as civilizations go. We  were  the light of the world for a long time. Maybe even Reagan’s shining city upon a hill. Yesterday, Jason Whitlock reported on one Dexter Taylor, a software engineer who was just convicted and sentenced to  ten  years for constructing his own guns without a license. Shades of January 6. Taylor is Black, by the way, for those of you to whom that matters. I don’t expect to see former crack dealer turned FBI informant “Reverend” Al Sharpton leading a protest about  this  particular Black man being a victim of injustice. Our record-setting prisons are overflowing with people like Taylor, of all races. People who most...

  monetizing munchausen by proxy how the mental health industry was eaten by adverse selection EL GATO MALO this is an interesting insight that i’d like to amplify LINK around basic issues of mental well being, being told “you are ill, it’s not your fault” is worse than a wubbie or a crutch, it’s actual harm. it tells you there is something wrong with you and increasingly vilifies and stigmatizes the absolutely totally normal. it makes you into a mark. worse, it makes you into a “repeat customer” and you want to be seriously circumspect on that one. let’s look. past a certain point, “psychologists” (and even worse, psychiatrists who want to treat this with some truly unpleasant and dangerous drugs) are the scientology hucksters standing on the sidewalk looking for broken people to invite inside by asking questions like “do you ever feel sad or lonely for no reason?” i used to watch this in san francisco as team l ron hubbard had a mother ship downtown near my one time office. “woul...