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Racism is a selective label

Racism is a selective label

The sin of racism is almost invari­ably con­joined with ref­er­ences to its most per­ni­cious off­shoots; colo­nial­ism, slav­ery and exploita­tion. That’s valid until it becomes selec­tive, at which point it speaks ill of we who like to think of our­selves as “right think­ing peo­ple”, and of those we elect as leaders.Read the rest

Pegasus ISN’T Spying for Israel? Really?

Pegasus ISN’T Spying for Israel? Really?

“I’m shocked, shocked, to find that gam­bling is going on in here.”
The iron­ic line by the cor­rupt police­man Louis as he accepts his win­nings in ‘Casablan­ca’, echoes in denials that Israeli intel­li­gence has access to infor­ma­tion gath­ered by users of  the Israeli-run NSO Group’s ‘Pega­sus’ spyware.
Israel’s spies tap even the most mun­dane poten­tial sources of intelligence.Read the rest