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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “A” Is for Occupation by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to butimbeautiful. “Would it be true to say that Israel couldn’t survive without US help?” Hard to say for certain, but I suspect so. “Morally I have no idea why we, in Australia as well as the US, take support for Israel as …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “A” Is for Occupation by boydstun
I’d think not only “invasion” easily applies, but “aggression”. Firing the first shot at a foreign military force crossing one’s boundary is a routine and rightful act. LikeLiked by 1 person
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(Aaron Kim ENGRD 101) From Work to Text
For this week, I decided to take a visual note of my CPLT 302W class. From the outset when reading this prompt I knew I would be taking a visual note from this class because I was struggling to understand the philosophical explanation of work versus text. For Roland Barthes, text is seen as a…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Fourth Time’s the Charm by butimbeautiful
I’d be interested to know why he or she didn’t do anything. Did they not believe it? Were they otherwise occupied? Simply too lazy to go check it out? Afraid they’d get shot? In any school my kids have attended, if a kid said, Johnny …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “A” Is for Occupation by butimbeautiful
I agree with your analysis. Would it be true to say that Israel couldn’t survive without US help? Or perhaps it’s built enough relationships with surrounding states to be able to do so now. Morally I have no idea why we, in Australia as wel…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: The Nitpicks of Power, Part II: Falling Towers
This is the second part of our look at many of the smaller issues of historical realism in Amazon’s Rings of Power, following on our more substantive discussion of the major worldbuilding problems the show experienced. I had hoped to keep this at two parts (actually, I had hoped this would just be a one-off…
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(Jesse Walker, Author at Reason.com) That Time We Tried To Make Sense of a Statistic in a New York Times Story on Deepfakes
Deepfakes aren’t nearly as dangerous as the tried-and-true technique of saying something misleading with the imprimatur of authority.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Bullets and the Battle: A Dialogue by “A” Is for Occupation | Policy of Truth
[…] does in the case of ordinary crime, but there are non-ordinary cases where it doesn’t (and even pretty ordinary cases where it doesn’t). The party that fired first could be firing in self-defense at a party that though not firing [̷…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The ABC’s of Occupation by “A” Is for Occupation | Policy of Truth
[…] a post I wrote back in 2020 explaining the A-B-C system that structures the Israeli occupation of […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) “A” Is for Occupation
In a post I wrote back in 2020 explaining the A-B-C system that structures the Israeli occupation of Palestine, I described Area A, the area supposedly under Palestinian control, as follows: Area A covers Palestinian urban centers, supposedly under full Palestinian control, both “civil” and “security” related…Area A is under “full” Palestinian control–except when Israeli…
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