The Washington Post has abandoned its decades-long tradition of endorsing a US presidential candidate to earn back the trust of the American public, the newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, has said. The billionaire explained his reasoning in an op-ed published by the Post on Monday after facing a backlash from current and former staff. 

The newspaper had endorsed candidates since 1976, but announced the suspension of the practice on Friday, prompting several editors to resign. The Post’s editorial board endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020. According to CNN, the newspaper’s staffers had drafted an endorsement of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris ahead of the election next month, but it was ultimately not approved by the management. 

Lock up criminally minded children and teach them a firm lesson. Mind your cars, mind your keys. Chat about the Olympics and moan about whether stadia should be built or refurbished. Mumble about water, dams, and roads. Bridges for cassowaries that are not used by those magnificent yet inconsiderate birds. Marvel at members of parliament with duplicate names such as Grace Grace.

 

The Queensland contradiction: Reflections on a state election    By Binoy Kampmark

 

Clichés so clotted they would build the tower of Babel, including a nice touch by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: a presenter dressed in garish pink blending into the counting board and talking down to her audience.

FROM THE ALBO-HATING MURDOCH MEDIA AND JOE HILDEBRAND...

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago, President Biden's response was stronger and swifter than many expected. 

"I think Biden surprised the world. He certainly surprised the Russians by his decision to create a broad democratic alliance to defend Ukraine," said Anne Applebaum, an author and historian who writes extensively on the war. 

Matthew Kroenig at the Atlantic Council also gives Biden high marks for his initial backing of Israel when it was attacked eight months ago by Hamas.

"The Biden administration's instinct right after the Oct. 7th attack was the correct one, to have Israel's back in its goal to eliminate Hamas," said Kroenig.

 

Former President Donald Trump called Kamala Harris a "sh** vice president" and implied golfer Arnold Palmer was well-endowed during a rambling Saturday rally in Pennsylvania that capped off a tumultuous week on the campaign trail.

Speaking in Latrobe, Pa., where Palmer was born, Trump delivered a lengthy monologue about the late golfer's life story and praised him as "all man," including an off-color joke about Palmer's anatomy.

"Arnold Palmer was all man, and I say that in all due respect to women — and I love women," Trump said. "But this guy, this guy, this is a guy that was all man. This man was strong and tough. And I refuse to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, 'Oh my God, that's unbelievable.'"

Born in the wake of the Second World War, the UN "mistaken" from its very first steps, endorsing or sponsoring a colonial-style dispossession that, more than seventy-five years later, seems almost irreparable. The original sin? It was making the legitimate owners of the land pay (Asshab al Ared), namely the populations present in Palestine since time immemorial, a crime in which they had nothing to do with it, the Holocaust "discovered" in the Nazi camps upon their liberation being the work of Europeans (the Germans, but also many other "collaborators").

 

by Michael Raimbaud

An original sin

 

Last week Al Jazeera released Investigating War Crimes in Gaza.1 The 81-minute documentary is a searing indictment of the treatment of those who always suffer most in war – women and children – during Israel’s retaliation for the horrid murders Hamas inflicted inside Israel a year ago this week.

 

Gaza after a year of war

A new documentary chronicles destruction and abuse

von Seymour Hersh

Israel’s initial ground attack failed to rescue all the Israeli hostages or to destroy the several hundred miles of the Hamas tunnel system.

I have previously written about the European Union’s (EU) effort to use its infamous Digital Services Act (DSA) to force companies like X to censor Americans, including on postings related to our presidential election. This is a direct assault on our free speech values, and yet the Biden-Harris Administration has not raised a peep of objection. Now, the EU is threatening to set these confiscatory fines with reference to revenue from companies other than X, including Space X.

 

BY JONATHAN TURLEY    Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

“It’s hard to do cartoons without their crap…”

         Gus Leonisky

 

We have passed the whimsical age

Without a whimper of critical blue rage

Way gone the satirical era of permanent uproar

To contemplate once more the deadly idea that war

Was a dangerous step to turn the page

I was looking at the screen of my radar machine 

On the SSS Ford aircraft carrier for death-polished sheen

It went blank and dark then was messaged with a warning

“YOUR TITANIUM, POLONIUM, TANTALLUM, BIZOTHIUM 

ARE BEING DESTROYED BY A VIRULENT ZYTHIUM

OTHERWISE KNOWN AS A PEACE PARASITIUM

PREPARE YOUR UNDERPANTIUM FOR SOME CRAPPIUM…”

At first, I thought the IT department was taking the pissium

The Mickey, the joke, the woke, the poke, the moke, the quip

But I discovered too soon that every screen on this damned ship

From top to bottom, crew quarters, galleys, including the bilge

With the current Canada-India spat – triggered by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s accusation of New Delhi's involvement in the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, an activist associated with the Khalistan movement which backs a separate Sikh nation in northern India, things have come full circle for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.

In ‘Powder keg in the Pacific’ Alfred McCoy is wrong from the very first sentence. He confounds cause and effect, revises history, reverses belligerent and defender, and hard-packs his article through and through with US state department mendacity.

 

A relay station of the western propaganda apparatus: Response to Alfred McCoy    By KJ Noh

 

Elon Musk has denounced Joe Biden for saying the businessman had been an “illegal worker” before he became the wealthiest man in the world. The incumbent US president was accusing the billionaire of being hypocritical regarding immigration.

In response to the claims, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO made posts accusing the incumbent president outright lying and saying “losing the election was making the Democrats desperate.”

“I was in fact allowed to work in the US. The Biden puppet is lying,” Musk wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “They know this, as they have all my records.”

“So NOW he cares about illegals,” he quipped in conclusion.

Germany should stop paying social benefits to Ukrainian refugees residing in the country and redirect the money to authorities in Kiev instead, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has argued. The diplomat claimed that generous handouts serve as a disincentive for Ukrainian men to return to their homeland and join the military.

According to Eurostat, more than four million Ukrainians are currently living under temporary protection in the EU, with Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic hosting the highest numbers.

As of June, Germany was home to almost 1.2 million Ukrainian refugees, Statista estimated, while in Poland that number currently stands at over 981,000, according to UN data.