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Noting that Pete Hegseth has just attacked CNN and said that Larry Ellison should take it over, Paul Waldman says,
"What we're seeing now, and I think that comment that Hegseth made is really revealing, is that just in the last few years, there was always corporate media and there are ways in which it was very conservative, despite what conservatives say about it."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #media #billionaires
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Nir & Rupar: Paul Waldman on Trump's Iran debacle
We unpack why the war is the least popular in history.Aaron Rupar (Public Notice)
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"the latter seeks to impose that faith, by law and policy, on the rest of us. ...
religious nationalism has no interest in civility. Its nature is authoritarian; it does not learn from civil debate."
"It’s that goal of privileging Christianity in law and government that I think marks the line between personal politics (potentially based in faith-informed values) and religious nationalism. The former is an individual value set that may or may not influence particular policies, but still allows for freedom for others to move religiously within the subsequent law;" (continued in /5)
~ Sarah Stankorb
"They came out and just said that directly because it does not come anywhere near meeting the preconditionsfor anything that could be called a just war that Christians can endorse. … That's a big deal."
"We have two cardinals in the US actually this week calling out the administration for violating those conditions [of Catholic teachings about the morality of war] — Cardinal Robert McEkroy of Washington DC and Cardinal Blaise Kubic of Chicago saying this war is not morally legitimate."
~ Robert P. Jones
#Trump #Iran #war #WhiteChristianNationalism #morality
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Normalcy and Resistance Amid an Unjust War
This week, we open the conversation with reflections on the challenges of living daily life amid the onslaught of horrific news, so often these days instigat...YouTube
"When Christianity becomes publicly associated with nationalist aggression and eagerness for war, it presents a face to the world that is, by any honest reading of the New Testament, a misrepresentation of the faith."
~ Michael Mellette
Kharg Island: The tiny coral outcrop at the heart of Iran’s oil industry
During the first two weeks of the latest war in the Middle East, as US and Israeli strikes…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Iran
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Kharg Island: The tiny coral outcrop at the heart of Iran’s oil industry - Iran
Why is the island so important?EUROPE SAYS (Iran)
At a meeting of the 15-member U.N. SC which is chaired this month by the U.S., Russia and China moved unsuccessfully to block a discussion about a committee established to oversee and enforce U.N. sanctions on Iran. They were overruled 11-2 with two abstentions.
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#Ukraine #Russia #US #Iran #China #UN
