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Friday Nite Videos | November 17, 2023

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Israel-Hamas War | John Oliver. Doctor My Eyes | Jackson Browne. Trump Is a Fascist, Bernie Stops a Fight. Trump Destroys his Own Case With Bombshell Admission. The Night Doctrine: The Truth About Afghanistan’s Zero Unit Night Raids.

Living on a Smoke-Bomb of a Planet

Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch
As those Canadian wildfires suggest, we’re now living on a new, not terribly recognizable, ever more perilous world in which not just this country but Planet Earth itself is in decline. Climate change is quickly becoming the climate emergency.

Will We Always Be This Way?

Kathy Kelly The Progressive
Rescuers come from all over the world following an earthquake, but when wars are waged, governments send only more munitions, prolonging the agony. Those who have an insatiable appetite for war seldom heed the wreckage they have left behind.

Lessons From Majid Khan’s Release From Guantánamo

David Rosen The Progressive
An interview with the attorney for the former al Qaeda operative, who testified to the CIA’s ‘enhanced interrogation’ and more torture at the prison camp. That torture was a war crime that should have been—and should in the future be—prosecuted as a criminal act.

A Tale of Two Exceptionalisms: Russia and the USA

Rebecca Gordon tomdispatch
Russia is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court, which means that its nationals can’t be tried at the ICC for war crimes in Ukraine. The United States is the other Great Exception to the rules of war.
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