DYING GAZANS CRITICIZED FOR NOT USING LAST WORDS TO CONDEMN HAMAS

PublishedOctober 13, 2023 (TheOnion.com) GAZA CITY, GAZA—The complicity of each and every Palestinian in the violent actions of their militant ruling authority was reportedly on full display Friday morning when dying Gazans received justified criticism for not using their last words to condemn Hamas. For example, instead of issuing a… Continue reading

Progressive slate files to run against tech money for control of SF Democratic Party

Progressive slate files to run against tech money for control of SF Democratic Party

A March election will have major impacts on the races for mayor and supes in November. By TIM REDMOND OCTOBER 22, 2023 (48hills.org) The progressive leaders who worked to move municipal elections from off-years to presidential-election years argued that higher turnout is always good, that the more voters who come… Continue reading

A (too) modest housing bond, the impacts of APEC security measures …

A (too) modest housing bond, the impacts of APEC security measures …

… and what’s headed for the March ballot? That’s The Agenda for Oct. 22-29 By TIM REDMOND OCTOBER 22, 2023 (48hills.org) The Board of Supes Budget and Finance Committee will consider Wednesday/25 putting on the March 5 ballot a measure to sell $300 million in bonds to finance the construction and preservation… Continue reading

Israel-Hamas War: “Enough Of The Bigotry Against Palestinians!” Piers Morgan vs Cenk Uygur

Piers Morgan Uncensored Oct 23, 2023 Piers Morgan Uncensored is joined by host and creator of The Young Turks and Presidential hopeful Cenk Uygur to discuss the ongoing war between Israel, Hamas and Palestine and a passionate and emotive debate over whether Israel’s treatment and occupation of Palestine is just… Continue reading

Hamas Is a Terrorist Organization; So Is the Israeli Government

Smoke rises over Gaza City on Saturday, October 7, 2023, during retaliatory Israeli air strikes.  (Photo: Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images) U.S. media outlets dodge being evenhanded with the “terrorist” label—applying it to organized Palestinian killers of Israelis and not to organized Israeli killers of Palestinians. NORMAN SOLOMON Oct 23,… Continue reading

Book: “The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories”

The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories Ilan Pappé Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940s, renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe turns his attention to the annexation and occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, bringing us the first… Continue reading

San Francisco could get 90% of its homeless off the streets with the country’s fiercest housing speculation tax, but landlords are already fighting it tooth and nail

BY IRINA IVANOVA (Fortune.com) October 21, 2023 at 2:00 AM PDT Homeless people seen in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco in California, United States on September 24, 2022. TAYFUN COSKUN/ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY IMAGES Most cities have homeless problems and lots of vacant housing units, but everything is magnified… Continue reading