Weekend Quotables
Imperialist Trump ogles Panama and Greenland...Amazon & Starbucks strikers looking for a win before he takes office.
Gaza, the Palestinian Guernica
In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, sometime in 1937, fascist dictator Francisco Franco's regime bombed the Basque town of Guernica, with the help of Germany and Italy. In less than four hours, and after bombs weighing a total of 22 tons were dropped on it, the town was completely destroyed.
Hundreds were killed in the bombardment, which shocked the entire world and became a symbol of the cruelty of those times. Guernica was immolated in the fire of fascistic propaganda and in historical memory it is testimony to the fragility of justice during war. Pablo Picasso's famous masterpiece, "Guernica," symbolizes the destruction and horror of war. (Haaretz)
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Donald Trump's latest target: The Panama Canal. He threatened to take control of the waterway if fees on US ships weren’t lowered. But it’s not really about fees. It’s about China. (Bloomberg)
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Buying Greenland
Trump’s imperial designs know no bounds. He’s officially calling for the purchase of Greenland. He feels the ownership and control of Greenland is an “absolute necessity.” Actually, his guy Elon could probably buy it as a tax write-off.
Weekend Quotables
John Logan, director of labor and employment studies at SF State University
He thinks the Amazon and Starbucks workers want to make progress before Trump gets to appoint a Republican majority to the National Labor Relations Board.
“The unions want to make these disputes public and bring political pressures on the companies,” Logan said in a written statement. This might be their last, best chance to pressure the companies in public before Trump comes into office.” — AP News
Vijay Prashad
Neither Russia nor Iran believed that the Assad government would be able to unilaterally defeat the various rebels and remove the United States from its occupation of the eastern oil fields. A deal was the only way out, which meant that neither Iran nor Russia was willing to commit more troops to defend the Assad government. — LA Progressive
Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino
“Every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zones is part of Panama, and it will continue to be.” — Video on X
Laura Loomer
Loomer says she is the one who gave Trump the idea to seize the Panama Canal after she returned from a trip there. — X
Editorial
The more evidence emerges from Gaza, the clearer the nauseating picture of our loss of humanity becomes. — Haaretz
Pope Francis
The Pope described Israel's killing of Palestinian children in besieged Gaza as “cruelty… not war.” — Christmas Address.
Donald Trump
“President Putin said that he wants to meet with me as soon as possible,” Trump said during his remarks at Turning Point’s America Fest convention. “So we have to wait for this, but we have to end that [Ukraine] war. That war is horrible, horrible.” — CNBC
Chris Hayes
“President-elect Musk, the richest man in the world, worth 250 billion dollars, took 150 million dollars from kids with cancer.” Pure. Fucking. Evil. No wonder the Trumps love Elon so much. They like to steal money from kids with cancer too. — MSNBC
Sen. Bill Haggerty (R-TN)
Tennessee senator thanks God for Elon Musk. He says he can't read bills fast enough and needs Elon to tell him how to vote. — CNN
