Tag: Winners and Losers

Israel

The most successful military raid of this century: the October 7 Hamas assault on Israel – Pearls and Irritations

Gaza envelope after coordinated surprise offensive on Israel.

The problem with the Israeli claims is that they are demonstrably false or misleading. Nearly a third of the Israeli casualties consisted of military, security, and police officers. Moreover, it turns out that the number one killer of Israelis on October 7 wasn’t Hamas or other Palestinian factions, but the Israeli military itself. Recently released video shows Israeli Apache helicopters indiscriminately firing on Israeli civilians trying to flee the Supernova Sukkot Gathering held in the open desert near Kibbutz Re’im, the pilots unable to distinguish between the civilians and the Hamas fighters. Many of the vehicles that the Israeli government has shown as an example of Hamas perfidy were destroyed by the Israeli Apache helicopters.

Source: The most successful military raid of this century: the October 7 Hamas assault on Israel – Pearls and Irritations

American Politics

The Midterms Are No Victory for the Democrats, but They Are a Defeat for the GOP

The Republicans calculated that by focusing on inflation they could immunize themselves from the growing backlash against the Supreme Court’s abortion decision. They were wrong.

Source: The Midterms Are No Victory for the Democrats, but They Are a Defeat for the GOP

Afgahnistan

Top 6 International Winners and Losers from Taliban Reassertion in Afghanistan

Here is a quick scorecard of the drawbacks and benefits of this development for regional neighbors:

Source: Top 6 International Winners and Losers from Taliban Reassertion in Afghanistan

Informed Comment

Who’s Rising and Falling on Planet Earth? | The Smirking Chimp

Source: Who’s Rising and Falling on Planet Earth? | The Smirking Chimp

Democracy

Australian media policy: of the mates, by the mates, for the mates
The broad principle that Democracy needs to regulate private corporations is correct despite whose interests the LNP are working for in this instance Murdoch’s. Even if the broader principle is right but the specific case distasteful Democracy needs to be supported. The war against Murdoch, the LNP and the IPA needs to be attended to in another arena fuck it.

The news media bargaining code is part of the grand tradition of media policy being run in the interests of media proprietors — and with no heed given to the public benefit.

Australian media policy: of the mates, by the mates, for the mates