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 (DIR) Post #AbEfE7lw2evJ8VAb6O by JoshuaHolland@mastodon.social
       2023-10-28T01:58:51Z
       
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       Just take note of how little national coverage thousands of Jews shutting down Grand Central Station to demand a ceasefire gets tomorrow.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbEfE8Y99PUJY1j6FV by JoshuaHolland@mastodon.social
       2023-10-28T02:01:25Z
       
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       Younger people may be surprised to learn that tens of millions protested the invasion of Iraq and the press basically ignored it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbEfKEkd0W4aWCTPBQ by ajsadauskas@aus.social
       2023-10-28T04:41:16Z
       
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       @JoshuaHolland Michael Moore captured the scale of the protests in the music video he directed for the System of a Down song Boom. It's worth watching as a reminder of just how big and global those protests were:https://youtu.be/bE2r7r7VVic?si=JhWxoKLzlKq-CqdsWhat's a little disheartening now is how many of the talking heads who were cheerleaders for this war are still around, especially in the Murdoch/Fox News media.The likes of Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson (then on CNN), Wolf Blitzer, were all big proponents. Likewise, Andrew Bolt in Australia.Most have not acknowledged the long-term consequences of invading Iraq and Afghanistan, or their role in it.Countless people were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And for what?Iran ended up being the big winner of regime change in Iraq. It would not be anywhere near as powerful as it is today if not for the Iraq war.The emergence of Isis was a direct consequence of the Iraq invasion.Meanwhile, the Taliban is still in power in Afghanistan.And once it became apparent how big a screw-up it was, Dubya pushed the Palestinian Authority for elections in Gaza to get "a quick win" in the Middle East.Hamas won those elections. We can see how well that worked out in the long term.Those long-term consequences still haven't fully played out yet.All this to secure access to oil, at a time when we already knew that burning fossil fuels causes more frequent and severe bushfires, heatwaves, droughts, floods, and forest fires.And the most disheartening thing has been the lack of any reckoning or serious institutional introspection over it all.