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EDITORS—In the wake of an ugly eruption of violence on the streets of Amsterdam, the media coverage of the story has been put under the microscope with editors scrambling to revise headlines, rework narratives, and reframe video content.

EDITOR—The heinous crimes against women and children in Gaza—amounting to a genocide— and the lavish military, financial, diplomatic and media support extended to Israel by the West, especially the US, speak loudly about the uselessness and hypocrisy of Bourgeois liberal feminists.

KSHAMA SAWANT±Kshama Sawant is an Indian-American politician and economist who has served on the Seattle City Council since 2014. She is a member of Socialist Alternative, the first and only member of the party to date to be elected to public office.

INDRAJIT—A week before October 7th, National Insecurity Adviser Jake Sullivan said, “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.” America has an entire class of people like him, who are professionally wrong and only fail upwards. Insomuch as America had a strategic direction in the Middle East, it was leaving. Both Republicans and Democrats wanted to pivot to China, not fight another Gulf War.

Remember that tactics are just the toilet that strategy shits on, and that America was strategically defeated before they started. America has no strategic answer for fighting men in tunnels and never has. All it can do is bomb the helpless (and militarily irrelevant) men, women, and children above. America also has no strategic answer to inundation attacks against air defenses.

PETER MAN—Trump will redouble his trade war and low-intensity conflicts with China. He will ignore the Taiwan red line by meeting with Lai Ching-te to test China. He will give the DPP the green light to prosecute and imprison TPP (party leader Ko Wen-je already imprisoned) and KMT lawmakers in a reign of terror. Will China react angrily and issue more toothless protests? Or will they make the nation whole again swiftly and bloodlessly at the time of their choosing (hopefully before being forced to act)? Everything Trump does will hasten the fall of the empire, but he will be more concerned about consolidating his power in America. A hot war, especially a losing one, will scupper his plans. He will try to avoid it. Trump is not hard to understand. He is as predictable as gravity. His presidency will be a train wreck for America and its vassals. The rest of the world, who are not vassals, can humour him and let him bloviate about how great a deal-maker he is.