First posted October 05, 2016 In 1999, the Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser came across Wang Lixiong’s book “Sky Burial: The Fate of Tibet.” On finishing it, she sent Mr. Wang photographs taken by her father, who was with the People’s Liberation Army when it entered Tibet in the 1950s and documented the early years of the Cultural… Read More The Cultural Revolution in Tibet: A Photographic Record By LUO SILING
Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophical Masterpiece James Romm For my money, there is no more captivating view in all Italy than the vast panorama of the harbour of Syracuse, framed by its majestic, honey-coloured Baroque buildings. The city’s origins go back to the eighth… Read More Roots of The Republic
An overwhelming majority of Israelis support ending the Gaza war in return for the release of all the hostages, but Netanyahu’s far-right coalition partners would rather sacrifice Israeli soldiers on the altar of endless war Amir Tibon On Monday afternoon, while driving my car through the streets of Tel Aviv, I happened to turn on… Read More Netanyahu’s Forever War in Gaza Is Crushing Israel’s Soldiers and Their Families
By Ben Norton / Geopolitical Economy Report The United States has militarily intervened in practically every country in Latin America. The CIA has backed dozens of coups d’etat against democratically elected left-wing governments in Latin America, in an attempt to impose US imperial hegemony in the region and serve US corporate interests. Today, more and more US… Read More In the Struggle Against US Imperialism, Nicaragua Is a Model of Sovereignty
Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal. Greg Sargent A few days ago, as the Jeffrey Epstein scandal gripped Washington, Senator Ron Wyden offered a striking revelation in an interview with The New York Times. The Oregon Democrat said that his… Read More Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb
NB: As the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki approaches (August 6 and 9, 1945); readers might like to read this article by two accomplished scholars of twentieth century history. DS ‘the overwhelming historical evidence from American and Japanese archives indicates that Japan would have surrendered that August, even if atomic… Read More U.S. leaders knew we didn’t have to drop atomic bombs on Japan to win the war. We did it anyway (2020)
Once these Israeli goons and thugs are done with the Palestinians, they will turn on each other. The genocide in Gaza signals the abolition, for Israelis as well as Palestinians, of the rule of law. It marks the obliteration of even the pretense of an ethical code. Israelis are the barbarians they condemn…. Israelis, once they finish… Read More Chris Hedges: The Gaza Riviera
NB: An ISIS leader has become a friend of Britain and the non-violent activist group Palestine Action has been declared a terrorist group. Such are the geopolitics of the British Labour Party By Kit Klarenberg / The Cradle On 19 July, the Mail on Sunday revealed that Inter-Mediate, a shadowy firm founded by Jonathan Powell, now National Security advisor… Read More MI6’s Man in Damascus: Jonathan Powell, Inter-Mediate, and the Al-Qaeda-Linked Gov’t in Syria
Anyone deflecting from the clear responsibility of the Israeli state for this mass starvation of two million people, anyone resorting to euphemisms about “crises” makes themselves complicit in this historic crime. NB: This is the way the Nazis murdered hundreds of thousands of captured Russian and Polish POWs and civilians in WW2, by placing them… Read More Murder not crisis – Why Israel’s starvation of Gaza is exceptional in a global context
Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer Science is in crisis. Funding infrastructures for both basic and applied research are being systematically decimated, while in places of great power, science’s influence on decision making is waning. Long-term and far-reaching studies are being shuttered, and thousands of scientists’ livelihoods are uncertain, to say nothing of the incalculable casualties resulting from the abrupt removal of… Read More Science could enable a fascist future. Especially if we don’t learn from the past
After the truth-shower 