The order of the International Court of Justice is a root-and-branch rejection of the Western consensus that Israel has no case to answer for the devastation it has caused in the Gaza Strip There is a hallucinogenic logic to the US cutting off funds to a relief agency because some of its employees allegedly participated… Read More Gaza and genocide
By Dan Bilefsky The Japanese philosopher was the recipient of the $1 Million award for 2022, which is given to thinkers whose ideas have “provided wisdom and self-understanding in a rapidly changing world.”.. Mr. Karatani had promoted a modern form of “reciprocity” he had observed in ancient Ionian culture and that he had sought to apply… Read More Kojin Karatani Wins Berggruen Prize (2022)
The homogenic national society is the most artificial society to have ever been created and is the result of the “social engineering project… Due to its bureaucratic nature, Statism needs the homogenisation of space and time to function. It requires that within its borders, cultures and ways of life are melted into one singular artificial… Read More Against homogenisation: Advancing diversity through Democratic Confederalism
How “anti-terror” laws used to silence meaningful dissent and solidarity with oppressed peoples. ~ Arîn Qereçox In January 2019, I travelled to Syria to learn about the revolution unfolding in the country’s north since 2012. At the time, we called it the Rojava Revolution, as the land being held by revolutionary forces was roughly the… Read More Kurdish solidarity crackdown
By JACKSON DIIANI Question: Who owns the parking meters in Chicago? Answer: Morgan Stanley and the city of Abu Dhabi. In 2008, in order to offset a budget crisis, the city council leased the parking meter system to a company called Chicago Parking Meters LLC, owned by Morgan Stanley and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Rates in most… Read More Is America like the Soviet Union in 1990?
Murtaza Hussain ISRAEL’S UNRELENTING ASSAULT on the Gaza Strip is beginning to tip the Middle East into a wider regional conflict. In the past week, the Houthis in Yemen emerged as an unlikely power player, successfully disrupting global shipping in the name of Palestinians in Gaza and goading the U.S. into launching a series of airstrikes… Read More The Houthis may have checkmated Biden in Red Sea standoff
Dream Security has a raft of NSO Group vets at the helm, and deep ties to the Israeli and international right Georgia Gee IT WAS AN UNUSUAL place for a tech company to announce a successful $33 million round of venture capital fundraising. But, on November 7, former NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio and two colleagues… Read More In video from Gaza, former CEO of Pegasus spyware announces millions for new venture
Keith Magee In a week when would-be GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis told a CNN town hall, “The US is not a racist country,” and his rival Nikki Haley told Fox News, “We’ve never been a racist country,” the release of the movie “Origin” could not be more timely. Written and directed by the exceptionally talented Ava DuVernay,… Read More America’s caste system
It was a long time coming, but the pathological savagery of the Israelis as they exterminate the Palestinians of Gaza announces the end of any claim America and the West altogether have to global leadership on any kind of moral basis, legal basis, or any assumption that the West possesses superior ideals, principles of government,… Read More Patrick Lawrence: The End of Global Leadership
From Heidegger’s Nazism to Habermas’s Zionism, the suffering of the ‘Other’ is of little consequence. GAZA casualties live statistics We must be forgiven if we thought what Germany had today was not Holocaust guilt, but genocide nostalgia, as it has vicariously indulged in Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians over the past century Hamid Dabashi Imagine if Iran, Syria, Lebanon,… Read More Thanks to Gaza, European philosophy has been exposed as ethically bankrupt / South Africa is testing the west’s claim to moral superiority
After the truth-shower 