By Nicky Reid / CounterPunch Every single American war has been bullshit. They all come with different excuses and some of them are pretty goddamn convincing but every major conflict that this country has ever engaged in has been motivated by greed and power, and every single war we’ve fought has ended the exact same way, with… Read More Exposing the Myth of the ‘Good War’
Yossi Verter Based on the public utterances of senior rabbis – Ashkenazi and Sephardi alike – with the imminent issue of draft notices to a few thousand yeshiva students, it would seem the coalition is headed for collapse. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant will be sending out some 3,000 notices in the coming month, meaning while… Read More Netanyahu Will Nix a Hostage Deal to Save His Coalition
Chris Hedges The assassination of Trump would not remove the yearning of tens of millions of people, many conditioned by the Christian right, for a cult leader. Most of the leaders of the Christian right have built cult followings of their own. These Christian fascists embraced magical thinking, attacked their enemies as agents of Satan… Read More Chris Hedges: Statement on Attempted Trump Assassination
GAZA casualties, live statistics Lancet warns Gaza death toll could be over 186,000 Just say how many is Israel allowed to kill until it’s considered a crime in its own eyes? Where does the massacre stop? The answer is predetermined: “As many as necessary.” In other words: there’s no limit. Gideon Levy The trumpets of victory… Read More How Many Dead Children in Gaza Is Mohammed Deif Worth?
Samar Abu Elouf’s harrowing work in Gaza has garnered critical acclaim. But that’s not why she does it GAZA casualties, live statistics Photographs by Samar Abu Elouf / Story by Alaa Elassar, CNN The first thing Samar Abu Elouf does before photographing a dead child is make sure it isn’t one of her own. Feelings… Read More ‘This is worth dying for’
Though I was never in the U.S. military, my life experience has been American wars, wars, wars, and more wars. I was born during World War II. I was in grade school when the Korean War took place. I still have a faint memory of a photo of a gleaming American soldier’s face from that… Read More Juan Cole, Another American War in the Middle East?
GAZA casualties, live statistics By Andre Damon The Lancet, the prestigious peer-reviewed British medical journal, has warned that the true death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 or more. This staggering figure amounts to 8 percent of the population of Gaza. A similar percentage of the US population would be 26 million people. It stands as… Read More Lancet warns Gaza death toll could be over 186,000
First posted September 14, 2017 Enzo Traverso is an Italian historian of the Holocaust and totalitarianism The Aporias of Marxism: In a letter to Walter Benjamin, dated 13 April 1933, Gershom Scholem described the rise of Nazi Germany as ‘a catastrophe of world‑historical proportions’ which permitted him for the first time ‘to comprehend deeply’ the expulsion… Read More The Aporias of Marxism / Archaism and Modernity. By Enzo Traverso
First posted October 19, 2020 Fascism has awakened a sleeping world to the realities of the irrational, mystical character structure of the people of the world: Wilhelm Reich… .. the concept of ideology makes sense only in relation to the truth or untruth of what it refers to. There can be no talk of socially necessary delusions… Read More Ralph Dumain: Paranoia Papers Bibliography. The (Un)Natural History of Social Paranoia
GAZA casualties, live statistics YOAV LITVIN ( The New Arab ) – Israel’s ongoing genocide is part of a downward spiral for the Zionist project. In the words of acclaimed historian Professor Ilan Pappe: “We are witnessing a historical process – or, more accurately, the beginnings of one – that is likely to culminate in the downfall of Zionism.” Yet… Read More Liberal Zionism and the facade of Israeli genocide
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