Obsession, jealousies and Joséphine: has Ridley Scott captured the real Napoleon?

Andrew Hussey Napoleon Bonaparte is probably the most famous Frenchman of all time and is, according to academic sources, second only to Jesus as the most filmed figure in cinema history. Napoleon is a complex subject whose aura, monstrosity and genius is a perfect fit for great cinema and who is therefore an irresistible challenge… Read More Obsession, jealousies and Joséphine: has Ridley Scott captured the real Napoleon?

‘We’re Rolling Out Nakba 2023,’ Israeli Minister on Northern Gaza Strip Evacuation

Michael Hauser TovIsraeli security cabinet member and Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter (Likud) was asked in a news interview on Saturday whether the images of northern Gaza Strip residents evacuating south on the IDF’s orders are comparable to images of the Nakba. He replied: “We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba. From an operational point… Read More ‘We’re Rolling Out Nakba 2023,’ Israeli Minister on Northern Gaza Strip Evacuation

Dennis Kucinich: The Nothingness of a War Consciousness

By Dennis Kucinich / Substack The leaders of the world must assert common humanity and create a new path, a new map which is fair to all, and establish a new, peaceful coexistence which recognizes the inner equality of all Dennis Kucinich Commentary on November 5, 2023 Palestine, Israel, and the US war machine: Dennis Kucinich… Read More Dennis Kucinich: The Nothingness of a War Consciousness

‘I sent them a good boy and they made him a murderer’

Lieutenant accused of murdering 109 civilians: By SEYMOUR HERSH The Pulitzer prize winning My Lai story, as readers experienced it when it was first published in 1969 In the fall of 1969, a friend with a source in the military called a part-time political columnist for The Village Voice with a tip: a U.S. soldier was being… Read More ‘I sent them a good boy and they made him a murderer’

Is it too much to ask people to view Palestinians as humans? Apparently so

But, Arwa, what about Hamas? You might be saying. Aren’t you going to condemn Hamas? Of course I will absolutely condemn Hamas massacring innocent Israeli civilians on 7 October and taking hostages. And let’s be very clear here: while nothing Hamas did on 7 October can be condoned, their actions did not take place in a vacuum. This… Read More Is it too much to ask people to view Palestinians as humans? Apparently so

Dogs of war / New acronym in Gaza: WCNSF – Wounded Child No Surviving Family

The truth never dies but is made to live as a beggar: Yiddish proverb NB: For the terminally racist Western establishment, no amount of mass suffering of innocents is going to be enough. It is they, led by the USA who are enabling this enormity. Here’s an American expert in urban warfare, saying Israel is… Read More Dogs of war / New acronym in Gaza: WCNSF – Wounded Child No Surviving Family

Gaza workers expelled from Israel accuse Israeli authorities of abuse, including beatings

Palestinian workers who were expelled back to Gaza from Israel last week have accused Israeli authorities of “torture,” alleging they were stripped naked, held in cages, viciously beaten and, according to one worker’s account, subjected to electric shocks. “They broke us and beat us with batons and metal sticks… they humiliated us… they have made… Read More Gaza workers expelled from Israel accuse Israeli authorities of abuse, including beatings

Netanyahu’s Performative Genocide in Gaza / The Invisible Slaughter of Palestinian Children

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow to destroy Hamas, whatever the cost to civilians in Gaza, is based on a brutally cynical reality that such a goal will not be achievable without completely decimating Gaza or forcing the Gazans into exile in Egypt (either of which many of his political partners endorse, calling all Gazans… Read More Netanyahu’s Performative Genocide in Gaza / The Invisible Slaughter of Palestinian Children

A Conspiracy of Silence / The Killing Floor of Gaza

As Israel speaks openly about the ethnic cleansing of Gaza’s Palestinians, Western countries are nowhere to be seen or heard MICHAEL YOUNG Israel has made great efforts over the decades to redefine its ethnic cleansing of the Arab population of Palestine in 1948 as being a consequence of the Arabs’ voluntary departure from their homes, or a… Read More A Conspiracy of Silence / The Killing Floor of Gaza