Tag: History

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

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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

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There Might Be No Day After in Gaza / Israeli warplanes strike school in Gaza’s Jabalia camp where thousands took shelter

As the war continues, deterioration at the level of governance, security, and public order will likely be deepened by the absence of a political horizon, diplomatic process, or future prospects. NATHAN J. BROWN Initial reactions to Hamas’s October 7 bloody attack on Israelis and Israel’s declaration of war focused on the short term: how strongly would… Read More There Might Be No Day After in Gaza / Israeli warplanes strike school in Gaza’s Jabalia camp where thousands took shelter

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If Hamas is a terrorist organization — which it is, without question, then so is the Israeli government / Biden’s lethal trap

By NORMAN SOLOMON Labels are central to the politics of media. And no label has been more powerful than “terrorist.”  A single standard of language should accompany a consistent standard of human rights, which the world desperately needs. “If thought corrupts language,” George Orwell wrote, “language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and… Read More If Hamas is a terrorist organization — which it is, without question, then so is the Israeli government / Biden’s lethal trap

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Israeli Ministry of Intelligence recommends forcible and permanent transfer of Gaza’s 2.2 million Palestinian residents to Egypt

NB: It is a hundred years since arch-imperialist Lord Curzon, as Britain’s Foreign Secretary in 1923 warned that the driving out of peoples (in the exchanges between Greece and Turkey) was ‘a thoroughly bad and vicious solution, for which the world will pay a heavy penalty for a hundred years to come’: R.M. Douglas, Orderly and Humane: The… Read More Israeli Ministry of Intelligence recommends forcible and permanent transfer of Gaza’s 2.2 million Palestinian residents to Egypt

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Israel reportedly proposed writing off Egypt’s debts for hosting Gaza refugees

An Israeli news report claims that the Netanyahu government has offered a raft of proposals to entice Egypt to open its doors to two million displaced Palestinians, despite Cairo’s rejection NB: Arch-imperialist Lord Curzon, as Britain’s Foreign Secretary in 1923 warned that the driving out of peoples (in the exchanges between Greece and Turkey) was ‘a… Read More Israel reportedly proposed writing off Egypt’s debts for hosting Gaza refugees

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Gangsters are the villains in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ — but the biggest thief of Native American wealth was the US government

Forced removal touched every tribe east of the Mississippi River and several tribes to the west of it. In total, about 100,000 American Indians were removed from their homelands to western reservations. Director Martin Scorsese’s new movie, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” tells the true story of a string of murders on the Osage Nation’s land in Oklahoma… Read More Gangsters are the villains in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ — but the biggest thief of Native American wealth was the US government

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The US invaded the island of Grenada 40 years ago. The legacy of revolution lives on

Bhaskar Sunkara You wouldn’t have guessed he was in enemy territory. Addressing 2,500 people at New York’s Hunter College one June night in 1983, Maurice Bishop won the crowd over with ease, covering everything from the Palestinian struggle to Ronald Reagan’s Medicaid cuts. At one point, the 39-year-old prime minister of Grenada described a “secret report” from… Read More The US invaded the island of Grenada 40 years ago. The legacy of revolution lives on

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Conceptualizing an Emancipatory Alternative: István Mészáros’s ‘Beyond Capital’

First posted June 29, 2016 “It is no exaggeration to say that with 1989 a long historical phase – the one initiated by the October Revolution of 1917 – came to its end. From now on, whatever might be the future of socialism, it will have to be established on radically new foundations, beyond the… Read More Conceptualizing an Emancipatory Alternative: István Mészáros’s ‘Beyond Capital’

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