NB: An excellent commentary; except for one misnomer: when it comes to Western imperial establishments and their hangers-on, it’s not their moral stupidity, but their moral depravity that we are confronted with. The truth is as clear as crystal: they are irredeemably racist, as racist as the Nazi jurists who concocted the phrase ‘life not… Read More Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity
Seham Tantesh in Gaza and Julian Borger in Jerusalem A Palestinian driver bringing food aid from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) into Gaza has been killed by an Israeli soldier “in a field execution”, according to witnesses and the local truckers’ association, which said it may suspend operations in protest. Ahmad Esleem was shot in the head on… Read More IDF accused of ‘field execution’ of Palestinian driver bringing aid into Gaza
Tim Barker, Dylan Saba Martin Luther King once called the United States government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” That formulation may be controversial, but no one denies that the US is by far the world’s biggest arms dealer, with a 42 percent share of the global arms export market. Since the Cold War, Congress… Read More Selling American Bombs
Hussam Abu Safiya faces ‘tangible danger to his life’ following 18 months in prison without charge or trial Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem, Lorenzo Tondo and Sufian Taha One of Gaza’s most prominent doctors is almost unrecognisable because of severe injuries inflicted in Israeli detention, his lawyer has said, and faces “tangible danger to his life” after being held for… Read More Detained Gaza doctor almost unrecognisable after injuries in Israeli jail, lawyer says
The liberation of the American peoples cannot be achieved without the shedding of imperial weight, writes the Pulitzer prize-winning author in this somber essay marking the semiquincentennial VIET THANH NGUYEN The word I think of to describe the United States on its 250th anniversary is cruelty. There are other words, of course, that could describe… Read More ‘250 Years of Cruelty’ – Two essays on the ‘American Empire’ and How to Save the U.S.
What Gaza reveals about the ideology that shaped the modern West NB: Since October 2023, at least 20,179 Palestinian children have been killed; and 44,143 injured. 58,000 children have been orphaned. Palestine has the largest concentration of child amputees in the world. This is the blood soaked memorial of so-called western civilisation. And our cowardly government… Read More The End of Liberalism
NB: Since October 2023, at least 20,179 Palestinian children have been killed; and 44,143 injured. 58,000 children have been orphaned. Palestine has the largest concentration of child amputees in the world. This is the blood soaked memorial of so-called western civilisation. The genocidal mania of the US/UK/Zionist regime is a scar upon the human conscience… Read More ‘If we don’t act on the proof against Israel, we can’t redeem ourselves’: Justice Muralidhar / Killing the Future: The UN’s Findings on Palestinian Children
The main pillars of the founding narrative have fallen on hard times. Today, its meaning is up for grabs Nikhil Pal Singh Writing during the carnage of the first world war, the iconoclast intellectual Randolph Bourne described the American revolutionary inheritance as a squalid marriage between the town capitalist and plantation patriarch. Glittering generalities of… Read More The American myth always came at someone’s expense. Now, it’s all but collapsed
Israeli army has killed 235 children in West Bank since 7 October 2023 without a single indictment in what rights groups call a ‘licence to kill’… More than 72,000 Palestinians have been killed (21,000 of them children) since October 2023. In the West Bank, military rules of engagements have been loosened and impunity is the norm.… Read More ‘Is it Israel’s aim to kill our children?’ West Bank parents implore end to IDF’s child killings with impunity
Iran is the only team that can’t rest and recuperate after a match because Trump’s minions insist that they fly out of the US within hours of the full-time whistle Mukul Kesavan The correct way of following this World Cup is to first recognise that its principal host, the United States of America, is a… Read More Rogue host
After the truth-shower 