The IDF-induced famine in Gaza became a Live Aid moment; weirdly, starvation depoliticised the genocide, bleaching it into a humanitarian cause that writers could get behind Mukul Kesavan Why have Western writers and public intellectuals been so feeble and belated in their response to Israel’s genocide in Gaza? The general public can be forgiven for… Read More Guilty silence
NB: The Western rulers are complicit in mass murder. They are also unashamed racists – some lives are more worthy of dignity than others. We all know this and they know it too – they hurl their impunity in our faces. Had there been any justice in the world they would have been tried for… Read More Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. It couldn’t have done it without the west’s help
An overwhelming majority of Israelis support ending the Gaza war in return for the release of all the hostages, but Netanyahu’s far-right coalition partners would rather sacrifice Israeli soldiers on the altar of endless war Amir Tibon On Monday afternoon, while driving my car through the streets of Tel Aviv, I happened to turn on… Read More Netanyahu’s Forever War in Gaza Is Crushing Israel’s Soldiers and Their Families
By Ben Norton / Geopolitical Economy Report The United States has militarily intervened in practically every country in Latin America. The CIA has backed dozens of coups d’etat against democratically elected left-wing governments in Latin America, in an attempt to impose US imperial hegemony in the region and serve US corporate interests. Today, more and more US… Read More In the Struggle Against US Imperialism, Nicaragua Is a Model of Sovereignty
Once these Israeli goons and thugs are done with the Palestinians, they will turn on each other. The genocide in Gaza signals the abolition, for Israelis as well as Palestinians, of the rule of law. It marks the obliteration of even the pretense of an ethical code. Israelis are the barbarians they condemn…. Israelis, once they finish… Read More Chris Hedges: The Gaza Riviera
Anyone deflecting from the clear responsibility of the Israeli state for this mass starvation of two million people, anyone resorting to euphemisms about “crises” makes themselves complicit in this historic crime. NB: This is the way the Nazis murdered hundreds of thousands of captured Russian and Polish POWs and civilians in WW2, by placing them… Read More Murder not crisis – Why Israel’s starvation of Gaza is exceptional in a global context
“It turns out that parents are writing names on their children’s limbs, so that it will be possible to identify them when they die” Ronen Argov at a recent protest. “We’ve reached a level of violence and cruelty where making things palatable for those who refuse to know is like supporting someone’s addiction. I won’t… Read More ‘The Children Haunt Me at Night’: The Protest That’s Forcing Israelis to Face Kids Killed in Gaza
the media still often presents what is happening as a response to 7 October 2023, rather than looking at the broader historical context. Israel weaponized food long before 7 October. In 2008, for example, Israeli authorities calculated the minimum caloric intake necessary for Palestinians to avoid malnutrition so they could limit the amount of food into Gaza… Read More As Gaza starves, Netanyahu jokes about McDonald’s with ‘manosphere’ podcasters Nelk Boys
Pankaj Mishra It may be,” Edmund Wilson wrote in 1929, “that the United States will develop into a great imperialistic power with all its artists, critics, and philosophers as ineffective and as easily extinguished as the German ones were in 1914.” Wilson, born in 1895, came of age when national energies were still turned inward,… Read More Speaking Reassurance to Power
NB: This is what needs to be said repeatedly, because so many people have shut their eyes to the most brutal campaign of mass extermination since the American punishment of Vietnam, which left some 4 million dead over a decade. The rate of murder in Gaza would please the operators of the death camps run… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: If Gaza’s corpses can vanish from our conscience, what else are we becoming blind to?
After the truth-shower 