NB: The foundational idea of this country is that the genocide of Palestinians is divinely ordained. So many members of the Israeli public is also revelling in the violence. Thus has God been recast as a vampire. We are grateful to Israeli journalists and intellectuals such as Amira Haas for upholding our faith in humanity.… Read More How Israel’s Silent Majority Is Letting West Bank Palestinians Be Driven Out
By Tom Engelhardt I grew up with a vision of a possible instant apocalypse, inspired (if, under the circumstances, such a word can even be used) by the nuclear obliteration of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II. It could happen at any moment, even if you were “ducking and covering”… Read More The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet
As in The Iliad, the adoration of force has become “the true hero, the true subject” of our times. All the nightmares of our present are woven from its threads: genocide and oligarchy; thermobaric bombs and AI kill lists; fascist cults of masculinity and bare-knuckle machismo; masked men snatching children off American streets and narco-executions in… Read More The adoration of force
Hanin Majadli Israelis believe that Israel and the U.S. are fighting for democracy, freedom and human rights in Iran, but if human rights were their guiding principle, the state of affairs would not be as it is in the West Bank, and the Gaza war would not have reached the dimensions of genocide. There are… Read More It’s Astonishing How Israelis Can Identify Cruel, Evil Regimes, but Just Not Their Own
Alfred McCoy, author most recently of the history book Cold War on Five Continents, makes clear today, by now Donald Trump and decline have (or at least should have) become literal synonyms in his increasingly nightmarish second term in the Oval Office. In almost every imaginable way, he now seems intent on taking this country down… Read More America’s Date With Destiny
Juan Cole Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Democratic National Committee is sitting on a report that demonstrated that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris lost significant support because of Joe Biden’s perceived “blank check” to the Netanyahu government to pursue its total war on little Gaza. This, according to Holly Otterbein at Axios. The analysis is certainly… Read More Biden delivered the Country to Trump, disbelieving Gaza Death Statistics; they were Underestimates / 17,000 Unaccompanied Orphans in Gaza, in World’s Biggest Orphan Crisis
The Captive Mind, Czesław Miłosz’s searing anatomy of authoritarianism, highlights the dangers of self-deception in the name of ‘realism’ The Captive Mind, Czesław Miłosz’s searing anatomy of authoritarianism, tells a story drawn from an older Polish novel by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Insatiability. Europe is about to be overrun by a Sino-Mongolian army that dominates from… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: From a book on authoritarianism, lessons on ‘realism’ for India
India’s ‘strategic autonomy’ looks more like opportunism, as Modi balances Israel, Iran, and the US while eroding trust in the Global South Bharat Bhushan Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second visit to Tel Aviv, at a time when United States-Iran tensions are high, sends a signal that India has chosen to plant itself firmly in the US-Israeli camp. Modi minced… Read More Modi in Israel: A diplomatic embrace that will cost India dear
Indian media estimate the deals could total $10 billion and are expected to focus on air defense systems against missiles and drones. ‘The mini-war with Pakistan last year led to a shift. India woke up’ Hagai Amit In July 2017, when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first visit to Israel, he and Prime… Read More The Multibillion-dollar Arms Deals Driving India’s Modi’s Visit to Israel
The UN Special Rapporteur joins Mehdi and our Zeteo town hall audience to call out global powers and promote BDS, as a Zionist disinformation campaign tries to cancel her and get her fired Mehdi Hasan and Team Zeteo UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, joins Mehdi in a town hall with Zeteo’s paid subscribers after a disinformation campaign… Read More Francesca Albanese Talks Israel, Epstein and the ‘Orgy of Power’
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