Chris Hedges The assassination of Trump would not remove the yearning of tens of millions of people, many conditioned by the Christian right, for a cult leader. Most of the leaders of the Christian right have built cult followings of their own. These Christian fascists embraced magical thinking, attacked their enemies as agents of Satan… Read More Chris Hedges: Statement on Attempted Trump Assassination
GAZA casualties, live statistics Lancet warns Gaza death toll could be over 186,000 Just say how many is Israel allowed to kill until it’s considered a crime in its own eyes? Where does the massacre stop? The answer is predetermined: “As many as necessary.” In other words: there’s no limit. Gideon Levy The trumpets of victory… Read More How Many Dead Children in Gaza Is Mohammed Deif Worth?
Samar Abu Elouf’s harrowing work in Gaza has garnered critical acclaim. But that’s not why she does it GAZA casualties, live statistics Photographs by Samar Abu Elouf / Story by Alaa Elassar, CNN The first thing Samar Abu Elouf does before photographing a dead child is make sure it isn’t one of her own. Feelings… Read More ‘This is worth dying for’
GAZA casualties, live statistics By Andre Damon The Lancet, the prestigious peer-reviewed British medical journal, has warned that the true death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 or more. This staggering figure amounts to 8 percent of the population of Gaza. A similar percentage of the US population would be 26 million people. It stands as… Read More Lancet warns Gaza death toll could be over 186,000
First posted July 06, 2012 As one distraught friend of mine once prayed: ‘May Allah save Islam from Pakistan.’ The self-claimed ‘bastion of Islam’ has gradually mutated into becoming a bastion of deluded messiahs and mindless, violent ranting machines to whom anything, from incoherent malangs to the reopening of Nato supply routes, are conspiracies against Islam. On… Read More EXIT GOD, ENTER MADNESS: Nadeem Paracha on religious extremism in Pakistan (2012)
First posted September 14, 2017 Enzo Traverso is an Italian historian of the Holocaust and totalitarianism The Aporias of Marxism: In a letter to Walter Benjamin, dated 13 April 1933, Gershom Scholem described the rise of Nazi Germany as ‘a catastrophe of world‑historical proportions’ which permitted him for the first time ‘to comprehend deeply’ the expulsion… Read More The Aporias of Marxism / Archaism and Modernity. By Enzo Traverso
First posted October 19, 2020 Fascism has awakened a sleeping world to the realities of the irrational, mystical character structure of the people of the world: Wilhelm Reich… .. the concept of ideology makes sense only in relation to the truth or untruth of what it refers to. There can be no talk of socially necessary delusions… Read More Ralph Dumain: Paranoia Papers Bibliography. The (Un)Natural History of Social Paranoia
First posted February 05, 2017 EUROZINE REVIEW ‘In Russia, the authoritarian state is pressing ahead with the destruction of society,’ write the editors of Osteuropa (Germany). ‘Almost 150 clubs, associations, centres, movements and institutes across the country have been hit by the slander campaign intended to silence institutions that have fallen out of favour. They are defamed by… Read More The destruction of society
GAZA casualties, live statistics YOAV LITVIN ( The New Arab ) – Israel’s ongoing genocide is part of a downward spiral for the Zionist project. In the words of acclaimed historian Professor Ilan Pappe: “We are witnessing a historical process – or, more accurately, the beginnings of one – that is likely to culminate in the downfall of Zionism.” Yet… Read More Liberal Zionism and the facade of Israeli genocide
Saba Naqvi; and P. Raman It is the centenary of the RSS next year, and it is an organisation that plays the long game. Towards that end, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a great enabler of their ideological agenda. But now that the BJP has crashed in the nation’s two most populous States, Uttar Pradesh… Read More The RSS and Modi – Two Articles
After the truth-shower 