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  • Why Thoreau Deserves Your Admiration

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  • Giving No Ground

    + Like the Biblical Job (Ayyūb in Arabic, where he is revered as a prophet), every possible misfortune has been visited upon the Palestinians of Gaza. I use the word “visited” in the sense of something being inflicted from outside by outsiders. Something wicked in this case. Unimaginable and unremitting violence has been done to […]

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  • The Tech-Broligarch Nightmare

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  • What We [DON’T] Talk About When We Talk About USAID

    Photograph Source: U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Tyler J. Clements – Public Domain Photograph Source: U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Tyler J. Clements – Public Domain Photograph Source: U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Tyler J. Clements – Public Domain Photograph Source: U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s […]

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  • At the Gates of Hell

    + Sherman burnt Atlanta to the ground, but its residents weren’t evicted to Curaçao. Ypres was obliterated twice in WW I, but its citizens weren’t shipped to Corsica. Dresden was firebombed to ashes, but its residents weren’t rounded up and sent to Antigua. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked, but their irradiated populations weren’t deported to […]

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  • Bourgeois Formal Democracy for Now but Could Fascism be the Future?

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  • Ravaging the Soils of Gaza

    When Israeli troops launched their ground invasion of northern Gaza in 2023, one of the first places they rolled into was the Abu Suffiyeh family farm in the Jabalya area (see pdf, page 301). The attackers had targeted the farm, with its thriving olive, pomegranate, and citrus orchards, for total destruction, because it lay in […]

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  • Blow It Up, Clean It Out, Sell It Off

    + Your neighbor burns down the house that your family has lived in since the previous family home, a hundred miles to the north, was demolished 75 years ago by your neighbor’s grandfather. The fire kills your wife, two of your five children, and your mother. The claims adjuster, who is also the principle investor […]

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  • Biden’s Environmental Record

    For those of you scoring at home, you may have noticed the Biden administration’s lackluster performance in the arena of public lands and wildlife conservation. Using baseball as a metaphor, the Biden team had a few brilliant moments in an otherwise forgettable four years that, in its confused approach, reminds us of Abbott and Costello’s famous […]

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  • A Former Danish Diplomat on the Future of Greenland

    On the night of June 21, 1976, summer solstice, I flew from New York to Stockholm. I sat at a north-side window and watched in wonder as the sun went down, down, down, but not under, and rose again. We arrived in Stockholm at 3:30 a.m., and it was broad daylight. It’s an odd thing […]

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  • Pick Up the Pieces

    “Israel has destroyed everything in Gaza. Everything. Except the sacred bond between a people and their land. Their roots run too deep. Their history covers millennia. The wounds of their Nakba have yet to heal.” – Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s ambassador to the UN + How do you compensate for 35 years of being knocked off […]

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  • Canada’s Nazi Problem

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  • The Palestine Exception: Film as a Form of Cultural Work that Facilitates Movement Building

    A still from The Palestine Exception. A still from The Palestine Exception. A still from The Palestine Exception. A still from The Palestine Exception. A still from The Palestine Exception. A still from The Palestine Exception. A still from The Palestine Exception. A still from The Palestine Exception. A still from The Palestine Exception. A […]

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  • What Israel and the US Wrought in Gaza

    + After 15 months of unrelenting Israeli bombardment and a week of a still fragile ceasefire, this is what Gaza looks like: + At least 47,161 Palestinians have been listed by the Ministry of Health as being killed by Israeli military actions. Another 12,000 or so are missing under the bomb rubble and presumed dead. […]

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  • As the U.S. Looks Back to the 17th Century, Mexico Moves Forward into the 21st

    Hours after a 6.1 earthquake rippled across western Mexico (I didn’t feel it), I turned on the tube to witness a milestone event unfolding hundreds of miles away in the Zocalo, the central plaza of Mexico City. As thousands filled the historic space on January 12, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Mexico’s first woman president, was preparing to […]

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  • The Future of Organized Labor in the Time of Trump and Farage

    It never used to be the case here in the UK that people ignored the unions. As the Grateful Dead sang back in the 1970s: ‘What a long, strange trip it’s been.’ It was following Tory prime minister Edward Heath’s fall in the 1970s that the late financier Jimmy Goldsmith backed something sinister called Truemid—the […]

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  • The End of Something is Not the End of Everything

    When you ask me what was sound like growing up, I’ll say my tongue was as red as all good tombs. She, too, wanted to be a bird. So ask why the pelican screams. So ask why the plants are dead. No one modeled joy; Our freedom drenched in so much grief I look at […]

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  • The Uses and Misuses of Ideology in Analyzing the Syrian Overthrow

    People in Global South countries have agency. They can and do understand the realities of their material conditions. Apparently it is necessary to write the preceding two sentences.

    You, dear reader, may be wondering why I have written such obvious statements. Don’t people everywhere possess agency, the ability to understand and act upon the political, cultural and social conditions of their community, nation and country? Yes of course they do. So why write the obvious? Because it appears that there are those, sadly partisans of the Left, that don’t believe the peoples of the Global South have agency.

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  • We Still Have Our Eyes Wide Shut to Modern Slavery

    From Weinstein to Epstein to Diddy to R. Kelly, the under-your-nose reality of human sex-trafficking—a.k.a., modern slavery—continues to make headlines. But one moviemaker presaged today’s press 25 years ago. Today, documentarian Tony Zierra (Filmworker (2017)) gives us a fresh perspective on an overlooked work of art. Time Changes Everything In 1999, Warner Bros released director […]

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  • Dead Consciences

    To be a journalist in Gaza is to be a target of the Israelis. To be a Palestinian journalist is to be a target of the Israelis and the international press, which refuses to recognize you as a media of their tribe. How else to explain the otherwise incomprehensible indifference to the systematic slaughter of […]

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  • How Tech Billionaires Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left and Right

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  • What is Guerrilla Journalism

    Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) was launched in the waning hours of October 7, 2023, when growing numbers of journalists, artists, academicians, and poets around the world saw that Israel was escalating what had been a quieter, more contained genocide into the complete annihilation of the Palestinian people. WAWOG charges that this enhanced […]

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  • Europe Continues to Import Israeli Gas Amid Genocide in Gaza

    On December 17, a Dutch nonprofit organization dedicated to corporate accountability, SOMO, published a study of Israel’s energy sector amid the ongoing Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip. Since Palestinian militants attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed more than 46,000 Palestinians, including 17,000 children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, as cited by Al Jazeera. The true toll of the genocide — obscured by continued Israeli attacks, blockade and propaganda — may top 330,000 deaths by the end of the year, per estimates published in The Guardian.

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  • “Who Gives a Shit?”

    Imagine living like this: You have four children, all younger than 10. Your husband was killed three months ago in an airstrike. You’ve moved five times in the last year, taking only what you could carry, which wasn’t much because you had to hold an infant in a sling. You don’t know what became of […]

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  • It’s the End of the World and I Don’t Feel Fine

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  • Poetry From Today’s Frontlines

    Someone said recently that AI might know more about the history of the First World War than all human historians put together but that he knew more than AI because he had read the poetry of Wilfred Owen. Here therefore is a look at today’s main conflicts through the prism of these conflicts’ poetry. For […]

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  • What’s Left to Say?

    Under brutal siege for weeks, Israeli forces raided Kamal  Adwan Hospital, the last functioning hospital in North Gaza, on Friday, clearing out its staff and patients and setting parts of the bomb-battered building on fire. The raid followed airstrikes on buildings adjacent to the hospital that killed at least 50 people, including five medical workers. […]

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  • A Nation of Immigrants?

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  • Mexico’s Dirty War, 50 Years Later

    “We’ve shown that this struggle is not in vain. We are here, the relatives and survivors of the Dirty War, and thanks to our relatives who had to participate in an armed struggle against a tyranny that was called democracy. They are the important ones,” Judith Galarza said. “We will thank all the recognitions, but it’s for them, our brothers and sisters who sacrificed their lives, their safety and their children to struggle for all the children of Mexico, for a just society so our children will have food, education, culture, sports, like what is happening now.”

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  • “We Just Do What the Israelis Want Us to Do”

    + On December 15, an Israeli missile struck the third floor of a UNRWA school in al Mawasi camp outside Khan Younis, killing more than a dozen Palestinians on site and severely injuring many more who were taken to the emergency room at Nasser Hospital. At least 18 Palestinians injured in the blast died in […]

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