On a few by no means minor matters – Syria for one, Vladimir Putin for another – I don’t see eye to eye with Owen Jones. Right now, though, those matters don’t matter. What does is that he’s been outstanding … Read More »
My posts have been sporadic of late. Apologies for prioritising summer breaks even as the world grows more horrifying, to the at least partially awake, by the hour. At least partially awake. Ye who drape windows and FB profiles in … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone today. The West Truly Doesn’t See Palestinians As Human The message is clear: Israelis dying is a terrible tragedy, while Palestinians dying is just the normal way for things to be. You never see the dehumanization of Palestinians in … Read More »
The Telegraph yesterday, August 27: Sir Alexander McCall Smith has criticised the “censoring” of children’s books by authors such as Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton, arguing that they presented a “sanitised world view”. McCall Smith, who is best known for … Read More »
This shipped into my inbox yesterday afternoon from Progressive International. It needs little by way of introduction. We can easily feel powerless in the face of “our” governments’ backing of genocide in Gaza but a movement of active and morally … Read More »
Norman Finkelstein is not one for mincing words. That doesn’t make him a motor-mouthed rabble rouser. Far from it, and it’s a point I’ll return to in a moment, the research on which his conclusions are based is never less … Read More »
Extrapolating conservatively from the 186,000 estimate months ago by The Lancet, one of the world’s most highly regarded medical journals, 200,000 Palestinians have died as a result of Israel’s response to October 7, 2023. Bombed and machine gunned. Struck by … Read More »
Released by Fantagraphics, these images by Joe Sacco – author of “Palestine” and “Footnotes in Gaza,” – form part of a wider set, “The War on Gaza“. See also, stupid arguments for genocide * * *
On July 1, days before 34% of Britain’s electorate handed Keir Starmer’s Labour its ‘landslide’ victory, Channel 4 gave its 9 pm prime-time slot to a 47 minute screening of Skint: The Truth About Britain’s Broken Economy. Presented by Tim … Read More »
August 20 2024 – “Hotties for Harris” pose at the DNC in Chicago An Orwellian disconnect haunts the 2024 Democratic National Convention. In the isolation of the convention hall, shielded from the outside world behind thousands of armed police, few of … Read More »