In a seventeen minute dialogue yesterday with ex Guardian correspondent Glenn Greenwald, Holocaust Industry author Norman Finkelstein made several claims in respect of Israel having taken its war into Lebanon. Most important are these: The escalation into a new front … Read More »
“I got principles and if you don’t like ’em, well, I got others” – Keir Starmer Groucho Marx “Israel continues to pummel Lebanon, proving itself the only country in the world that can bomb and invade all its neighbors at … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone today: 15 Rules for discussing Israeli warmongering It’s been a few minutes since Israel last began a new project of mass military violence, so perhaps it’s time for a refresher on the official rules on how we’re meant … Read More »
Jonathan Cook today: The more definitive the proof of Israeli atrocities, the less they get reported Videos show Israeli soldiers push three Palestinian men off a roof in a West Bank town under illegal Israeli occupation. The western media can … Read More »
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 »
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 »