It is undoubtedly true that our universities are in crisis. But that crisis is not just financial. It is existential. They have helped create the conditions for their own decline by swallowing the neoliberal promise of efficiency, competition and ‘value … Read More »
I’m on Spain’s Costa del Sol for a week, so writing less. This is Caitlin Johnstone today: Anti-Genocide Activism Is Terrorism In The Empire Of Lies British police have been arresting anti-genocide protesters for holding signs expressing support for activist group … Read More »
Last week, I reported on the move by Yvvette Cooper – UK Home Secretary, expenses cheat and wife to rottweiler for Israel Ed Balls – to designate non violent Palestine Action a terrorist organisation, making membership or support punishable by up to fourteen … Read More »
Smart people know not all Jews are Zionists. Smart people who do their homework know not all Zionists are Jews – The dangerous idiocy of Piers Morgan In February this year, an Israeli investigative webzine, The Hottest Place in Hell, reported … Read More »
As support for Palestine at Glastonbury ’25 is met with an explosion of media hypocrisy, phony indignation and straight-ahead hysteria, here’s a voice I cite sparingly. There’s a rich tradition of Christians Against Corruption. My city has its Deacon Dave; … Read More »
Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, aka Mo Chara of Irish rappers, Kneecap, at Glastonbury last week Here’s a piece of advice, its provenance investigated here, traditionally handed down at night school for cub reporters but now adopted with relish by such … Read More »
I host this meritless screed partly for entertainment value, funny if you’re in a good mood, but mainly as one of a myriad ways in which Israeli hasbara, whether from inside the settler state or without, becomes its own caricature. As … Read More »
June 13: IDF image of Israeli warplanes, US supplied with help from UK and EU, en route to Iran Two posts ago, in June 13 was a game changer, I wrote … Middle East state after vilified Middle East state … Read More »
TO KILL A WAR MACHINE is screening Monday June 30th and on various July dates in towns as far removed as Derry (itself no stranger to Occupation) and Penzance, Bristol, Newcastle, London and divers UK venues between and beyond. Since … Read More »
* Here’s a question. Why do you suppose a Western-vilified DPRK, aka North Korea, hasn’t been bombed or invaded while Middle East state after vilified Middle East state has suffered one or both at the hands of the Empire of … Read More »