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  • The Israeli Mind and the Ultra-Right

    A few days of truce allows a few days to ponder events and examine apartheid Israel’s response to Hamas’ October 7 attack. Engaging in talks and achieving mutual agreements that release captives prompts the question of why wasn’t this done much earlier, before the entire population of Gaza was subjected to brutal bombardments that killed […]

  • Which Pill?

    Which Pill?

    The post Which Pill? first appeared on Dissident Voice.

  • Baseball Owners Blow Off Fans in Favor of Streaming Dollars

    Major League Baseball adopted some significant rules changes this past season, the biggest by far being the introduction of a pitch clock—an electronic countdown limiting the time between pitches to 15 seconds with nobody on or 20 seconds with a runner on. The changes were aimed at speeding up the game and boosting attendance, and […]

  • Hypocrisy Sours COP28

    Hypocrisy runs rampant at COP28 even before the doors swung open to 70,000 delegates on Thursday, November 30th. This is the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties (“COP”) held at Expo City, Dubai. It’s the big annual event for scientists to meet to decide on the fate of anthropogenic climate change, […]

  • Statement to the Paris Peace Conference (WWI) re Zionism

    A Statement to the Peace Conference1 “As a future form of government for Palestine will undoubtedly be considered by the approaching Peace Conference, we, the undersigned citizens of the United States, unite in this statement, setting forth our objections to the organization of a Jewish State in Palestine as proposed by the Zionist Societies in […]

  • Far Out Beliefs

    Far Out Beliefs

    The post Far Out Beliefs first appeared on Dissident Voice.

  • Daydreaming While Reading Jonathan Crary’s 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

    Daydreaming While Reading Jonathan Crary’s 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

    Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast. — Shakespeare, Macbeth People often laugh when I tell them that I go to sleep at 8:15 P.M.  They laugh harder when I say […]

  • Henry Kissinger: Snake Oil Salesman of Gangster Realism

    “‘He’ll have ye smilin’,” an old Irish saying goes, “while he takes the gold out of your teeth’.” — Charles Glass, London Review of Books, Oct 20, 2022 The obituaries of criminals, masterful or otherwise, are always going to be sordid matters.  Either one has time for the deeds, giving column space to their execution […]

  • The Evil That Men Do

    Although I have never been anything but a professional dilettante, I have spent some time in a number of professions. One of these was political correspondent at the United Nations headquarters from 1985 until 1987. Another was as professor of English in Berlin after the GDR was annexed in 1989. In the accidents of my […]

  • Battle for the Minds

    During the first decade of the 21st century, a battle between the Religious Right and the New Atheists emerged. Both were gaining strength from charismatic leaders, able to articulate their beliefs and accumulate followers. Energized by George W. Bush’s faith-based presidency, the Religious Right, the most politically active of organized religions, attempted to direct local […]

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