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Blinkered Bowen
On the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks on Israel, with Middle East peace talks underway, BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen asked, ‘Will Israel and Hamas seize the chance to end the war?’ An honest, insightful analyst would have addressed the issue differently. First and foremost, the narrative framing of a ‘war’ would have […]
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If You Were a Korean Patriot
Given the massive changes in geopolitics brought about by the isolationist and bizarre behavior of the Trump administration, activists and scholars have a major role to play in drawing attention to the dangers and possibilities for peace of this embryonic new world order. It is very unfortunate then, that one of the most crucial components […]
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Allegiances to the Genocidaires, Military Offensive Weapons, and Finance Capital
Note: So, the Newport News Times, AKA, Lincoln County Leader, has my op-ed below in the on-line version. So disappointed to see the print hardcopy version is missing this important Two Years going into the current genocide. I did reference the local politician, the representative, David Gomberg, Jewish, who got an all-expenses paid trip to […]
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American Defiance Will Ultimately Save Our Democracy
As president Trump tears up the U.S. Constitution he twice swore to uphold, fierce backlash from an aroused John and Jane Public is not far off. Contempt for that document and Americans’ baked-in characteristic of feistiness when pushed too far is one of the four key factors preventing him and his regime from turning democracy […]
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Keir Starmer’s Woes and Media Magnification
Few in history can have achieved so much in a negative sense in so short a time. Instead of gloatingly cresting the wave of success after securing British Labour a resounding, decisive victory in July 2024, Sir Keir Starmer is schooling us in precipitous decline. John Gray, that most erratic, protean of prophets, was already […]
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Canada’s Recognition of Palestine and the Enduring Logic of Colonial Erasure
Newspaper: The Rights of the Palestinian People “The only way to stop this evil [loss of land], is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land as it was at first, and should be now — for it never was divided, but belongs to all for […]
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Custard
My aunt Maria from Valparaiso is here for the holidays. Likes to be busy, the day after her arrival she made Leche Asada, which is Spanish for custard. Yesterday afternoon when the doorbell rang, Maria went to open. She exclaimed, “El Belcebú mismo [Belzebub himself]!” and slammed it in the face of the visitor. I […]
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Israel and the Global Sumud Flotilla
Showing that cloddishness that we have come to expect from them, Israel’s detention of the activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) was a coarse and violent affair. Having been intercepted in international waters on route to Gaza to break the Israeli-imposed blockade, the 470 or so activists, hailing from some fifty countries travelling on […]
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