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  • Unbecoming American: Did Apartheid Really End in 1991?

    Unbecoming American: Did Apartheid Really End in 1991?

    I wrote my first book, Church Clothes in 1997. It was finally published in 2004. The essay was written because I had to write it. At the time when I began my work that would culminate in this book there was still a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and a German Democratic Republic. By the […]

  • You Strike the Women, You Strike the Rock, You Will Be Crushed

    Arnold Böcklin (Switzerland), Isle of the Dead, 1880. What constitutes a crisis worthy of global attention? When a regional bank in the United States falls victim to the inversion of the yield curve (i.e., when short-term bond interest rates become higher than long-term rates), the Earth nearly stops spinning. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank […]

  • Curious Case of “Mandela’s Lawyer” Illustrates Media Bias

    Curious Case of “Mandela’s Lawyer” Illustrates Media Bias

    The story is not about Irwin Cotler lying. It’s about the media embracing a biographical detail because they support the US empire and Zionism. Seven years ago, the South African ambassador to Venezuela Pandit Thaninga Shope-Linney stated plainly that “Irwin Cotler was not Nelson Mandela’s lawyer.” Three years later Max Blumenthal pointed out that “in […]

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