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Gaza - This Bleeding Land

Gaza - This Bleeding Land

In the hours prior to Israel's ground invasion of Gaza in 2014, two rival combatants contemplate life and fate.

2024

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Where We Go, Others Will Follow: Review of ‘Gaza: This Bleeding Land’ by John Wight

Review by Jim Aitken for Culture Matters

Jul 8, 2024

Where We Go, Others Will Follow: Review of ‘Gaza: This Bleeding Land’ by John Wight

Jul 8, 2024

The conflict in Ukraine is the result of Western not Russian foreign policy

With the conflict in Ukraine marking its third anniversary, and with no sign of it abating anytime soon, it is worth going deep into its…

1d ago

The conflict in Ukraine is the result of Western not Russian foreign policy

1d ago

Trump just reminded Zelensky who the boss is

Beware of small states,’ for they are the victims of greater states, yet a source of danger to them, too. Mikhail Bakunin

5d ago

Trump just reminded Zelensky who the boss is

5d ago

Europe’s problem has never been Moscow, it has always been Washington

Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world. Charles…

Feb 18

Europe’s problem has never been Moscow, it has always been Washington

Feb 18

Who will be the last soldier to die in Ukraine?

Henry Nicholas George Gunther is a not a name that will stir the memory of many people today, but it should. Sergeant Gunther of Company A…

Feb 13

Who will be the last soldier to die in Ukraine?

Feb 13

Zionism is the fascism of our time

Judaism is not a race it is a religion. However the long history of European antisemitism, culminating in the Nazi Holocaust, forged its…

Feb 8

Zionism is the fascism of our time

Feb 8

Elon Musk is Trump’s Rasputin. This will not end well

I only know I have this power. I have always had this power. I can feel it burning within me, driving me on. — Grigori Rasputin

Feb 4

Elon Musk is Trump’s Rasputin. This will not end well

Feb 4

Memories of the Spinal Unit. A Time of Tragedy and Hope

In the wee small hours you would hear them, crying.

Feb 3

Memories of the Spinal Unit. A Time of Tragedy and Hope

Feb 3

Revisiting the death of Yugoslavia — a crime of the ages

The destruction and disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, culminating in the 78-day air waged by NATO against Serbia and its people…

Feb 2

Revisiting the death of Yugoslavia — a crime of the ages

Feb 2

Holocaust Memorial Day and the truths that dare not speak

In his epic and comprehensive work, The Second World War, Anthony Beevor writes with customary economy:

Jan 26

Holocaust Memorial Day and the truths that dare not speak

Jan 26

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