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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

We need to imagine a world without Israel

States come and states disappear in a never ending cycle that has marked human history since the modern nation-state came into being with…

14h ago

We need to imagine a world without Israel

14h ago

Mass migration is the destroyer of empires — and that’s a good thing

There is much the ancient world can teach us. One of its key lessons today is that mass migration — motivated by the ravages of war…

2d ago

Mass migration is the destroyer of empires — and that’s a good thing

2d ago

If Sitting Bull was alive today, he would be a leading member of Hamas

‘If we must die, we die defending our right.’ Sitting Bull

4d ago

If Sitting Bull was alive today, he would be a leading member of Hamas

4d ago

Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal — two giants of American letters sorely missed

One of the most bitter public feuds in the history of American letters raged between Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal from the early 1970s all…

Mar 25

Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal — two giants of American letters sorely missed

Mar 25

Israel is an ethno-fascist beast loosed upon the world

Throughout history there have been moments in which certain states have refuted the notion than human affairs follow a pattern of…

Mar 20

Israel is an ethno-fascist beast loosed upon the world

Mar 20

Now that Ukraine has lost the war, it is time for the revolution

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions…

Mar 10

Now that Ukraine has lost the war, it is time for the revolution

Mar 10

Syria’s minority communities are being butchered. Where is the outrage?

The demonstrable truth as these words are being written is that the people of Iraq were far better of under the rule of Saddam, the people…

Mar 9

Syria’s minority communities are being butchered. Where is the outrage?

Mar 9

What if Putin is right and we’re wrong?

In his classic antiwar novel, Catch 22, Joseph Heller get to the very heart of the matter with this sentence alone:

Mar 4

What if Putin is right and we’re wrong?

Mar 4

Is Donald Trump a fascist?

Famed English philosopher Bertrand Russell’s rendering of how fascism operates has never been bettered.

Feb 28

Is Donald Trump a fascist?

Feb 28

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