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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

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

Jul 8

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Gaza — This Bleeding Land

Below is an excerpt from my novel — recently, published — which tells the story of this prolonged tragedy through the eyes of two rival…

May 28

Gaza — This Bleeding Land

May 28

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Why Trump won — and why it matters

Despite January 6, 2021. Despite all of his legal travails. Despite the endorsements of Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen, George…

6d ago

Why Trump won — and why it matters

6d ago

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Britain’s Remembrance Day and the truths that dare not speak their name

The ritual of tribute to fallen soldiers is a tradition that stretches back to antiquity. From then to the present the exaltation of those…

Nov 10

Britain’s Remembrance Day and the truths that dare not speak their name

Nov 10

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Joe Rogan won it for Trump

End.

Nov 6

Joe Rogan won it for Trump

Nov 6

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Whoever wins on November 5, the world loses

‘The truth is that men are tired of liberty.’ Benito Mussolini

Nov 2

Whoever wins on November 5, the world loses

Nov 2

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Further reflections on the martyrdom of Yahya Sinwar

Those throughout history who have made it their business to kill revolutionary and resistance leaders never learn. They believe that such…

Oct 28

Further reflections on the martyrdom of Yahya Sinwar

Oct 28

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Gaza today is the Warsaw Ghetto of yesterday

In January 1943 Jewish inmates of the Warsaw Ghetto mounted one of the most heroic and courageous acts of resistance ever recorded. In the…

Oct 22

Gaza today is the Warsaw Ghetto of yesterday

Oct 22

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Sinwar was not a terrorist, he was a freedom fighter. He was Palestine’s William Wallace

If we must die, we die defending our rights — Sitting Bull

Oct 18

Sinwar was not a terrorist, he was a freedom fighter. He was Palestine’s William Wallace

Oct 18

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Revisiting the October Revolution and the Communist Idea

To its adherents the Russian Revolution of October 1917 (October) stands as the single most important emancipatory event in human history —…

Oct 16

Revisiting the October Revolution and the Communist Idea

Oct 16

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