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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

The Assads of Syria — War with the Brotherhood: Part 2

Just over 200 miles north of Damascus on the banks of the Orontes River lies Hama, Syria’s fourth largest city with a pre-2011 population…

4d ago

The Assads of Syria — War with the Brotherhood: Part 2

4d ago

The Assads of Syria — a legacy of struggle, intrigue, and defiance

The name Assad was inextricably linked with Syria’s fortunes since 1970, when Hafez al-Assad (above), while defense minister, came to…

Dec 12

The Assads of Syria — a legacy of struggle, intrigue, and defiance

Dec 12

Assad’s fall was swift. He goes into history as a failed leader

When states implode as suddenly as Syria just has, they do so as a result of external pressures combining with internal weaknesses, to thus…

Dec 10

Assad’s fall was swift. He goes into history as a failed leader

Dec 10

Brian Thompson’s execution and its moral implications

Brian Thompson was a capitalist’s capitalist. He was a poster boy for greed in our time, a man driven by the ethos of capital accumulation…

Dec 7

Brian Thompson’s execution and its moral implications

Dec 7

The forces on the offensive in Syria are today’s Khmer Rouge

History never really says goodbye. History says, ‘See you later.’ Eduardo Galeano

Dec 4

The forces on the offensive in Syria are today’s Khmer Rouge

Dec 4

Jesus was a revolutionary, and if alive today he would be fighting alongside the Palestinians in G

In his classic ancient work, The Jewish War, Jospehus — writer and participant in the Jewish revolt of 66–73 CE — ascribes the following…

Nov 29

Jesus was a revolutionary, and if alive today he would be fighting alongside the Palestinians in G

Nov 29

Conor McGregor — a study in late stage capitalist alienation from self

A global icon for whom the only constraints are none whatsoever, who wears his vulgarity, bombast and disregard for humility as a badge of…

Nov 23

Conor McGregor — a study in late stage capitalist alienation from self

Nov 23

Netanyahu is a genocidal despot. The ICC arrest warrant is long overdue

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the hate that settler-colonialism produced. His is a twisted and warped ethno-supremaicst…

Nov 22

Netanyahu is a genocidal despot. The ICC arrest warrant is long overdue

Nov 22

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