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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

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…

3d ago

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

3d ago

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

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…

Feb 24

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

Feb 24

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

Feb 20

Trump just reminded Zelensky who the boss is

Feb 20

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

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