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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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‘Ali Belts Zionism’ — the story of Muhammad Ali’s support for the Palestinians

As with the ‘Santa Clausification’ of Martin Luther King over the years, so the Santa Clausification of Muhammad Ali has served to elide…

5d ago

‘Ali Belts Zionism’ — the story of Muhammad Ali’s support for the Palestinians

5d ago

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Arms for Ukraine, but no arms for Palestine. Welcome to the great hypocrisy

John Wight

Aug 28

Arms for Ukraine, but no arms for Palestine. Welcome to the great hypocrisy

Aug 28

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Who will save us from America? A short discourse on the nightmare of US exceptionalism

Mickey and Mallory Knox are without a doubt the most twisted depraved pair of shitfucks it has ever been my displeasure to lay my god damn…

Aug 21

Who will save us from America? A short discourse on the nightmare of US exceptionalism

Aug 21

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Thank you Joe!

End.

Aug 20

Thank you Joe!

Aug 20

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Is Ukraine’s incursion into Russia a major political disaster for Putin?

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. Euripides

Aug 16

Is Ukraine’s incursion into Russia a major political disaster for Putin?

Aug 16

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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…

Aug 12

Gaza today is the Warsaw Ghetto of yesterday

Aug 12

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Capitalism not immigration has failed those involved in anti-migrant riots across England

Let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clansman. Let no foreigner revile the Irish; he may be vilifying his own…

Aug 6

Capitalism not immigration has failed those involved in anti-migrant riots across England

Aug 6

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Why Iran must retaliate for Haniyeh’s assassination in Tehran

The brazen Israeli assassination of the head of Hamas’ political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran marks a hugely significant inflection…

Jul 31

Why Iran must retaliate for Haniyeh’s assassination in Tehran

Jul 31

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