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Gaza Weeps
Gaza Weeps

The Gaza border, July 2014, just before the IDF launches its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip as part of Operation Protective Edge

2021

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John Wight
John Wight

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Pinned

The killing fields of Bakhmut — what would Vasily Grossman say?

As only he could, famed Soviet war correspondent Vasily Grossman, himself a son of Ukraine, evoked the brutal and bloody reality of war in his tireless work while following the fortunes of the Red Army on the Eastern Front during WWII. Grossman: The head of the driver of a heavy…

War

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The killing fields of Soledar and Bakhmut — What would Vasily Grossman say?
The killing fields of Soledar and Bakhmut — What would Vasily Grossman say?
War

5 min read


Pinned

The rise of the superrich reveals that greed is winning and humanity losing

The one thing upon which the world’s major religions and most schools of philosophy are agreed are the perils and evil of human greed. Unfortunately, there are some people who didn’t get this particular memo. Take the Waltons, for example, the family behind the Walmart retail empire. According to the…

Economics

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The rise of the superrich reveals that greed is winning and humanity losing
The rise of the superrich reveals that greed is winning and humanity losing
Economics

5 min read


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Richard Wright, Joe Louis, and America’s racist soul

Few writers understood America’s racist soul as keenly as Richard Wright (pictured above), and few used their pen as mercilessly as he did as a weapon to excoriate and expose it. In black heavyweight champion and ring legend, Joe Louis, Wright found the perfect symbol of black resistance to the…

Sports

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Richard Wright, Joe Louis, and America’s racist soul
Richard Wright, Joe Louis, and America’s racist soul
Sports

5 min read


Pinned

Why when it comes to the Nazi Holocaust, forgetting is not an option

In his epic and comprehensive work, The Second World War, Anthony Beevor writes with customary economy: On 27 January in the middle of the afternoon, a reconnaissance patrol from the 107th Rifle Division (attached to the Red Army’s 60th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front) emerged from a snowbound forest…

History

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Why when it comes to the Nazi Holocaust, forgetting is not an option
Why when it comes to the Nazi Holocaust, forgetting is not an option
History

5 min read


2 days ago

Russia fought and defeated Nazis once before in Eastern Europe. Today she is fighting them again

“Therefore learn how to see and not to gape. To act instead of talking all day long. The world was almost won by such an ape! The nations put him where his kind belong. But don’t rejoice too soon at your escape - The womb he crawled from is still going strong.” ― Bertolt Brecht, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui At one time it was axiomatic in the West that post-World War II the Nazi swastika would forever remain a symbol of pristine barbarism and evil, and that wherever and whenever it appeared it would become the solemn duty of all…

War

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Russia fought and defeated Nazis once before in Eastern Europe. Today she is fighting them again
Russia fought and defeated Nazis once before in Eastern Europe. Today she is fighting them again
War

5 min read


3 days ago

The life and legacy of the great Eddie Futch — a true legend of the ring

“Sit down, son. It’s all over. No one will forget what you did here today.” The aforementioned words, spoken by trainer Eddie Futch to Joe Frazier at the end of the fourteenth round of arguably the most punishing heavyweight fight ever fought, when he faced Muhammad Ali in Manila on…

Sports

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The life and legacy of the great Eddie Futch — a true legend of the ring
The life and legacy of the great Eddie Futch — a true legend of the ring
Sports

5 min read


5 days ago

Is Evgeny Prigozhin capable of attempting to mount a coup against Putin?

“I think the King is but a man, as I am.” William Shakespeare There appears to be mounting evidence that the head of the notorious Russian Wagner Private Military group, Evgeny Prigozhin, is angling for Putin’s place in the Kremlin. His bombastic tirades, via video, against the Russian military leadership…

War

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Is Evgeny Prigozhin capable of attempting to mount a coup against Putin?
Is Evgeny Prigozhin capable of attempting to mount a coup against Putin?
War

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May 22

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

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 of 800,000. It’s an ancient city; its biblical name was Hamath and is thought to have been the capital of the Caananite kingdom, thus tracing its…

History

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The Assads of Syria — Part 2: war with the Brotherhood
The Assads of Syria — Part 2: war with the Brotherhood
History

5 min read


May 20

The Assads of Syria — Part 1: struggle, intrigue, and defiance

The name Assad has been inextricably linked with Syria’s fortunes since 1970, when Hafez al-Assad (above), while defence minister, came to power on the back of an intra-party struggle within the ruling Baath Party, which culminated in him staging the coup that put him there. Thereafter he initiated his self-styled…

History

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The Assads of Syria — Part 1: struggle, intrigue, and defiance
The Assads of Syria — Part 1: struggle, intrigue, and defiance
History

6 min read


May 15

When hell came to Libya — a look back at NATO’s murder of a nation

Why, given the previous disasters of the West’s wars and interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, would the ‘masters of the world’ embark on yet another military intervention in the Arab and Muslim world so soon after, and in so doing confirm Marx’s admonition that ‘History repeats itself, first as tragedy…

History

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When hell came to Libya — a look back at NATO’s murder of an entire nation
When hell came to Libya — a look back at NATO’s murder of an entire nation
History

12 min read

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