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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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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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What to the slave is your Fourth of July?

The Fourth of July is America’s Independence Day, one of the most important dates in the nation’s calendar. It is a day when myth and…

1h ago

What to the slave is your Fourth of July?

1h ago

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The historical and ideological roots of Kiev’s enmity towards Moscow

Over generations Ukraine’s rich dark soil and vast steppe has provided Europe with the grain required to feed its burgeoning peoples, with…

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The historical and ideological roots of Kiev’s enmity towards Moscow

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Migrants are not your enemy. Your enemy are those telling you that migrants are your enemy

When capitalism is in crisis, as it has been in the West since 2008, a carnival of reaction ensues.

2d ago

Migrants are not your enemy. Your enemy are those telling you that migrants are your enemy

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The first Biden-Trump debate of 2024. The Empire is falling

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. Marcus Tullius Cicero

6d ago

The first Biden-Trump debate of 2024. The Empire is falling

6d ago

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Assange may have been released, but his captors remain at large

Hell is empty and all the devils are here. William Shakespeare

Jun 25

Assange may have been released, but his captors remain at large

Jun 25

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Israel’s coming war with Hezbolla

The army that conquers makes certain of victory, and then seeks battle — Sun Tzu

Jun 17

Israel’s coming war with Hezbolla

Jun 17

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East v West — The Struggle for the Future

(The following article is the foreword to my book of the same title)

Jun 14

East v West — The Struggle for the Future

Jun 14

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Gaza and the normalisation of genocide in our time

No universal history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leading from the slingshot to the atomic bomb. Theodor Adorno

Jun 10

Gaza and the normalisation of genocide in our time

Jun 10

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Behold Operation Bagration, D-Day of the Eastern Front

Operation Bagration, unleashed by the Red Army on 22 June 1944, was the D-Day of the Eastern Front. In scope, size, scale and impact, it…

Jun 5

Behold Operation Bagration, D-Day of the Eastern Front

Jun 5

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