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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

A letter to an Israeli soldier

Your murderous assault against 2.2 million men, women and children of Gaza you have been waging now for twenty long months. Launched in…

3d ago

A letter to an Israeli soldier

3d ago

The Soviet Red Army crushed the Nazi war machine. Never forget

We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it. Marshal Zhukov

May 6

The Soviet Red Army crushed the Nazi war machine. Never forget

May 6

Bobby Sands and the other Irish hunger strikers were working class heroes

“I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.” With these words, written 42 years ago, Bobby…

May 4

Bobby Sands and the other Irish hunger strikers were working class heroes

May 4

Why we need to talk about Kneecap

Three young men — just three young working class rappers from West Belfast in the North Ireland — have succeeded in striking terror in the…

May 2

Why we need to talk about Kneecap

May 2

The remarkable role of English textile workers in the US Civil War

In this laudable age of Black Lives Matter, history reveals that there was a time in human affairs when English textile workers took a…

May 2

The remarkable role of English textile workers in the US Civil War

May 2

Trump is the monster that late stage capitalism produced

A US President in 2025 with his head and brain stuck in 1825 is what we are currently dealing with. Trump’s white supremacy and economic…

May 2

Trump is the monster that late stage capitalism produced

May 2

Zionism is the Nazism of our time

Judaism is not a race it is a religion. However the long history of European antisemitism, culminating in the Nazi Holocaust, forged its…

Apr 28

Zionism is the Nazism of our time

Apr 28

Historically and ideologically, Moscow not Kiev represents the f

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

Apr 18

Historically and ideologically, Moscow not Kiev represents the f

Apr 18

Hamas is courage and courage is Hamas

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

Apr 13

Hamas is courage and courage is Hamas

Apr 13

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