Dead End: Israel Gets Lost in Gaza
There is no back door or side door that will lead to peace between the Arab World and Israel that does not lead through Palestine.
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Refaat Alareer: Literature as Resistance
Art is a cultural weapon. It is a tool for educating, for inspiring change. It gives voice to the injustices of the past and present and gestures toward a more just future. The Israeli government seems to recognize this fact. In over two months of slaughter, Israeli forces have devastated Gaza’s cultural sector.
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India Gets a Rude Awakening in West Asia
Prescience is often lacking in India’s West Asia strategy. This is not a region for one-dimensional men. It has been a strategic mistake to be aligned to the US and its allies in the Indian Ocean under the rubric of ‘maritime security’.
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Upsurge of Neo-Fascism and ‘Dollarisation’
Argentina’s new president Javier Milei proposes to use U.S. dollars as the currency of his country, while abolishing its central bank altogether. This means not just maintaining a fixed exchange rate between the dollar and the domestic currency, but an abolition of the domestic currency altogether.
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Nowhere to Run: Where Will the World Find Refuge in 2024?
By mid-year 2023, the UNHCR put the number of refugees at 36.4 million worldwide. This figure doesn’t include the people fleeing war and other systemic and climate violence, called “internally displaced persons” – UNHCR puts their number at 62.2 million in its mid-2023 report.
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Capitalism | Fascism | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA | World Politics
How America’s Oligarchy Paves the Road to Fascism
Concentrated wealth and power are undermining democracy. Here’s what Joe Biden ought to be saying and doing about it.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
An Ex-CIA Agent Looks Back at 22 Years of Torture at Guantánamo Bay
January 11 marks the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the prison component of the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Cuba. Guantánamo has been universally condemned by every human rights group in the world, as well as by the United Nations, and most countries in the world.
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John Pilger, One of the Greatest Journalists of Our Era, Passes Away – 3 Articles
‘John Pilger (1939-2023)’: A bright star in the firmament of justice has gone out. One of the greatest journalists of our era has passed away. Also: ‘John Pilger – A Majority Of One’; and article by John Pilger: ‘There Is a War Coming Shrouded in Propaganda. It Will Involve Us. Speak Up’.
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Lessons from Barcelona’s 8-Year Experiment in Radical Governance
Activists who took over Barcelona’s City Hall have made lasting progressive gains, while also confronting the limits of being in power.
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Charlie Chaplin’s Philosophy of Cinema, Part 2
Award-winning director Martin Brest returns for the second of a two-part interview on the life and legacy of Charlie Chaplin.
